It has never taken much work to assemble the bottles you need to construct a classic cocktail like a manhattan or a martini. But it takes even less now that you can get all the ingredients in one container.
Bottled cocktails, premixed potions that are ready to pour, are shedding their bottom-shelf reputation and finding a place in the discerning drinker’s shopping cart.
The High West Distillery, in Park City, Utah, sells a bottled, barrel-aged manhattan. Jefferson’s, a distiller in Louisville, Ky., known for its bourbons and ryes, will bring out its own manhattan in the spring. Crafthouse Cocktails, in Chicago, concentrates on white spirits, bottling a Paloma, Southside and Moscow Mule. Another Moscow Mule is made by Arty’s, in Clintonville, Wis., which also sells a brandy old-fashioned and a Bloody Mary. And Fluid Dynamics, made by Craft Distillers in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco, offers a brandy manhattan and a Saratoga.
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Many of these cocktails can be found in liquor stores, but some are marketed only in certain regions. Here’s where to find a few online: Crafthouse Cocktails: binnys.com and wlvliquors.com; Fluid Dynamics: caddellwilliams.com; Mr. Lyan’s Bottled Cocktails: masterofmalt.com and thewhiskyexchange.com. To find stores that sells Arty’s, go to drinkartys.com; for High West, highwest.com.
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