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FROM THE BARLIST JOURNAL
From beginner guides to bar selections and distillery stories, our editorial content helps you discover the world behind the bottle.
Cocktails
The Garnish arrives at the end of preparation, yet it often leads the guest’s first impression. Before the drink reaches the palate, the eye registers colour and form while the nose encounters aroma rising from the glass. Garnish therefore belongs to the sensory language of the cocktail. It can clarify identity, prepare expectations, and complete […]
September 15, 2026
Partnership
Jamaica’s Rum story begins with sugar estates, limestone water, heavy fermentations, coastal trade, and a landscape where cane became both wealth and memory. The island’s reputation was not made by one house or one parish. It grew across estates, distilleries, ports, and rural communities where sugar production and rum making became inseparable from the country’s […]
September 13, 2026
Partnership
The shift from a standard Margarita to a Grand Margarita happens in a single substitution, but the change is immediate in the glass. Where most builds rely on lighter orange liqueurs, this version is structured around Grand Marnier, introducing a deeper, more weighted profile that alters how the drink is perceived from the first sip. […]
September 10, 2026
Partnership
Madeiran rum exists within a narrow technical and geographic framework that resists abstraction. Unlike Caribbean or Latin American rum traditions shaped by scale and export, rum production on Madeira remains tied to fresh sugarcane juice, seasonal distillation, and localised milling. From the northern coast at Porto da Cruz to the southern town of Calheta, a […]
September 9, 2026
Trending
From bartender competition to global industry platform The modern cocktail world has developed far beyond the traditional image of the bartender as a skilled server behind a bar. Over the past two decades, bartending has increasingly been recognised as a professional discipline built on technical knowledge, hospitality, creativity and a deeper understanding of spirits. Few […]
September 8, 2026
Partnership
Sam Chatterji’s work sits inside that transition. His early career was not defined by a single venue, but by movement across training, service, and education. Instead of focusing only on bar programs, he became closely involved in building structure, developing training systems, mentoring bartenders, and connecting local talent to global standards. In a market where […]
September 7, 2026
Partnership
Venezuela’s Rum identity grew from sugarcane, climate, trade, and the long conversion of cane byproducts into aged spirit. The country’s geography offered heat, sunlight, fertile cane areas, and a tropical maturation environment that gave rum a different economic and cultural role from wine spirits, grain spirits, or orchard spirits. Ron de Venezuela became legally important […]
September 6, 2026
Partnership
When Jörg Meyer introduced the Gin Basil Smash at Le Lion in Hamburg in 2008, it wasn’t framed as a revival or a twist on a known template. It first appeared under the name “Gin Pesto,” before settling into the name by which it became internationally known. The idea was direct: make a drink where […]
September 3, 2026
Distilleries & Producers
In Speyside, where whisky is often associated with generations of tradition, Roseisle Distillery represents something very different. Built by Diageo near Elgin and officially opened in 2010, Roseisle was designed as a modern, large-scale malt whisky distillery, combining traditional pot-still production with advanced engineering, energy recovery and unusual flexibility in how its spirit can be […]
September 2, 2026
Partnership
Madeiran Rum production has always been defined less by volume than by method. Unlike Caribbean regions shaped by plantation scale and colonial export markets, Madeira developed a rum culture rooted in small agricultural units, seasonal cane harvests, and legally enforced technical choices. The island’s modern rum identity is structured around a clear technical divide between […]
September 2, 2026
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