Renowned spirits writer Gary Regan recently gave praise in the San Francisco Chronicle to The Delta, a cocktail by Nate Selsor of Monarch Restaurant in Maplewood. Based on Jim Beam Distillers Series bourbon, Selsor’s creation riffs on the vintage Cocktail à la Louisiane. “The man has done a fine job of balancing this baby,” writes Regan of Selsor’s drink (pictured). He also gives a nod to Ted Kilgore, currently of Benton Park’s Taste by Niche. Citing Kilgore’s experiments with duck fat-infused spirits, Regan calls the master mixologist “quite a case.”
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This article appears in Oct 1-31, 2009.