Drinks
Margarita Masterclasses with Cazcabel
I’m sure you can remember it like it was yesterday – one hand holding a warm lime wedge, the other covered in salt and holding a plastic shot glass of… tequila. No one forgets their […]
Drinks
Drinks
National Margarita Week
Get the retro-Martini and coupe glasses ready. Prep those cucumber ribbons and lime wheels. You are about to enter Blue Weber heaven. Brace yourself for Bee-ritas and Neuritas. As well as a Tommy or two. […]
Drinks
CBD Cocktails and Mocktails
Now, more than ever, the world needs less frazzled nerves and more mindfulness. Which means more targeted wellness drinks and 20mg of microencapsulated CBD paired with botanicals working synergistically to support relaxation and reduce up tightness. And […]
Drinks
Rugby and Budgy Smugglers
Budgy Smugglers have become collectors’ items. It is being called the Mike Tindall Factor. Ahead of the Guinness Six Nations which starts this week, England’s rugby players have been enjoying the support of a leading […]
Drinks
St Ermin’s Hotel Home-Grown Gin
A four-star deluxe hotel in the heart of London is not the kind of place you would expect to find distilling its own gin, but the St Ermin’s Hotel in London’s St James’ Park has […]
Drinks
Spritz Up and Pimp Up Your Valentine’s Day
Sometimes a Black Velvet moustache is not enough to tell your partner you love them. Sometimes the Grand Marnier, Hayman’s Sloe Gin and even St Germain elderflower fails, and the Crème de Cassis doesn’t go […]
Drinks
Japanese Whisky For 2023
Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible has done a lot for whisky. But so has actor and comedian Bill Murray. His 2003 movie Lost in Translation introduced a beautiful Japanese seventeen-year-old to the world – Suntory Hibiki. Then […]
Drinks
A Case of Great Whisky For 2023
January: Robert Burns Single Malt Celebrating Burns Night with this single malt named after the famed Scottish poet seems only right. James MacTaggart, Isle of Arran’s Master Distiller, says: “This malt has been skilfully created […]
Drinks
Whisky and Burns
There is only one place to see in the New Year and that is by the river Nith at Ellisland Farm in Auldgirth. It is where “Auld Lang Syne” was written and first performed. Robbie […]
Drinks
Double Dutch
Today is National Twin Day, and our man on the ground, Kevin Pilley meets some more than usually effervescent twins. Twins sometimes don’t make good mixers. But the Dutch De Haas identical twin sisters, Joyce […]