As you prepare for the Christmas weekend coming up, Carounn share with us some winter cocktail recipes to try out amongst friends and family this holiday season.

Each batch of Caorunn Gin is passionately handcrafted in small batches in a unique Copper Berry chamber by Gin Master, Simon Buley, with his enviable distilling and spirit expertise. The speciality is created by infusing five…

Perfect Christmas gift for the tippler in your life

We all have that one person in our lives who enjoys an occasional drink or two at any given opportunity. This Christmas why not get them something that will really warm their cockles?

Artisan spirits brand, Asterley Brothers recently launched their new drink, Dispense Amaro. The unique blend combines 24 botanicals using their family’s own Sicilian recipe and is handmade in their South London…

Whisky Lady – October offerings…

Happy Diwali and Hallowe’en everyone!!!

As the lights glow, firecrackers pop and people get dressed up in silly costumes, time for my monthly Whisky Lady round up! Even being away in Jakarta for a good part of September and early October did not deter sampling adventures….

Nor an opportunity to share an extract of an interview with Inver House (AnCnoc, Balblair, Old Pulteney, Speyburn, Hanky…

Getting distracted in Manitoba @LiquorMarts with #Dillon's gin @ginMare

It started off innocently enough… “Let’s go pick up a few things for tomorrow’s open house!”

My sister and her partner kindly host a gathering when I’m back in my hometown of Winnipeg. This time her partner suggested we head over to the local “LC” (Liquor Commission) and grocery store to stock up on a few drinkables and edibles for the celebration.

Cue wide-eyed kid in a candy store dazed…

Gin o’Clock – Part Seven

My exploration of the ginaissance continues, buoyed by the news that I am surfing an ever-increasing wave. According to figures released by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, sales of gin from supermarkets and off-licences topped £400m in 2015 here in Blighty and sales in restaurants, pubs and bars exceeded £500m. They anticipate that sales in 2016 will top the £1 billion mark, fuelled by a…

In these politically correct nanny-state days it is infra-dig to go rattling on about the wonders of alcohol but someone has to do it. There is no getting away from it that alcohol is a drug and that it can be addictive. For those who consume too much in one go it can be, amongst other things, a depressant and long-term addiction can cause social and health problems. But for the vast majority it…

Whisky Ladies with Karen Walker kick start a fab eve with @CaorunnGin!

To ease into our evening with Karen Walker, Marketing Director of InterBeverage Group, we began with a refreshing gin cocktail that greeted our ladies as they waltzed in the door from all corners of Mumbai.

Some chose with soda, some preferred tonic. All had their gin topped with a thin slice of apple.

Caorunn Gin (Courtesy International Beverage House)

Caorunn Gin aka the appetiser

Here is what…

Mumbai’s Whisky Ladies meet Karen Walker of Invers House

Now… I could tell you serious stories of sniffing, sipping, swishing, swilling, and eventually swallowing.

However this is the tale of how a bunch of women got together one evening and managed to still stand after five (or was it six?) fabulous beverages.

Karen with some of Whisky Ladies of Mumbai

Whisky Ladies go pro!

Yes… it was the night we graduated to power point presentations with insights…