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The Fabled Pour

The back bar

Spirits encyclopedia

This is my back bar. Each entry says what a spirit is, which cocktails it belongs in, how to buy it and where the popular stories go wrong.

Entries

  • vermouth · botanicals

    Vermouth and the aromatized wines

    Wine, a little spirit, and wormwood by law. Sweet, dry and bianco, Turin and Marseillan, why an open bottle belongs in the refrigerator, and the three cocktails that would not exist without it.

    6 min read · 6 sources