The back bar
Spirits
Pick a bottle off the shelf. Each one opens onto the place that made it.
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- Port Fortified on the Douro, aged across the water in Gaia.
- Gin From Dutch genever to London dry, and the towns that still distil it.
- Vodka Rye, potato and grape, from Polish estates to Icelandic springs.
- Rum Island by island, from molasses to fresh cane juice.
- Scotch Highland glens, Islay peat and the casks that make the difference.