Cinzano

WE'VE teamed up with Donington Park to offer five lucky readers a pair of trackside tickets for the Cinzano British Motorcycle Grand Prix on Sunday July 8.

Food and drinks group Diageo is to sell four Ouzo brands and consider putting four other drinks, including Cinzano, on the market, the company said yesterday.

I recall Liz Dawn and me filming a spoof of the Cinzano ad starring Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter.

After all, some of the best parties are the impromptu ones, when everyone piles back to someone's house after the pub, drinking a hotch-potch from the drinks cabinet (Cinzano and lime anyone?

Head to Donington Park on Sunday July 25 for one of the biggest sporting events of the summer, when the Cinzano British Motorcycle Grand Prix arrives at the infamous Leicestershire circuit.

Tony Hancock was one of the first when he told us to 'go to workon an egg' in the 1960s, while Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter did wonders for the sales of Cinzano.

Theatregoers will be treated to a retro drinking experience at Newcastle Playhouse from tonight when the bar will be serving free Cinzano.

Part of director Neil Murray's rehearsal process for Cinzano and Smirnova's Birthday, a boozy double bill, involved encouraging his actors to get smashed.

And the fun-loving 23-year-old Italian, based in Mayfair, London, also powered in the fastest-ever lap of the Donington Park circuit during final qualifying for today's Cinzano British Grand Prix.

But she is best known and loved for two long-running series - the Cinzano adverts, in which she co-starred with Leonard Rossiter in the late Seventies, and Eighties' supersoap Dynasty, where she played superbitch Alexis Carrington-Colby-Dexter.

Diageo's plans to sell European drink brands including Cinzano vermouth and Metaxa brandy helped the company fizz up 30p to 718p.

And this is what he got: Equal measures of sweet vermouth (you know the stuff, Rosso and Cinzano are the main brands), Campari and gin mixed, preferably a good dry gin like Plymouth with ice.