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The Fabled Pour

The library

Cocktail history, shelved by era

Where drinks came from, told from the record. Where the record runs out and the stories begin, we say so.

  1. Drinks along the trade routes 1800 to 2010

    • Drinks along the trade routes · 1800 to 2010

      Cocktails of the wider world

      Sugar cane, grapes, grain and soda water traveled the trade routes long before the cocktail did. Seven drinks from seven countries show how a spirit becomes a habit: caipirinha, pisco sour, highball, somaek, poncha, spritz and michelada.

      7 min read · 17 sources