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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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Abona

Abona – I know next to nothing about this small, demarcated wine region in the south of Tenerife (nor, indeed, had I ever heard of it until happening upon the fact that within Abona lies Europe’s high...

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Acapulco

Acapulco – five parts light rum, two parts each lime juice and egg white, one part Triple Sec and simple syrup to taste shaken with ice, strained from a convenient clifftop in to a cocktail glass and ...

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Austrian beer

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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Aquavit / akvavit / akevitt

aquavit/akvavit/akevitt – it’s vodka really, from Denmark (Aalborg), Sweden (Absolut, OP Anderson), Norway (Linie) and Finland (Finlandia, as if), but let’s play along as it was probably the original ...

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Absinthe

absinthe – (aka la fée verte – the green fairy), a highly alcoholic (50– 75% abv), foul-tasting grape-spirit-based liqueur originating from Switzerland, flavoured with wormwood (artemisia absinthium),...

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Arrack

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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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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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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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 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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Argentinian wine

Argentinian wine – Argentina is the biggest producer among South America’s winemaking countries (and fifth in the world), with a long and proud history of viticulture and distinctive, signature red (M...

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Angel’s Tit

Angel’s Tit – layer one part each white crème de cacao, cherry liqueur and single cream in a chilled liqueur glass, garnished with a maraschino cherry in the middle (at which point the name will becom...

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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

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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

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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Australian wine

Created on 03 June 2015

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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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

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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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

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