Most fathers welcome any excuse to enjoy a glass of their favourite tipple, but Father’s Day is one of the few occasions cemented in the calendar for dads to relax, guilt free. It’s taken a few years for Father’s Day to become synonymous with June. Traditionally retailers and suppliers let mums steal the thunder with a far greater emphasis placed on Mother’s Day…

Picture your favourite Champagne. Perhaps you’ve got more than one. Either way, I expect it occurred to you almost instantaneously, and that you conjured up an image of the bottle in your mind. Now ask yourself: why is it your favourite? For most people, the answer to that question will not be cold and calculated. People rarely love a particular Champagne because it consistently wins the most…

Buck’s Fizz is the nation’s favourite Christmas tipple, according to a survey of 1,000 people by Waitrose Cellar. Thirty-two per cent of respondents plumped for the Champagne and orange juice mix, putting it comfortably ahead of second-placed Irish coffee, which 26% enjoyed. Mulled wine was the third favourite on 25%, with Baileys joint fourth with red wine on 20%. Eighteen per cent said they drink…

Street artist Bansky’s famous spy booth mural is the inspiration for a seasonal brew from Cheltenham independent Favourite Beers. The artwork, which is in the shop’s hometown and features three shady agents snooping on a public pay phone, is currently boarded up after vandals damaged it. But the team at Favourite Beers has produced artwork imagining what the spy mural might look like in the…

William Grant and Sons has snapped up the Drambuie Liqueur Company after it admitted it has always secretly admired the firm’s eponymous brand. Drambuie is a liqueur that blends whisky with spices and honey and rose to prominence as the key ingredient in Frank Sinatra’s favourite cocktail, the Rusty Nail. Stella David, chief executive at William Grant and Sons, said: “We have a passion and…

Favourite Beers opened in 2010 and set itself up as the Gloucestershire centre for beer and cider lovers. The shop scooped OLN’s Drinks Retailing Awards for Independent Beer Retailer of the Year 2012 and Independent Cider Retailer of the Year 2013. It has a constantly changing range of more than 400 UK bottled ales, an international offer including more than 120 beers from Belgium, and…