En Rama Sherry is bottled unfiltered and has pronounced yeasty aroma from the contact with Flor. La Gitana is the standard for this style and drinks perfectly as a glass before dinner with olives.

If you're looking to upgrade your Negronis, Boulevardiers, or Manhattans, this is the place to start. Also great neat, with a slice of orange.

If you're looking to upgrade your Negronis, Boulevardiers, or Manhattans, this is the place to start. Also great neat, with a slice of orange.

Red Spanish Vermut from Macabeu grapes and a maceration of 150 herbs. Vermut + Citrus + Soda all day.

A versatile eau-de-vie known as "Cognac's little brother", suitable for before or after a meal, and indeed matchable with a variety of foods, the Red is popular with locals. Five years in oak gives it that little something extra.

A semi-sweet carbonated Cider from France's most famous apple growing region - Normandy. The light yeasty flavour and mild tannin add a little bit of depth to the Cider.

A fortified wine from Northern France, Pommeau is a blend of Calvados and fresh apple juice. Light, sweet, and very refreshing but packs a punch.

The ideal replacement for long-defunct Kina Lillet. Not only is this an exceptional apéritif (rocks, orange slice, perhaps a splash of soda), it's just the thing for a Vesper or the brilliant Corpse Reviver #2.  But beware: in the words of cocktail legend Harry Craddock of the London Savoy, "Four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again."

Cocchi Rosa, with its beautiful colour from a Red wine base, stars in an excellent aperitivo or spritz garnished with rosemary or ruby grapefruit.

A semi-sweet Sherry with a balance of nutty and dried fruit flavours.

Fino sherry, aged under a veil of flor yeast, is light and fresh in style.