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Provenance 500 Drinks Cocktails

Beverage Terroir Canon

75 entries

The Amaretto Sour is the cocktail that Jeffrey Morgenthaler at Clyde Common in Portland rescued from…

The Amaretto Sour in its

The Aperol Spritz is Italy's aperitivo culture in a glass — Aperol, Prosecco, and soda water in a la…

The spritz tradition date

The Aviation is the cocktail that turned purple — gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette, and fr…

Hugo Ensslin, Hotel Walli

The Bee's Knees is the Prohibition era's most charming cocktail — gin, fresh lemon juice, and honey …

Attributed to bartender F

Blackberry Bourbon Smash

The Blackberry Bourbon Smash is the seasonal American cocktail that captures the late summer hedgero…

The Blackberry Bourbon Sm

The Blood and Sand is the great equal-parts Scotch cocktail — Scotch whisky, sweet vermouth, Heering…

The drink's name and appr

The Boulevardier is the American answer to the Negroni — bourbon (or rye) whiskey in place of gin, w…

Erskine Gwynne, Paris, 19

The Bramble is Dick Bradsell's other masterpiece — gin, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, and a drizz…

Dick Bradsell, Fred's Clu

The Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail and one of the world's great drinks — cachaça (Brazilia…

The Caipirinha's origin i

Chartreuse Last Word Variation

The Chartreuse Last Word Variation describes the family of drinks that apply the Last Word's equal-p…

See Entry 26 (Last Word)

Clarified Milk Punch

Clarified Milk Punch is the cocktail world's most technically sophisticated party preparation — a ba…

Mrs. Mary Rockett's manus

The Clover Club is the Prohibition-era gin cocktail that gets an undeserved reputation as a feminine…

Clover Club, a gentleman'

The Coffee Negroni is the most successful Negroni variation to emerge from the specialty coffee cult…

The Coffee Negroni is a c

Corpse Reviver No. 2

The Corpse Reviver No. 2 is the most sophisticated of the Corpse Reviver family — pre-Prohibition ha…

The Savoy Hotel Bar, Lond

The Cosmopolitan — citrus vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice, and fresh lime — is the cocktail that d…

Toby Cecchini at The Odeo

Cucumber Elderflower Collins

The Cucumber Elderflower Collins is the garden party cocktail of the 2010s — gin, fresh lemon juice,…

The Cucumber Elderflower

Daiquiri (Classic)

The Classic Daiquiri is the most deceptively demanding cocktail in the bartender's canon — white rum…

Jennings Cox, an American

Dark and Stormy

The Dark and Stormy is one of the few trademarked cocktails in the world — Goslings Black Seal rum a…

Bermuda, early 20th centu

The Dirty Martini adds olive brine to the Dry Martini's gin-vermouth framework, creating a saline, u…

The Dirty Martini is a la

Earl Grey Martini

The Earl Grey Martini (also called the Earl Grey Mar-TEA-ni) is Audrey Saunders's contribution to th…

Audrey Saunders, Pegu Clu

Espresso Martini

The Espresso Martini is modern bartending's most requested drink and Dick Bradsell's most enduring c…

Dick Bradsell, Soho Brass

The French 75 is named for the French 75mm field artillery piece used in World War I — a gun renowne…

Harry MacElhone, Harry's

Frozen Rosé (Frosé)

Frosé — frozen rosé wine — is the 2016 summer cocktail phenomenon that transformed rosé from a sit-d…

Justin Smillie and Justin

The Gimlet is a study in compression — gin and lime cordial (or fresh lime juice and sugar), stirred…

The Gimlet's name is disp

Gin Basil Smash

The Gin Basil Smash is Joerg Meyer's 2008 creation at Le Lion in Hamburg — a whole-herb cocktail tha…

Joerg Meyer, Le Lion, Ham

The Gold Rush is the 21st century's most elegant improvement on an old formula — bourbon, fresh lemo…

T.J. Siegel, Milk and Hon

The Hanky Panky is the oldest cocktail created by a woman in professional bartending — gin, sweet ve…

Ada Coleman (Coley), Amer

Hemingway Daiquiri

The Hemingway Daiquiri (also called the Papa Doble, the Hemingway Special, or the E. Hemingway Speci…

Constantino 'Constante' R

Highball (Suntory Method)

The Suntory Highball method is Japan's refinement of the standard whisky and soda into a precision p…

The Suntory Highball meth

Hot Honey Old Fashioned

The Hot Honey Old Fashioned is the modern cocktail world's most elegant spice enhancement to a class…

The Hot Honey Old Fashion

Japanese Highball (Whisky and Soda — The Ritual)

The Japanese Highball is the world's most precisely executed spirit-and-soda combination — Suntory o…

The Highball format (spir

The Jungle Bird is the only Tiki classic built on Campari — dark rum, Campari, fresh pineapple juice…

Jeffrey Ong, Aviary Bar a

The Last Word is the Prohibition era's most perfectly balanced equal-parts cocktail and the blueprin…

Detroit Athletic Club, De

Lavender Collins

The Lavender Collins applies the Tom Collins formula — gin, lemon, sweetener, soda water — to lavend…

The Lavender Collins is a

The Lychee Martini is the cocktail that introduced the aromatic floral complexity of Southeast Asian…

The Lychee Martini emerge

The Mai Tai is Trader Vic's masterpiece — a precise composition of aged rum, curacao, lime juice, or…

Victor Bergeron (Trader V

The Manhattan is the most noble of American stirred cocktails — rye whiskey (or bourbon), sweet verm…

