Drinks Cabinet

Contents

COCKTAILS 3-5 BOURBON HOUSEMADE INFUSIONS

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BOURBON & RYE

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JIM BEAM SMALL BATCH BOURBONS

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SCOTCH WHISKY

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IRISH WHISKEY

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BRANDY 15-16 RUM 17-18 GIN 19-21 VODKA 22 TEQUILA 23 WINES 24-26

Cocktails

COCKTAILS Signature His Alibi £7.95 Jim Beam Black Label Bourbon, limoncello, maple syrup, lemon juice & lime juice shaken and topped with lemonade.

Her Alibi £7.95 Jim Beam Bourbon muddled with thinly sliced peaches, blackberries, mint leaves, honey & lemon and topped with soda water.

Bourbon Baked Apple Manhattan £6.95 Jim Beam© Bourbon, sweet vermouth, sherry with a dash of apple bitters.

Maple Bourbon Cider £6.95 Jim Beam© Bourbon, lemon juice, maple syrup & crisp apple juice, garnished with cracked black pepper.

Lilith £7.95 Jim Beam© Bourbon, Aperol, sweet vermouth, shaken with blood orange puree and smoked.

Dark Alibi £7.50 Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, Jim Beam Black Label Bourbon, pineapple juice & orgeat, garnished with a peppered orange wedge.

Classic Corpse Reviver No2 £7.95 Bombay Sapphire Gin, Cointreau, Dry Martini, lemon juice & absinthe. Not for the faint hearted.

Amaretto Sour £6.95 Amaretto shaken with Jim Beam Black Label Bourbon, lemon juice, egg white, Angostura bitters & sugar syrup. Topped with a lemon twist.

Cosmopolitan £6.95 Stolichnaya Ohranj, Cointreau, freshly squeezed lime & cranberry juice, finished with flamed orange. 4

COCKTAILS Elderflower Mojito £6.95 Havana 3 year old Blanco Rum muddled with elderflower liqueur, lime juice, sugar syrup & bitters, poured over crushed ice and garnished with fresh mint.

Clover Club £6.95 Tanqueray Gin shaken with fresh lemon juice, raspberry puree and washed with egg white.

Dark & Stormy £6.95 Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, lemon juice & ginger beer. Classic.

Hemingway Daiquiri £7.50 Havana 3 year old Blanco Rum, lime juice, grapefruit juice & maraschino liqueur, garnished with a lime wheel.

Babygrand £6.95 New Amsterdam Vodka, crisp Sauvignon Blanc & Chambord mixed with elderflower cordial & sugar syrup, finished with fresh grapes.

Mexican Cloud £6.95 Sauza Blanco Tequila stirred with pomegranate juice, rhubarb bitters, sugar syrup, elderflower liqueur & lemon juice. Topped with elderflower foam and garnished with flamed absinthe.

Candy Apple Sour £6.95 Housemade caramel infused rum, apple bitters, cloudy apple juice, egg white, lemon & lime juice with a dash of Angostura bitters.

Elsewhere £7.50 Hendrick’s Gin muddled with elderflower liqueur, apple juice & sugar syrup and served with a cucumber slice.

It Wasn’t Me! £7.50 Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, strawberry puree, pineapple juice, vanilla syrup, sweet vermouth & strawberry liqueur, shaken and poured over crushed ice.

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Infusions Bourbon Rye

BOURBON HOUSEMADE INFUSIONS Our shining star. With a love for experimentation, all in the name of bourbon; our housemade infusions are carefully concocted by our talented bartenders, to create unique combinations that are rich in taste and bursting with flavour. Made on site and infused for no less than 2 weeks, these little gems are not to be passed by! Savour on their own over an ice sphere, or try them in a cocktail. The selections will change seasonally but available all-year-round are;

Honey & Ginger £3.75 Infused with natural Manuka honey & fresh stem ginger.

Coffee & Vanilla £3.75 Infused with Arabica coffee beans & Madagascar vanilla pods.

Chilli £3.75 Infused with smoked chipotle chillies & fiery red wing chillies.

Butter Popcorn £3.75 Infused with sweetened butter popcorn.

Lavender & Lemon £3.75 Infused with aromatic lavender & the zest of lemon.

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BOURBON & RYE All bourbon is whiskey but not all whiskey is bourbon. Tennessee whiskey? Not bourbon. Canadian whiskey? Nope. Scotch? Definitely not. So what makes bourbon a bourbon? 1. Bourbon is all-American. In 1964, under President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, Congress declared bourbon America’s Native Spirit. 2. The only thing that can be added to bourbon is water. Other whiskey makers can add colours and flavours to their products. 3. By law, bourbon must use NEW charred American white oak barrels. Scotch whiskey often recycles barrels first used for bourbon; probably to try and steal some of the bourbon’s flavour!

