Bars urged to innovate to celebrate Armagnac Cocktail Week
Bartenders are set to explore mixing armagnac in cocktails for a week-long celebration at bars and restaurants around the UK in June. Armagnac Cocktail Week will run from June 12 to 17, created by leading spirits company Emporia Brands which distributes Lauvia and Marquis de Montesquiou armagnacs in the UK. Emporia Brands is reaching out …
Carluccio’s works with Spirit of Zing to create pre-batched cocktail
Restaurant group Carluccio’s has introduced a new signature drink for summer developed with pre-batched cocktail specialist Spirit of Zing. The Sofia Spritz is supplied as a bottled mix of artichoke-infused Tanqueray Gin with rosemary, hyssop, chicory, fennel and black pepper, finished with a savoury olive solution. Bar staff at the restaurants top up this mix …
Premium Irish mead seeks entry into UK on-trade
A premium mead producer from West Cork is seeking listings in the on- and off-trade to fill what they see as a gap in the UK market. Kinsale Mead Co aims to break into the UK with its traditional Atlantic Dry Mead made with orange blossom honey as well as its variant, Wild Red Mead, …
