{"id":664428,"date":"2010-02-15T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2010-02-15T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T13:24:41","slug":"specialty-spirits-run-dry-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664428","title":{"rendered":"Specialty Spirits Run Dry in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2470\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2470\" title=\"cocktails.0703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/113-300x207.jpg?resize=300%2C207\" alt=\"Miles MacQuarrie at Leon's Full Service (AJC Staff)\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles MacQuarrie at Leon&#39;s Full Service (AJC Staff)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>I know it&#8217;s a little early, but is anyone up for a cocktail?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well, if you want a handcrafted cocktail-culture cocktail &#8212; the kind made with gin from a micro-distiller, Italian marasca cherry liqueur and artisan vermouth &#8212; you may be in trouble. Creative mixologists, such as Miles MacQuarrie at Leon&#8217;s Full Service (left), are bemoaning the dearth of specialty spirits in the Atlanta market. Demand has far outstripped supply.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This was the subject of yesterday&#8217;s Sunday column. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trendy spirits run dry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Easy Street&#8221; cocktail at Leon&#8217;s Full Service is anything but. Mixologist Miles Macquarrie concocted this retro-modern libation with Lairds Bonded apple brandy, almond-infused Prunier V.S. Cognac, Carpano Antica formula vermouth, green Chartreuse, Angostura and Peychaud&#8217;s bitters. Macquarrie is among a new vanguard of barkeeps who have turned their backs on the house gin and soda-gun tonic in favor of small-batch spirits, &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles MacQuarrie at Leon&#39;s Full Service (AJC Staff) I know it&#8217;s a little early, but is anyone up for a cocktail? Well, if you want a handcrafted cocktail-culture cocktail &#8212; the kind made with gin from a micro-distiller, Italian marasca cherry liqueur and artisan vermouth &#8212; you may be in trouble. Creative mixologists, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MQA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}