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Time to get in the holiday spirit(s), if know what we mean? Join senior editor, Kristian Laliberte, and NY editor, Annie Georgia Greenberg, as they handpick the best boozy gifts of the season™and mix the ultimate holiday cocktail, with a little help from one of Brooklyn‘s coolest bartenders.
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00:09Welcome back to another episode of everybody's favorite online impulse
00:14shopping segment, Tinseltown. Today we're talking about one of our favorite holiday
00:18activities, boozing it up. Our first item is this bottle opener. It's decorative but
00:24also super useful and it's $27 from In Living. If you're gonna buy the bottle
00:37opener you also want to invest in the bottle stoppers especially around this
00:41one you need sort of the whole set and these retail for $22 each. The second
00:48item is this three ounce mini flask from Izola. It's $28 and the perfect gift for
00:54a boyfriend, a brother, a father, or that badass chick that BYOBs everywhere.
00:59Are you talking about yourself? Maybe. Salud. It's salud. Fine, in that case to my
01:06health. She needs it. Cheers. During the holidays when you're boozing it up you need all
01:14the help you can get. That's why we love these water absorbent coasters. This
01:18water sort of goes into the cracks. They retail two for $24. The final object on
01:23our holiday list is this Royal Rose Cocktail Enthusiast Set. You get all this
01:28for just $55. And we have a pro on hand that's gonna show us just how to utilize
01:34all the simple syrup and the shakers and know that pro is not me. And now we're here
01:40with Anthony Bucciolato, bartender at Hot Bird in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and he's
01:44gonna show us how to make the perfect holiday cocktail. Yeah so this is a time of
01:48year where everybody asks what's the perfect holiday cocktail and I'd like to keep it
01:52simple and go with the classic Manhattan. The portions are two ounces of bourbon or
01:58rye to one ounce of sweet vermouth and then we'll spice it up with a little bit
02:04of bitters and add something extra for a holiday kick. So that we're gonna build it
02:09in a pint glass, add a dash of bitters and then to add a nice spice to make it a
02:21bit more holiday, we have
02:21the the Royal Rose Cardamom Clove Simple Syrup and that'll that'll really really go a long way.
02:29So just a just a drop of this and then we're gonna chill it by adding ice to our mixing
02:38glass. So what this is doing is it's actually cooling cooling it down and
02:43watering down the the cocktail which is you can take your your strainer and we're
02:50gonna add garnish the Luxardo maraschino cherries. I got it, I got it. All right
03:01Christian I think you could have got it and I'm just gonna add one of these to the
03:05bottom of our our glass. So you're gonna see if you ever order a Manhattan out a
03:10lot of people put it in a martini glass or Manhattan glass but I'd like to do it
03:13in a rocks glass. Ready to enjoy. We are ready to enjoy. Cheers. Why don't you have that to her?
03:19Why not me?
03:20She knows what I'm all about. Strong. Powerful. Tastes good. It's delicious. Yeah it does have a little kick to
03:32it.
03:32Make sure to stay tuned to our next episode of Tincel Town for more shoppable holiday fun.
03:36We'll see you in the next episode of Tincel Town for more shoppable holiday fun.
03:43We'll see you in the next episode of Tincel Town.

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