The Manhattan's most cred

The Margarita is Mexico's gift to the cocktail world — a sour formula built on tequila, lime juice, …

Multiple disputed origins

The Dry Martini is the most debated, most ceremonially loaded cocktail in history — gin and dry verm…

The Martini evolved from

Matcha Gin and Tonic

The Matcha Gin and Tonic is the intersection of Japan's most culturally significant tea preparation …

The Matcha Gin and Tonic

Mezcal Margarita

The Mezcal Margarita substitutes mezcal for tequila in the Margarita formula — fresh lime juice, Coi…

The Mezcal Margarita's ex

The Mezcal Negroni substitutes mezcal for gin in the Negroni's 1:1:1 framework — mezcal, Campari, an…

The Mezcal Negroni emerge

The Mint Julep is the official drink of the Kentucky Derby and one of America's oldest and most cere…

The julep (from the Arabi

The Mojito is Cuba's national cocktail — white rum, fresh lime juice, sugar, fresh spearmint, soda w…

The Mojito's origins trac

The Moscow Mule is the cocktail that saved Smirnoff vodka in America and launched the modern ginger …

New York City, 1941. John

Mr. Black Espresso Martini (Cold Brew Method)

The Mr. Black Espresso Martini is the premium evolution of Dick Bradsell's 1983 creation — using Mr.…

Mr. Black was created by

Naked and Famous

The Naked and Famous is the 21st century's most successful equal-parts cocktail after the Paper Plan…

Joaquín Simó, Death and C

The Negroni is the world's most perfectly balanced aperitivo cocktail — equal parts Campari, sweet v…

Count Camillo Negroni, 19

Negroni Sbagliato

The Negroni Sbagliato — Italian for 'wrong Negroni' or 'mistaken Negroni' — is what happens when Cam…

Bar Basso, Milan, 1968. B

Oaxacan Old Fashioned

The Oaxacan Old Fashioned is the most influential cocktail of the 21st-century mezcal renaissance — …

Phil Ward, Death and Co,

The Old Fashioned is America's foundational cocktail — whiskey, sugar, bitters, and water, the four …

The Whiskey Cocktail (the

The Paloma is Mexico's most consumed cocktail — tequila and grapefruit soda (or fresh grapefruit jui…

The Paloma's exact origin

The Paper Plane is the 21st century's most successful equal-parts cocktail — bourbon, Aperol, Amaro …

Sam Ross, Milk and Honey,

Passion Fruit Martini

The Passion Fruit Martini is the gateway through which much of Britain first encountered the Pornsta…

The Passion Fruit Martini

The Penicillin is the most important cocktail created in the 21st century — blended Scotch whisky, f…

Sam Ross, Milk and Honey,

The Pina Colada — white rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice — is Puerto Rico's national drink, a…

Ramon 'Monchito' Marrero,

The Pisco Sour is Peru's national cocktail and one of South America's great contributions to the coc…

Victor Vaughen Morris, Mo

Pornstar Martini

The Pornstar Martini is the UK's most ordered cocktail — vanilla vodka, Passoa (passion fruit liqueu…

Douglas Ankrah, LAB Bar,

The Ramos Gin Fizz is the most labour-intensive classic cocktail in existence — gin, fresh lemon jui…

Henry C. Ramos, Imperial

Ranch Water is West Texas's contribution to American cocktail culture — blanco tequila, fresh lime j…

Big Bend region of West T

Rum Old Fashioned

The Rum Old Fashioned applies the Old Fashioned's template — spirit, sugar, bitters, water — to aged…

The Rum Old Fashioned has

The Sazerac is the oldest known American cocktail and the official cocktail of New Orleans — rye whi…

New Orleans, Louisiana, c

Sbagliato Spritz

The Sbagliato Spritz is the natural evolution of the Negroni Sbagliato — building on the Campari-ver…

The Sbagliato Spritz emer

The Sidecar is the Margarita's sophisticated older cousin — Cognac, Cointreau, and fresh lemon juice…

Paris or London, circa 19

Singapore Sling

The Singapore Sling is the Long Bar at Raffles Hotel's gift to the world — a pink, complex, colonial…

Ngiam Tong Boon, Long Bar

Smoke Show (Mezcal-Based)

The Smoke Show is the archetype of the contemporary mezcal cocktail — a drink designed to foreground…

The Smoke Show as a categ

Spicy Margarita

The Spicy Margarita is the most ordered contemporary Margarita variation — the classic formula (tequ…

The Spicy Margarita emerg

Ti' Punch (Martinique)

Ti' Punch (Petit Punch in French, 'ti from the Creole shortening) is the national drink of Martiniqu…

Martinique, 18th century

The Tom Collins is one of the most important cocktails in history — gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, …

The Collins family drinks

Tommy's Margarita

Tommy's Margarita is the 20th century's most important Margarita evolution — tequila, fresh lime jui…

Julio Bermejo, Tommy's Me

The Turmeric Tonic is the wellness cocktail culture's most sophisticated creation — tonic water, fre…

The Turmeric Tonic emerge

The Vieux Carré (French for 'Old Square' — the French Quarter of New Orleans) is the most complex of…

Walter Bergeron, Carousel

Watermelon Margarita

The Watermelon Margarita is summer cocktail culture's most successful fruit Margarita — fresh waterm…

The Watermelon Margarita

The Whiskey Sour is the most accessible gateway into serious cocktail culture — bourbon or rye whisk…

The sour formula appears

The Yuzu Gimlet is the Gimlet elevated by Japanese citrus — replacing (or blending with) lime juice …

The Yuzu Gimlet is a cont