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Why Diet Coke Is So Popular

Why Diet Coke Is So Popular

Coca-Cola sells billions of cases of Diet Coke every year. How did the drink that replaced Tab in the 1980s become a sweet and fizzy juggernaut? Weird History Foods looks at the origins of carbonated beverages and low-calorie soft drinks and how Diet Coke achieved its cult-like status to leapfrog its competition.

High N’ Wicked Foursquare Irish Whiskey

High N’ Wicked Foursquare Irish Whiskey
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High N’ Wicked’s Foursquare Whiskey is one tasty spirit. The distillery achieves its depth of flavor by aging single-grain Irish whiskey in bourbon barrels and finishing it in casks from Foursquare’s award-winning Mark X 2007 Barbados rum. It starts sweet, like tropical fruit, giving way to bold and invigorating spices as it hits the back of your throat.

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Barrell Foundation Bourbon

Barrell Foundation Bourbon

Barrell Craft Spirits’ new Foundation Bourbon is more nuanced than its 5-year label might lead you to believe. This sippable spirit is a balanced 100-proof blend of whiskeys from Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and Maryland. It kicks off with a sweet and honeyed fragrance, complemented by a spicy mix of cinnamon and dark chocolate as it hits your tongue.

1800 Cucumber & Jalapeño Tequila

1800 Cucumber & Jalapeño Tequila
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There’s an art to infusing spirits with spices and fresh ingredients. This 1800 Tequila does it the right way, starting with the distiller’s signature double-distilled 1800 Blanco Tequila made from 100% Weber blue agave, then infusing it on site using ripe cucumbers an jalapeños to impart natural flavors without pulp residue.

The Beast’s Desolate Rose Bundle

The Beast’s Desolate Rose Bundle
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Leave it to The Kraken Rum to spawn an anti-Valentine’s Day gift for the blackest of hearts… like your ex, probably. The Beast’s Desolate Rose Bundle pairs a preserved black rose in a delicate glass dome (made by Holy Chic Los Angeles) with a bottle of The Kraken Black Spiced Rum.

Waterford Whisky Cuvée Concepts

Waterford Whisky Cuvée Concepts

It takes a special single-malt whisky to stand out from the pack. Waterford Whisky’s three distinctive Cuvée Concepts do the trick, signifying an impressive evolution in the southern Irish distiller’s mission to use terroir-driven techniques to create naturally flavorsome single malt whiskies with no artificial colors or chill-filtration.

MarieBelle x Del Maguey Puebla Mezcal Chocolate Box

MarieBelle x Del Maguey Puebla Mezcal Chocolate Box
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Chocolate and mezcal are two of Mexico’s greatest gastronomic gifts, so MarieBelle chocolates and Del Maguey Vida Puebla bundled them for this limited edition. Infused with Del Maguey mezcal, the boxed bon bons are inspired by seven classic cocktails: Margarita, Carajillo, Negroni, Old Fashioned, Paloma, Mai Tai and The Last Word.

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Seedlip Notas de Agave

Seedlip Notas de Agave
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Still hanging tough this Dry January? Seedlip Notas de Agave has your back with its zero-alcohol alternative blend of prickly pear, lime, and agave flavors to replace hankerings for tequila cocktails. It warms the palate with notes of vanilla, damiana flower, and peppercorn and is meant to mix with tonic or other NA ingredients.

Compartés Chocolates x Woodford Reserve Bundle

Compartés Chocolates x Woodford Reserve Bundle
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Bourbon and chocolate are a brilliant taste pairing, so Woodford Reserve’s Master Distiller Elizabeth McCall paired up with Compartés chocolatier Jonathan Grahn to create a limited-edition of four truffle flavors to complement a 750 ml Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon: butterscotch chocolate, oak-smoked salt caramel, pear nutmeg, and maple pecan.

Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin

Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin
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Following in the footsteps of their Indigo Gin, Empress 1908’s Elderflower Rose Gin pays homage to the distillery’s home city of Victoria, BC, AKA the City of Gardens. Inspired by Victoria’s flowers, Empress Elderflower Rose Gin has a bright floral bouquet of nine botanicals, including red rose petals, elderflowers, lavender, and black carrot.

Giffard Non-Alcoholic Liqueurs

Giffard Non-Alcoholic Liqueurs
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Sober curious? Wet your whistle during Dry January with the line of non-alcoholic liqueurs by premium French liqueur maker Giffard. Drawing on five generations of know-how Giffard uses the same fruits and plants as their liqueurs, extracting essential flavors — Elderflower, Ginger, Grapefruit, Pineapple — through traditional maceration techniques.

