Fashion Week’s Four Best Cocktails

Signature drinks designed for exceptional parties

Outfits aren’t the only luxury getting an overhaul during New York Fashion Week. What with all the brands, faces and hands circulating, party venues (be that restaurants, clubs or art spaces) also seek to make an impression. The following four cocktails are the best that we sipped on, while reflecting on the presentation we had just seen. Of course there’s champagne involved, but also vodka …

Closing Out Hamptons Season with Tequila Cocktails

Casa Dragones and Mulberry Project offer up three mixed drinks for the Perfect Earth Project

Last weekend closed out what is oftentimes perceived as “the Hamptons season.” Summer Fridays are now gone (for those lucky enough to have had them) and students have returned to school. But that doesn’t mean the libation must cease. Labor Day Weekend in the Hamptons features show-stopping events—like the Hampton Classic—but also benefits aiming to raise awareness and funds for charities. Internet phenomenon The Points …

September Scotch: What Old-Rare Means to Usquaebach

The second installment in our month-long exploration of Scotland's whisky wonders

Before we even touch upon what Usquaebach is, we must address its rather tricky-to-pronounce name—which should be read as “OOS-KE-BAH.” Stepping back to the 1500s, the Gaelic words “uisge beatha” translated to “water of life,” which meant whisky. Poet Robert Burns declared what would become a new canonical spelling as usquaebach in 1791. So, usquaebach means whisky. It’s that simple, and appropriately so because that’s …