Drink

• Drinking advice from an unlikely source

  I think I have just found the perfect summer reading for Nicola Sturgeon.

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  Reading Between the Wines: top tipples for a pound

  Well, hasn’t there just been a lot of chatter about our national currency recently?

• Wine

  Happily, garlic-heavy dishes pair well with wine and the key is looking at the other ingredients on the plate before making your final selection.

• Wine

  I do love veal, and my favourite pairing with escalopes, chops or medallions would be a rich, white Burgundy such as Meursault.

• Bar stool

  Champagne Central

• Tiki trend opens a new world of cocktails for men

  As everyone knows James Bond likes his martini shaken not stirred.

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  DIY Cocktails: between the sheets

  The Between the Sheets bordered on the eye-winkingly naughty when it debuted in the early 1930s.

• After craft brewing, is craft distilling next?

  'Playing the guitar, learning to cook, brewing beer – there's lots of things you can get into," says Darek Bell of the Corsair distillery in Tennessee.

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  DIY Cocktails: how to make an old fashioned

  If bourbon is the king of American whiskey, surely the Old Fashioned is the king of bourbon cocktails.

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  Reading between the Wines: Argentina's finest

  This time, I have chosen to write about how great Argentine wine is. In fact, let’s just say that this week, I’m ‘celebrating’ Argentine wine. And then let’s say no more on the matter. Ahem.