The range
Bar collaborations and small releases. Maybe Sammy — the Sydney bar that has spent years on the World's 50 Best list — bottle their own cocktails here in 100mL singles and 500mL bottles: jasmine negroni, old fashioned, eucalyptus gimlet, chamomile martini and more.
These are the drinks a bar serves, made by the people who serve them, rather than a manufacturer's interpretation of a classic.
10bottles. Every one with a reason written against it.
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because Maybe Sammy make it from the fruit, and because a drink carrying that reputation is worth one bottle on the shelf arguing the reputation is out of date. Ingredients: 42 Below Vodka, Lemon Myrtle, Lychee, Supasawa
100 mL24.0%1.9 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because it is the one bottle here that could not have been made anywhere else, and because it answers a question worth asking: what the classic cocktails would look like if they had been written in this country.
100 mL26.0%2.1 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because the aperitivo is the one drink on this shelf with an actual job to do, and because most bottled versions are a spritz with the bubbles taken out. This one holds together poured over ice on its own.
100 mL18.0%1.4 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because the Old Fashioned is the drink most often ruined by pre-mixing - too sweet, too dilute, or both - and this one is neither. It also travels, which matters when the alternative is carrying three bottles and a jigger to someone else's kitchen.
100 mL30.0%2.4 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because it is the only coffee cocktail here built on rum rather than vodka, and the gap between those two is most of the argument for buying a drink somebody made instead of the bottles to make it. Ingredients Bacardi Oro, Mr Black, Pineapple, Almond
100 mL22.0%1.7 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because it is the one in this range we would hand somebody who says they do not like Martinis, and because it usually turns out that what they did not like was the gin rather than the drink.
100 mL26.0%2.1 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because it takes a drink people order out of habit and gives them a reason to notice it again, and because Maybe Sammy have the standing to change a Martini without it reading as a gimmick. Ingredients 42 Below Vodka, Olive Brine, Oregano, Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth, Grapefruit Bitters
100 mL28.0%2.2 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because it was built by a bar that has to defend it to customers every night, and because the small bottle lets you put it beside the canned Margaritas on this shelf and taste what the difference between the two formats actually amounts to.
100 mL22.0%1.7 std
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because it comes from a working Sydney bar rather than a contract bottler, and because 100 mL is one drink. You are buying a single Negroni made by the people who built their name on it, not a bottle you have to commit to.
100 mL24.0%1.9 std
Richmond, New South Wales
We stock it because it makes an espresso martini without the usual argument about which coffee to use, and because a local collaboration is worth supporting when the result is this good.
500 mL25.0%9.9 std
$61.00
