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Happy New Year, 2011. Two champagne cocktails for New Year night.

Happy New Year, 2011. Two champagne cocktails for New Year night.

New Year coming soon. And we need some special for our holiday party. New Year coming soon. And we need some special for our holiday party. We drink different cocktails year around and for New Year Night we need something unusual and festive. Many people... 

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Clover Club

Clover Club

The Clover Club Cocktail is truly magnificient cocktail. This drink has all elements of great classic cocktail – the interesting story, simple and elegant composition and it is almost forgotten. This cocktail was created (as Albert Stevens Crockett... 

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Clover Club

Clover Club

The Clover Club Cocktail is truly magnificient cocktail. The Clover Club Cocktail is truly magnificient cocktail. This drink has all elements of great classic cocktail – the interesting story, simple and elegant composition and it is almost forgotten. This... 

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Kir Royale

Kir Royale

The German soldiers who ransacked a French village’s supply of wine didn’t know what they were starting. The villagers weren’t goi… The German soldiers who ransacked a French village’s supply of wine didn’t know what... 

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Black Velvet

Black Velvet

A Black Velvet is made using a stout beer more often than not Guinness and a sparkling white wine, often champagne. The orig… A Black Velvet is made using a stout beer more often than not Guinness and a sparkling white wine, often champagne. The... 

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2009 Quivira Sauvignon Blanc Fig Tree Vineyard

2009 Quivira Sauvignon Blanc Fig Tree Vineyard

Quivira is a perennial fave at Drinkhacker HQ — check our glowing coverage of the 2008 version of this same wine here — and the 2009 sauvignon blancs are now hitting the market. This wine isn’t quite the hit that the 2008 was, but it’s... 

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Big House Red and Monthaven Chardonnay 3L Box Wines

Big House Red and Monthaven Chardonnay 3L Box Wines

Boxed wine continues to tiptoe toward improvement, with the folks at Octavin offering some decent wines in considerably more handsome packaging. These three-liter boxes fit more easily into your fridge but still promise to store your vino without it... 

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2004 Ruffino Romitorio di Santedame Toscana

2004 Ruffino Romitorio di Santedame Toscana

Ruffino is a name loaded with history — but most people probably know it from seeing it on the shelves of their local supermarket, where Ruffino is invariably one of the few Chiantis available. But Ruffino makes some fancier bottlings too, including... 

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Eric Kent 2008 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir

Eric Kent 2008 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir

Two hot-off-the-bottling-line wines from long-time favorite Eric Kent Wine Cellars. 2008 Eric Kent Chardonnay Russian River Valley is a wonderful Chardonnay for the non-Chardonnay drinker Two hot-off-the-bottling-line wines from long-time favorite Eric... 

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Q&A: Does Zinfandel Make You More Drunk?

Q&A: Does Zinfandel Make You More Drunk?

Reader Sara writes: I hear drinking zin will get me drunk faster. True or false? In the wine world, zinfandel has a bad reputation for making grown men and women into slobbering fools Reader Sara writes: I hear drinking zin will get me drunk faster.... 

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