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The WHISKEY COCKTAIL Revival

hen Conor McGregor and Justin Bieber recently posed for an Instagram pic hoisting whiskey cocktails in Los Angeles, there were not so much setting a trend as jumping on the bandwagon. Whiskey cocktails are currently enjoying a revival that to many connoisseurs is long overdue. The latter list includes Jesse Estes, a spirits author and expert who has tended bar all over the world and frequently acts as a judge for awards including Drinks International’s International Spirit Challenge., with photographs by the endlessly talented Alex Luck, which has come to be regarded as one of the definitive books on whiskey cocktails. And Ryland Peters & Small has now decided to re-issue it under the title making this the essential season for concoctions featuring brown spirits from around the world.

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