The Week in Gin: Golden Tickets, hangover-free booze and gin-flavoured tea....

It's been quite a confusing week in the world of gin - what with tea that tastes like gin and booze that doesn't give you a hangover, everything's gone a bit topsy-turvy! Best settle down with a delicious The West Winds Gin and relax with our ginny version of the weekend papers....

We launched our Golden Ticket competition

As of February we're going all Willy Wonka and hiding a shiny Golden Ticket in one lucky member's Gin of the Month box, to be exchanged for a stupendous prize! Join today and it could be you...!

Scientists invented 'hangover-free alcohol'

We got quite excited when we read reports that North Korean researchers had created a brew that they claim has no hangover effects. Can it really be true...?

We loved this delicious twist on a classic Collins

This Burnt Rosemary & Wattleseed recipe from The West Winds' team is designed to bring out the flavours of the Australian botanicals in The Sabre gin.... 

We quenched our thirst with gin-flavoured tea

As well as delicious craft gin, every one of our Gin of the Month boxes comes packed with a host of surprise goodies. In January we included this Gin and Tonic tea, which our members are loving...

Dry January got hijacked by gin pirates

The figure of the pirate plays a big part in The West Winds Gin's spirit of fun and rebellion. Here we explore six swashbuckling characters who have captured their imaginations - and ours...