by Alun | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
8 March is International Women’s Day. Celebrate the lady in your life. Be her hero, treat her to a Brandy Alexander today, tomorrow, on her birthday, high days, and holidays. Run out of brandy? No problem. Place your order here. For your convenience we deliver to your...
by Alun | Feb 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
A milestone anniversary that passed with almost no observation last year was the 350th year since brandy was first distilled at the Cape. According to both legend and historical fact, the first distillation of “gebrande wijn” (burned wine) took place aboard the...
by Alun | Feb 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
“Art is wine, and experience is the brandy we distill from it.” – Robertson Davies – 1958 De Kaapse Brandewijn Kompanjie pays homage to the origin of, and first barrel of, South African brandy distilled aboard the Dutch Ship, De Pijl, anchored in Cape...
by Alun | Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the James Gray movie Two Lovers, Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) tells Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) she drinks Brandy Alexanders with her boyfriend Ronald, a rich lawyer. Leonard orders one at a restaurant to impress her, but ruins the moment by mistaking the stirrer for a...
by Alun | Feb 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Via The New York Times, here’s Rosie Schaap‘s recipe for a Brandy Alexander. “It’s sweet, but not too sweet,” she writes. “It’s retro, but really timeless. Only the hardest cases could resist the charms of this creamy, frothy delight. That’s a...
by Alun | Feb 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
John Lennon’s favourite drink, was a frothy concoction that was also favoured by singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson who, on a March night in 1974 at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles, amid Lennon’s “Lost Weekend”, introduced him to the Brandy Alexander. He later said...
