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01/03
The State Council of the King of France issued the first decree on cider brandy, an apple liquor known since the beginning of the 19th century as calvados (in France) and later as apple jack (in the USA) (1687).
02/03
Z Londýna byl odeslán dopis, který prokazuje, že Brandy de Jerez (pravé sherry brandy) bylo dováženo do Velké Británie již počátkem 19. století (1819) 04/03
President F.D. Roosevelt’s inauguration day was the first time Bob Card, bartender in Harry’s New York Bar in Paris, tossed the Tlevesoor (read backwards) Cocktail consisting of a dash of Peach Bitters, Dutch gin, curacao, orange and grapefruit juice, rye and calvados (1933).
Senator for South Carolina, Johnson, describes dining with president George Washington and being served excellent champagne (1790). 06/03
Huib H. Vleesenbeek, founder of the Center for Business History affilliated with the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and historian of the Dutch distillery De Kuyper Holding NV in Schiedam, passed away (1995).
07/03
“Masaryk Day for Czechs” is one of the items mentioned in the publication “The Art of Mixing Drinks” in the part “365 excuses for a party” (1957).
15/03
The birthday of Enrico Marone Cinzano who was to contribute significantly to the professional education of Italian vintner experts as well as to the building of two tunnels (Frejus and Gran San Bernardo), which advanced the development of Italy’s relations with the rest of Europe (1895).
22/03
The chemist Joseph Priestly published a scientific paper on the production of soda water and was awarded a medal by the Royal Society in London for this work (1773).* Soda water became an essential ingredient of the so called Collins Family, a type of strongly alcoholized carbonated fruit drinks.
According to statistics published this day, whereas in 1939 75% of liquor was sold in bars and pubs and only 25 % was consumed at home, in 1965 the proportions were reversed; customers consumed 65 % of liquor at home (1995).
23/03
George Sexton obtained the distilling license for the Leinster province for 5 Irish shillings (1608).
The Moravian margrave Jošt granted the city council of Brno the right to own a tavern and to serve Italian, some Austrian and Hungarian wines there from St. Michael’s day, i.e. September 29th to St. George’s day, April 24th (1393).
In the saloon of its establishment on St. James street, Francis Berry, one of the business partners of Berry Bros. and Rudd introduced an utterly new blended Scots whisky, which the attending painter James McBey named after the famous merchant clipper Cutty Sark (1923).
25/03
The Norman St. Evremond, one of the three founding members of the Ordre des Coteaux, a gourmet order, paid 34 shillings, 8 pence for champagne, two dozen bottles with corks (1665). * In the 17th century the champagne, bottles and plugs were each charged separately.
26/03
In appreciation of his services to the kingdom, king Louis XIV of France conferred a coat-of-arms upon Pierre Lapostolle, whose name has been associated with the Grand Marnier liquor since the 19th century (1698).
27/03
The first known-of European bartenders’ competition took place in Vienna’ s Reiszbar, Dorotheergasse 1; bartenders from Czechoslovakia were among the participants (1927).
29/03
In his records, Parson Woodforde, a vicar in Norfolk, mentioned geneva, as gin used to be called: “Tonight, at about eleven o’ clock, Andrews, alias the Smuggler, brought me a bag of Hyson’ s tea. I gave him some geneva and paid for the tea.” (1777).
31/03
Eau-de-vie, distilled from last September to this midnight, will as of tomorrow be listed in account 0, starting the first of six years during which its maturing will be under official supervision (2002).
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