The best bottled cocktails
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You could watch a bartender’s painstaking pyrotechnics and suggestive shakering (snigger) as he crafts your martini. Or sit at home and watch Netflix while drinking it from the bottle. Who needs other humans?
1. The Drink Factory Classico Negroni
Negronuts have long made pilgrimages to Bar Termini and 69 Colebrooke Row for Tony Conigilaro’s concoctions; now he’s sous-videing gin, vermouth and bitters in his Hackney lab and bottling it for on-the-hoof drinking.
£35.47, The Drink Shop, Buy it now
2. Mr Lyan Bonfire Old Fashioned
A good drink puts fire in your belly; Mr Lyan, aka Ryan Chetiyawardana, goes a step further. Cola bitters and lapsang souchong tea add a smoky whiff to the classic, made with Mr Lyan’s whisky.
£34.99, Selfridges, Buy it now
3. Ceviche Pisco Punch
Drinking one of the Peruvian restaurant’s pineapple punches, bottled using recycled bottles, won’t transport you from your boring life to a tropical beach — but it’ll help dull the pain.
£6, In-store at cevicheuk.com/oldst
4. World of Zing Steel Aged Manhattan
World of Zing respects the first rule of the Manhattan: use Bulleit rye whisky. Where they add the zing, is by replacing traditional vermouth with spiced brandy, then steel-ageing it for a minerally tang.
£26.95, World of Zing, Buy it now
5. The Handmade Cocktail Company Vesper
James Bond’s favourite drink doesn’t need shaking or stirring, just pouring ice-cold, and at 34.9 per cent it will leave you feeling able to save the world single-handed with a specially adapted biro.
£25.95, Master of Malt, Buy it now
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