Canada’s Innocent Gun
[caption id="attachment_1245" align="alignleft" width="662" caption="The Canadian brew"][/caption] A beautiful coincidence… I have just been writing about Innis &...
Category Archives: Drink
The Shackleton whisky
[caption id="attachment_1135" align="alignleft" width="226" caption="Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds on a fine Antarctic day"][/caption] I love this story....
Me Jimmy, you Hendrick’s
[caption id="attachment_1113" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="This brilliant device measures the amount of gin left in a Hendrick's bottle."][/caption] If...
Mastiha
[caption id="attachment_1037" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Skinos Mastiha - unique and indescribable"][/caption] An island shaped like a peanut, 50 kilometres...
Massey College Wine Grazing straddles Andes
[caption id="attachment_951" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Remains of the Malbec station"][/caption] How might Dickens have described it: the snowflakes floating...
Three more shopping days left
[caption id="attachment_867" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mon dieu..."][/caption] I came across a bottle of Hine Rare VSOP Cognac the other...
The Toronto Temperance Society
[caption id="attachment_851" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Bijou, prepared by Shane Roberts at the Toronto Temperance Society"][/caption] It’s such an...
Compliments of the Season
Buying presents for people we care about at this time of the year – or buying a few...
Oyster madness
[caption id="attachment_810" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="International oysters (et alia) at Starfish: a superb feast"][/caption] What fun we had last...
Jameson Irish whiskey
[caption id="attachment_794" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Three Irish beauties - a Dublin education"][/caption] The rain hung in the bright air...