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The Art of Making a Whisky Highball(Post)
As part of our month long exploration into Asian influences and cocktail culture, we’re starting off by exploring a popular Japanese way to enjoy Whisky: Whisky Highballs. Technically the highba ...
Riding Australia's New Wave with Chaffey Bros. (Post)Every weekend, canny surfers grab their boards and head south from Adelaide to the beaches of the rugged Fleurieu Peninsula. But head North-East and to the Barossa and Eden Valleys and another kind o ...
Alan's Wine of the Week: Château du Vieux Parc La Sélection Corbières(Post)"A smoky red from the southern French area of Corbières – but with a difference. Forget the cheap ’n’ cheerful stuff you may have quaffed in the 1980s – this is a seriously good wine, aged in French ...
Superb Scotch to add to your shelves(Post)We’ve been adding a lot of exciting new whisky to Spirits Kiosk lately, but few have turned our heads quite as much as the ranges from the Distell International group. Distell run three diffe ...
British Rum Weekend(Post)Over the past two months we’ve been building our British Rum collection. Spiced rum, botanically enhanced distilled rums, classic rums - there's now so many fantastic offerings being made in the UK a ...
Hibernating Wines for January(Post)If you’ve been hiding away this January, here are some wines to lay down for when you feel like celebrating again. After all the Christmas and New Year festivities, you may well be struggling to cont ...
White Rum, Beyond Neutral!(Post)When you think of white rum what do you think of? It is likely that you will think of cool refreshing drinks, lots of crushed ice all muddled or shaken together with a fairly neutral inoffensive ru ...
7 Spritz Cocktails you need to make this Summer (Recipes inside!)(Post)The Spritz Cocktail is THE serve of the season. Summer calls for an easy-drinking, easy-to-make concoction that’s refreshingly effervescent and bursting with flavour. But let’s get something out of t ...
How to spot a corked wine, and other faults...(Post)When is a wine corked or faulty? In fact, what does a ‘faulty’ wine mean? And what should you do about it? Most people are reluctant to complain about a wine they don’t like. Many others wonder why t ...
Hot off the press...(Post)The best Provence rosé wines: "Super-pale – far more so than the standard cuvée of Ste Marguerite. Delicate but also persistent. Brilliant. Made from old-vine grenache and cinsault that dates back ...
Tried & Tested - Duck Noodles and Yealands Pinot Noir(Post)As I've never cooked duck before I thought it best to check out a few different recipes on the internet before I planned what I was going to buy. I usually opt for BBC Food recipes as they are very r ...
Al Fresco(Post)Cruz de Piedra Garnacha Rosado Calatayud The sun is shining, the Bank Holiday is almost upon us – so time to bring out an old friend, the Al Fresco friendly Cruz Rosé, bursting with red berry fruits, ...