Completely tropical rums from Takamaka
If you happen to’d like so as to add a contact of the tropics to your drinks cupboard this summer season, attempt the brand new St André Collection rums from Takamaka. Primarily based within the Seychelles, Takamaka is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this 12 months with 4 new releases: Further Noir, Zepis Kreol, Pti Lakaz and Grankaz. Produced on the Trois Freres distillery on the island of Mahé, these rums showcase totally different manufacturing strategies, making use of each molasses and cane sugar rums, and pot- and column-distillation, with ageing in quite a lot of casks. Three of the 4 embody rum from the Foursquare Distillery in Barbados within the mix. Decide of the bunch is Pti Lakaz (Alc 45.1%), two Seychelles rums – a pot-distilled cane rum matured in three sorts of oak and a molasses rum rested in ex-bourbon casks – with an eight-year-old molasses rum from Foursquare. It kicks off with a nostril of spice, toffee and tropical fruit. Wealthy and rounded, with mellow brown spices, malted milk biscuits, Madeira cake, bananas, caramel and ripe tropical fruit, and a protracted, spicy end. Excellent for a fruity rum punch.
£40.95-£43.95/70cl Grasp of Malt, The Whisky Trade, Whisky On-line
What’s…the distinction between bourbon and Tennessee whiskey?
Each produced within the US (though Tennessee whiskey can solely be made within the state of Tennessee), bourbon and Tennessee whiskey are nearly equivalent. Bourbon is outlined as a 51% corn-based whiskey, distilled to not more than 80% abv after which aged in new, charred white oak barrels. A Tennessee whiskey, akin to Jack Daniel’s, is made in nearly precisely the identical approach – the one distinction is that the ultimate spirit is filtered by maple charcoal, which smooths out the whiskey and provides it a extra mellow flavour.
What to drink now…Sea Breeze
This fruity summer season cocktail has appeared in numerous guises by the a long time. A Sea Breeze Cooler is talked about in The Savoy Cocktail Guide from 1930, the place it’s an equal mixture of gin and apricot brandy with lemon juice and grenadine, topped with soda. Because of the efforts of US producer Ocean Spray, cranberry juice turned a preferred mixer within the Fifties and Sixties, but it surely wasn’t till the Eighties, because of the advertising and marketing may of Absolut Vodka, that the Sea Breeze turned established in its present type. Attempt making it with Arbikie Tattie Bogle Vodka, a creamy Scottish potato vodka with spice and earthiness to stability the candy and tart fruit juices (Alc 43%, £36-£39/70cl Arbikie, Grasp of Malt, The Drink Store, The Whisky Trade, Yumbles).
Sea Breeze
Components: 50ml vodka, 75ml cranberry juice, 30ml freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice
Glass: Highball
Garnish: Lime wedge
Methodology: Add all the elements to a highball glass crammed with ice and stir gently to combine, then garnish.
