You'd expect a few decent drinks from the people behind Milk & Honey, and while it's all about the wine at The East Room we've also gone overboard with our spirits list and cocktails. Wine - The East Room has more than 50 of the greatest wines of the southern hemisphere available by the glass. Almost all of these are help-yourself from four of our Enomatic wine samplers. Simply charge up a wine card and try DIY sampling of some rare, unusual, expensive and interesting wines normally only available to buy by the bottle. Our samplers allow you to taste, compare, contrast, discuss and decide on your favourite style, variety, region and/or country. What's the most delicious New Zealand Pinot Noir of the moment? Does South Africa make Cabernet Sauvignon to rival Australia? Decide yourself by trying and without some patronising sommelier standing over you. We are planning various regional, national and transcontinental 'battles' and challenges from the southern hemisphere... and we may even rack up some French favourites for an old world v new world smackdown! The Wine Thing - Our wine list is like no other. It is designed to make ordering wine easier, ensure the results are more reliable and it's a bit like 'Battleships' - just pick your favourite grape and the price you'd like to pay and the grid will give you our choice. No daft names to consider, no clever descriptions to confuse. When brand and habit play too great a part in the drink decisions we make, this style of wine buying leaves it to The East Room team to select the best £6 Riesling we can dig out or find the perfect bottle of pinot noir for £60. And we don't compromise. We start by choosing the wines we want, and then find them. We're not led like the others by supplier promises of vineyard visits to convince us to stock hard-to-shift wines. We have never compromised on our cocktails and we won't on our wines. Trust us we've got good people on it… Matt Skinner - A few people have had a hand in putting together the new world wine list for The East Room and going forward our selection Editor-in-Chief is Matt Skinner. Matt hails from Melbourne and is well known for his best selling books (Thirsty Work and The Juice series), his newspaper and magazine writing and his TV work. His refreshing approach to wine has won him many readers and admirers and he's now working with us in London and Melbourne as our 'Director of Wine' - training and complaining about service standards, inspiring, advising and guiding on wine selection, sourcing suppliers and setting the record straight with his cut-the-crap approach to enjoying good wine with great food and friends. 'Boat Drinks' - Bring out the boat drinks: tropical, celebratory cocktails perfect for that just-released-from-prison evening. Try the Anejo Highball (golden rum, orange curacao, fresh lime, Angostura bitters and ginger beer) or the Nicola Six (vodka, fresh strawberries, cucumber, berry cordial, fresh lemon juice and champagne). Some of our boat drinks also come in atomic-era punch bowls that are great for sharing. The East Room 'Fondue' - This is booze not food. We use our retro fondue sets not for cheese or chocolate but to ensure this delicious and warming winter elixir stays hot and bubbling at your table. Throw out your ginseng, Echinacea and St John's wort! If it's energy, health and happiness you're after we've got just the drink - Golden rum or vodka, pomegranate, cranberry, lemon, bitters and seasonal winter fruits are served hot at your table. These ingredients are so good we might as well call it a health drink. Birth year Armagnac - We have a superb range of vintage and rare Armagnacs including Art Deco-era magnums from the 1920s and the complete 'set' of the birth year vintages from 1955-1985 (86% of our members are in their 20s and 30s and born after 1970 so we expect high demand for those years). These bottles have been acquired from specialist suppliers, auction houses and private collections. We add new ones every month.