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Savouring a bitter moment

Move over, speakeasy-style joints. Two new bars in New York show you can attract a serious drinking crowd with a single-minded focus on artisanal bitters and tequilas.

Vintage bubbles

In 1998, divers discovered 2,000 bottles of the Heidsieck Monopole 1907 in the salvaged shipwreck of The Jonkoping, a Swedish shooner, sunk in the Baltic Sea in 1916.

Sip and sample

With 53 different kinds of wines by the glass at The Tastings Room, guests will have a field day sampling and picking their favourite quaffs, instead of having to purchase them by the bottle first.

Polished gem

The junmai daiginjyo is touted to be Japan’s highest polished sake.

Victorian tipples

London’s The Worship Street Whistling Shop pays homage to the city’s popular gin culture of the 1820s, reinventing cocktails from that era.

Underground movement

Mike Soldner, who was previously running the Malt Vault in the basement of Ann Siang Road’s Screening Room, has decamped to another subterranean room in The Club Hotel a few doors away.

Amazing Armagnac

Francis Darroze’s prized spirits are being introduced as digestifs at the Raffles Grill for the first time.

Forgotten spirits, found

Tucked in a quiet corridor in Chijmes, the Auld Alliance is the latest addition to the whisky bar scene.

Melburnian moves

Two bars in Brisbane have opened outposts in Melbourne, extending interactive gaming fun and bespoke cocktails to a wider crowd.