Fake whisky bottles appear in most markets of the world. But as Erkin Touzmohamedov reports, there are some bizarre ones in Egypt
When Moses went to Egypt (to let his people go), he’d hardly have imagined that this land’s inventors would give the world ‘water of life’. It is generally considered that Alexandria’s alchemists passed the knowledge of distillation – i.e. the production of alcohol – to Europe. Alas, Islam’s holy bo...
Whisky Trends
from Issue 42 published on 3/9/2004
In the second part of his feature on Russian whisky, Erkin Touzmohamedovlooks at the period from Kruschev to the modern day
You can really try to hook the story of whisky to Soviet/Russian political history – and it makes some sense: Nikita Kruschev, the most dramatic
politician in contemporary history of this country to the inadequate and destructive deeds of Gorbachev.
If the first Soviet whisky was made on Stalin’s o...
Russian Whisky
from Issue 37 published on 23/2/2004
Vodka is the drink of choice for the average Russian but whisky has its fans. How did it get there? Erkin Touzmohamedov recounts the strange case of whisky and Stalin
I had my first dram when I was 12. My father was a diplomat and was one of few Soviets in the mid 70s who had a chance to see the world and – as a side effect – to virtually have a taste of it.
And he’s seen and tasted most of it!
One of the tastes my father got to love was whisky, which he dis...
Russian Whisky
from Issue 36 published on 28/12/2003
