‘There is something incredibly glamorous about a home bar,’ says Emma Burns, joint managing director of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. An inviting and well-designed bar can make a magical focal point fo

This year, why not rediscover some classic seasonal tipples, such as snowballs or eggnog?

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WHAT drinks define us as British? Is it the simple gin and tonic, whose history includes a fall from grace to a rise in popularity again? Or could it be Babycham, that bubbly drink which provided a hi

I was shocked in a London hostelry recently to discover that our once-proud nation has been reduced to forming an orderly queue for drinks at the pub bar. It hasn’t happened in my local yet, and all i

Dust off the Dubonnet: old-fashioned drinks-cabinet staples deserve to be moved from Christmas past into Christmas present, believes Will Hosie