The perfect Aperitivo with Hotel STARLINO Rosé Distilled in Turin, the birthplace of the Aperitivo (Italy’s happy hour), Hotel STARLINO Rosé is a charming new addition to the cocktail menu, wherever your staycation may be taking place this summer. With bars and restaurants across Europe facing either a precarious reopening or remaining a while longer […]
Teach yourself wine tasting!
Home schooling with The Wine List – a wine box with a difference! If you’ve always fancied a wine tasting course, but were afraid that you’d find yourself out of your depth amongst a vat full of cognoscenti. Or if you like a drop of the old vino but, like many, are too bemused by […]
Pretty in Pink – Rosé Wine Pairing Dinner
Three rosé wines paired with an easy three-course meal. Nothing sums up summer so well as a glass of rosé wine in the garden. It’s an easy stand-along summer drink, but also perfect with food. With three wines to try, I put together a menu to bring out the best in each and, one that […]
Taylor’s Chip Dry White Port – Canary Cocktail
The Canary Cocktail with White Port. On a mission since lockdown to try out new cocktails, I have found a fantastic new one to add to my favourites list; a ‘Canary’ made with dry white port. I recently received a bottle of Taylor’s Chip Dry Port so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to try […]
Jarr Kombucha – Review
Craft Kombucha from Jarr, Hackney. Kombucha, that achingly hipster non-alcoholic drink and Hackney could be made for each other – and that’s where Jarr Kombucha originated. A few years ago the Kombucha craze hit London. A non-alcoholic drink with its own flavour profile. One that tasted like a grown-up drink and worked as well with […]
Pink Port Cocktail with Croft
Pink Port – and a Perfect Summer Cocktail. If you had consigned your port to the back of your drinks cupboard, ready for Christmas, here’s something completely different to try. I was delighted to receive a sample bottle of Croft Pink Port to play with. Pink Port is a drink like no other that I’ve […]
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 […]
Mai Tai Cocktail with Navy Island Rum
The Mai Tai – a classic rum cocktail Popular in the 1950s, the Mai Tai is a classic rum cocktail made with orgeat (a kind of sweet almond syrup), Orange Curacao and lime juice. Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in 1944 at his restaurant, Trader Vic’s, in Oakland, California. Intended to […]
Whiskey Sour – a Classic Whiskey Cocktail with Bulleit Bourbon
Classic Whiskey Cocktail – Whiskey Sour A classic whiskey cocktail like the whiskey sour is as quintessentially American as shrimp and grits or buttermilk chicken. Kentucky is the home of bourbon, with distilleries scattered across the state in much the same way that you’ll find Scotch whisky distilleries right the way across the country. The […]
Classic Pimm’s Cup for one
Classic Pimm’s Cup Recipe – English Summer in a Glass. I do wonder what people visiting the UK make of classic Pimm’s. It’s a quintessentially British drink – one that sums up summer for me. Fill a glass with ice, add Pimm’s, seasonal fruit and cucumber. Then top the whole thing up with lemonade and […]