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Superb Christmas Drinks for Every Occasion from Hattiers Rum

Served neat, over ice or to create delicious festive cocktails perfect for the party season, the UK's first B Corp certified rum, Hattiers' three premium aged rums also make wonderful gifts and stocking fillers. 

Specialising in sourcing fine blended aged rums from around the world, which they sustainably blend in Devon, their unique rums include Egremont Premium Reserve Rum, Eminence Blended Aged White Rum and Resolute Navy Strength Rum.  

Not only do Hattiers' rums taste exquisite, with six awards from the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) to prove it, they're also sustainable, plastic free and committed to carbon neutrality.  

The ultimate Christmas gift for the rum connoisseur in your life, premium sipping rum Egremont Premium Reserve Rum, is a blend of four cask aged rums hand picked from across the Caribbean and Central America and gently paired with pure soft spring water from the hills of Dartmoor.  Filtered by layer upon layer of ancient granite, Dartmoor spring water balances the alcoholic strength of the base rums to a more accessible level and produces a long and creamy finish.  A fragrant, medium bodied rum that is complex yet accessible, Egremont is perfect in Hattiers' original Hot Hattiers and The King's Hat Christmas cocktails.  £42.00, 40% ABV, 70 cl.

With a fruity but not sweet taste, gentle nutty pineapple aftertaste and long cream finish, Eminence Blended Aged White Rum is the perfect gift for cocktail loving family, friends or colleagues.  Divine served with mixers too, Eminence is crafted using cask rums from Barbados, Australia, Trinidad and Jamaica and is smooth, light-medium bodied with a great depth of flavour and character.  With light and attractive soft fruit notes and a vanilla pod, creamy fudge and ripe pineapple aroma, it has been carefully carbon filtered to remove the colour while maintaining the impact of the barrel.  £37.50, 42% ABV, 70cl.

Guaranteed to pack some punch and sure to make Christmas parties go off with a bang, Hattiers Rums' Resolute Navy Strength Rum is a blended aged navy strength rum, made using rums from Barbados, Australia, Guyana and Jamaica.  With a toasted brown sugar and charred oak aroma followed by warm banana, on the palate it has an intensity of fruit with pineapple, apple, banana, mango and a buttery pastry taste with darker notes of liquorice which linger.  Wafts of coal smoke drift in on the finish, with a dominance of banana cream.  £56.00, 54.5% ABV, 70cl.

Treat party guests to an exquisite Christmas inspired Hot Hattiers or The King's Hat, or both, at your next festive celebration.  

Hot Hattiers

Combining sweet cider with sugar, spice and all things nice, Hot Hattiers is a delicious winter warmer that makes all that wind and rain worthwhile.  So, embrace the season, close the curtains, light a fire and invite friends and loved ones around for Christmas carols, mince pies and hot rum and cider.  After all, Hot Hattiers is best enjoyed shared!

Ingredients

70ml Hattiers Egremont Premium Reserve Rum

500 ml sweet cider 

100g Demerara Sugar

One apple - finely sliced

Two allspice berries

Dash of vanilla essence

Three drops of Angostura Bitters

Method

Combine all of the ingredients and mix well in a large saucepan.

Warm gently over a medium heat, stirring occasionally and being careful not to boil.

Use a sieve or strainer to pour the mixture into a glass and serve hot.

The King's Hat Ingredients 

25ml Hattiers Egremont Premium Reserve Rum

25ml The King's Ginger

25ml Dry Vermouth

25ml Fresh Lemon Juice

15ml Sugar Syrup (also known as simple syrup or gomme)

Unwaxed Orange

Method

Build all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.

Shake vigorously.

Strain into a pre-chilled coupe glass.

Garnish with a twist of orange.

Hattiers Rum is available from hattiers.com as well as Waitrose & Partners, Harvey Nichols, Master of Malt, Fortnum & Mason, The Whisky Exchange, Enotria & Coe, Drink Finder and Daylesford Organic. 

For further information about Hattiers Rum please visit www.hattiers.com or like and follow Hattiers Rum on Instagram: hattiers_rum and Facebook: HattiersRum.  

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Last Minute Christmas Gift Shopping? It's now easy and fun!

There are some people who are laser focused and super efficient. Their Christmas shopping was probably over quite a while ago.

But for the rest of us, there are usually several last-minute Christmas presents to buy in the last few days before Christmas. The neighbour who feeds your cat, the friend who walks your dog and someone who you feel needs a bit of extra cheering up. 

