Tributes to the bartender poured out on social media, paying respect to a kind, gentle and talented young woman. Having first met Lexie during her time behind the bar at City of London Distillery in 2021, I can attest to all of these qualities and more – a warm welcome, beaming smile and a perfect dry Martini were never far away whenever she was behind…

It’s a well-trodden trope of the drinks industry to tirelessly bang the drum of ‘the next big thing’. For a while it was rum (the most sold spirit over lockdown according to reports); then there was the CBD brigade; and lest we forget, the hard seltzer. But there was also the Negroni. For a long time it was the bartender’s cocktail of choice – the…

Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Vinagre de Jerez. Saldaña is referring to some large-scale changes to the sherry category that were announced in September 2021 and mooted to come into effect in November last year.  Nine months later and said changes are still sitting on the fence – not for long though. Saldaña is confident that, come summer 2022, a lot…