‘Berry Christmas’ is a flute of Janice’s own sloe gin, with a rather bittersweet cranberry syrup topped with prosecco and topped off with cranberries and a sprig of rosemary.
This we tried drinking through the rosemary, which rather aptly resembled a portion of Christmas tree. Then after removing the rosemary from our nostrils, we tried again. It wasn’t our favourite, the cranberry being rather acrid rather than astringent we felt, and a pretty small glass for the money.
Americans begin knocking back eggnogs from Thanksgiving all the way to Christmas Day, fact fans. It contains egg, duh, which may of course be a concern for the usual suspects. Not being pregnant I drained my own glass cheerfully and could equally cheerfully have had a few more.
Being a child of the’70s, a Snowball has memories for me that linger. I think my parents had the same bottle of Warninks Advocaat in the’drinks cabinet’ at Xmas for at least ten years, mainly because the only person that drank a snowball was granny and my dad had a firm belief that alcohol had no use-by date. The Stones Ginger Wine bottle outlasted him in fact.
Here it’s advocaat, sherry and lemonade served in a rocks glass and gave a real Proustian kick to my memory.
Ask Janice does a great range of wines and light foods too, so all in all well worth parking your sleigh outside for some light refreshment,