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THE TEMPLES OF THE COCKTAIL MARTINI
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Fortnum & Mason, July 2016 |
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When one is in London, one must pay a visit to Fortnum & Mason. This bastion of Albionic opulence takes great pride in stocking the best in food, drinks, perfumes, tableware, tea and so on. The recent rise of gin as a fashionable (and, one suspects, highly profitable) distillate found F&M ready, obviously |
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Nowadays the selection of gins in the F&M basement floor is absolutely astonishing and, as far as I know, unparalleled in any other place in the world. These were the shelves groaning under the weight of dozens of bottles of maybe 60 different firms, some of whom were unknown even to my humble self.... |
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Fortnum & Mason,
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