Port, marsala, dark rum: some drinks are to good to leave languishing in the cupboard
From the deepest recesses of your parents’ drinks cabinet they come, the drinks that only see the light at Christmas. A parade of dusty, duty-free misfits, lining up to be sipped once and then packed away with the boxes of sticky dates for another year: Midori, Blue Curaçao, Advocaat. That pink stuff with the baffling Cyrillic-script label.
I have plenty of friends who would include various fortified wines among this selection of kitsch. Sherry, port, marsala and madeira may not be so eccentrically lurid in flavour and appearance, but they are once-a-year propositions for most people. A shame, since these are some of the finest and best value drinks in the world.
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