Bar intel, cocktail notes, and drinking culture. The pieces that aren't trips, but earn the airtime.
Cocktail Compass
Mapping the world through its glassware.
The cocktails worth flying for, traced to the bars and the people that make them. One drink, one city, every time.
Kentucky Air Mail
Four days through central Kentucky in the week before the Derby. The bourbon corridor, the hotel bars that have been pouring Manhattans since the 1930s, and the cocktail that gave the route its name.
Read moreThe Air Mail, Properly
A history of the bourbon, honey, lime, and champagne cocktail that gave the Kentucky route its name, and the way it was meant to be drunk before mid-century barmen sweetened it past recognition.
Read moreThe Legend of the Julep
A cocktail older than the Derby, and still poured the way it always has been.
Read moreThe Manifest
The bars are the evening. This is what the afternoons are for.
The makers, the workshops, and the experiences that round out a drinking trip without crossing back into bar territory. The leather workshop. The milliner's atelier. The hundred-year-old candy shop.
Port of Call
The drinking culture of a city, reported in full.
Signature serves, bar neighborhoods, the rituals that hold a city's drinking life together. One city per dispatch, no shortcuts.
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