Black Cow Milk Punch
Black Cow Vodka makes some delicious cocktails and here is one that is perfect at any time of year. Black Cow Milk Punch Makes 6...
Backhand Smash – Peach Schnapps
From Morrisons The strawberry, schnapps and champers celebration combination. Ingredients Strawberries 25ml Peach schnapps Champagne Method Pop a few strawberries in the freezer...
Champagne Cocktail recipe
This is a simple but classic Champagne Cocktail and ideal for celebrations. Ingredients • 1 sugar cube or a little sugar syrup. • 2-3 dashes...
The Silver Book of Cocktails – review
Apple Press has provided me with some of my favourite cookbooks. They also publish a very smart series of marvellously luxurious shiny, belly-jacketed books for...
A Dunnet Bay Distillers Christmas
The Twelve Days of Christmas with Dunnet Bay Distillers Spirited gifts from Scotland to suit every price range, from £1 – £90 Raise a glass...
The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
This worthy tome isn’t a cocktail recipe book, and I would venture to say The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails is for the serious...
Ramsbury Single Estate Gin
From Farm to Glass Ramsbury is a farm with a distillery. It lives on 19,000 acres of land on the Ramsbury estate, with the grain-milling...
Liberation Cocktails 4-Can Gift Pack
Liberate yourself this Christmas with Liberation Cocktails It’s here again! The Season of Goodwill – but I don’t think word had got around yet! It...
Decorrum Rum
Artful in every way It’s getting on to autumn and we are looking for drinks with pleasing warmth and bold character. Yes, a rum could...
Brockmans in Miniature
Brockmans Gin in Miniature – the perfect serve Three cheers. Brockmans Gin, famed for its tactile black bottle, is launching a miniature, 5cl bottle for...
Peatheart – rich and smoky
Single Malt from the Highlands The AnCnoc (pronounced a-nock) label was born a few years after Inver House Distillers bought the Knockdhu distillery, which had...
The Negroni: A Love Affair with a Classic Cocktail
In 2019 the celebrated Negroni cocktail turned 100 years old. The mixed drink revival has introduced a new audience to this iconic classic. The drink’s...
Dima’s Vodka
Dima’s Vodka is new to me, but this bottle has been a welcome introduction. But what exactly is vodka? It’s a spirit traditionally made in...
Classic Cocktails: The Home Bartender’s Guide
Classic Cocktails: The Home Bartender’s Guide to Mixing Spirits, Liqueurs, Wine and Beer 150 Sensational Drink Recipes Classic Cocktails: The Home Bartender’s Guide to Mixing...
Birch Gin
There are so many gins on the market these days. Spirits are enjoying a classy revival not seen since the ’20s. Justin Birch of Wadhurst,...
Gin cocktail
Gin Cocktails by Stuart Walton is perhaps the best quality and best priced gin cocktail book around. It’s from Lorenz Books who have a reputation...
Greyson’s Premium Pink Gin from ALDI
A vision of summer sunsets The bottle is eye-catching, with a pink label to enhance the pink libation one will likely soon be enjoying. Greyson’s...
Cap Gin from the Côte d’Azur
It’s new to me, Cap Gin, but this spirit has character and it’s far more than a novelty. Yes, it’s a French gin. Well, we...
A novel approach for Brockmans Gin
Brockmans Gin is not only a favourite in real life. The super-premium gin is also a fiction favourite. The English gin has been honoured with...
ALDI Premium White Rum
ALDI Premium White Rum is bound to be popular with all those bar flies who are now confined to home. They will want a spirit...