There are two things a cocktail requires to become a classic—it needs to taste great and it needs to have a great name. I say all that to say this: The Aviation is a classic cocktail, but it almost ...

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Famous for its lilac hue, this classic deserves an elegant gin. Food & Wine / High Road Spirits, LLC / Nolet Distillery / Conniption Gin / Getty Images Cocktail enthusiasts have been sipping Aviations ...

A pre-Prohibition cocktail book, a tiki party in Seattle and a lack of decent beer in Hawaii all played a part in leading to the creation of Aviation Gin. "We didn't want to make a London Dry, and ...

This week on The Blacklist (that new show starring James Spader, aka Steff from Pretty In Pink), Spader's character Raymond Reddington takes FBI agent Elizabeth Keen out for dinner where he surprises ...

Can’t get airborne with an aviation cocktail? You need a layover. A friend recently mentioned that his favorite cocktail was the aviation, a sweet-and-sour gin and maraschino cocktail he’d had once — ...

A couple of years ago I wrote a column about the Aviation Cocktail, a doozy of a drink that, at the time of writing, I believed had been created sometime in the 1930s. I was wrong. I was partially ...

The kidnapping and murder of a young woman in a sleepy 1950s Middle America hamlet send the intertwining lives of three good ol’ boys into a tailspin in “The Aviation Cocktail.” When the firing squad ...

In The Blacklist Season 1 Episode 2, the FBI task force hunts down a blacklister known as “The Freelancer” who assassinated his targets by creating large-scale disasters. Red tells Liz he knows of ...