Next was ‘Loopzilla’, which is a combination of Axia Extra Dry Mastiha Spirit, Hibiscus Cordial, Cacao, Chipode and Soda Water. I rather like Axia served neat, but it can also be served on the rocks or in many popular cocktails, making it ideal for an alternative refreshing summer cocktail and tonic serve.

Refreshing and extra dry with a distinctive flavour and aroma, it takes the millennia-old methods of Mastiha-making, and artfully twists them. It is reserved for a spirit produced in Greece using mastic resin exclusively from the island of Chios. The world of spirits is infinite, fascinating, entertaining, distracting and a giver of great pleasure. Well made and attractively packaged but there's a reason why other brands add sugar to mastiha spirit to produce mastiha liqueurs. The buttery Biscoff base, chocolate and dulche de leche sauces, soft chocolate filling and lots of fruit all topped with an Oreo made for a very indulgent dessert.The Street Easy came up with the idea for the Heirloom Spritz when left with a large amount of tomato offcuts from making summer salads and they wanted to reduce waste.

Well, we met with Giannis Miliotis, who flew over from Athens and is Axia’s Global Brand Ambassador, and he introduced us to four specially prepared cocktails for the evening. The dried resin crystals are harvested and cleaned by hand, then double distilled before being bottled without any sweetening. Please always read the labels, warnings, and directions provided with the product before using or consuming a product. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. They started experimenting with crushed tomatoes and came up with this citrussy drink with a subtle hint of tomato.Its palate with citrus and a dash of wood makes it a great spirit to enjoy neat over ice, I topped it with a slice of organic lemon. My companion, meanwhile, tucked into a very spicy Jerk Off the Bone burger, chicken with a jerk sauce that she rated really nice. Nicknamed “Tears of Chios,” it imparts distinctive herbal, citrus and pine resin notes when it is dissolved in an alcoholic spirit.

For a relatively small city, Edinburgh boasts a remarkable number of outstanding cocktail bars, all within easy walking distance of each other. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. On the nose, it’s semi-dry with green vegetative notes of cut grass and notes of mint, anise and menthol, along with some floral potpourri, especially rose petal and dried bergamot aromas. Unlike the liqueur, AXIA is a white spirit with low sugar content and 40% ABV and is distilled to bring out notes of bergamot, cypress and rose.

The long connection between the Royal Navy and rum can be traced back to 1655 and Vice-Admiral William Penn's expedition to the West Indies. Axia is perfectly drinkable neat on the rocks but as I was soon to discover it also makes an excellent base for cocktails. The spirit has just a hint of candied sweetness, slightly marshmallow-like, which, along with the citrus notes, gives it a slight marmalade-like flavor. The resin of the evergreen Mastiha tree, found on the hillsides of Chios, has been used for millennia for its sweet and floral scent and anti-oxidant properties.