Most bartenders make the holidays festive and memorable by infusing creativity into the season’s libations. And so can you — we’ve got you covered on how to integrate that ingenuity into your own home bar, plus where to get the essential glassware, and it won’t even require you to sling behind a bar anywhere. Flavor […]
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Hot shots
Reminiscent of jazz, it’s full of improvisation, offering a variety of tastes and styles with influences pulled from just about every bottle behind the bar. While lacking the depth of a good glass of wine or the exquisite burn of an oak-soaked bourbon, quite a bit of creativity goes into the blending — and naming […]
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Booze redo
Bishop says that if Whole Foods Market, Sam’s Club, Walmart, etc. are allowed to sell all alcohol, that “all of that revenue that currently stays in Oklahoma would leave the state” from local liquor merchants. Well, I have traveled extensively in the U.S., and I can safely say that in any other state I have […]
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OKC Chamber CEO’S chronology is incorrect
Regarding the Point/Counterpoint Commentary in the Jan. 19 Oklahoma Gazette by Roy Williams (“Point: Revise outmoded liquor laws”), president and CEO of Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, and Bill Bishop (“Counterpoint: Paying the price”), owner of The Grape Wine & Spirits in northwest Oklahoma City: Bishop makes several very valid points regarding the very […]
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Quality control
Bill Bishop’s Commentary (“Counterpoint: Paying the price,” Jan. 19, Gazette) is frustrating and loaded with half-truths. The idea that Texas liquor laws have a negative impact on selection and price in that state is an outright fallacy. Most major cities in Texas have robust selections in grocery and chain stores, and have thriving niche liquor […]
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Spirited competition
Come on, Gazette; if you’re presenting a Point/Counterpoint discussion, present both sides! Regarding the idea of selling so-called strong beer and wine in grocery stores, Roy Williams (“Point: Revise outmoded liquor laws,” Jan. 19) offered nothing of any substance in his allotted number of words. It was pure political/ambassador speak: blah, blah, blah. But being […]
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Counterpoint: Paying the price
A current law states you must live in the state of Oklahoma for 10 straight years in order to own a liquor store. Every store you see on every other corner is owned by Oklahomans. If you change the laws and allow Whole Foods Market, headquartered in Texas, and Walmart, based in Arkansas, to sell […]