Green Ginger Wine.

"You clearly need a cup of tea, she said. 'Or something stronger.

How about ... a glass of Crabbie's Green Ginger Wine? Come to my flat.'

Crabbie's Green Ginger Wine, those wonderful evocative nude balm to the troubled Edinburgh soul.
Metaphorical oil upon metaphorically troubled waters! And redolent of everything quintessentially Edinburgh:
slightly sharp, slightly disapproving and superior.

'Tea, please,' said Antonia.


A quote from the 44 Scotland Street novels which I read just after I had made myself a Whisky and Green Ginger.


The whisky is a blend with the well known motto ‘afore ye go’.


A malt whisky should not be assaulted with anything other than Scottish Spring Water,