Springtime Sale!

And a spicy competition... 🌶️

HELLO.

For the month of May, I am offering the chance to sign up as a paid subscriber to the Spirits for ever. That’s correct. For only £35 per year (or £3.50 per month), you will have access to the full archive of Cabinet posts (these are deep dives into such exciting ingredients as Amaretto, Crème de Banane, Fernet-Branca and Bénédictine ) and you’ll also receive regular future VSOP dispatches - including the more in-depth series I’m planning on perfecting/messing about with the Martini, the Manhattan, the Negroni, the Daiquiri, etc. I’ve a few subscriber chats coming up too. That’s when you can collar me and ask me any burning questions you have about, I don’t know, Midori?

As you may be aware, I am only able to offer up the regular Friday Spirits for free due to the generous support of my paid subscribers; so you might see this as a bit like buying the occasional round - or doing your bit for Martini-drinking civilisation. Oh and you might win a bottle of EXTREMELY GOOD BOOZE too…

Yes. Were that not enticement enough, I will conduct a PRIZE DRAW for everyone* who signs up before the May 30th (or, signs their friend up). The winner will receive a bottle of Ancho Reyes Verde (RRP £42.50!), an astoundingly delicious premium green poblano chile liqueur from Mexico which is, not coincidentally, the subject of the next Cabinet post. So you’ll know EXACTLY what to do with it, too. All you have to do to enter is sign up. I’ll announce the winner at the end of the month and head out to the post office to dispatch with a handwritten note congratulating you for being such a first-rate person.

(*For postal/customs reasons I’m afraid I can only do this for UK-based subscribers)

That sign-up again:

My best - and see you at 4pm BST tomorrow when you will need rum, passion fruit, lime, grenadine and crushed ice 🍹

Richard x