The Spirit World

Corky’s Vodka Shooters are a range of premixed flavoured vodkas. With an abv of 20% the range features twelve ‘radical’ flavours designed to appeal to both sexes and offers everything from a warm smooth glow to a shockingly sour bite. Each are presented in a uniquely stylised 70cl bottle.
Toffee · Apple Sour · Cherry · […]

A very Merry Christmas from all the writers and ‘behind the scenes’ people here at The Spirit World and the WellFed network as a whole.
We sincerely hope you have enjoyed our posts and many thanks to those who engaged in the various discussions over the last year and look forward to providing continuing interest in the […]

It’s that time of year again when most people make, or at least think about making, New Year’s resolutions. Spurred on by the discussion on Grape Radio recently, I thought I’d have a go at making up my wine related resolutions. Being a Scot New Year’s Eve, or Hogmanay as we call it, is important […]

Written by Contributor: Anita Crotty
It seems like ages ago that we chose Benedictine as the theme for the second edition of Raiders of the Lost Cocktail. As November wound down, tasty-sounding cocktails popped up in the comments section, and we all held our breath waiting for the judges to pronounce a winner. The silence was deafening.
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Pour, that Upper West Side wine store I hear so much about, has a full selection of wine related gifts ready for those time and idea-strapped people this Christmas.
Among them, the “Let it Snow Stocking Stuffer” includes a bottle of Montepulciano, a pourer, a spill ring and a cork retriever and sells for $25, the […]

I’m not sure how often some of the rest of you might run into this problem, but I find myself quite often needing to “go on the road” with my bar tools. Sometimes it’s because I’ve been invited to a dinner party where I’m expected to make the drinks, or perhaps I’m heading across country […]

The results of the WellFed 2007 Food Blog Awards were announced yesterday. The winner, in a very tight contest, of the drinks category was the delightful Married With Dinner.
This is a great blog written with passion and style by ‘a couple of San Francisco food dorks’, as they describe themselves. Cameron and Anita are both […]

For all you budding wine photographers the Wine Blogging Wednesday group has set-up a flickr group to highlight your endeavours.
Open to WBW participant bloggers only the group will be a great way to publicise your blog post in addition to forming a nice resource of all the wines reviewed. One photo only per month to […]

Luckily for us wine lovers the Food Blog Awards has a for drink category. Not just wine, of course, but cocktails and beer related sites are all covered.
This year the nominations were far and reaching. After a hectic weekend of discussion between the various judges (of which I was one) came up with the shortlist. […]

Not my own creation but taken from a Sunday supplement to the Times; it went down a storm at a little gathering last weekend. Highly recommended.
Red Bullet

15 large ice cubes
100ml gin
50ml top quality creme de cassis
700ml cider
4 slices of orange

No room in my freezer to pre-chill the glasses as the write-up suggested, but simplicity to […]