To warm us into the new season, we’ve got a bit of a whisky thing going on product-wise with two new bottles for your drinking pleasure. One, The Stanhope has a Scottish connection but is made in the US, the other comes from one of our favourite family brands, it’s Rosemaund from the Chase family and it's proudly English. 

Award-winning writer Noah Rothbaum shares all the intel on the subject in The Whisky Bible – A complete guide to the world’s greatest spirit and there are whiskies aplenty in our bar pick which is the recently opened Eagle Bar perched atop the glam Chancery Rosewood in London.

For the first conversation of the season, we’re thrilled to welcome Lorenzo Antinori, talking openly and honestly about settling in a different country, embracing simplicity, his latest opening in Shanghai and Bar Leone Hong Kong being crowned Best Bar in the World.

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What we're drinking:

Perfect Manhattan

xxml bourbon

xxml sweet vermouth

xxml dry vermouth

Cherry/lemon or orange twist to garnish

Method:

Sit all ingredients over ice. Pour into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with e cinnamon stick.

Bar Leone Hong Kong

Bar Leone Shanghai

Eagle Bar at Chancery Rosewood

Rosemaund Single Malt English Whisky

The Stanhope Kentucky Straight Bourbon

The Whisky Bible – A complete guide to the world’s greatest spirit by Noah Rothbaum

The Cocktail Lovers theme music is by Travis 'T-Bone' Watson

Edited by Christian Fox

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