@RobertSimonson wrote a significant new piece for Punch:
With this, I think he really ties something of a bow on the Cocktail Renaissance, at least from an internal perspective.
On the other hand, most of us have been so invested in the Cocktail Renaissance for so long that it can be a challenge to see outside the bubble. The “mainstream” within the bubble of cocktail bars and cognoscenti, is not the “mainstream” of the greater world we live in. The former has produced a hierarchy of noteworthy, accomplished new drinks, but the latter has adopted none of them (miserable list), to-date, despite re-embracing the general cocktail idea itself. I am reminded of this uncomfortable fact nearly every time I dine out. On the plus-side, the Negroni has never been more popular, world-wide.