Each day, I rode my bicycle around, exploring the area and returning toward sundown to the hotel, where I had the bartender make me a dry gin martini with olives.

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Whitney Neil London Dry Gin, is distilled with nine botanicals, and the one the company is most vocal about is the baobab fruit- which it refers to as a signature African botanical.

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Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.

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" Dry Fly's backstory will emphasize the fact that its vodka, gin and whiskey are "tied tightly to individual farmers in eastern Washington.

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