Can a gin-free cocktail really raise our spirits?
Glass act: sales of no- and low-alcohol drinks have nearly doubled in four years. Photograph: Dan Saelinger/trunkarchive.com
Glass act: sales of no- and low-alcohol drinks have nearly doubled in four years. Photograph: Dan Saelinger/trunkarchive.com
Despite what you might think (or practise), booze sales in the UK are falling fast, and more and more of us are turning to no-and-low alcohol drinks
Sun 21 Feb 2021 07.00 EST
Justin Hicklin is describing first meeting his business partner, back in 2019. “I did think, ‘Oh God, that chap off
Made in Chelsea.’ I was pleasantly surprised that he was charming and not at all a dick, as I was expecting.” Hicklin, 60, is a former advertising executive with the air of a man who happily admits he comes “from a generation that would go out three nights a week and down 10 pints and not think it unusual”. His business partner, Spencer Matthews, 32, the reality TV star, is sitting alo