House Beautiful and interior designer Miles Redd have the below list for the ultimate, stocked bar.
VODKA
GIN
BOURBON
RUM
SCOTCH
RYE
SWEET AND DRY VERMOUTH
TEQUILA
TRIPLE SEC
COGNAC
COINTREAU
CAMPARI
One bottle each of RED WINE, WHITE WINE, AND CHAMPAGNE
BITTERS
LEMONS
LIMES
COCKTAIL ONIONS
CORNICHONS
MARASCHINO CHERRIES
A bag of KETTLE POTATO CHIPS and a can of SMOKED ALMONDS
MIXERS: soda, tonic, ginger ale, 7Up, Coke, Diet Coke, cranberry juice, Clamato juice, tomato juice, Campbell's beef broth with the pullback tab
A PEPPERMILL
TABASCO
WORCESTERSHIRE
FRESH ICE, preferably chipped
A GOOD ICE BUCKET. Mine is glass. I find it easy to clean and I like the look of a sweating bucket.
AN ICE SCOOP. It works much better than a spoon.
A GLASS STIRRER
TWO COCKTAIL SHAKERS, one open and one closed. A closed one is good for frothy drinks; an open one is good for stirred drinks.
A BOTTLE OPENER
A CORKSCREW
A STRAINER. Good for a poured drink
COCKTAIL NAPKINS. I prefer cloth to paper.
A VARIETY OF GLASSES. A good drink is also about a good glass. If you're serving martinis, nothing tastes better than a chilled martini glass. The minimum is lowball and highball glasses; martini glasses; wineglasses; and champagne flutes, beer glasses
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