With recent brand acquisitions from major industry players, is rum finally fulfilling its potential? Rachel Badham reports Only a few months into 2023,…
With recent brand acquisitions from major industry players, is rum finally fulfilling its potential? Rachel Badham reports Only a few months into 2023,…
Diageo Reserve is set to launch the “world’s first Anejo Claro tequila” into the UK market, under its premium tequila brand Don Julio. Don Julio 70 was originally launched in the US to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the year Don Julio Gonzalez began making tequila. The tequila combines traditional Anejo flavours that result from 18 months of barrel aging with the fresh agave flavour…
Spirit Cartel has launched two unique aged rums from Puerto Rico. Don Q rum has two lauched for the UK market: La Reserva de la Familia Serralles and the 2005 Signature Release Single Barrel. The two rums are a celebration of the brand’s 150th anniversary and six generations of rum-making history. The Signature Single Barrel 2005 rum (rrp £40)…
K Cider: that was my first booze of choice. In its limited-edition coloured bottles, it was the height of sophistication – in the public parks of Bedford. I was no snob though, oh no. I would also sometimes drink Mirage and Taboo. These days there’s a good chance I’d be drinking what are known as aromatised wine-based drinks, although I doubt the current generation of…
I remember when having an undercut with curtains was fashionable. I got mine done at Tony’s Barber Shop in Foster Hill Road in Bedford and, to complete the look, I wore 10-hole green DM boots, baggy jeans and a long-sleeved U2 T-shirt. Ah, the nineties. Best decade ever to all those who grew up during it. But fashions change, of course, and we’ve all got photos (printed on…
Off Licence News has teamed up with consultant and former Wine Australia boss Hazel Murphy to offer independents the chance to join a two-week trip Down Under. Retailers will visit Tasmania, the Adelaide Hills and the Barossa Valley as well as experiencing the buzz of Melbourne – known for world- class dining and wine retailing. The trip will depart on February 6, 2015, and in addition…
Don’t judge a book by its cover, don’t believe everything you read, don’t follow the crowd. Language is littered with idioms warning us to question what we are told, yet the received wisdom of wine goes habitually unchallenged. Correspondingly, wine culture suffers from an undue profusion of pigswill, much of which is perpetuated so unthinkingly that it has become almost heretical to dispute it. The traditional…
A small-batch rum inspired by a Filipino revolutionary has hit the UK off-trade after Glasgow-based supplier Marblehead signed a distribution deal with Bleeding Heart Rum Company. Don Papa rum was created in 2012 to celebrate the life of Papa Isio, one of the leading figures of the Philippine revolution on the island of Negros. Marblehead claims it is the world’s first single island rum…
