To call DeGroff a “legend” in the cocktail world is still to somehow undersell it: He was resurrecting classics and using fresh ingredients back in the 1980s and ‘90s, nurturing the embers ...

and lemon-peel and caraway seed in the United States. Every gin distiller uses a different combination of botanicals and guards his formula very securely. The best and best-known style of gin is ...

So anyway, DeGroff is working in the Rainbow Room in N.Y.C. in the ‘90s when someone comes in and asks for something more interesting than their standard Gin & Tonic, and DeGroff invents a drink on ...