Jim Beam Black Label £3.55 ABV: 43% Tasting: A 6 year old straight Kentucky bourbon. Thick with fruit & vanilla fudge. Good finish of toasted oak spice.

Jim Beam Devil’s Cut £3.70 ABV: 45% Tasting: A devilish twist with Jim Beam blending their 6 year old whiskey with spirit extracted from the wood of the cask itself. The result is a robust bourbon with intense oak & vanilla, followed by a long, smooth finish.

Jim Beam Varietals £3.55 Choose from: Cherry infused Red Stag, sweet golden Honey, or spicy Rye.

Maker’s Mark £3.55 ABV: 45% Tasting: Handcrafted bourbon with a distinctive handdipped wax seal. It’s rich and full with notes of spice, butterscotch & vanilla.

Jim Beam Signature Craft £7.25 ABV: 43% Tasting: Jim Beam’s new, ultra-premium, 12 year old small batch release. Toasty with cinnamon spice. Ice or neat.

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BOURBON & RYE Wild Turkey £4.25 ABV: 40.5% Tasting: This bourbon has a high rye content in the mash bill and is aged in casks with a heavy char - the result of which is huge flavour and complexity with hints of caramel and coffee.

Bulleit ‘45’ Rye £4.50 ABV: 43% Tasting: This is what rye is all about. A 95% rye whiskey with smoke, cinnamon, spice and all things rye.

Four Roses Small Batch £4.50 ABV: 45% Tasting: Small Batch? There are only 4 casks used for each release. Sweet & spicy with a touch of Crème Anglaise – that’s vanilla to you and me.

Buffalo Trace White Dog £6.75 ABV: 62.5% Tasting: White Dog Mash #1 is an unaged whiskey. It’s all sweetness & spice but beware of the bite!

Tin Cup, Colorado £4.75 ABV: 42% Tasting: Jess Graber, a part time fire fighter from Colorado, has been tinkering with distilling since 1972. After 32 years of practice he started his own Company. This is his newest blend and it does not disappoint. Easy drinking with a cinnamon & caramel finish.

Elijah Craig 12 Year Old £6.25 ABV: 47% Tasting: The Reverend Elijah Craig was a Baptist preacher and entrepreneur. The preaching came first whilst he owned a warehouse that stored oak barrels. You can guess the rest; fire hit the warehouse and he used the charred barrels to make bourbon. It was all the Lord’s work!

James E Pepper 1776 Rye £7.25 ABV: 50% Tasting: In good ole Southern tradition, James’ Grandaddy had a claim to opening the first Kentucky distillery in 1776. Whether or not it was, this is a first class rye and great with a little water.

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Jim Beam Small Batch Bourbons The Small Batch Bourbon Collection represents the very best in bourbon, each handcrafted in limited quantities using time-honoured recipes. These special recipes allow each Small Batch Bourbon to be distinctively different. As Booker Noe, Jim Beam’s Grandson and Master Distiller Emeritus says: “This is bourbon the way it used to be, the way it was meant to be.”

Knob Creek £7.50 ABV: 50% Tasting: This just got serious! Knob Creek embodies the look, feel and taste of pre-prohibition bourbon. This 9 year old bourbon is named after the area that Abraham Lincoln grew up. Notes of candy floss with a touch of spice & dark chocolate.

Bakers 7 Year Old £7.50 ABV: 53.5% Tasting: A bourbon’s bourbon! Elegant and well-balanced, there are tones of toasted nuts, fruit & vanilla.

Bookers £8.50 ABV: 60% Tasting: Booker’s Bourbon is the “centre-cut,” which relates to the position of the barrels in the rackhouse. The “centre-cut” is less subject to Kentucky’s hot and cold extremes, resulting in the finest, rarest and absolute best bourbon available. Need we say more?

Basil Haydens £9.50 ABV: 40% Tasting: This dates back to 1796, when Master Distiller Basil Hayden Sr., created a recipe like no other. He used a traditional corn base, but mixed small grains in his mash to capture the spicy flavour of rye which complemented the sweet smoothness of corn. A perfect marriage!

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Whisky

Scotch

SCOTCH WHISKY Laphroaig Quarter Cask £4.50 ABV: 48% Tasting: The additional oak influence from the quarter cask creates a soft sweetness and velvety feel when first tasted, and then the intense peatiness unique to Laphroaig comes bursting through. Superb!

