3/6/2023 0 Comments Margarita bottle drink rateM&S Pina Colada, 8%, £2, available in-store Well balanced and boozy, reminiscent of one of those coffee-flavoured Quality Streets. The iced tea base is well balanced and not too sweet, the peach is subtle and you can actually taste some alcohol.ġ4. Unknown Pleasures Peach Iced Tea, 8%, £21 for 6, Fake sweetness clings to the tongue, the gullet, the soul.ġ1. Archers & Lemonade, 5.4%, £1.95, Sainsbury’sĪ Proustian rush: a girlfriend of mine used to order these in the 1990s. If you were the kind of child who liked drinking neat squash, you might get a kick out of this. All Shook Up Very Berry Bramble, 4%, £1, Tesco I am picturing a consignment of past-their-sell-by-date pineapple-themed J2Os, rescued from a warm pub. Shake Baby Shake Tropical Daiquiri, 4%, £15 for 12, .uk Which would probably be a more economical drink long-term, given the price of this.Ĩ. Overall, it tastes a bit like Belgian fruit beer mixed with aftershave. Empirical Can #2, 8%, €30 for 4, Įmpirical is run by two ex- Noma employees in Copenhagen, and this is a typically avant garde sip: a deep red, sour cherry fizz with a pleasant yeastiness and woody overtones. This is serviceable but, like the vast majority of canned cocktails, it’s not boozy enough for me.ħ. El Sueno Paloma, 5%, £1.25, Sainsbury’sĪ paloma is grapefruit soda plus tequila, which works just fine in can form. It’s a bit like liquid tiramisu, if such a thing can be imagined, with a nice rum backbone.Ħ. ![]() Kahlúa Espresso Martini, 4.5%, £1.90, Waitrose This tastes like a drink from a dystopian future where raspberries are a distant memory. Old Hopkin g Raspberry Mojito, 5%, £20.40 for 24, Aldi But it still tastes more of chewing gum than rum, and the mouth-feel is sinister.Ĥ. Not uncoincidentally, it has twice the alcohol content of its rivals. M&S Mojito, 8%, £2, available in-storeĪn icon, thanks to Diane Abbott, and the pick of the canned mojitos. Or possibly mint sauce? Becomes cloying after a few sips.ģ. Cantails Mojito, 5.5%, £15 for 5, .ukĪ passable attempt at a canned mojito, haunted by the ghost of freshness. Everyone involved in the creation and marketing of this beverage should feel some shame.Ģ. This tastes like someone dissolved spearmint gum in window cleaning fluid and tried to mask the taste with icing sugar. Photograph: Gareth Iwan Jones/The Guardianġ. Agave India is also supported by a stellar list of well-connected and highly experienced individuals from various parts of India, Asia, Europe and the US, many of whom have volunteered excellent and crucial advice necessary for a start-up company in the alco-bev space.Richard Godwin, right, in Bristol with his friend Joe and a hamper full of canned drinks. ![]() Over time, Desmond spread the contagion and recruited his encouraging and able co-promoters, the financially astute Sunil Alva and his co-conspirator in experimentation, the ebullient Johnny da Silva. Today Desmond is proud of DesmondJi distilled spirits, liqueurs and cocktail blends, Agave India’s signature line, as it symbolises the achievement of goals he set himself at the start of the project among which were providing affordable and delicious Margaritas sourced purely from Indian raw materials and made in India in every aspect. ![]() He did the R&D for spirits and liqueurs, unearthed the blue-green Agave in the Deccan Plateau, raised the funds for his project, combated India’s bureaucracy and red-tape, and even served as the master distiller & master blender (his favourite parts). Like a man possessed, Desmond worked closely on developing every aspect of the project. ![]() While trying to make up for what he saw as a lack of affordable options for Margarita aficionados like himself in India, Desmond came up with the concept behind Agave India. Next thing you know, Desmond is in the throes of an all-consuming passion! Agave India is the brainchild of Desmond Nazareth, an entrepreneur and insouciant free spirit from IIT who studied film-making and created pioneering Y2K software solutions while in the US.Ī move back to India in 2000 saw him looking to reignite his old US flame – Margarita.
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