New products: Utopia's Favourite, Pinti Inox Hive chopsticks, Carpigiani UK's Ice-O-Matic UCG Series,
Utopia's new Favourite glasses by Rona are manufactured from fine crystal glass with a contemporary bowl shape and subtle vertical stripes. The range includes red wine glasses in two sizes, 36cl white wine glasses, 17cl Champagne flutes and 46cl and 49cl tumblers.
Price From £4.60 per glass
www.utopia-tableware.com
Italian manufacturer and designer Pinti Inox has expanded its cutlery ranges to include chopsticks. The Hive chopsticks have a handle made of ABS plastic, available in matte black, white or merlot, and Sushi Pro chopsticks are available in matt black, white or blue, with a cutlery rest now included in the range.
Price From £5.30
www.signature-fse.com/brands/pinti-inox
Carpigiani UK has released the Ice-O-Matic UCG Series, a range of space-saving undercounter machines that deliver crystal-clear, slow-melting ‘Gourmet' or ‘Bistrot' ice cubes. The UCG045 produces 25kg of ice in 24 hours, and the UCG165 turns out 73kg per day from a 40kg bin.
Price From £1,404
www.carpigiani.co.uk
The cocktail range from Laiba Beverages, created by mixologist Michael Chen, offers eight bottled cocktails (ABV 11.7%) made with natural ingredients and no artificial additives. Flavours include Earl's Old Fashioned, Twisted Negroni and Passion De-Light.
Price From: £7.50 for a 125ml bottle
Enquiries mark.harrison@proofdrinks.com
Tarquin's new Japanese-inspired yuzu and lime gin is made in small batches in copper pot stills. The gin has notes of wild pomelo, cherry blossom and candied lime, with flavours of yuzu, orange blossom and juniper.
Price From £36 for a 70cl bottle
Upbeat Spirits, a new independent drinks company based in Cornwall, has launched 8Track rum (ABV 37.5%). The spirit is made from fine Guyana and smooth eight-year-old Barbados rums, infused with sustainably sourced Seville oranges, vanilla, cloves, ginger and cinnamon.
Price £28.50 for a 70cl bottle
www.8trackrum.com
Female-founded Montanya's craft rum, created in its B-Corp-certified rum distillery in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, is produced with plastic-neutral certification in a wind-powered distillery. Water used in the spirit is collected from a snowmelt-fed aquifer directly underneath the distillery.
Price Platino rum, £26; Oro rum, £29; Exclusiva rum, £31; Valentia rum, £34
www.masterofmalt.com
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