Decanter Best ready made cocktails to enjoy at home
The quality of ready-to-drink cocktails has never been better, says Richard Woodard, who chooses some of the best to try.
Given that Jerry Thomas wrote these words in 1862 (in his seminal book,
The Bar-Tender’s Guide), it’s unlikely that he was extolling the virtues of early-morning lockdown drinking – but the pandemic has given us all the opportunity to up our game when it comes to home mixology.
Not all of us, however, have the skills, equipment or ingredients necessary to replicate the style bar experience in our own living rooms, so it’s good to know that the quality of premixed, ready made cocktails has never been higher – from specialist producers, and from some of the top bars we’ve all missed visiting so much over the past year.