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Mark Diacono

Christmas tipples: Mark Diacono’s recipes for homemade Christmas drinks for gifting

Mark Diacono's drinks (left to right): spiced rum, pear ratafia, blueberry and lemon thyme shrub, ginger and rosemary cordial, lime and limoncello, blackberry alorino.
Mark Diacono’ homemadde Christmas bottles: (left to right) spiced rum, pear ratafia, blueberry and lemon thyme shrub, ginger and rosemary cordial, lime and limoncello, and blackberry allorino. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Drinks styling: Lucy-Ruth Hathaway. Prop styling: Anna Wilkins. Drinks styling asisstant: Gigi Arnold.

No one wants socks, and you’ll only get the wrong brand of gin if you go for a bottle. Instead, whether for a boozer or teetotaller, why not make something personalised, delicious and easy to create? These recipes are all good as they are, but they’re equally valuable as templates from which to experiment with other flavours. All are scalable and, in my experience, very happily received. Expect future orders. Keep all the alcoholic infusions chilled for immediate deployment, though they will last almost indefinitely out of the fridge.

Blackberry allorino

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