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Authors Index   |  Gary Regan

Articles by Gary Regan

Singularly malt cocktails

Gary Regan is currently in hog heaven. Critics believe that he desecrated 'precious malt whisky' live on American television, but malt whisky cocktails aren't quite as strange as you may think

It was a cold winter’s night some seven years ago when I got the call. I had gone to bed that evening envisaging a good night’s sleep only to be woken by the shrill tones of the telephone. It was the producer from the Television Food Network (TVFN) who frantically explained that a guest due to appea...

Whisky Cocktails from Issue 14 published on 16/2/2001

Of questionable taste

A mystery flavour, a grand tasting and French chemists- all involved in Gary Regan's whisky adventure.

Sitting in an upmarket restaurant drinking single malt scotch that retails, in the USA, for $7,000 a bottle is how adventures should begin – exactly how my rancio odyssey started. In 1997 a group of writers and whisky enthusiasts were invited to taste the 40-Year-Old bottling of Bowmore that had ju...

Whisky Tasting from Issue 13 published on 16/12/2000

Small wonders

What does smal batch whiskey actually mean? The explanation is far from simple Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan discovered.

n 1989 Booker’s, the first small-batch bourbon, hit the American market place and, rightly so, it was a great success. But it also created a mystery. Issued at cask strength (usually over 60 per cent abv) and completely unfiltered, it’s a giant of a whiskey. The Jim Beam Brands Company, which make...

Whisky Production from Issue 10 published on 16/6/2000

Variety performance

Irish Whiskey is entering a golden age hanks to the efforts of entrpreneurs such as Mark Andrews, Gary Regan met this king of Knappogue Castle.

There’s a whisky for every mood, or rather there is a Scotch or bourbon one. But Irish whiskeys ... well the choice is more limited. Or rather it was, until such enterprising chaps as Mark Andrews, president of Great Spirits, a company based in Houston, Texas, came along. Andrews’ passion for Iris...

Irish Whiskey from Issue 9 published on 16/4/2000

Past masters

In the second part of their American whiskey odyssey, Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan uncover the traditional practices that makes each bottling unique.

American distillers employ many intricate techniques to make their whiskey unique (see Whisky Magazine Issue 6). But that is far from the end of the idiosyncracies – once a new spirit is made, many other devices come into play. Each builds on the initial differences so you end up with a galaxy of va...

American Whiskey from Issue 7 published on 16/12/1999

Bourbon uncovered

Gary Regan & Mardee Haidin Regan guide us through the process of whiskey-making American-style

It's almost impossible to write about Bourbon or Tennessee whiskey without drawing some comparisons to Scotch. Whisk(e)y drinkers tend to have a greater knowledge of Scotch, and single malts in particular are generally regarded as the connoisseur's whisky. Indeed, in some circles Bourbons are se...

American Whiskey from Issue 6 published on 16/10/1999