Hot scotch
Dram collectors are spoiled for choice as whisky producers now woo them with limited edition luxury bottles and malts from lost distilleries.
No more hangovers?
A high tech-wine cabinet shrunk to a portable size and a vodka that won’t leave you with a hangover.
On tap: caffeine and malt
40 Hands’ coffee-inspired craft beer is the artisanal product of a brewmaster and barista.
Charged by apéritifs
With a décor characterised by vintage electrical circuit boards, rubber flooring and hanging light bulbs, Bar Ampère appears more like a clandestine R&R club in a factory than a watering hole for Melbourne’s thirsty urbanites.
Toast to the green fairy
After having its ban officially lifted here in 2009, the controversial anise-flavoured spirit has found itself a dedicated home at Absinthe Artisan.
Savouring a bitter moment
Move over, speakeasy-style joints. Two new bars in New York show you can attract a serious drinking crowd with a single-minded focus on artisanal bitters and tequilas.
Vintage bubbles
In 1998, divers discovered 2,000 bottles of the Heidsieck Monopole 1907 in the salvaged shipwreck of The Jonkoping, a Swedish shooner, sunk in the Baltic Sea in 1916.
Sip and sample
With 53 different kinds of wines by the glass at The Tastings Room, guests will have a field day sampling and picking their favourite quaffs, instead of having to purchase them by the bottle first.
Polished gem
The junmai daiginjyo is touted to be Japan’s highest polished sake.