Eating & Drinking: Drinking Your Greens

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FOR REASONS of no interest whatsoever, this column is suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder. But that doesn't matter, at least to me. Three miscellaneous items need airing, and this is the time to air them. Beginning with an addendum to last week's comments on the issue of organic wine. The most recent revolution in organic drinking comes not in wine but in spirits. It's arrived chez Sainsbury's, with the launch of organic vodka and gin. The gin is called Juniper Green (pounds 11.99), the vodka Utkins UK5 (pounds 10.99). Both are available in "at least 300" stores, and both are products of Thames Distillers, a family-owned firm with Soil Association organic certification. …