Laphroaig 18 Year Old £15.00 ABV: 48% Tasting: The 10 year old’s big brother in many ways. Bottled in limited quantities each year, this malt has an instant warming tang with a nutty & sweet taste. With a touch of water, the peaty warmth fills the mouth but does not overshadow the sweet chocolate smoothness. This is balanced by the rich toffee taste and a chocolatey smoothness which slowly fades into a delicate hint of heather & peat smoke. Quite simply awesome.

Highland Park 18 Year Old £6.50 ABV: 43% Tasting: One of our all-time favourites, this has to be one of the most consistently excellent malt whiskies of the past 10 years. Showered with awards and praise from all quarters, it was named as ‘Best Spirit in the World’ by F Paul Pacult of the Spirit Journal in 2005. Unfailingly excellent, especially after a good meal.

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Whiskey

Irish

IRISH WHISKEY Connemara Peated Single Malt £5.25 ABV: 40% Tasting: This is not a peat beast! Light honey sweetness with spice & vanilla oak. Leaving a smoky spiced & sweet almond after taste.

Jameson Red Breast £7.50 ABV: 40% Tasting: A delicious pure Pot Still Irish whiskey. Redbreast 12 is highly praised by Jim Murray and a host of other notable whiskey critics. Nutty & rich, the finish is long and creamy with custard & spice.

Bushmills 16 Year Old £6.00 ABV: 40% Tasting: A 16 year old Irish single malt from Bushmills aged in three different cask types: bourbon, port and sherry. The result is a beautiful whiskey which was awarded Gold at the 2010 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Middleton Very Rare £25.00 ABV: 40% Tasting: Wow, just WOW! Only 50 casks get bottled each year and if you are one of the lucky ones, you will taste fresh flowers & butterscotch with a long, spicy finish.

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Brandy

BRANDY Courvoisier VSOP Exclusif £5.75 ABV: 40% Tasting: This eye catching bottle contains an aged Cognac that has an excellent balance of oak & floral flavours. Perfect neat, mixed, or in a cocktail.

Courvoisier XO £9.95 ABV: 40% Tasting: A perennial award-winner. A very old blend of fine and mature intense flavours that have been nurtured for over 20 years. Master Blender, Patrice Pinet, describes it as “an exotic vanilla & Crème Brulee aroma.”

Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac £125.00 ABV: 40% Tasting: Search for the meaning of “stunning” and it will say “Louis XIII”. The Baccarat decanter houses prestige Cuvees aged between 40 and 100 years old. Quite simply luxurious.

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Rum

RUM Havana Club 7 Year Old £4.25 ABV: 40% Tasting: Full flavoured, rich and sophisticated with a high degree of elegance and class. A deservedly popular rum.

Brugal XV £5.25 ABV: 38% Tasting: XV is a blend of 3 to 8 year old rums from a mixture of bourbon and sherry casks. This marriage produces a flavoursome and smooth rum.

Brugal 1888 £6.50 ABV: 40% Tasting: Brugal 1888 Ron Gran Reserva Familiar to be precise! This special edition is a product of aging rum for 8 years in bourbon casks, then a further maturation in Oloruso Sherry casks. You will get loads of butterscotch, honey, wood smoke & toffee. You will not be disappointed.

Ron Zacapa £9.95 ABV: 40% Tasting: A deep, rich sipping rum, it is best experienced neat or on the rocks: Sweet and delicate with notes of wood, fruitiness, vanilla, almond, caramel, fudge and chocolate.

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Gin

GIN No. 3 London Dry Gin £6.95 ABV: 41.4% Tasting: Distilled to a proprietary recipe of Berry Bros. & Rudd, London’s oldest wine and spirit merchant. The name No.3 refers to the address in St James’s Street, London: their home since 1698. With juniper at its heart, it unashamedly celebrates the integrity and character of traditional London Dry Gin: six perfectly balanced botanicals distilled in traditional copper pot stills.

Gin Mare £6.75 ABV: 42.7% Tasting: A Spanish gin inspired by the Mediterranean – botanicals of olive, thyme, rosemary & basil are amongst the ingredients. It has an herbal & aromatic taste with a zesty finish. Barcelona is fast becoming a hotbed of gin drinkers with Gin Mare placed at the centre. Ole!

Monkey 47 Dry Gin £9.95 ABV: 47% Tasting: It’s the bottle and name that grabs your interest. Then you find out it is from the Black Forest with 47 botanicals and 47% abv. Then you realize the secret ingredient is cranberries! Amazingly, the liquid lives up to the hype. Complex, robust and powerful this is a must taste for anybody that drinks gin. Where did I leave my bucket list?

Bathtub Gin £5.25 ABV: 43.3% Tasting: The name originates from Prohibition America when a gin-style liquid was made in the bath. Please believe us when we say that is the only link to this amazing gin. Infusing orange, juniper, cinnamon, cloves & cardamom you get a most unusual but excellent gin. Time for a soak...

