From wine to after dinner beverages, Leslie Williams unveils his drinks menu for the festive season.

It is part of a cocktail named after royalty and a favourite tipple of Graham Norton but Dingle Gin has also become a phenomenon in Irish bars, with a quarter of a million bottles sold in the country in the last year.

Does wine have a gender? There was a time when tasting notes would refer to a wine as feminine or masculine — a delicate fragrant chablis might be feminine but a big fruity hermitage from the Rhone would always be masculine.

Chat show host Graham Norton toasted the arrival of his memoir yesterday — with a bottle of his very own line of special edition sauvignon blanc.

Winemaker promises "a little bit of Graham Norton in every sip".