For a refreshing drop in the warm weather or something to sip while watching the footie, these are our favourite summer drinks...

Tempted Irish Cider range (from £2.99 each or £16.64 for Case of SIX, amazon)

Jazzing up the cider category, Tempted Cider’s award-winning range lists nearly 30 accolades, including a trophy at the international Cider Challenge 2018 for its Tempted dry. Today, the most awarded cider in ireland has five styles in the range and along with dry (light and fruity with refreshing crisp acidity), favourites include Tempted elderflower, which marries juicy red apple with fresh elderflower blossom for a delicately sweet cider.

Waitrose romanian pinot noir 2016, romania (£5.99, Waitrose)

a showy, party wine that’s clearly been influenced by top-tier labels shaping the style and quality of some of the best-loved bubbles in the world, leading cava producer Freixenet has released its first italian sparkling rose. The striking cut-glass bottle will bring more than a level of luxury and the delicate pale salmon pink with fragrant aromas of summer fruits and lightweight, easy going palate, will make you want to dance the night away.

Cotes du rhone Village 2017 pouch, france (£17 for 1.5l, marks & spencer, In store only)

a Top scoring carryall, if you feel the urge to pull yourself away from a corkscrew and serve a wine on tap, we love this posh pouch. generous and delicious from the word go, it’s smooth and fruity with lots of lovely crushed blackberry fruit aromas, dark cherry and plummy fruits, entwined with spice and a bright juicy finish. Equivalent to two bottles, it stays fresh for a month and you can always save it for mid-week sipping with just the right measure to partner a scrummy sausage roll or chunk of hard cheese.

de14 flight suit orange pale ale and de14 end point The Ipa (£1.75 each, morrisons)

Everybody loves the sunshine and if you’re heading to the park, these funky cans, brewed in burton on Trent, deserve a place in your cooler box. Cited as a brewer’s playground, burton’s hop heads swear by the local water which shapes the flavour of the beer.

a new release from de14 nanobrewery, both ‘zing with orange flavours but in very different styles’. Flight suit has heady marmalade aromas with punchy zesty citrus flavours, while End point (one of the first beers rolled out of de14) has a hop forward character and makes for a ‘modern take on the historic burton ipa’.