A new adult soft drink and mixer

The name Malvern is finally back on spring water bottles

Coca leaves: great for everything

Become the face of Perrier

Winner of UK Monin Cup to compete atop the Eiffel Tower

Premixes are the Vauxhall Astra of the barworld: as sexy as corduroy, but practical? Hell yeah! Nushi Wijewardena and a team of bartenders put a stack of time-saving contenders to the test.

Give liqueurs and cremes some love and you’ll have the classics licked, says Marcis Dzelzainis

Enough of the historical stuff – here are some fresh ideas to get the bartending ball rolling, says Marcis Dzelzainis

Fruit juices to take the edge off the morning after

Maynard House Orchards is now offering its range exclusively to the on-trade.

Magma de Cabreiroá is a mineral water that claims to have spent centuries in the dark.

London welcomes bubble tea - an alternative thirst quencher from Taiwan

Upmarket cordials are launching thick and fast at the moment.

Tillmans is a new organic range of fruit cordials from a family firm in Dalarna, central Sweden.

Bitter, sweet, spicy, herbal... Europe is home to a fascinating array of aperitifs, digestifs and herbal liqueurs that are full of potential for the adventurous mixologist. Alice Lascelles assembled a panel to taste some contenders ranging from 400-year-old elixirs to newcomers hot off the still