I like a good gin me. I’ve never really enjoyed the G&T thing but I love a well made Martini, preferably dirty, and any number of other gin cocktails. But I have to admit to being a little sceptical about the gin craze that seems to be sweeping the nation – with its gin parlours…
I have to admit that my pet bar project at the moment is getting people to think differently about tequila. So most visits include at some point me getting a bottle out and asking people to try it. The conversation normally goes the same way. I suggest tequila, the guest pulls a face and says…
A review of 3 cachacas, the spirit of Brazil.
When life gives you limes …. make Caipirinhas! A little late for the Brazilian fiesta of the Olympics but there’s still the paralympics to bring us a ray of sunshine from the Copacabana. So here’s a video showing you how to make a Caipirinha, using Cachaca the Brazilian rum based spirit. This uses Leblon currently…
If you want to squeeze the last of the love out of the Rio Olympics get on down to Waitrose. Leblon Cachaca is available on a special introductory offer of a crazy £22. Crazy, because Selfridges stock it at an eye watering £44 and Amazon have it at its more usual £35 mark. Leblon is…
It’s been hard to hear through the noise of new gin products landing on shelves and clattering into shopping baskets in recent times. But whether you’re a gin fan or not what it does seem to have heralded is a new level of awareness in the UK of the range of spirits available; of ‘small…
Well, it’s somewhere to share things … a love of good times with good people. That’s why I built a bar in my garden, for friends to enjoy our shared appreciation of a good drink and a get together. So this blog will carry that on when we can’t all be together. It’ll be about…