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Absolut Introduces New Limited Edition Electrik Bottle

Absolut announced its newest limited edition bottle, Absolut Electrik, available in striking silver and electric blue. The new bottles feature Absolut Original Vodka and will be available starting October 1, 2015 through the holiday season to help partygoers and throwers turn their nights “Electrik.” The Absolut Electrik bottle is the...
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Dos Equis 5th Annual Halloween Masquerade

Dos Equis is celebrating the Halloween season with its fifth annual Masquerade program. The fully integrated, 360° program provides consumers access to the Most Interesting Man’s entourage to help them create or attend an epic, fall celebration that rivals the Masquerade itself. Masquerade will be supported by a comprehensive marketing...
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TAPPING IN TO BEER COCKTAILS

Take a close look at beverage menus around the country, and you may start noticing an interesting ingredient in cocktails – beer!  The popularity of craft brews has been growing steadily over the years, resulting in a larger share of shelf space as well as expanded beer lists at bars...
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ENDANGERED COCKTAILS: ROOF GARDEN COOLER

Summer will be upon us in Boston with high temperatures and humidity to match.  For those days when it feels too swampy to even move, we suggest lounging about with a Roof Garden Cooler in hand.  The drink, which comes to us by way of David Wondrich’s Killer Cocktails, is...
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PROFILE: LEN ROTHENBERG

LEN ROTHENBERG 63Owner, Federal Wine & Spirits, Boston Federal Wine and Spirits has been Len Rothenberg’s baby for 25 years, and he still thinks of it in terms of a congenial 197Os folk club.  Federal has become a hangout for wine enthusiasts, a ‘coffeehouse’ for the exchange of enthusiasm and...
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THE INTIMATE INNER LIFE OF OUR LIFELINE

Our blood vessels are not simply passive conduits, but are actively engaged in self-preserving defenses against the stresses they must put up with every millisecond. This is particularly true of arteries, vital carriers of blood laden with oxygen and nutrients to our tissues under high pressure and often amid punishing...
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MARCO de BARTOLI: A REMEMBRANCE

Marco de Bartoli was one of the key protagonists in the development of a quality Sicilian wine industry. Without the support of the Marsala wine trade, he proposed a version of Marsala that harked back to its historic roots and made no compromises to quality. He awakened Italy to the...
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VODKA

From the locally crafted to the iconic imports, vodka reigns as it’s poured.  One conspicuous point of distinction has been that several so-called “value” brands have gotten more than their fifteen minutes of fame courtesy of the economy.  Some consumers have traded down and have made the discovery that there’s...
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VODKA AGAINST THE GRAIN

As you’ve probably noticed, we LUPEC ladies don’t devote much time to the discussion of vodka cocktails.  “It’s the predominant spirit on most cocktail lists,” you may be thinking, “so what gives? What do you broads have against vodka?” It’s not that we have anything against vodka, per se.  We...
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ADAM LANTHEAUME AND THE BOSTON SHAKER

They say the devil is in the details, but it’s commonly accepted that the details are what can transform the mundane into something heavenly. That said, Adam Lantheaume has become something of an Archangel Gabriel figure to the local cocktail scene, bringing good news – and good products – from...
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