Strange new uses for wine grapes

Strangely spirited

There was a time, back in the late 1970s, when I edited a magazine called Wine & Spirit and could tell you every last thing about what was going on in the world of strong liquor: which new cream liqueur had just been launched, a whisper that someone was thinking of launching a spirit tasting of coconut and pineapple of all things etc etc

This is why I felt rather ashamed when I saw an ad in the latest Wine Spectator for a particularly intriguing spirit I had never heard of, Cîroc vodka, ‘the...