Ten years ago today I discovered Kaleidos Winery.

A riff on the Golden Ghost, rebalanced away from sweet and using vegetal sotol instead of smoky mezcal.

Chorizzo Lopez gets it done, both here and in Vegas.

In salute to Naval Aviators making night landings on a carrier.

In salute to Naval Aviators making night landings on a carrier.
"The ethereal emotions of a dark night at-sea deck landing. Dark, challenging, exciting, thrilling, heart stopping, arresting, yet oh so exhilarating when finally chocked and chained."

After getting home late from one of my bar shifts at Drink, I wondered what two gin classics would be mashed up -- the Hanky Panky and the Bee's Knees. Both recipes are often traced back to the 1920s, although the first publication of the Bee's Knees was in 1948 via David Embury. For a name, I originally was going to call this None of Your Business as a nod to Sasha Petraske's The Business (a Bee's Knees with lime instead of lemon juice), but Birds & Bees won out given the connotations of Hanky Panky.

This is Franky Marshall's take on the 1929 original that called for Izarra Jaune (a yellow Basque liqueur).

So, I drive into my backyard and a peacock is wandering around ...... haven't never ever seen anything like that in the last 64 years !!