Melbourne’s chill is somehow much more tolerable when surrounded by pine trees, ice carvings, faux snow and sled-dogs (especially when one of said pups is named Cookie). Cider-makers Rekorderlig have even imported their homeland Sweden’s night sky for their Winter Forest pop-up bar. Offering a range of flavoured ciders, the real reason […]
Cocktail Degustation at The Understudy
What better introduction to a new Melbourne bar is there than to submerge oneself in the cocktail list? Open for around a month The Understudy offers a cocktail degustation experience comprising of five set “courses”; all liquid. It’s at this point that I recommend ordering the additional food option of […]
Absolut Elyx launches in Melbourne
The Poles and the Russians may still debate the origins of vodka (though the first written excerpt about the liquor is Polish) but the Swedes are making the latest strides with the introduction of Elyx by Absolut. Launching first on our shores in Melbourne last week at the sublime Albert […]
World Class Cocktail Competition 2012: Melbourne Winter Round
Shakers are out and spritzing is in, if the concoctions created for the Winter round of the World Class Cocktail competition are any indication of what’s en vogue behind Australian bars. The aforementioned spritz – from an atomiser or old-school perfume bottle – was seen used in several cocktails, either to coat […]