Winter warmers, take two

I meant to do a summer riff on my original winter warmers post, but, yikes, the year just zipped by, didn't it? So until spring/summer 2011, a cold-weather redux must do:

Clockwise, from noon:
(1) nigori [unfiltered] sake, to drink warm or cold;
(2) crème de cassis, for a vermouth cassis
(a drink beloved by master journalist/food writer A. J. Liebling);
(3) apple eau de vie, on the rocks or replacing applejack in a Jack Rose;
(4) rye whiskey, on the racks, in a whiskey smash, or a Sazerac;
(5) Chambord [raspberry liqueur], to fancy up hot chocolate, or to splash in nigori (trust me);
(6) Cachaca, especially for punch mixes;
(7) Lambrusco, because spumante shouldn't be spring/summer-specific; and
(8) Basque cider, to drink straight and often.

Hopefully some of this might still be useful, in advance of all our collective Turkey Day indulgences! Personally, I'm looking forward to a postprandial Manhattan or two, plus some oddball digestifs. (I won't lie--as soon as I read this Tasting Table email, I made DK run out to the Dean & Deluca by his office to buy up three three-shot packages. We need all the help we can get.)

We're spending a lusciously long weekend with DK's family in Virginia, although we're heading down tomorrow at a truly appalling hour--3am! Nonetheless, I anticipate a full list of gratitudes, Ginny Branch Stelling-style, posted here by the evening's end the weekend the end of November? I'm awful and ungrateful, I know. Until then!