Holiday Gift Guide: Drinks & Spirits
Amaro, Vermouth, Liqueurs, Spirit-Free, Ready-to-Drink...
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Holiday Gift Guide: Drinks & Spirits
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Here are some of my favorite local bottle shops:
Dry Dock Wine + Spirits (Red Hook, Brooklyn)
Brooklyn Wine Exchange (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn)
Boisson (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn)
Heights Chateau (Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn)
Slope Cellars (Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Amaro Spirits & Wine (Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Astor Wines & Spirits (East Village, Manhattan)
Chambers Street Wines (Tribeca, Manhattan)
Stay Bitter
Doladira
A collaboration between Meredith Erickson and Richard Betts, Doladira ($39.99) was inspired by Erickson’s extensive time in the Alps researching and writing her book, Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe’s Grand Mountaintops. The all-natural garnet hue of Doladira comes courtesy of black carrot and rhubarb and achieves its distinctive profile from a combination of gentian, rosemary, elderflower, plum, pine, and rhubarb. It opens with a hit of bright cherry, rhubarb, and stone fruit that’s rounded out with a pop of saline and a drying, herbal backbone with a light, lingering bitterness.