VALENTINE’S DAY COCKTAILS SOUTHSIDE KISS 2 oz Empress 1908 Gin ¾ oz Fresh Lime Juice ¾ oz Simple Syrup Mint Leaves Cherry and Mint leaves (for garnish) Method: Muddle, shake on ice and strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with a mint leaf and a LOVE IN VAIN premium cherry. 2 oz Bumbu Rum 1 oz Ginger Syrup 1 oz Grenadine Candied Ginger (for garnish) 1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice Method: In a mixing glass add all ingredients and shake vigorously. Double strain into a chilled coupe and garnish RUBY FIZZ with a heart-shaped candiedFEBRUARY ginger piece. 2020 1½ oz Old Forester 86 Proof 2 oz. Club Soda ½ oz Ginger Syrup 2 droppers Old Forester 2 oz Raspberry Lambic MarylandHummingbird l Bitters Washington, DC l Delaware Method: Old Forester and warm ginger harmonize as a grounding base for this juicy, 10 16 refreshing raspberry lambic fizz cocktail. The bitters accent with citrus and cardamom. Combine all ingredients in Collins glass filled with ice. Garnish with lemon peel. 14 26 SUGAR & SPICE MARGARITA by Nate Fishman, Liquor Lab RED VELVET CAKE 6 three-inch Cinnamon Sticks 1 oz Amarula Cream Liqueur 1 cup Pomegranate Juice ⅔ oz Red Berry Vodka 1 cup Sugar ⅔ oz Beetroot Juice 16 oz Santera Blanco Tequila ⅔ oz White Chocolate Syrup 8 oz Lime ⅓ oz Grenadine 3 oz Water Method: Toast cinnamon sticks over low heat, 3-5 minutes, until Method: “Roll” ingredients (pour aromatic; transfer to a large bowl, stir in pomegranate juice and back and forth between mixing sugar until incorporated. Mix this pomegranate-cinnamon sugar glasses). Fine strain into martini glass. with tequila, lime and water in a pitcher and pour over ice to Garnish with vanilla foam. serve. Garnish with a cinnamon stick. Serves 10-12. 08 32 FEATURES 16 08 32 WHEN FINE WINE VALENTINE'S DAY MARKET SHOTS MEETS CASUAL DINING COCKTAILS Promotions, Happenings 10 & News From the Local WHEN COUNTING Top wine pros share strategies for quality Markets REALLY COUNTS service without the fuss 24 BAR TALK Improving your physical Rum Central inventory system saves money, headaches— and yes—even time DEPARTMENTS 26 CHUCK FERRAR 02 PUB PAGE OF BAY RIDGE Sweet Relief ... Hope for WINE & SPIRITS: 14 Hangover Sufferers ... Still Making His Voice Heard NAPA’S NEW ERA Cold Beer? Changes in philosophy, farming, and ownership 04 28 WINE COCKTAILS bring a return to freshness at NEW PRODUCTS & ON THE COVER: historic NapaValley wineries PROMOTIONS Josiah Baldivino co-owner of Bay 30 THE FIND Grape in Oakland, California Photographed by Becca Wyant VOLUME82NUMBER02 February 2020 BEVERAGE JOURNAL 1 PUB Maryland l Washington, DC PAGE Published Monthly by The Beverage Journal, Inc. 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Copyright 2020 the Beverage Journal, Inc. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without the written consent of the publisher. Not responsible for unsolicited material or advertising claims. 2 BEVERAGE JOURNAL February 2020 www.BeverageJournalInc.com BeverageJournalInc.com C M Y CM MY CY CMY K NEW PRODUCTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 . ZOLO CABERNET FRANC RESERVE . BARDSTOWN BOURBON . CAMPO BRAVO TEQUILA Argentine winery Zolo has released a 2017 ‘THE PRISONER’ FINISH Milestone Brands has entered a joint Cabernet Franc Reserve, made under Bardstown Bourbon Company kicked o venture with Grupo PSA of Mexico, bringing winemakers Jean Claude Berrouet (formerly of 2020 with a new bourbon aged in The Campo Bravo, a 100% agave tequila, to the Pétrus) and Fabian Valenzuela. In Zolo’s Alto Prisoner Wine Company barrels. Bardstown Unite States. Campo Bravo, meaning “Brave Agrelo and Agrelo estate vineyards, whose 14- Bourbon’s latest collaboration is a nine-year- Field,” was created by fifth-generation agave and 19-year-old vines’ fruit was previously being old Tennessee bourbon aged for 18 months growers who control production from agave blended with Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon, in the same French oak barrels used to age fields to the bottle. Campo Bravo Plata Berrouet saw conditions to achieve perfect the cultish red blend The Prisoner. This is (silver) shows vanilla aromas and on the ripeness in Cabernet Franc, which is crucial for the latest addition to the firm’s Collaborative palate herbal, spice, and citrus notes. The the fruit and tannins to balance the floral and Series, which used brandy and Muscat bottle incorporates modern Mexican design mineral aspects often found in the grape. Mistelle barrels in 2019. 100 proof. with a label featuring a howling wolf. 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