Brandy and Cognac News

When you browse the stalls of the antique malls in the Sellwood/Westmoreland area this time of year, you're likely to spy elaborate punch bowls and festive mugs for serving Tom and Jerry, a Ghost of Christmas Past warm cocktail of rum, brandy, raw eggs and milk.

This holiday season don't settle for the same old boring drinks. Spice up the party with something special, something like Pierre Ferrand Cognac .

A dapper, impeccably tailored little bullshit artist who was born in Lithuania, "educated" in the slums and wayward children's homes of New York, and finished to a high gloss everywhere the rich and gullible congregated, Romanoff fit right in.

A FRIEND invited me to share a bottle of brandy worth R56,000 at the weekend. I hate brandy but I thought a bottle that expensive should contain an elixir from Heaven.

Bourbon and microbrews losing their luster? Enter the more refined world of fruit-based liquors.

The best things in life may be free, but the painstakingly crafted and time-honoured may require that you bring out your chequebook first.

At Equinox , warm spices and herbs shape the cocktails, such as the Pear-Anise Flip , made with Ketel One Citroen vodka, sous-vide Anjou pear, and lemongrass syrup.

A READER enquires about the shelf life of his stash. P. Ong has kept the following bottles upright on his shelf for many years and wants to know which ones he can continue to keep: a 30-year-old Jules Sabourin dry white wine, two 15-year-old bottles of Benedictine DOM liqueur, two 10-year-old bottles of Hennessy VSOP, a 22-year-old bottle of ...

The place: Lemon Grass/Bistro Elephant , 238 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse. Two fine restaurants in one: Lemon Grass has been serving authentic Thai/Pacific Rim fare since 1994.

The London News.Net Saturday 25th July, 2009 London, July 25 : American pop girl group 'The Pussycat Dolls' are said to have had a fun evening out in London, racking up an 18,000 pounds bar bill.

THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS have gone up in my estimation after racking up an 18,000 bar bill on a night out in London.