That's Christmas has ten really neat and nifty gift ideas that range from £8.50 to £45.00. And they are all made by UK-based artisan  producers. So they are unique, local and sustainable.

Got a foodie to gift for? They'll be thrilled to receive these South Indian cooking sauces. Each sauce is tailored to enhance out the flavour of specific meats or vegetables. 

Made using 100% natural ingredients they are also free from added sugar and starch. https://www.meltedinside.com/ultimate-curry-sauce-gift-box.html They cost £19.99.

Friends who have a sweet tooth will go nuts for this lovely handmade nougat giftbox. It's luxuriously soft and chewy with award-winning flavours likes macadamia nut, raspberries and flowers, honeycomb, pistachio and cranberry, hazelnut, almond and dark chocolate. 

https://www.meltedinside.com/tadinka-nougat-deluxe-gift-box-36-piece.html  £32.00

And for the drink aficionado there's this very special treat. Chocolate and whisky have been combined  together to make this rich, malty drink presented in a beautiful bottle to make a perfect gift. It's made from 100% natural ingredients and produced sustainably. https://www.meltedinside.com/dark-chocolate-whisky-liqueur.html  £29.99

Like the idea of Biscotti for Christmas? Then you'll go wild for Biscottilicious and their handmade treats. Such as their Wild Forest biscotti before with green pistachios, white chocolate and warming cardamom. https://www.meltedinside.com/wild-forest-300g-luxury-box.html £32.00

 

Got a hot sauce lover to buy for? At only £13.49 this trio of hot sauces will delight them.

The Woolf's Kitchen is a brand of spicy sauces inspired by founder Dominique Woolf's Thai roots. The set includes Tamarind Ketchup, Hot and Sour and garlic kick Jalapeño and Lime. https://www.meltedinside.com/the-woolf-pack-all-3-sauces.html

 

Roasted peanuts with rich peanut butter and chocolate are another decadent treat and will make a perfect small gift or stocking filler. 

Slow roasted peanuts are caramelised with sugar in small batches to give them a delightful caramel crunch, then cooled in a peanut butter, milk and dark chocolate mixture before being enrobed in 58% dark chocolate and cocoa powder. https://www.meltedinside.com/caramelised-chocolate-peanuts-cocoa-dusted.html. £8.50

If you have a marmalade loving friend or family member, this marvelous little hamper is absolutely perfect. Made in South Norfolk, Simon's Hamper will contain not one but two jars of Simon's Marmalade, a box of shortbread and a bottle of Simon's Marmalade Gin Liqueur.  https://www.meltedinside.com/simon-s-hamper-no-2-marmalade-marmalade-gin-liqueur-marmalade-shortbread.html  £30.80

 

Buying for a tea lover? Then This is ideal for you and also for them. Buy them a Marulin Gift Bag which includes award-winning Hearty Breakfast tea, Four Seasons Green Oolong Tea and English Beauty, Oriental Beauty and Black tea from Taiwan. 

Marulin is heavily committed to direct sourcing teas from genuine small-scale farmers, paying fair market price and supporting farmers to ensure sustainability and quality. https://www.meltedinside.com/marulin-gift-pack-3-x-tea-tent-pouches-tote-bag.html £18.00

From Curry on Cooking there's a brilliant idea that includes a chapatti pan for Indian chapattis, dosas, naans, parathas, pancakes and crepes. The kit includes six Currylicious kits with easy to follow recipes and shopping lists to help you create The Great British Curry in the comfort of your own kitchen. https://www.meltedinside.com/chapatti-pan-and-6-curry-kits.html £45.00

 

Last but not least there's a beautiful hand-packed Woodland Honey Gift Set which will put a smile on everyone's face. 

It comprises three jars of super delicious raw honey: Acacia Honey, Linden Honey and Forest Honey and comes with a wooden honey dipper. https://www.meltedinside.com/scottish-honey-gift-set.html £18.00

Not sure what to buy? Let them make their own minds up by gifting them with a Melted Inside gift card  https://www.meltedinside.com/search?q=gift+card There are three options: £20, £50 and £100.

Need more ideas for stocking fillers, visit the large selection of suggestions here https://www.meltedinside.com/stocking-fillers.html

Although this Christmas is still not yet normal, it should not stop us from celebrating by sharing.