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I have been writing about drinks since 2000, mainly for newspapers and magazines, and also through my blog, which is being updated alphabetically here (see below).

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Aberlour

Aberlour – speyside distillery making a range of classy single malts including excellent cask-strength A’bunadh, arguably the best of the Pernod Ricard-owned whiskies and particularly popular in Franc...

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AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) – a salutary starting-point, in case one should get carried away with what follows. Conceived by Bill ‘W’ in 1934 on a rainy night in Akron, Ohio – and who, in truth, might n...

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Asian and Australasian beer

Asian and Australasian beer – the beatitudes of beer brook no boundaries or borders and Australians (Coopers, Gage Roads, Malt Shovel, Matilda Bay) and New Zealanders (DB, Emerson’s, Mac’s, Tuatara, T...

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Albariño / Alvarinho

Albariño/Alvarinho – graceful white-grape variety of north-western Spain and northern Portugal, where it makes enigmatic, aromatic wines that have a Viognier-esque perfume about them with perhaps some...

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Arneis

Arneis – upwardly mobile white-grape variety of Piedmont in northern Italy, enjoying a new silky, peachy, dinner-party-food-friendly lease of life after nearly becoming a footnote. Arneis has two epon...

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Alcohol

alcohol – (from the Arabic al-kohl ), any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds made from hydrocarbons by distillation, of which one – C2H5OH (aka ethanol, ethyl alcohol) – is the subject of this...

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Australian wine - Western Australia

Australian Wine - Western Australia. The varied climates and terrains of the 350-odd-mile coast of ‘WA’ suit a wide range of grape varieties that make wine in a wide variety of styles, almost all of w...

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Airén

Airén – unspectacular white grape, the most widely planted of any variety (the equivalent of every square inch of Surrey) in Spain, and therefore, by acreage, the world (with some three-quarters of a ...

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Arran, Isle of

Arran, Isle of – one of Scotland’s newest distilleries – and the only one on Arran – began production in 1995. The ten-year-old won lots of friends, as have all the bells-and-whistles ‘expressions’ bu...

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Australian wine

Australian wine is very democratic – the best wines share the same genes as the crowd-pleasers, they’re made of the same stuff but the essence of many producers’ top wines such as Rosemount’s Show ran...

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Alcohol dehydrogenase / ADH

alcohol dehydrogenase – aka ADH, an enzyme found in the liver and stomach, where it breaks down alcohol (and without which its consumption would not be possible). Lower levels occur in people of Asian...

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Additives

Additives – a list of additives as long as your arm is allowed in the ingredients of beers, wines and spirits. Some are necessary for regulating acidity and sweetness or as preservatives (sulphur diox...

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Austrian wine

Created on 15 August 2015

Austrian wine – in the twenty-five years since the Austrian wine industry splattered itself across the windscreen of the anti-freeze scandal (when unscrupulous merchants were using diethylene-glycol t...

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Austrian beer

Created on 15 August 2015

Austrian beer – an Austrian brewer called Anton Dreher started the world’s love affair with clear beer with his red Vienna-style in the 1830s – up to then all beer had been more or less cloudy. He has...

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Australian wines - Tasmania

Created on 03 June 2015

Australian wines - Tasmania. From a standing start in the 1980s, the wines of the island state have become the subject of Tas-Mania in the last few years. The industry is starting to mature as the vin...

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Australian wine - New South Wales

Created on 03 June 2015

Australian wine - New South Wales. The Hunter Valley is where Australia’s love affair with wine started in 1828 and it still dominates any discussion of New South Wales (NSW) wine. A quick sweep throu...

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Australian wine - South Australia

Created on 03 June 2015

Australian wine - South Australia. Even with about fifty per cent of the country’s total wine production, it’s stretching it to call South Australia (Red Fin, Tiddy Widdy Well ) – or that south-easter...

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Australian wine - Western Australia

Created on 03 June 2015

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Australian wine

Created on 03 June 2015

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Assyrtiko

Created on 03 June 2015

Assyrtiko – svelte white-grape variety of Greece making mineral-rich wines such as those of Gaia, Hatzidakis, Sigalas, on Santorini; in Thrace with Biblia Chora and on Halkidiki with Tsantalis. All a ...

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Asian and Australasian beer

Created on 03 June 2015

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Artillery Punch

Created on 03 June 2015

Artillery Punch – into a large bowl mix ten parts each bourbon, red wine and strong black tea; five parts each dark rum and orange juice; two parts each apricot brandy and gin; one part each lemon jui...

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Arran, Isle of

Created on 03 June 2015

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Arrack

Created on 03 June 2015

Arrack – booze was probably first formed in a gourd of palm sugar left out in the rain into which the right little speck of yeast landed, setting off a spontaneous fermentation. Whoever looked at it t...

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