Too early for an Xmas cocktail?
Dave Quinn (not him, another one), of The People of Croke Park fame, writes:
For my day job I work in advertising with the creative agency Bloom. This year to celebrate the festive season we decided to commission our own cocktail.
We call it Yule Bloom (Geddit). Anyway we would like to share it with the readers of Broadsheet. In case they were looking for a break from all that Prosecco and sherry.
And wanted something different.
Hic.
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Jayz. I’d love one o dem right now.
creative agency, that’s some millennial waffle right there, I gavomited reading that.
Creative agencies predate millenials by a long way. That, sir, is pure Gen X waffle.
Mmmmmm. Vintage.
Yeah, but did you vomit, like, creatively?
I recommend taking a permanent break from Prosecco by drinking Champagne.
Yep. I’m with you. Prosecco is just too sweet. I measure it by the fact that when not chilled properly (or when left undrunk for a while) Prosecco is manky: champagne is still palatable.
Cremant isn’t bad.
And while I’m at it, you can tell this copy is written by some cove that hasn’t strayed too far beyond the canals in living memory. Please, point me to the throngs of young hepcats numbing their tonsils with Fino or Pedro Ximenez from Convoy to Clonakilty.
@SmileyCulture: Should Champagne or Cremant prove a little pricey, Tesco do a very nice cava, vintage and non-vintage albeit cheaper in The Black North. I reached Peak Prosecco ten years ago.
A half-decent Cava will knock most Prosecco into a cocked hat. Most of the Italian fizz I’ve had the misfortune to be handed over the years put me in mind of Blue Nun that someone put through a Soda Stream.
I will still bang the drum for Champagne, though. Veuve Clicquot is available for as little as £32 a bottle, although I did have to buy a half-dozen to get that price (Oh dear, how sad, I hear you cry.) Less renowned but still more than acceptable Champagne can be had for under the £20 mark.
@TheOldBoy: very true on all counts. I got a cheque for 150 squid from my mortgage co and it will be spent on champers tomorrow (Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference is superb and I’ll probably score some Veuve as well). Sometimes, life is indeed too short. Mind, Franciacorta is palatable when you can get it.
veuve cliquot brut for 43.95 yesterday and today in wine shop up from neary’s (can’t remember the name). have to buy 3 but that’s not so bad,
@Barnabas: The Corkscrew, if memory serves.
that’s it, yes
@Barnabas: before the price of Burgundy went completely Radio Rental/Chicken Oriental, The Corkscrew was a good source of Gevrey-Chambertin for well under 40EUR a bottle. Closer to 60 and above now and Claret is looking like a better buy again.
my problem (or one of them anyway) is that I don’t buy nice wine often enough to know what’s a decent price. I like that shop but suspect it’s very dear – but with the odd excellent offer. a friend of mine showed me an app on his phone once that could scan labels of anything and immediately throw up prices of the same thing within 500metres or online. or perhaps I’ve imagined that. if it doesn’t exist, someone should invent it.
Good shout and +1 for “Taste the Difference” wines. The red Languedoc is a staple in my household.
€44 is about as cheap as you’ll get in the south, Brother.
I find that proper wine merchants frequently have keener pricing than supermarkets once you’re outside seven-quid-bottle-for-the-spag-bol territory.
Add a hibiscus flower? Sure yeah, I’ll just pick one out from in between the milk and leftover pasta sauce
You can get them in any aul health shop, missred. They work better in clear drinks as they kind of blossom in the glass.
Phew! And here was me thinking I had to be all lah-di-dah to be using one. I’ll buy one and stick it in my warm cheap white wine so
Don’t knock over the pomegranate molasses!
It’s far from pomegranate molasses we were reared! Thank G-d, as both words are a bugger to spell.
I actually do have that stuff for dressings, would be lovely with some fizz. Mmmm