20 best Mezcal cocktails
Mezcal is often used to add a touch of its distinctive lightly smoky character to cocktails based on other spirits particularly tequila. However, it's
National Calvados Week
Now in its eighth year, National Calvados Week returns with celebrations across the UK between 19th - 25th October 2020.
Avallen
Avallen is a Calvados made from 40 varieties of apple grown in La Manche, a Calvados Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée region of Normandy that has been
20 best Calvados cocktails
Calvados is a wonderfully flavoursome base spirit in cocktail recipes, particularly with a young calvados that retains the fresh crisp notes of apple with
Calvados
Calvados is a French brandy made from apples (though it can also contain pears). The name is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée, meaning that calvados
3 Ingredient Cocktails
Most of the enduring classic cocktails comprise just three ingredients e.g. rum+lime+sugar=Daiquiri. A few, such as the Negroni consist of three equal
20 best alternatives to a G&T
With the 100s of new gin distilleries that have sprung up and the numerous variations of tonic, there are now thousands of possible different combinations
Italicus
Award-winning aperitivo brand Italicus Rosolio di Bergamotto launch their 2020 Aperitivo Challenge as a global platform to support bartenders, involving
Sir Walter Cocktail
The Sir Walter (or Swalter) first appears in Harry MacElhone's 1927 Barflies and Cocktails and is repeated in other regarded tomes such as The Savoy Cocktail
Amaroni
A cocktail promoted by The House of Angostura.
Black Fashioned
Adapted from a recipe created in 2019 by Vasilis Kyritsis at The Clumsies in Athens, Greece.
Macunaíma
Adapted from a recipe created in 2014 by Arnaldo Hirai at his Boca de Ouro bar in São Paulo, Brazil. According to Arnaldo, his recipe started to take
Downhill Daring
Named after a piece by American painter and illustrator, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) and adapted from a recipe created in 2019 by Brian Nixon at the Truxton
Gin Blossom Martini
Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Julie Reiner at the House Martini for the opening menu of her Clover Club bar in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Angostura Cocoa Bitters
The famous Trinidadian bitter makers launched this bitters in 2020, made with Trinitario cocoa grown on the islands of Trinidad & Tobago.
Waterlily
Adapted from an equal parts (¾oz each gin, triple sec, Crème de violette and lemon juice) recipe created in 2007 by Richard Boccato at Little Branch
Queen Elizabeth
Cocktail historian, David Wondrich, discovered this cocktail in an advertisement form Bénédictine liqueur published in the February 1935 edition of Esquire
Toffee Negroni
There's no toffee in this Toffee Negroni in the same way there's no coffee in the Coffee Cocktail yet both drinks are aptly named and delicious.
Old Barrel
Rye whiskey spice, herbal liqueur complexity and vinous sherry sit alongside each other in a harmonious trinity with dashes of aromatic bitters and lemon
Belvedere Heritage 176
So named due to its being made using an 18th-century Polish method of malting rye using fire-kilned drying, Belvedere Heritage is made by blending 98%
Chase Oak Aged Sloe Gin
Chase GB Gin infused with wild Herefordshire hedgerow sloe berries from and mulberries then aged in Rhône Valley red wine seasoned oak casks.
Chase Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin
Chase Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin is distilled with pink grapefruit and pomelo peels among the botanicals in a traditional pot still distillation.
Royal Mash Vodka
Royal Mash Vodka is distilled from fermented Jersey potatoes in a 200-litre copper hybrid still. This vodka is Distilled only once.
Hendrick's Gin Palace Distillery
Hendrick's, the most unusual gin has been brilliantly marketed as a quintessentially British product, associated with cucumber sandwiches and rose gardens,
