There are few better things in life than a really good cocktail – but you needn’t be a master mixologist to shake one up at home. Here are three easy serves to savour on a summer evening

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is certainly a mouthful. But the man who inspired the rhyme, and our new rum – Pierre Poivre – was more of a handful, as Jack Denley reveals

The Glenrothes has been making some of Speyside’s finest Scotch whisky since 1879 – but it’s an humble operation, as Alexis Self discovers on a trip north of the border

As the Swedish whiskies of High Coast arrive on our list, Tom Van de Pette introduces the distillery and its elegant spirits