Drink

• 1 'Tis the season to be bubbly: Guide to the best festive fizz
  Its satisfying pop is guaranteed to get a party started and the lively little bubbles add a touch of festive sparkle to any occasion. And with supermarkets offering astonishingly good deals...

• 2 Christmas gifts for foodies: the best presents for food lovers
  It is a foodie’s favourite time of year. Christmas is the time to eat, drink and be merry. And it has been a big year for all things food and drink. With pop up restaurants, supper clubs, micro...

• 3 Sloe-ly does it: Distill your own sloe gin at home
  With the festive season fast approaching, we've been thinking about stocking up our drinks cabinets with winter warmers. And it seems that sloe gin is just the tipple. Sloe berries grow on blackthorn...

• 4 Sloe Gin Negroni Cocktail
  Dish type: Cocktail Serves 2 Ingredients 40ml Martini Rosso 30ml Sipsmith Sloe Gin 20ml Campari Method Combine ingredients in an empty mixing glass. Stir. Pour into tumblers or rocks glasses filled...

• 5 Sloe Gin Fizz Champagne Cocktail
  Dish type: Cocktail The Sloe Gin Champagne Fizz is delicious and simple to make Serves 1 Ingredients 25ml sloe gin 25ml fresh-squeezed lemon juice (half a lemon) 1 egg white Champagne or other...

• 6 La Pituca (The Posh Girl) Pisco Cocktail
  Dish type: Cocktail Miguel Arbe, head barman at Soho's Ceviche shares a fruity bestseller. Serves 1       Ingredients 50ml Infusion of Strawberry, Rasberries and...

• 7 Negroni
  Ingredients (makes 1) 30ml gin 30ml sweet vermouth 30ml Campari 1 sliver orange peel Method Fill a rocks glass with ice. Pour the spirits over the top and twist in the orange peel....

• 8 Bloody Mary
  Ingredients 100ml good quality vodka, chilled 300ml good quality tomato juice, chilled Juice of 1/2 a lemon 2 celery sticks Pinch celery salt Pinch sea salt Plenty...

• 9 Malted chocolate shakes
  Ingredients (makes 2) 1 large tub of good quality chocolate ice cream (500ml) 250mls milk 4 tbs malt powder 10 chocolate chip cookies Method Place all the ingredients in a blender...

• 10 Espresso martini
  Ingredients (makes 1) 1 shot espresso 1 shot vodka ½ shot sugar syrup* Method Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass or espresso cup. *sugar syrup is made by heating equal...

• 11 Fashion fix: Fab cocktails from LFW
  If you’ve been anywhere around the capital this past week you’ll have noticed crowds of incredibly sharply-dressed, ethereal, tall, slender people wandering round - harking the arrival of this...

• 12 Festive tipples – Christmas Drinks made easy with wine expert Olly Smith
  Festive tipples - Christmas Drinks made easy with wine expert Olly Smith