Have you been on holiday and want to bring a bit of that sunshine home with you?  On my last trip to Menorca, I met our guest today, Maria Teixidor, at the distillery of Gin Xoriguer in the capital city of Mahon. We discussed the history of gin on the island and how the Pomada

Superlatives are needed when describing our next guest, Aidan Bowie,  and his place of employment, Dandelyan, (now revamped and opened as Lyaness) in London. World Class Diageo UK Bartender of 2016, Class Magazine’s Best Bar in the UK, Best Hotel Bar and Best Drinks Menu for their Modern Botany theme as well as one for

Lucky for whisky drinkers around the world, our guest today turned his back on a career as a Chemical Engineer and headed behind the bar.  Simo’s entrepreneurial streak led him to revive one of the oldest whisky stores in London, Milroy’s of Soh Before anyone else even knew about drinking single-malt whisky, except the Scottish

Can you tell the difference between Coke from a glass, can or soda gun? Our guests today, John Ennis and Matt Farrell can and it’s that attention to detail that makes their Liverpool bars so successful. They’re now making us Londoners so happy by opening up a pop-up of their tequila and mezcal bar El

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