Category Archives: Drink

Archipelago Craft Beer – Islands of taste in every glass

By Admin | Published: January 29, 2010
A glass of beer. A thirst quencher on a hot day; a refreshing drop after a long office stint. But for most of us, that’s probably as far as it goes. Most of the time we don’t think about it much, we just drink it. Archipelago Craft Beer has a new proposal – our beer is [...]
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Australian Chardonnay from Leeuwin Estate

By Admin | Published: January 19, 2010
TOASTY AND OAKY, THESE ARE THE KIND OF adjectives that make wine drinkers reach for their metaphorical guns, but they are the very things that make me love chardonnay. As a New World wine aficionado, I grew up drinking Australian and American, by sheer dint of where I had lived (Perth, Western Australia and then [...]
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Japanese Whiskies you should try

By Admin | Published: January 4, 2010
THE WORLD OF FINE FOODS USED TO BE A smaller, simpler place. If you wanted wine, you’d look to those from France. For coffee, only Italian espresso would do. This is no longer the case. And with whisky from Japan recently voted the best in the world, it seems another sacred cow – that only [...]
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VIVA LA VODKA

By Admin | Published: March 30, 2009
Here’s a smashing new spirit that will soon be on the lips of tipplers and barflies alike. The single malt Valt Vodka is a conception of two Scotsmen, quaffing away in a Manhattan bar when upon recollecting their motherland, resolved to create vodka using only Scottish barley and mountain water. Using a novel quintuple micro-distillation [...]
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