In the past few decades many of us have become foodies, but our new focus on flavour has been dominated by what we eat. In How to Drink Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance, by explaining how to drink well at all times of day, on all occasions, and across every season. Here are recipes for mint juleps in the spring, sloe gin in the autumn, hot buttered rum in the winter and for year-round showstoppers, including the world's best G&T. How to Drink is unique among drinks books - neither a garish cocktail guide, nor an intimidating wine book. It's a hugely readable and beautiful handbook, that aims to inform, entertain and, crucially, ensure you are never without the perfect drink for every occasion.

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Winner of V&A Best Illustrated Book 2010 (UK)

'An approachable, highly practical consumer guide to quality drinking at home ... The book is packed full of useful tips, not only what to buy and make but what to avoid. Expect your cocktail-making repertoire to increase dramatically if you read this book' Time Out 'Victoria Moore has had an idea of inspired simplicity - clever, trenchant, knowledgeable, imaginative - [A] handsome, useful and engaging book' Daily Mail 'She takes us on a well-mannered romp from breakfast to midnight, from spring to winter, from black tea to tequila - How to Drink is a rich mine of such information, and no kitchen should be without it' Tatler

Victoria Moore is the wine writer for the Guardian, writing a weekly column in the Saturday Weekend magazine. Victoria also works as a feature writer for the Daily Mail. She lives in London.