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Decanter recommends eight whiskies that work brilliantly in a lip-smacking Whisky Sour cocktail
The sour category of cocktails is arguably the most popular of any mixed drinks, containing as it does the Whisky Sour, Margarita and Daiquiri. There’s something magical about a delicious base spirit being simply mixed with sugar and citrus juice to create a lip-smacking, thirst-quenching whole.
As with most cocktails of a certain age, the exact origins of the Whisky Sour have been lost to history, however it’s thought that the sour category of cocktails has its roots in the British Navy. With water and beer not fit for consumption on long sea journeys, the men were given a standard issue of
Shaken, not stirred, to your door
Helen Farrell
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Understandably suffering from a smidgen of pandemic fatigue? Too whacked to shake your own? Don’t fret, have
cocktails brought to your door in Florence for Fridays night in (or any day of the week, come to that).
Floreal Firenze delivers canned cocktails (
1 can for 7 euro, 15 cans for 90 euro) anywhere in Florence and outlying areas from Wednesday to Sunday. Such is the demand (and the times we’ve living in!) that there was a temporary outage in mid-November, but supply was swiftly resumed. Upbeat and brightly packaged, sip at a tequila-based