The SFWSC identifies the Best in Show, the highest accolade it bestows, for Best White Spirit, Best Whisky, Best Brandy and Best Liqueur. It also awards Best in Category awards across 79 different classes of spirits. Key spirit categories, like whisky or brandy, include numerous subcategories.
Harrods new Chocolate Hall
A single 50g bar of To’ak’s Guayasamin Art Series chocolate in the new look Chocolate Hall at Harrods will set you back £350. On the gram-per-gram scale, that puts it somewhere between the A5 Kobe beef fillet and Prunier Heritage caviar available in the adjacent Fresh Market Hall. To’ak is reputed to produce the world’s most expensive chocolate and Harrods, of course, has the UK exclusive.
While such big-ticket bars will bring tears to the eyes of connoisseurs whose budgets are closer to Charlie Bucket’s than Veruca Salt’s, let us recall the Harrods’ motto – ‘Omnia Omnibus Ubique’ – all things for all people, everywhere. When the Chocolate Hall reopens to the public this Friday, there really will be something for everybody, from chocolate coins right up to three-year-aged chocolate produced from rare Ecuadorian heirloom cacao (that would be the To’ak).
The £255 Gran Patrón Piedra is aged in oak
Tequila, the one-time rabble-rouser of the spirits cabinet is now a refined choice, and efforts to promote it have been ongoing for more than a decade. They seem to be working. At the start of the year the Mexican tequila industry revealed it had enjoyed its highest-ever export figures during 2020.
But how do you develop your drinks collection to boast the best and reflect your appreciation? Two factors to be considered are terroir and maturation.
Tequila’s taste profile is unique and multi layered. The spirit is produced by distilling fermented agave, specifically the
The Cognac Masters 2021 results 30th April, 2021 by Melita Kiely
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The increasing popularity of France’s native spirit has been met by quality products across the board, as this year’s blind-tasting competition shows.
Global Cognac sales have gone from strength to strength in recent years. Despite a blip in volumes in 2020 because of the pandemic, sales are set to bounce back over the coming years. In March, a report by market analysis firm Technavio projected total Cognac sales to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 2% from 2021 to 2025. This year alone, the report expects the category to grow by 1.34% in value.
Catherine celebrates Easter with wonderful recipes and activities
Updated / Friday, 2 Apr 2021
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Catherine Celebrates Easter will air on RTÉ ONE on Friday 2nd April at 8.30pm.
With Easter comes the promise of warmer days, delicious lamb dishes and chocolate filled eggs. Not to mention pastel decorations and fun-filled Easter egg hunts! It s a wonderful time to celebrate and much needed this year.
Under the guidance of Catherine Fulvio, seasonal spring ingredients will brighten our kitchens with colourful treats such as home-made decorated cookies and the chocolate eggs.
In Catherine Celebrates Easter, we ll get tips on how to celebrate this family time with tasty treats, using delicious Irish artisan products all to make the mouth water whilst putting a smile on adults and children alike.