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Panda & Sons
Ahh Scotland. You surprised me with your looming mountains and snow covered hills. And yet you shouldn’t have really. My family is from Yorkshire – we’re used to wide open spaces, wild moors and hills....
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Cocktails at Gusto Manchester
Nine months on from my first visit to Gusto, where Alderley Edge won me over, despite my skepticism, and finally Manchester have their own. The small chain that nearly won the Scottish Italian Awards...
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Cocktails in the City
It’s back. Following the success of the first two years in Manchester’s Town Hall, this time around, Cocktails in the City is not only in a new space, the Great Northern Warehouse, but it’s over two...
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Flaviar
My quest for gin pokemon (gotta catch ’em all) continues – and this year especially has seen a massive increase in gin availability. If you’re a fanatic like me, it’s getting harder and harder to keep...
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Grey Goose at Harvey Nichols
Last year, myself and friend Katharine stepped inside a beautiful blue vintage camionnette, where the lovely Roberto created perfect martinis suited to our taste palettes. This year, that beautiful...
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MFDF: Liquor Market 2015
This weekend saw me donning a branded polo shirt and for once, putting myself the other side of the bar at Liverpool Whisky Festival. Well, the display stand anyway. I’m lucky enough to work with some...
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Isfjord Gin
Of all the places to produce gin, perhaps Greenland isn’t the most obvious choice. And yet it holds one of the purest of the necessary ingredients, water. It’s easy to dismiss water, but it can add a...
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Sauvelle Vodka
The world seems to be flooded by gin at the moment and it’s easy (at least in my case) to forget that there are other spirits in the world. Vodka is, I admit, something I rarely drink neat. There are...
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Cocktails in the City 2017 with Sauvelle Vodka
This year Cocktails in the City hit it’s fifth birthday. Five years of booze laden cocktails, creative bartenders, generous brands and intriguing venues. From Manchester Town Hall, to the Great...
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Franklin & Sons: Foraging for Flavour
Foraging seems be to still rather ‘on trend’. In truth it’s something we used to do when I was a kid. We’d hop in the car to head up to visit my nan, and at some point grab buckets and tubs, and head...
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Product Review: Espensen Spirits
When you come across an array of pretty coloured gins, there’s always a worry about added colouring. It’s commonplace in some spirits. Rums for example sometimes have caramel added to ensure a balanced...
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Product Review: Batch Vodka
Gin may be my first love, but an element of it’s production that’s often taken for granted is it’s base spirit. Yes, I’m talking ethanol or, in it’s more common form, vodka. The effect that the base...
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Product Review: Batch Innovations, Apprentice’s Vodka
I can’t believe we’re nearly half way through the year of Batch Innovations! And it’s been a fabulous year for them – they’ve had wins at the San Franscisco Spirits Awards – including double gold for...
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Vodka Review: Batch Innovations, Hop Vodka
The last few weeks have mostly been taken up chatter about the gin market – where it’s going, what’s going on, ‘gin liqueurs’ and it brought me back to something that happened a few years ago. The...
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Product Review: DJ’s Cold Infusion Pockets
Now if you’re me, you read ‘Cold Infusion Pocket’ and wonder what on earth I’m talking about – I first read the email and admittedly my sciencey brain immediately went to something totally different,...
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Spirits Review: The Sweet Potato Spirit Company
This post feels like a little bit of a ‘go hard or go home’ piece, because instead of one, or two, or maybe three spirits, this features eleven. Yep, ELEVEN different spirits – the entire range from...
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Gin Review: Rock Rose Gin – The Full Range (Almost)
The one with almost everything… I first reviewed Rock Rose Gin, way back in 2015 – I enjoyed it as much then as I do now. But it’s been four years, and since then they’ve grown their range...
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