Celebrate the Day of the Dead with the water of life! Cocktails denote an occasion. They come with an aura of celebration, of decadence, of happy times and alternative realities. A cocktail is a work of alchemy, a potion which has the power to create a lasting memory and imprint it within multiple senses. Remember […]
Pomegranate Margarita Recipe – a perfect blood red drink for Halloween
Pomegranate Margarita made with Cazcabel Blanco Tequila With Halloween fast approaching it’s good to have a spooky cocktail up your sleeve, something punchy, and preferably blood red would hit the spot. I have a bit of a weakness for margaritas so I thought it would be the perfect excuse to pop the cork on a […]
A Tale of Two Ports – Vintage or LBV, which one will you pass?
Understanding Port – Vintage vs Late Bottled Vintage Port. On the face of it, two bottles of Port from the same maker, from the same year and with both labels including the word ‘vintage’ don’t sound too different. Until you check the price. One, the vintage, is six to eight times the price of the […]
Pink Gin Spritz with Gordon’s
Pink Gin Spritz – the perfect summer drink: It’s at this time of year that I’m trying to do my best to make summer last a little longer. Making a lovely fresh and summery cocktail when the sun is shining is just one way to achieve that. I’ve been trying a bottle of Gordon’s Pink […]
Piña Colada Cocktail with spiced Devon Rum
Small-batch premium spiced rum from the Devon Rum Company. The piña colada is one of the world’s best-loved cocktails, a creamy, frothy concoction of rum, pineapple juice, and coconut cream. The piña colada was created in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, but the identity of the bartender who first mixed up this iconic rum-based cocktail […]
Tequila Old Fashioned – A Twist on a Classic with Storywood
Speyside Tequila from Storywood for an Old Fashioned with a twist. Born in Scotland and raised in Texas, the founder of Storywood Michael Ballantyne ended up in Mexico, where he came across Master Distiller Luis Trejo. Storywood tequila was born when the pair realised that by ageing tequila in a variety of used oak barrels […]
Skeleton Key Cocktail – Halloween Cocktail Special
Bourbon, St Germain and Ginger with a good dash of Angostura Bitters – The Skeleton Key Shouldn’t a Halloween cocktail be something unexpected? I’m particularly fond of a St Germain Spritz made with Champagne – and rather partial to Bourbon on the rocks or made into a Whiskey Sour. But, the idea of mixing Bourbon […]
Low Alcohol Bramble Cocktail with Trinity25
The perfect Autumnal Cocktail – Low Alcohol style. One of my favourite cocktails at this time of year is called a Bramble. Traditionally made with gin, simple syrup, lemon juice and crème de mûre, it’s a simple seasonal drink that was created as recently as 1984 by Dick Bradsell. This quintessentially British cocktail was invented […]
Bringing the outside in with ‘Grow your own’ garnish kits from Bacardi and Floom
How to make an aromatic Grey Goose Vodka Afternoon Spritz cocktail. Since lockdown, like many other people, I have enjoyed taking long walks and embracing home life by finding new hobbies including a bit of baking, gardening, and making cocktails. My old cocktail shaker, which was lurking at the back of the cupboard has found […]
CleanGin Review and Recipes
Cut your alcohol without compromising on taste with CleanGin. CleanGin, the new low-alcohol gin is the concept Spencer Matthews, the former Made In Chelsea reality TV star, (and Pippa Middleton’s brother-in-law) Spencer Matthews has created the gin in collaboration with Union Distillers in Leicestershire, experts in both botanicals and distillation. With the idea of producing […]