Review: Crozier Drinks

Crozier Drinks is a brand new company, launching only last week. They offer a home delivery service of pre-mixed, luxury cocktails using the best-quality fresh ingredients. You can make one off purchases or set up a regular subscription. It makes a lovely treat for yourself or an amazing gift for someone else.

All the packaging is recyclable – we’ve kept the box to send items sold on our web shop and the inner cardboard filler has gone on to our compost heap. The very nice aluminium bottle is totally re-usable for storing & carrying other liquids – or displaying a few cut flowers, perhaps.

We opted to try the Mango Lime & Cayenne Pepper Margarita. The beautifully labelled bottle contains gold tequila, mango juice, lime juice, sugar syrup and cayenne pepper – suitable for vegetarians and vegans. This mixture 14% ABV.

Some of the other mixes in their range include marmalade & ginger daiquiri, kiwi & lime mojito, bakewell sour and apple pie martini.

The margarita is very quaffable; the delicious fruitiness of the sweet mango is balanced with a tangy sourness of lime. The cayenne pepper adds a depth of flavour & spicy warmth. Truly delicious!!

Included in the package is an info sheet containing useful garnish ideas and serving suggestions for their whole range of cocktails.

Each Crozier Drinks bottle holds a 500ml amount of cocktail. The number of cocktails you get will depend on the size of your glass. Somewhere between two and four… or one whopping big one if you’re feeling particularly thirsty!!

Win a personalised bottle of Champagne

This month, we’re pleased to be linking up with Say It With Champers to offer one of our readers a personalised bottle of champagne.

Say it with Champers can provide bespoke bottles of champagne (or mini prosecco) for every occasion. And wouldn’t winning a bottle at the end of this month really hit the spot in the run up to Christmas?!

After the way 2020 has unfolded – we’d all happily lift a glass of fizz on New Year’s Eve to see this unprecedented year out!

Perhaps you, or someone you know, is getting married next year – a personalised bottle of champagne would be a welcome and fitting wedding gift.

If you’re vegan, Say It With Champers has a suitable bottle full of sparkles for you. The brut Neveux-Rousseau produced in Jonquery is available exclusively from the company.

To be in with a shot at winning a personalised bottle of bubbly, comment below saying what you’ve recently celebrated… or hope to celebrate in the near future. It’s as simple as that!

Just UK-based entrants allowed this month and, for obvious reasons, the competition is only open to adults aged 18 and over. Good luck and cheers!

Personalised bottle of Champagne from Say It With Champers

Price Points: Supermarket Prosecco

In 2016, it was reported that the UK consumed 35% of all the Prosecco produced in Italy that year. The country exports 70% of its total yield – so that means half of what leaves the country comes to these shores.

When it comes to celebrating that special event with a bit of fizz, many people immediately turn to champagne. On some occasions, that can be great, of course. However, a really good Prosecco, Cava or English sparkling white wine certainly beats a mediocre champagne in our book. And it’s usually far more affordable, too.

In recent years, the British public has become much more comfortable shopping in discount high street shops – the likes of Primark, TK Maxx and the different pound shop chains. The same can be said of doing the weekly food shop – and two of these Proseccos are from Aldi & Lidl, whose reputations for an interesting range of products and value for money are now well established.

We can personally vouch for all three of these bottles of supermarket prosecco – sampled, of course, entirely in the name of public service!

Of the trio, we enjoyed the Morrisons bottle the most; crisp and dry with a lovely pear flavour. In fact, it came top in this year’s Good Housekeeping ‘Best Prosecco’ review.

Allini Prosecco Spumante, extra dry: £5.99, Lidl

An easy-drinking prosecco with lovely fresh pear aromas and full of fizz.
Organic Prosecco: £7.99, Aldi (Sweetness: 1)

Pear and green apple are followed by aromas of acacia flowers and honeycomb.

Grown with no pesticides or herbicides used in the vineyard, the grapes are predominately hand picked and gently pressed to ensure only the highest quality of juice is used. The winery is also committed to using renewable energy wherever possible.
The Best Valdobbiadene Prosecco, 75cl: £8.00, Morrisons (Sweetness: 2)

Apple blossom aromas with vibrant green apple and pear flavours.

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