Jane Slade ecamines how people drink their whisky around the globe and discovers how versatile the water of life can be.
The master distiller of Jack Daniel's was in London recently to host a dinner celebrating the whiskey's 150th birthday. No sooner had he sat down Geoffrey Moore, owner of the restaurant and son of the James Bond movie star Roger, rushed over to shake the hand of the old master, Jimmy Bedford.
Geof...
Whisky Mixers
from Issue 13 published on 16/12/2000
Jane Slade traces the Prince of Wales' legendary love of Scotch
Prince Charles’ was introduced to alcohol at a rather young age and quite by accident. He was a sea cadet with the naval equivalent of the Territorial Army at Gordonstoun School. It was 1964. He was just 16 years old and on Stornaway Island with some fellow cadets on an exercise. He suddenly became ...
Whisky Interview
from Issue 12 published on 16/11/2000
The leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy, shares a dram with Jane Slade.
Charles Kennedy does not have the mantle of a future Prime Minister. He has not the cold stare of Margaret Thatcher, nor the disingenuous smile of Tony Blair. In fact he seems so disarmingly warm and friendly it is hard to believe he is a fiercely-focussed politician at all. It is only his red hair ...
Whisky Interview
from Issue 11 published on 16/9/2000
Jane Slade talks to racing yachtsman Andy Hindley about his love of the dram and the sea.
It was a heart-breaking moment when Andy Hindley saw his dream literally break up before his eyes. Just days after the dramatic launch of Team Phillips, from the quayside in Totnes, and its naming by Her Majesty The Queen at Tower Bridge, Andy was witnessing the cracking and groaning hull wrench its...
Whisky and Sport
from Issue 10 published on 16/6/2000
Jane Slade talks to Lord Thurso, a Patron of the Qaich, about his family, his castle and his long love affair with Scotch.
It seems a contradiction that the chief executive of one of the smartest health farms in Britain should be a whisky lover. Not only that but when he makes his three-minute trek home from his office at the carrot juice and lettuce emporium of Champneys in deepest Hertfordshire to his cottage in the g...
Whisky Interview
from Issue 9 published on 16/4/2000
History lives at Edradour, the world’s smallest Scotch whisky distillery, where traditional whisky-making methods remain unchanged to this day. Jane Slade describes the pleasures on offer when she slipped back in time
The Black Spout waterfall is the only natural barrier that stops the wild salmon leaping up to Edradour (pronounced as in ‘sour’), an idyllic, quintessentially Scottish haven buried deep in the southern Highlands.
But while the salmon may not make it, whisky lovers are more fortunate and there is ...
Distillery Focus
from Issue 8 published on 16/2/2000
London’s first malt and cigar bar is now the capital’s finest Scottish restaurant with a huge selection of whiskies. Jane Slade went to investigate
Coming here is like returning to the womb,” muttered one Boisdale regular into my ear. He had a cigar the diameter of a squash ball jammed between his teeth, and a glass of Scotch clenched in his fist. I knew what he meant. The jazz band was in full swing. The little back bar and garden room were ‘...
Whisky and Food
from Issue 8 published on 16/2/2000
Champion driver Jackie Stewart OBE tells Jane Slade why motor racing and whisky make a classic blend.
He could hardly bear to lift his gaze from the track. It may be a good few years since he has seen it from behind the wheel, but former Formula One champion Jackie Stewart is still transfixed by the sight of rubber revolving on tarmac.
We are at Silverstone, the home of British Grand Prix racing, ...
Whisky Interview
from Issue 7 published on 16/12/1999
The artist and former wild man Ralph Steadman enjoyed a 30 year old love affair with whisky. It was brilliant fun, and so good that it had to stop, he told Jane Slade
Like the best affairs, Steadman's relationship with whisky has been turbulent, immensely pleasurable but dangerously addictive. So much so that two years ago, he turned his back on the seductive charms of the single malts that had come to rule his life.
"I am now saving my old age to drink whisky ...
Whisky Interview
from Issue 6 published on 16/10/1999
