Over the past year, I’ve been building my bar cart, adding bottles of wine gifted from ... so as much as I would love to dive into fancy cocktails with unique syrups and hard-to-find liqueurs ...

But what makes a drink fancy? "I would say thoughtful ... and whiskey (250 bottles), used to create a majority of its craft cocktails. Tin Widow's owner, Sam Berman, said some of their most ...

Nix the bottle pourers and measure your ingredients ... Serving a drink in a fancy cocktail glass is a lot of fun, but how much cupboard space do you really have to devote to them?

or call for a fancy bucket of ice when you check into a hotel for the holidays. It’s been a banner year for one of the most maligned sections of your local bottle shop and grocery store alike.

A bottle will set you back $150. I have fancy bottles of bourbon that cost less. But I like to approach the Gold Fashioned in this way: A cocktail at an upscale bar with ingredients of this ...

for a total of 12 cocktails each month. (That's about as much as a standard 750ml spirit bottle holds as well, presuming a 2-ounce portion for most cocktails.) The only additional ingredients not ...