Light, refreshing, stylish & Instagrammable – the Aperol Spritz has become a zeitgeist lifestyle drink that’s bang-on trend for the aperitivo renaissance and our booming trend for social patio culture. Over 300,000 glasses of Aperol Spritz are served daily in Northern Italy alone, for goodness sake!

Jägermeister is herbal hell for some and party central for others. A spirit that is simultaneously described as a liqueur, a digestif, a medicine and a student rite of passage. As a drink, it’s intriguing and confusing in equal measure. It doesn’t have a trendy bottle, its name is hard to say, no one is 100% sure what’s in it and its history comes with a hint of Nazism. Curious to know more?

The story of the first Green Chartreuse, the famous French liqueur still hand-crafted in the Chartreuse Mountains, is steeped in myth, monks and a mysterious manuscript. Before we get to the colourful heart of the tale, we need to go back a thousand years or so to set the scene. The Carthusian Order (Chartreuse in French) began in 1084 when Bruno Hartenfaust, chancellor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims in northern France, rejected the Church for being corrupt. Along

The first known use of the word ‘liqueur’ in its modern sense was in 1755, written by the gloriously named Father Polycarpe Poncelot.