Garden & Gun February/March 2019

ADVERTISEMENT Soaking Up Bermuda FOR A TRUE TASTE OF THE ISLAND, TRY ONE OF THESE GREAT DRINKS—OR ALL OF THEM—AT BERMUDA’S LEGENDARY WATERING HOLES 1. Rum Swizzle THE SWIZZLE INN The Swizzle Inn, Bermuda’s oldest pub, is an island landmark favored by locals and visitors alike. It also happens to be the birthplace of Bermuda’s original Rum Swizzle, the deliciously potent national drink made with Gosling’s Black Seal rum, Barbados rum, triple sec, pineapple juice, orange juice, Bermuda Falernum, and Angostura bitters. The Swizzle Inn: 3 Blue Hole Hill, Bailey’s Bay The Swizzle: 87 South Road, Warwick swizzleinn.com 2. Bermuda Old-Fashioned 1609 BAR & RESTAURANT This harborside experience delivers stunning, uninterrupted views and open-air dining atop the Princess Marina. A carefully crafted cocktail menu offers Bermuda classics as…

EXPLORING CHARLESTON SINCE 2011 Scott Blackwell and Ann Marshall Scott Blackwell and Ann Marshall opened High Wire Distilling in 2013 and have been spreading the gospel of small-batch spirits to Charleston, South Carolina, visitors and natives alike ever since. The lightning in their bottles? It all comes down to historic ingredients, local sourcing, and constant collaboration with the city’s vibrant culinary community. HISTORY LOVES COMPANY CHARLESTON, SC Why Charleston, South Carolina? We made a deliberate decision to start High Wire in Charleston. We wanted to be close to the coast. We also knew that this business would have a retail component—a tasting room—that would bring us face-to-face with our customer, so being in Charleston was a huge win for us because there’s a really sophisticated crowd here. From the culinary…

EDITOR’S LETTER Saving the Small Places ZOOMING IN ON A TINY LOWCOUNTRY CREEK AND ITS UNCERTAIN FUTURE DAVID DIBENEDETTO Senior Vice President & Editor in Chief Jared Bramblett In the argot of Lowcountry watermen, a feeder creek is a sliver of salt water that cuts through the spartina grass, its wending course dictated by geological forces that came to bear some twelve thousand years ago. Take a jon boat into one on a rising tide and the grass will brush up against your gunwales as you motor along, until the creek eventually becomes too tight to navigate. Here the water still pushes forward beneath the boat, following that ancient path before spilling out into the flats and the intertidal zone. Feeder creeks are some of my favorite places to explore…

About That Bar on the Cover... I hate to break it to you, but you can’t order a beer at the “bar” on our cover. That’s because it’s not an actual dive bar, just our representation of one (the brainchild of our creative director, Marshall McKinney). To pull it off, we dialed up the photographic duo Adam Voorhes and Robin Finlay, who built the set and took the photograph (they also found Pete the squirrel). That inviting sign is the work of neon pop artist Todd Sanders, of Roadhouse Relics in Austin, Texas. You may have seen his creations on the cover of the Kings of Leon album Mechanical Bull, hanging on a few of Willie Nelson’s barns, or at the Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles. Wanna guess…

PRESENTED BY THE CLIFFS BLUE RIDGE BOUNTY The unique setting of The Cliffs communities—seven private clubs nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains—offers members epic mountain views, world-class golf, and mealtime magic In the Carolina mountains, the seven Cliffs communities pair world-class golf—on scenic highland courses designed by the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Fazio—with food and drink on par with the best of nearby culinary capitals Asheville and Greenville. Yes, these private mountain and lake retreats offer destination-caliber dining. “Our members tend to be well-traveled food lovers, and when they come back home to the club, we want them to enjoy the level of food and service they’re used to,” says executive chef Francis Turck, who leads a crew of seven executive chefs stationed in…

CONTRIBUTORS Gray Chapman WRITER On a camping trip to the North Georgia mountains, Gray Chapman’s mutt Jerry—the subject of Good Dog (p. 85)—took the family’s new rescue hound mix under his paw. “He’s teaching Juno how to sleep in a tent,” Chapman says, “and trying to pass some of his neuroses on to her.” The Atlanta journalist has contributed to the New York Times and Atlanta magazine, as well as to Garden & Gun’s forthcoming book on Southern women. Her tip for a good bar where she lives: Watchman’sat Krog Street Market. “I enjoy a pull from the Chartreuse shot machine.” Nigel Parry PHOTOGRAPHER To make it to North Carolina in time to photograph rising-star Cup Series driver Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. (p. 29), Nigel Parry clocked his own record…