Sipsmith, according to co-founder Sam Galsworthy, grew out of inspiration. And like many brilliant ideas turned into fruition over the decades, the idea first started as doodles…

Hong Kong’s The Old Man wins Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2019, displacing Singapore’s Manhattan in the fourth annual edition of the award competition. Award-winning cocktail…

Singapore Cocktail Festival 2019 will take place from 10 to 18 May 2019, and the annual cocktail celebration will again see a burgeoning lineup of exciting events across…

Jewel at Changi, Changi Airport’s largest commercial development with some 300 retail and dining concepts, officially opened yesterday to great fanfare. We look at some…

Michelin-starred chef Jérémy Gillon finds his roots in Savoie, France – and stems, leaves, flowers, et al – and transplants them to his new fine-dining joint…

Singapore Airlines to enhance its inflight wine offerings by adding new selection of artisanal wines, including some 47 labels from Burgundy. In its recently held World Gourmet…

In the world of whisky, few are more qualified to speak about both the science and craft of whisky making than Dr Rachel Barrie from Brown-Forman. Dr Rachel Barrie is the newly…

Tourism New Zealand’s new campaign gives wine lovers the perfect excuse to tour some of its famous New Zealand wine regions. New Zealand is a growing destination of choice…

Winter is here. But so is the Game of Thrones single malt whisky collection – a collaboration between leading spirits company Diageo and HBO – to help keep you warm.…

For a country that produces absolutely no wine and is located almost 4,000 km from the nearest commercial wine-producing region, wine in Singapore is big business. We examine the…

Brass Lion Distillery, Singapore’s first-ever (almost) full-fledged micro-distillery specialising in small batch gins with local flavours, opens its doors to the public.…

Johnnie Walker unveils White Walker by Johnnie Walker, a limited-edition whisky inspired by hit HBO® fantasy series Game of Thrones. We offer our tasting notes. Winter is here.…

We look at three cocktail bars and a whisky-focused one you may want to spend your hard-earned money at this festive season. Let’s face it, we’re spoiled for choice…

Here be good cocktails —> X It’s easy enough to find great cocktails in a cocktail bar – an excellent Old Fashioned in Jigger & Pony, for example, or the…

If you aren’t a history buff, you might not realise the significance of a rather understated distillery formerly known as Cardow (pronounced car-doo). The distillery was…

Planning to visit some Michelin star winners soon? Here are five of them that’s got our stamp of approval where drinks are concerned. A couple of months back Michelin…

Don Melchor is possibly one of the most recognised – if not the most recognised – wines from Chile; the iconic Concha y Toro-owned winery essentially put Chile on the…

It’s hard to have a favourite bar in the cocktail wonderland that is Singapore. Home to some of the best bars in the world – there’s a whopping 12 Singapore bars…

The prefectures of Ehime and Kochi on the Japanese island of Shikoku may be among the smallest producers of sake compared to the rest of Japan, what they do make punch above their…

It seems that every new premium spirit requires a fancy story to sell a romance – and hopefully, more than just a couple of bottles. But this sort of thing gets old real quick.…

First announced in 2012, The Macallan‘s stunning new distillery and visitor centre will finally open to the public this June… and looks set to unveil an awe-inspiring…

ProWine Asia (Singapore) welcomed over 7,200 trade visitors from 24 to 27 April. This was the second time the event was held in Singapore. It included a line-up of 300 companies…

Leading Scotch whisky brand The Macallan earlier this year launched the Quest Collection for global travel retail, and Head of Education for The Macallan Sieste Offringa was in…

Are you sick of having 2,781 variants of a Speyside whisky and being told you have to drink them neat / with a drop of water / only at 500 feet above sea level and 60 percent…

Singapore’s cocktail scene has built for itself a stellar reputation in recent years, and no wonder – the space is literally brimming with talent and innovation.…

If there’s one thing that Singaporeans love doing more than anything else, it’s eating. In fact it’s pretty much our national pastime; Singaporeans would easily…

Most of us are probably familiar with award-winning grand lobby bar Atlas for its massive, towering gin collection that’s been the talk of the town. What some don’t…

Scotch whisky brand The Macallan has announced the release of its new Quest Collection, a series of four different single malt whiskies showcasing varying cask-aging styles for…

Most beer drinkers in Singapore would be very familiar with Kirin; the Japanese beer brand has been the choice of many beer lovers here since it was officially launched back in…

When prominent Australian agronomist and viticultural scientist Dr John Gladstones first published his research in 1966 on the suitability of Margaret River as a wine-producing…

Swan Valley, located a mere half hour’s drive northeast of Western Australia’s capital city of Perth, recently unveiled Swan Valley Cider and Ale Trail. This a new…

Glenmorangie’s director of distilling and whisky creation Dr. Bill Lumsden has been at the forefront of whisky innovation upon his inception at the head of LVMH-owned The…

Over the past few decades California has cemented itself as a leading New World wine producer, and while the big names from Napa and Sonoma may be at the cutting-edge of that…

Hawke’s Bay may be New Zealand’s oldest winegrowing region, but Singapore is only beginning to explore wines from the country’s second-largest wine producing…

Chris Hatcher, the chief winemaker of Wolf Blass, is considered one of Australia’s leading winemakers as well as a highly-respected wine show judge around the world. That…

Quintessence: the fifth substance in addition to the four elements, thought to compose the heavenly bodies, and to be latent in all things. Names, overblown or otherwise, lend…

Winemaking in New Zealand goes back all the way to its colonial era in the mid-1800s, when Anglican missionary Samuel Marsden first planted grapevines at the Bay of Islands in…