The Bronx Cocktail
The Bronx Cocktail is a light and simple drink, something you might serve as a luncheon cocktail, or even a brunch cocktail, if you’re looking for something more assertive than the usual Mimosas and Bellinis to launch you into the noonday sunshine. Read more 
Saratoga Cocktail
When one of my friends asked for a Saratoga Cocktail recently, I was skeptical. I had tried this drink before, and I was not impressed. It seemed unbalanced, or unfinished—the flavors just didn’t seem to blend well. This time around, it was an astonishingly delicious and well-balanced drink. I’ll grant that my tastes have evolved since then, but I think the real reason the Saratoga tasted better this time has everything to do with a different mix of ingredients, particularly the vermouth. Read more
The Negroni Cocktail
The Negroni cocktail is a delight to the eye, handsome in a rocks glass, clear and red; it is “not for fence-sitters,” as Mark Kingwell observes in his amusing Classic Cocktails, A Modern Shake. A proper Negroni is fully one-third Campari, and that’s a lot of Campari by anyone’s reckoning. That bitter astringence is an acquired taste, and after the first sip you already know that you want to learn more about it, or you swear off forever. Read more
Chrysanthemum Cocktail
The surprise of the Chrysanthemum cocktail is the nose. Its creators surely weren’t trying to duplicate the chrysanthemum scent–were they?–but that combination of vermouth, Bénédictine and anise is redolent of gardeny lushness. Read more
