It is smooth in a velvety way, almost like vodka nectar.

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Like bees to nectar, we are attracted to inventions: output, shiny things, stuff that gets written about in the trade press.

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Sporting sassy names like The National Nectar, Ancient Rome, The Hen of the Golden Eggs, Firing Line, The Worst Is Nothing and Men Without Fear, most of these dives are patronised by a handful of elderly men who tote their own containers to be filled.

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She adds that butterflies prefer blooming plants that produce nectar, and are particularly attracted to tiny blooms on plants like lantanas.

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Sometimes called drool, Babylon, bear soup, vulture soup, white face, moustache broth, chalk and nectar of the gods, pulque is the sort of drink you have to learn to like, if only because you have never tasted anything like it before.

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Now that NECTAR has been launched, the next step will be to establish a seed fund with regional donors like the BAHGAT Group in Egypt to cover the initial phase of the project.

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Fortunately for those with a tooth for it, the artisan mezcaleros in places like the mezcal heartland of Oaxaca still craft the old fire-smoked, close-to-the-soil nectar, a drink as specifically rooted in its origins and as various in its outcomes as fine wine.

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