Thirsty? Here are three noteworthy new arrivals that we'll be tapping to quench our thirst as we raise a glass to summer.
Count on Iceland -- land of female presidents, hydrogen-fueled cars and Björk -- to bring us Reyka Vodka, the world's first green vodka. Start with water from a spring in a 4,000-year-old lava field, distill it using pollutant-free, sustainable geothermal energy, add vermouth and olives and voila: a very clean dirty martini.
Don't expect lucid Absinthe -- which just hit shelves in New York and is spreading west fast -- to contain thujone, the allegedly psychoactive agent that's made absinthe illegal in most of the western world since it pickled many a soul at the turn of the 19th century. But at 124 proof, who needs thujone?
Filtered 12 times between cane plants in Brazil and your next caipirinha (recipe), Agua Luca Cachaça is a newly-imported, 80-proof sugar-cane rum that's sweet and citrusy. A scoop of sugar, a muddled lime and you can blame the rest of your night on Rio.
written on Thursday Jun 7, 2007
5pm,
thirst,
cocktails.
