Airmail
The first instance of the Air Mail cocktail was documented in Esquire magazine’s 1949 edition of Handbook for Hosts resembling a Caribbean version of the French 75.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
The first instance of the Air Mail cocktail was documented in Esquire magazine’s 1949 edition of Handbook for Hosts resembling a Caribbean version of the French 75.
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Upon the death of Prince Albert, champagne did not seem an appropriate sympathy cocktail, so it can be surmised that a dark beer was somber enough to foil the celebratory…
The Seelbach Hotel's grand, saloon-style counter reportedly created this signature cocktail when a bartender used a Manhattan to catch the overflow from an uncorked Champagne bottle.
To cure LCD Soundsystem member Nancy Whang's stage anxiety, frontman James Murphy would mix any combination of Jameson Irish whiskey and Champagne together to create this uncouth, pre-show cocktail.
A Strega-spiked nod to neo-Gothic architecture.
Damon Boelte, the bar director at Brooklyn’s Prime Meats, has an affinity for naming his original drinks after songs, albums and musicians including this autumnal Champagne cocktail.