Tasting Notes

Flavoured vodka is the hottest new trend around right now, and with so many fantastic new flavours to choose from it’s not surprising. Great in cocktails or simply as a shot, vodka is a great blank canvas for layers of extra flavour and can go bold or subtle.

We all know England is becoming renowned for its fantastic white wines, particularly sparkling, but we shouldn’t overlook English rosé wines, which are another great success story.

Craft beers with underlying flavours of exotic, tropical fruit are becoming more and more popular amongst beer drinkers.

Traditionally thought of as a Russian drink, there are now many makers producing outstanding vodkas in England.

Juniper! is the obvious pub quiz response. And of course, that’s correct. Juniper is definitely the main thing, but there’s plenty more you need to know about the gin-making process before you can really say you know about gin. How is gin made? How long does gin-making take? How are the different varieties affected by the locality in which it’s made? What makes top-quality gin, and is price a factor in which is the best?

People have all kinds of reasons for choosing the wines they do. Perhaps you sampled a memorable glass on a foreign holiday and prefer stick to that grape or wine-growing district forevermore. Maybe you're drawn to the quirky label, or even the price - bargain basement or sky-high expensive vintage red wine varieties. But if you’re a true lover of red wine, whether English red wine or other red wine varieties, it’s worth properly understanding the differences so that you know what you’re drinking.