Hints and tips:
...May 1; further information here soon Ginsanity A two-day festival dedicated to the trendy tipple, with more than 100 craft gins to discover, masterclasses and food. Free entry....
...There’s a legend in Tbilisi about a Persian shah who went mad for a local tipple. In 1616, Abbas I was given a vessel of red Saperavi wine from Georgia....
...My weekend tipples of choice were alcopops and White Lightning. However, asking for these in the nearby off-sales was a dead giveaway that you were under 18....
...The most popular cocktail, I’m told, is the wildberry pisco sour (featuring homemade raspberry syrup)....
...I’m Claer Barrett, the FT’s consumer editor....
...Singaporeans and the expats who call the city home love a tipple, and they love the new....
...I’m not really a breakfast person, but I make an exception whenever I’m here and eat it everyday....
...The tipple might help loosen the tongues of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, two intellectual titans whose work and lives I find fascinating....
...Her tipple was cheap and cheerful Lambrusco, which, she admits, was probably better than the “horrible mixed drinks” that were prevalent at the time....
...But maybe I’m just old. brooke.masters@ft.com Follow Brooke Masters with myFT and on Twitter...
...“It’s very hot, so while I’m cooking I will be keeping cool with a glass of Graham Beck Cuvée Clive Brut. With the lamb chops we’ll have a beautiful Bordeaux blend from Paarl’s Vilafonté Series C.”...
...The new building included a W Hotel above a four-storey M&M’s store....
...The hotel occupies a part of the huge (374,000 sq m) González Byass winery and is named after the company’s signature fino sherry....
...S (usual price £12) The back label promises that this blend has been made by David Guimaraens of the Fladgate Partnership (Taylor’s et al) for M&S for more than 20 years, and that it may be kept for three...
...(Fond of a tipple, Li Bai drowned after a drinking party on a boat.)...
...“I’m rather hoping people will vote early in the morning and continue their parties,” Mr Dardis said. The group’s shares rose 1.5 per cent in early London trading....
...I’m a writer, so I work at home....
...For Kirin, the home experience is mirrored at subsidiaries Myanmar Brewery and Australia’s Lion, the fruits of two other unfortunate tipples....
...Middle-class tipple: Temperance is on the march right now....
...I haven’t disgraced a keyboard since my schooldays and I’m not about to start now....
...His occasional tipple is a glass of (French) red....
...Instead, tonight is an adults’ evening where grown-ups can have fun, helped along by a festive tipple. On a typical day 1,400 children visit KidZania; tonight 800 over-18s are in attendance....
...Should you wish to console yourself with a tipple, the official consensus is that you are poisoning yourself....
...But BlackRock and M&G now own 17 per cent between them. Lithium is the mining industry’s current tipple of choice....
...Those tempted to have a tipple over the Easter weekend might peruse Debrett’s guide to alcohol etiquette. “Despite their reputation for reticence and reserve, British people love to drink,” it notes....
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