Are you a wine expert? If the answer is yes, then good for you. You know your stuff and you can hold your own with any wine connoisseurs. But what if you’re not an expert? You might love a good wine and you’re pretty good at knowing a decent one from a bad one but...
We all know about food pairings for our favourite wines but most of us aren’t so confident when it comes to pairing foods with spirits, such as gin. Gin has experienced an incredible resurgence over the last few years and is now arguably the most fashionable drink to...
Now that the summer weather is here (ahem, no laughing please) it’s time to dust off the garden furniture, organise the summer parties and start thinking about which sparkling wines we’re going to enjoy this season. The fizzy stuff isn’t to everyone’s taste but at...
Wine tastes are a curious thing and they can say an awful lot about a person, we reckon. In fact, there’s even been some serious research done into what wine preference says about our character. So, in a completely unscientific way we at Lockett Bros decided to come...
The way we bang on about the great Scottish whiskies that are available, you would be forgiven for thinking they’re the only ones we love to tipple but you’d be very, very wrong. Yes, we’re going to talk to you about the whiskey delights that come from our American...
Summer is just around the corner… apparently, so we thought it was about time to have a look at some of the best wines to enjoy at your summer parties and barbeques. When the mercury starts to rise (from 4 to 8C if you’re in the UK) and you feel like enjoying life al...
Sloe gin. You’ve heard of it and you probably have an uncle that makes it every year but you’re not quite sure about it yourself. Today we’re going to tell you why you should definitely be making sloe gin this year. In the process we’ll fight the almost overwhelming...
The rise of organic wine over the last few years has been pretty staggering and every year we see a bigger demand for it, but why go organic? Organic wine producers are popping up all over the world and it’s believed that the organic market is growing faster than any...
For every man, there’s a single malt whisky and for every single malt whisky, there’s a man somebody once said… probably. But what if our character traits were the drivers behind which single malt whisky we drink? What if there were stunning whiskies for every...
