Comments on: In the news - gin and tequila http://drinkboston.com/2007/05/04/in-the-news-gin-and-tequila/ Bars, bartenders and imbibing in Beantown. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:50:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rachele http://drinkboston.com/2007/05/04/in-the-news-gin-and-tequila/#comment-2063 Rachele Wed, 09 May 2007 07:23:53 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/2007/05/04/in-the-news-gin-and-tequila/#comment-2063 Plymouth is a great standby, but nothing compares to Old Raj. Seek it out! It's worth it. Plymouth is a great standby, but nothing compares to Old Raj. Seek it out! It’s worth it.

]]> By: Stephen http://drinkboston.com/2007/05/04/in-the-news-gin-and-tequila/#comment-2009 Stephen Tue, 08 May 2007 06:04:43 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/2007/05/04/in-the-news-gin-and-tequila/#comment-2009 tequila is the topic for mixology monday over at the cocktail chronicles...... i already posted my recipe over on egullet..... cheers.... tequila is the topic for mixology monday over at the cocktail chronicles…… i already posted my recipe over on egullet….. cheers….

]]> By: MC Slim JB http://drinkboston.com/2007/05/04/in-the-news-gin-and-tequila/#comment-1969 MC Slim JB Sat, 05 May 2007 16:15:19 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/2007/05/04/in-the-news-gin-and-tequila/#comment-1969 Superb article. My favorite line, from my #1 cocktail heroine, Audrey Saunders of New York's Pegu Club: "... after perhaps 8 or 10 martinis, Audrey fessed up, referring at one point to 'a generation lobotomized by vodka.'" Hear, hear. I'm pleased that my personal favorite, Plymouth, landed on top, my second favorite, Hendrick's, did well, and that my cheapie standby, Gordon's, also placed highly. I quite agree with their assessments of how certain gins (notably, in my mind, Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray Ten) just don't work well in cocktails. I needn't reiterate their truisms about proper Martini ingredients and proportions, though I am an orange bitters partisan. I've been pleased to note over the last six months that many more Boston bars have discovered Plymouth. It's now the well gin at Tremont 647, displacing Beefeater's, and the basis for a superb Negroni there. I'm seeing it on a lot more bars in its slick new packaging. I'm still trying to get my hands on a bottle of Bluecoat, an artisanal gin from Pennsylvania that isn't yet distributed in Massachusetts. I've heard good things. On a side note, my favorite cocktail tequila is El Tesoro Platinum, a 100% blue agave blanco that retails for about $30 but compares favorably with more heavily-marketed $50-and-up bottlings like Patron. It makes a lovely Tequila Gimlet, and in the right hands, a fine up Margarita. Superb article. My favorite line, from my #1 cocktail heroine, Audrey Saunders of New York’s Pegu Club: “… after perhaps 8 or 10 martinis, Audrey fessed up, referring at one point to ‘a generation lobotomized by vodka.’” Hear, hear.

I’m pleased that my personal favorite, Plymouth, landed on top, my second favorite, Hendrick’s, did well, and that my cheapie standby, Gordon’s, also placed highly. I quite agree with their assessments of how certain gins (notably, in my mind, Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray Ten) just don’t work well in cocktails. I needn’t reiterate their truisms about proper Martini ingredients and proportions, though I am an orange bitters partisan.

I’ve been pleased to note over the last six months that many more Boston bars have discovered Plymouth. It’s now the well gin at Tremont 647, displacing Beefeater’s, and the basis for a superb Negroni there. I’m seeing it on a lot more bars in its slick new packaging.

I’m still trying to get my hands on a bottle of Bluecoat, an artisanal gin from Pennsylvania that isn’t yet distributed in Massachusetts. I’ve heard good things.

On a side note, my favorite cocktail tequila is El Tesoro Platinum, a 100% blue agave blanco that retails for about $30 but compares favorably with more heavily-marketed $50-and-up bottlings like Patron. It makes a lovely Tequila Gimlet, and in the right hands, a fine up Margarita.

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