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The Indian Summer cocktail at Sra. Martinez is good company whether it’s a true fall day or just a humid excuse for one. Here’s the recipe.

Rum is a perennial Miami spirit, but good rum is another thing. Here some of my top picks from the rum I tasted at this year’s Miami Rum Renaissance.

I’ve seen it with my own eyes—the rose train full steam ahead. Like it or not, we’re all in the Rose Renaissance.

Club 50 on the 50th floor of the Viceroy Hotel in Downtown Miami is where I had the privilege to taste with the Master Blender for Zacapa, Lorena Vasquez.

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink) I know this is going to be hard for some people, but mezcal is not tequila with a worm in it.  That chubby grub bobbing in your half-finished bottle is a marketing ploy, and you’re the mark.  In every sip of that hot, hellish, and mean spirit you choke [...]

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) * * * Photo by Chuck Ferrin. * * * (Continued from Part 1) Americans, and a great deal of the people on Planet Earth, are interested in wine.  The total estimated retail wine sales for 2010 are $117 billion dollars.   Most of this money isn’t going [...]

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) * * *Photo: Gary Vaynerchuk/ Courtesy of South Beach Wine and Food Festival* * * I got the chance to see the-man-the-myth wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk at the 2010 South Beach Wine and Food Festival.  He hosted a seminar called “Pulse of the Wine World,” and I [...]

By Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) I originally wrote this post for my own website, The Fifth Drink, because I knew that I needed a featured article on the hot toddy to go with this rare bout of unusually cold weather we’re having in Florida.  And for those of you doubters up north, [...]

By Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) When Trina first asked me to write this article, I told her that I wanted to include some shots, because people in Miami go out to bars and clubs for New Year’s Eve (and any other possible celebration).  It’s a cultural thing.  Shots are the best drinks [...]

*by Chuck Ferrin* **photo courtesy of WInes From Spain*** The Miami area is not always the easiest place to live.  Han Solo would have trouble with our traffic, and there’s no question that he would shoot Greedo first for a parking space.  Speaking of that fan-boy favorite scene, I can’t imagine a city more like [...]