Perhaps you have found yourself a swank, rolling cart. Maybe you just won your fight for a couple of square-feet in the kitchen! If you want to know which dozen mainly low-cost, high-value liquors (plus a couple of bitters) I would put there, see the Elemental Mixology Dozen-Bottle Bar page.
Those of you who have tasted the good, original Quinquina Dubonnet that is actually made in France can never go back to the stuff that has been under license in Kentucky for about 75 years. Drinks writers like David Embury and others decried the blatantly different taste and quality between the two. Why do you suppose American drinks containing Dubonnet suddenly stopped being made in anything like the previous numbers around 1940?
Well, if you are like me and are willing to pay the price of getting a trans-Atlantic every now and then (combining enough key products a large enough order to mitigate the shipping costs), there is good news! The Whisky Exchange in London, for a while out of stock, now has authentic, French-produced Dubonnet ready to ship!
WARNING: Don’t purchase the so-called Dubonnet Blanc on the Whisky Exchange website. The French producer has never made a “blanc.” What the Whisky Exchange is selling as the blanc is the American product. It was invented in the U.S.A. and is just as crappy, in my opinion, as their other product called ‘Dubonnet.’
For those interested, the Elemental Mixology mixing stock listings are now up.
I do not take any sort of sponsorship. If I list a liquor, it is because I honestly find value in it for mixing with.
http://www.elementalmixology.com/liquors/emms.html
Cheers!
For those that have not noticed it, I have been adding pages to the website giving the liquor products that I like to work with during Elemental Mxiology courses.
I have gotten through the geist spirits. Any thing after that is still under construction, but the Elemental Mixology Mixing Stock page already contains a lot of information worth looking at.
Keep checking back!
