Category: Spirits

Rum: everything you need to know

As we launch our new range of Classic rums, we run through everything you need to know about this exotic spirit – from how it’s made to where it comes from

The cocktail hour

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

The original Spice Hunter: Pierre Poivre

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

Dist-opia: visiting The Glenrothes, Speyside

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