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The top 10 top 10s from 2013
From fattening drinks to weird ingredients we’ve brought you a wide range of top 10s throughout 2013, but which have been our most popular?
The brands series that we covered, including top 10 Champagne brands, beer brands, wine brands, Scotch whisky brands and vodka brands were incredibly popular throughout the year. But for the fun purposes of this list, we’ve kept those top 10s out of the reckoning and focused on some of the more fun topics that we’ve covered.
Weird ingredients proved popular as did budget whiskies, but expensive drinks, wines and nights out really captured your imagination – and your clicks.
Click through the following pages to see our most popular top 10s of 2013 and see if you can guess which has come out on top.
Top 10 gay favourite drinks
According to gay website Queerty.com, “if there are two things gays like to be at the forefront of it’s trends and liquor.”
So, with this attitude and the knowledge that the Gay Times magazine claims that 80% of its readership comes from the ABC1 socioeconomic groups, compared with 43% of the general population, targeting the gay population should make sense for many drinks brands.
But while some drinks have chased the “pink pound” others have simply been adopted by the gay community and become hugely popular drinks.
Top 10 weird wine ingredients
Inspired by a story about tiger bone being used in a wine in China, we decided to investigate some of the other weird ingredients that are used in wine.
We discovered that from meteorites to birch sap and from reptiles to bear bile, some winemakers are using much more than grapes and fruit in their products.
Top 10 Hong Kong private kitchens
Highlighting db‘s global appeal is the seventh most popular top 10 of 2013. Private kitchens have been a feature of Hong Kong dining since the 1990s, and many have proved so popular they have gone mainstream.
Eliot Ip tracked down 10 of the best private kitchens that Hong Kong has to offer.
Top 10 Hong Kong private kitchens
Top 10 whiskies that won’t break the bank
Following several conversations with friends and people outside the trade db‘s Andy Young realised that many people were somewhat daunted by the volume of single malt Scotch that is available.
To try and help some people out, this top 10 of whiskies that cost less than £40 was put together.
Top 10 whiskies that won’t break the bank
The top 10 most expensive wines
Although this is the first top 10 featuring costly and expensive drinks in this list, it’s not the last.
Ideas on where to spend that elusive lottery win appear to be popular among db readers.
Compiled by popular wine search engine WineSearcher.com, the list is made up of the average tax-free price for 75cl bottles.
The top 10 most expensive wines
Top 10 biggest bar bills
So if you do win the lottery, not only might you decide to treat yourself to some DRC, but you might also decide to take all your friends to the pub and buy them drinks.
You might have to go some to beat the astronomical bills run up by the guys on this list, but with Armand de Brignac launching a rosé Champagne Midas bottle, the possibility for a record breaking effort is there.
Top 10 most irritating wine terms
The wine world offers a rich tapestry of styles and personalities to excite the most jaded gastronome.
However, as a random sample of tasting notes or back labels will show, the vocabulary used to describe this remarkable spectrum can be remarkably ineffectual and at times downright irritating.
Here we picked out a number of common words whose meaning is undermined by misuse or simply overuse within the wine trade.
Top 10 most irritating wine terms
Top 10 weirdest beer ingredients
The craft beer boom has seen many innovative and some crazy beers created.
Many brewers have ventured away from beer’s traditional ingredients of water, barley, malting hops and yeast recently.
This top 10 of quirky beer ingredients is not for the faint hearted, with a trio of shockers topping the charts.
Top 10 weirdest beer ingredients
The world’s most expensive drinks
Maybe you’re not a wine fan, maybe you’ve had a massive lottery win and don’t need to think about whiskies that won’t break the bank.
Maybe you are just curious as to what drinks you can spend silly money on.
Well from a US$1 million vodka to a US$2m Cognac, here’s a look at some of the world’s most expensive drinks.
The world’s most expensive drinks
The world’s most fattening drinks
With the UK government announcing that it is considering displaying the amount of calories contained in bottles of beer, wine and spirits and a study claiming that the beer belly is a myth we decided to look at the world’s most fattening drinks.
From a Long Island iced tea to a white Russian we revealed which drinks have the highest number of calories.