A Toast for the New Year: Gilded Age Cocktails with Don Spiro
Don Spiro, a vintage beverage specialist and one of the Gilded Gentleman’s most popular guests, presents a fascinating history of cocktails in the 19th century, leading up to the Gilded Age. Many cocktails often thought to have originated in the Jazz Age of the 1920s actually had their roots in the bars and saloons of the Gilded Age.
So fill the ice bucket, join Don and The Gilded Gentleman and raise a glass to a great new year!
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