Tag: Spirits

Christmas digest: a post-prandial selection

With firesides to linger by, armchairs to settle into and cheeseboards to nibble on, Christmas is the perfect time to indulge in a balloon of Armagnac or snifter of Calvados. Here Oliver James suggests three divine digestifs for the season

Caffeine fix: a trip to Union Hand-Roasted Coffee

From Nescafé Gold to chemex, filters and flat whites, the last 20 years has brought with it a coffee revolution. On International Coffee Day – and as our new Coffee Liqueur is released – Alexis Self considers how far we’ve come on a trip to Union Hand-Roasted Coffee

Everything you need to know about Vermouth

Do you think of Vermouth as 1) a dusty cocktail-cabinet oddity or 2) an on-trend essential? Your answer will, doubtless, depend a great deal on how much time you spend in bars. Here, Sophie Thorpe (no stranger to a tipple) provides her essential guide to the drink

Better than a pint

Whether celebration or commiseration lies beyond the semi-finals for our nation’s finest footballers, you’ll need something to sip throughout the match. While it’s hard to resist the lure of a pint in the current heat, we consider it our patriotic duty to drink something English; here Jared Ehret suggests the perfect order of play for […]