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You can enjoy your rum however you like but it is important to know what you are drinking, especially if you intend on drinking it neat or on the rocks. Here, our resident Rum curator and founder of...

The Martini remains one of the most revered and iconic cocktails of all time. Despite its simplicity, the endless number of minor factors that can alter the end profile (let alone the endless c...

It might seem strange for a gin geek to advocate operating a one in, one out gin shelf at home. More so when the suggestion is to stop at a maximum of five bottles!  The horror - surely more g...

We launched Gin Kiosk in 2014 in a bid to help drinkers connect with the amazing producers we worked with on a daily basis. We could never have imagined just how far the craft distilling ind...

We are prouder than ever to support our outstanding South African wine producers at this time, so we have pulled together an offer around our favourite South African wines. Use the discount code DR...

As we launch series 2 of The Grape Escape on Great Western Wine, we are delighted to announce our partnership with Coravin. Coravin is the perfect partner because their slick, streamlined...

If you haven't yet seen it, Joe Fattorini from ITV's The Wine Show is doing nightly wine tastings from his home during the Coronavirus lockdown. Last Fraiday night was Great Western Wine's turn, an...

There’s something particularly luxurious about this marmalade-hued brandy. Hailing from the sun-flushed rolling countryside of south-west France, Armagnac Castarède offers a mellow and enticing...

With a successful career in creating stories for the screen, perhaps most notably the Oscar-winning and visually spectacular Gravity, it seems only natural that Michael Seresin would create wines wi...

It’s that time of year again when everywhere you look shop displays are cascading with inadequate gifts and a plethora of cards which, despite being many in number, offer few in choice. Here at...

From the rugged, mountainous coastline to the vibrant, fertile river plains inland, South Africa is one of the world’s most exciting wine producing countries. Offering an impressive range of gra...

We are delighted to announce our top ten red, white and sparkling wines of 2019. It’s especially exciting that not all of these are ‘obvious’ choices, and that plenty of people hav...