Our guest may be the only person in history to move back to London for the weather! Thankfully, after years of commuting from New Zealand to Canada as a ski-instructor and bartender, Jonathan Zammit-Tabona came home and is now fueling the flames of the modern gin craze. As Brand Ambassador for Langley’s Gin, he can

How can you be Scottish and not have a favorite whiskey? It’s not the fault of today’s guest – he was only 19 when his uncle took him to task. He certainly has made up for it now, with such a passion for the brown stuff that he has shaped a career out of this

The time may have “come to talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–Of cabbages–and kings…,” but all I wanted to do was sit down with my guest today to talk cocktails. The mix of Alfonso Califano’s over-the-top enthusiasm and his inherent Italian hospitality is drawing them south of the river, before you can even

At Cocktails in the City, one of London’s premier cocktail events, Andrew Scutts, its founder, thought it was hygge time. Nordic TV, food, culture have fascinated us since Sarah Lund put on that woolly jumper. Our four guests this week each took five minutes out of their busy CITC schedule to talk to us about

It’s a good thing we don’t live in the 1980’s, when vodka replaced gin as the drink of choice. Today, they may sit side by side on the bar shelf, but only Gin has the Gin Journey. Our guest this week, Leon Dalloway aka the Gin Boss, has captured the zeitgeist and is teaching us

Would you drink a cocktail made with ants? Maybe not, unless it was mixed by our guest today. His creations have won him that elusive title of a Diageo World Class UK Bartender of the year. Today we find out what led him to select a picnic pest as a potable ingredient. Ali Reynolds’ first

What sommelier is busy making his own signature vermouth, barrel aging Vesper Martinis, and shaking up  fruit martinis?  Our guest today, Vittorio Gentile, is one sommelier who thinks like a mixologist which makes drinking at Theo Randall at the InterContinental so exciting. Vittorio hails from Southern Italy with a degree in Economics, but he was

In 2010, divers discovered 168 bottles of champagne off the Finnish archipelago in the Baltic Sea, many of those produced by Veuve Clicquot. The miraculous thing was they had been down there for 170 years. Our guest today, Fabienne Moreau, recounts the origin of this Maison de Champagne and who made the world-famous brand what