FEW Barrel Aged Gin £6.25 ABV: 46.5% Tasting: From Illinois, U S of A. This has been called a geek friendly hybrid spirit, but this style of gin really dates back to the Gin Lane days when it was stored in barrels. It has an increased level of spice, sweetness and complexity. Geek Chic…

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GIN Darnley’s View Spiced Gin £5.25 ABV: 42.7% Tasting: Named after Lord Darnley who married Mary, Queen of Scots, this Gin adds spicy ginger & cumin to their London Dry offering. Try it with Ginger Ale for a new twist on gin.

Aviation £5.25 ABV: 42% Tasting: Batch distilled from America, Aviation was created to change the way people think about gin. Distilled from rye and flavoured with juniper, lavender, anise, sarsaparilla, orange peel & cardamom. The strongest juniper flavour you’ll ever experience.

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VODKA New Amsterdam £3.55 ABV: 40% Tasting: A premium 80 proof vodka, five times distilled for unparalleled smoothness. The bottle is designed to remind us of the gleaming skyscrapers of Manhatten - where the dutch first named New York City ‘New Amsterdam’.

Elit by Stolichnaya £9.95 ABV: 40% Tasting: Pure Class! Elit is distilled using a patented freeze-filtration system to ensure maximum purity. With its temperature reduced to -18 it becomes easier to remove impurities, leaving a great body and texture with a clean aftertaste.

Ciroc £10.95 ABV: 40% Tasting: The product of a joint venture between P Diddy & Diageo. Produced from French grapes harvested when frozen, then cold-fermented into wine and distilled five times. Ciroc is a new breed of ultra-premium vodkas, manufactured in France.

Snow Leopard £11.95 ABV: 40% Tasting: A Polish vodka with a big heart, where part of the profits go to protecting these big, rare cats. This Vodka is mineral clean with aftertastes of pepper & liquorice. More Wow Wow than Meeow.

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TEQUILA It’s from Mexico and you shoot it. What else is there to know? Continue reading…

Tres Generaciones Tasting: An ultra premium range named after the people who have pioneered & defined the tequila industry – Don Cenobio, Don Eladio & Don Francisco Javier. There’s a Plata (silver), a Reposada and an Anejo. They are all triple distilled, then the story begins…

Plata £6.95 ABV: 38%

Reposada £7.95 ABV: 38%

Anejo £8.95 ABV: 38%

Sauza 901 £4.95 ABV: 40% Tasting: Ladies & Gentlemen, it’s time to introduce 901; the love child of a Sauza R - Justin Timberlake collaboration. Every bottle is carefully crafted using only the finest blue weber agave, for a super smooth, triple distilled premium tequila.

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Wines

CHAMPAGNE/SPARKLING Champagne Brut, by Laurent Perrier (750ml) £40 France

Champagne Brut, by Laurent Perrier (Magnum) £75 France

Champagne Rosé, NV by Laurent Perrier (750ml) £50 France

Prosecco DOCG, NV by Bolla (750ml) £20 Italy

Prosecco, NV by Canti (Glass 200ml) £7 Italy

RED Classic Reserve Merlot, by Montes £16 Chile (Glass 175ml)

£4.50 • (Glass 250ml) £5.50

Pinotage, by Douglas Green £16 South Africa

Rioja, VII by Faustino £17 Spain (Glass 175ml)

£4.75 • (Glass 250ml) £5.95

Cabernet Sauvignon, Max Reserva by Errazuriz £22 Chile

Pinot Noir, by Esk Valley £25 New Zealand

Shiraz, by Peter Lehmann £20 Australia (Glass 175ml)

£5.25 • (Glass 250ml) £6.75

Malbec, Reserva by Argento £18 Argentina 25

White Pinot Grigio, Santepietre by Lamberti £16 Italy (Glass 175ml)

£4.50 • (Glass 250ml) £5.50

Sauvignon Blanc, by Errazuriz £18 Chile

Unoaked Chardonnay, Weighbridge by Peter Lehmann £17 Australia (Glass 175ml)

£4.95 • (Glass 250ml) £5.95

Sauvignon Blanc, by Villa Maria £20 New Zealand (Glass 175ml)

£5.25 • (Glass 250ml) £6.75

Petit Chablis, by Chablisienne £25 France

Chenin Blanc, by Douglas Green £16 South Africa

Riesling, by Peter Lehmann £19 Australia

ROSÉ Rosé, by Mateus (1.5 Litre) £30 Portugal

White Zinfandel, by Vendange £16 California (Glass 175ml)

£4.50 • (Glass 250ml) £5.50

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