出生于1948年的戴爾·德格羅夫被譽(yù)為“雞尾酒之王”，你可能讀過(guò)他的雞尾酒書籍,。20世紀(jì)80年代他在紐約市的彩虹屋酒吧擔(dān)任調(diào)酒師時(shí),，通過(guò)其精湛的技藝和創(chuàng)新的雞尾酒配方，重新點(diǎn)燃了人們對(duì)雞尾酒的興趣?,。
那是一個(gè)輝煌的時(shí)代,，那時(shí)在酒吧里你可以隨時(shí)點(diǎn)燃一支雪茄。1995年,，阿圖羅·富恩特（Arturo Fuente）公司推出一款新品雪茄,，是在彩虹屋酒吧舉辦的宣傳活動(dòng)，這個(gè)品牌給戴爾·德格羅夫留下深刻的印象,。如今,，富恩特的巨著X雪茄是他最喜歡的牌子，他最鐘意的是巨著X的雙皇冠型號(hào),。49環(huán)徑,，7.625英寸，全多米尼加煙葉卷制,。這款雪茄的售價(jià)高達(dá)每支100美元,。
戴爾·德格羅夫現(xiàn)在大部分時(shí)間呆在羅德島州，在當(dāng)?shù)匾患业財(cái)S球俱樂(lè)部的門廊那里抽茄。這位四處游蕩的酒吧老板有時(shí)候把這當(dāng)家,，“在這里可以放松身心,，適合抽一支長(zhǎng)茄，有時(shí)候要抽一個(gè)多小時(shí)”,，他告訴記者,。
戴爾·德格羅夫喜歡用雞尾酒或者純酒來(lái)搭配雪茄。他提到一款混合酒,，以龍舌蘭酒（而不是用典型的威士忌酒）為基酒,，摻入帶有一點(diǎn)煙熏味的墨西哥梅斯卡爾酒。如果用純正的烈酒,，他會(huì)選擇單一麥芽蘇格蘭威士忌,，或者他自己品牌的德格羅夫新世界阿瑪羅。
You probably know Dale DeGroff for his essential cocktail books, but back in the day, when the man known as King Cocktail was spearheading the cocktail rebirth, he ran the bar at New York’s famed Rainbow Room. It was a glorious time when you could do what came naturally and light up in such drinking palaces. In 1995, DeGroff hosted an event there marking the debut of a new, luxurious cigar from Arturo Fuente. It made an impression on him, and today that cigar—the Fuente Fuente OpusX—remains his favorite.
DeGroff now does much of his smoking on the porch of a bocce club in Rhode Island, the sometimes home of the peripatetic bar man. “It’s a perfect place to unwind and with a big cigar you’re committed for at least an hour.”
DeGroff enjoys cigars with both cocktails and neat drinks. For mixing, he calls out the Oaxacan Old Fashioned in particular. The well-studied bartender describes it as a riff on the original formula for a cocktail (spirits, sugar, water and bitters). Instead of the typical whiskey, it has Tequila as the base spirit, with a touch of smoky mezcal as a floater. When pairing with unadulterated spirits, he looks to single-malt Scotch, or his own DeGroff New World Amaro.
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