The makers of Tanqueray gin have created a limited edition Christmas gift pack, a perfect gift for the cocktail enthusiast in your life and the ideal accessory for entertaining friends at home.

Men know what they want for Christmas presents, whisky! At this time of year a quality Scotch hits the spot as just the thing to offer favoured guests, or the dram to keep hidden until they’ve all gone home. Amy Laughinghouse is a girl who’s always in good spirits so she went out on some tutored tastings to find which whiskies are top of the tipples for 2010

When Harrods officially opened the doors to the new Wine Shop on the 16th of November, Bisol threw a little celebratory dinner party to celebrate its new display in the champagne section. Qin Xie attended the celebrations and rather enjoyed the proseccos.

If you are looking for a stylish cocktail to impress your guests with this Christmas, you might like to try Bloom’s Gin & Sin. It couldn’t be easier to make, so you don’t have to be a bartender to put it together.

Barceló Imperial Rum is an excellent sipping rum and would make a great Christmas gift for any rum drinker, but it would appeal to anyone who enjoys warm caressing after dinner drinks. So, you might just want to buy an extra bottle to have in the drinks cabinet to offer guests as an alternative to the usual brandies, Armagnacs and liqueurs this Christmas.

I was recently invited by the team at Findwine to a tasting where they were showcasing their wines from the Wendouree vineyard. I understand that purchasing wines from this vineyard is extremely difficult; their wines are normally sold only to private purchasers in small amounts. Take a look at the Findwine site, it’s worth exploring, you might find some little treasures as you do.

We tried two of the Boschendal wines, the Chenin Blanc and the Shiraz, recently and were impressed with each of them. These two South African wines were each very good and we thought were well priced. In our view they represent good value for money, perhaps wines to consider for your festive tables.

Baileys really know their main market is Xmas, much as they would like to move it on into all year drinking. Somehow the British psyche associates Baileys with Xmas as much as it does Warninks Avocaat and Stone’s Ginger Wine, drinks my parents would put out on the sideboard every year for the 18 years I lived at home.

We sampled the Laithwaites’ New Zealand Showcase recently and I was very impressed by these lovely bright and vibrant creations form the New World. Each of these wines are a great advertisement for New Zealand winemaking, it’s perfectly clear why the people at Laithwaites have put this mixed case together.

Demijohn may just have some products to lift your Christmas spirits this year. The Demijohn range of products is extensive, their website has many gift ideas. You might find, or be able to create, just the thing you are looking for.