Signature Cocktails

Signature Cocktails
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Amanda Schuster’s elegant cocktail recipe book deserves a spot on your bookshelf. The book catalogs 200 signature cocktails from bars and restaurants around the world. Each drink recipe is accompanied by details of its origins and an artful photograph of the cocktail. It’s packed with both classic cocktails and lesser-known specialty drinks.

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Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut

Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut
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Ring in the New Year with Freixenet’s most popular cava, Cordon Negro Brut. Affectionately known as “Black Bottle Bubbly,” this inexpensive sparkler from Catalunya, Spain, is the world’s #1 imported sparkling wine. Crisp and creamy Cordon Negro Brut’s delicate bubbles are best served as the heart of mixed cocktails like Mimosas, Spritzes, and Bellinis.

Bhakta 1928 Rye Whiskey

Bhakta 1928 Rye Whiskey
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WhistlePig founder Raj Bhakta is the talent behind this eponymous spirit. Bhakta 1928 is a delicious drink that combines 60% rye whiskey, 30% XO Calvados, and 10% Armagnac. The latter blends vintages dating back as far as 1928. The result is a complex blend of spiced apples, tea, vanilla, and gingerbread, perfect for slow sipping by the fireplace.

Mount Gay Rum PX Sherry Cask

Mount Gay Rum PX Sherry Cask
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For 2023’s special release, master blender Trudiann Branker crafted Mount Gay Rum PX Sherry Cask from pot and column still rums that were aged in American whiskey casks for 20 years. Barbados’ tropical heat and humidity worked like magic, especially while the rum spent an extra year in Pedro Ximenez Sherry wine casks.

Belle de Brillet Liqueur

Belle de Brillet Liqueur

Created by the Maison Brillet House in France’s Anjou region, Belle de Brillet is a pear and cognac liqueur that combines the intense fruitiness of Williams pear eaux-de-vie with the delicate complexity of Cognac eaux-de-vie to create an exceptional gold-medal winner at a low ABV. 100% natural ingredients.

Dassai Blue Sake Brewery

Dassai Blue Sake Brewery

The 30-year dream of Dassai sake’s founder, Dassai Blue, is their first American brewery, now producing its first American-made sake. Dassai Blue is a premium Junmai Daiginjo sake made with Yamada Nishiki rice — the gold standard for sake — through traditional methods such as “tokomomi,” drying the rice by hand.

Teremana Small-Batch Tequila

Teremana Small-Batch Tequila
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson put his considerable muscle behind Teremana Small Batch Tequila, and he has a bunch of gold medals to show for it. It’s def a winner, with no sugars, carbs, or gluten. With a 1.5 oz. shot having just 96 calories, you might as well make it a double.

St-Rémy Signature Home for The Holidays Cocktail Kit

St-Rémy Signature Home for The Holidays Cocktail Kit
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Toast your seasonal reunions with Cocktail Courier’s limited-edition “Home for the Holidays” cocktail kit featuring St-Rémy Signature, the only French brandy that features a double aging process: first in charred new oak casks, then seasoned in brandy oak casks. The kit has everything needed for a brandy twist on a classic Old Fashioned.

Don Q Reserva 7 Rum

Don Q Reserva 7 Rum
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Since 1865, Don Q has consistently delivered great rums. Don Q Reserva 7 is a robust Puerto Rican blend of rums aged in American white oak barrels for seven years. Rich in flavor, it’s just the ticket for seasonal hot drinks like Hot Buttered Rum and many other tasty cocktails.

Hendricks Supersonic Gin & Tonic

Hendricks Supersonic Gin & Tonic
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Made in Scotland with infusions of rose and cucumber, Hendrick’s Gin is unusually smooth and much more than just juniper berry flavored. Hendrick’s 10 other botanicals are chamomile, elderflower, lemon peel, orange peel, caraway, coriander, cubeb berries, angelica root, yarrow root, and orris root. To make one gin, they actually make two.

Patrón Tequila x Checo Pérez 2023 Mexican Heritage Tin

Patrón Tequila x Checo Pérez 2023 Mexican Heritage Tin

Two of Mexico’s very best — Patrón Tequila and Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Driver Checo Pérez — teamed up for the 2023 edition of Patron’s Mexican Heritage Tin. Debuting at the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, the 8th annual edition of the tin features symbols inspired by Checo’s life on and off the racetrack.

Love & Victory Cocktail Ornaments

Love & Victory Cocktail Ornaments
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Decorate your Christmas tree with booze when you pick up these clever cocktail ornaments from Brooklyn’s Love & Victory. The hand-blown glass ornaments come in martini, margarita, Mai Tai, old-fashioned, spritz, Negroni, Bloody Mary, and straight whiskey versions. They also have a web-exclusive set of ice cube ornaments to keep your bar-tree cool.

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