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Alice Lascelles

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    HTSI
    The best Christmas bottle shops? Head to Mayfair and St James’s

    Berry Bros & Rudd, Justerini & Brooks and Hedonism have all had makeovers

    The spirits shop at Berry Bros & Rudd, St James’s
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    HTSI
    Curry-leaf cocktail? Sri Lanka’s bar scene is on the rise

    The island’s drinks are making waves way beyond its shores

    Raa, a beach bar at Hiriketiya, on Sri Lanka’s south coast
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    InterviewGardens
    Inside a perfumer’s paradise garden in Regent’s Park

    Ormonde Jayne’s Linda Pilkington has brought the exotic scents she bottles to a theatrical London landscape

    A young woman in dark trousers and a pale sweatshirt, standing in a garden surrounded by flowering shrubs
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    HTSI
    Peaty blinders – eight great whisky-scented perfumes

    Our drinks columnist sniffs out the best boozy fragrances

    Penhaligon’s The Dandy, from £85 for 30ml
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    HTSI
    How to throw an unmissable party

    The dos and don’ts of the perfect invite

    Ava Gardner writes a letter
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s guide to making this festive season the best ever
    How to pimp your drinks cabinet

    10 decadently delightful decanters

    Moser crystal decanter, £1,240, abask.com
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT SeriesThe HTSI holiday gift guide 2024
    Alice Lascelles serves up 15 gifts for drinks lovers

    The HTSI drinks columnist is adding artisan mezcal, amaro and a Martini tea towel to her stocking fillers

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    HTSI
    I judged the best teas in the world: these were the winners

    As the winners are announced, HTSI’s drinks columnist shares her report from behind the scenes at The Leafies awards

    The author judging teas at the 2024 Leafies Tea Awards
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    HTSI
    A first taste of Taittinger’s British bubbly

    The esteemed champagne house has unveiled its Kent-made Domaine Evremond Classic 

    Domaine Evremond’s vineyards in Chilham, Kent
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Travels with the ‘world’s best sommelier’

    Who better to guide you around the vineyards of France and Italy?

    A grape harvest at the Veuve Clicquot wineries
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Can champagne reign in the eco campaign?

    Meet the people trying to make the world’s most luxury drink more sustainable

    Leonardo DiCaprio with Telmont president Ludovic du Plessis
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    HTSI
    In praise of the short wine list

    Overwhelmed by the biblical proportions of fine-dining wine menus? Seek out the sommelier’s cut

    A selection of dishes and wine at Café François
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Me and my mug

    Nine creatives on the cups they love 

    Henry Holland Studio Hug mugs, £55
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    HTSI
    The sleazy bar is back — are you naughty enough to go there?

    Introducing the new dives to know 

    Seventy One Gin’s creator Mert Alas with Madonna and Dua Lipa
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Is Sylva the first good no-lo whisky?

    Ben Branson, the man behind Seedlip, thinks he may have cracked it

    Sylva, £40, is available to pre-order at sylvalabs.com
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Alice Lascelles’ Martini masterclass

    The HTSI’s drinks columnist has written the ultimate guide to the world’s most debated drink

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    HTSI
    The new juju of Anjou wine

    Once overlooked, the Loire region is now a fulcrum of radical winemaking

    The Thibaud Boudignon vineyard in the Loire
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Gardens
    How to grow mushroom pot plants – fungi while they last

    Cultivate them in a box kit and fry them up. But the real magic is in their sculptural, surreal and slightly creepy beauty

    A burlap sack filled with vibrant, coral-colored mushrooms, set against a dark background with a small stack of books on the right
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast24 min listen
    How to feel confident in your martini, shaken or stirred

    Food and drink editor Harriet Fitch Little guest hosts a conversation with Alice Lascelles, author of a new guide to martinis

  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    HTSI
    Haute honey – the oenophile’s stealthiest status symbol

    What’s the buzz on this summer’s hottest condiment?

    A bee pollinates macadamia blossoms at Babylonstoren in South Africa
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    HTSI
    The five bottles you should bring back from holiday

    HTSI’s drinks writer shares her pick of what she’d pack to take home this summer

    HTSI drinks writer Alice Lascelles
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    HTSI
    Finer, fizzier ... and may contain a hint of oyster

    Why are winemakers going underwater?

    Drappier sea-aged champagne Carte d’Or and Brut Nature
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Imbibe la France! Five Paris cocktail bars putting spirits from the regions in the spotlight

    Raise un verre to the mixologists drawing on drinks from around the nation for their creations

    Cocktails on a glass table at Experimental Cocktail Club, Paris
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    HTSI
    Why the Paloma is the drink of the summer

    Your ultimate guide to the tequila cocktail

    A Lost Paloma made with The Lost Explorer mezcal
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    HTSI
    H2Whoa — the radical rebranding of water

    How hydration became a fully fledged lifestyle

    Not Beer, $18.99 for eight cans
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