Liza Weisstuch discusses whisky,music and why talking is a good thing with Glenfiddich’s Heather Greene.
At a recent whisky festival, Heather Greene held forth at the Glenfiddich table pouring samples of the legendary whisky’s various expressions, engaging in hurried exchanges with inquisitive tipplers...
From Issue 78 in
Heather Greene
published on 27/02/2009
Liza Weisstuch dons her white coat to see what’s been cooking in the Buffalo Trace lab.
It was one of those rare occasions you have to see to believe, the kind of happening in league with the unveiling of a long-lost Rembrandt painting, or the performance of a never-before-heard Mozart s...
From Issue 75 in
Distillery Focus
published on 31/10/2008
There is only one place to take the temperature of the great cocktail makers,New Orleans. Liza Weisstuch went to see what’s shaking.
The past, they say, is precedent. The cocktail’s Golden Age is firmly entrenched in the hallowed halls of history. After recent decades, when drinks bearing less than debonair names, like Sex on the...
From Issue 74 in
Cocktails
published on 08/09/2008
Liza Weisstuchmeets cocktail writer extraordinaire David Wondrich as he launches his latest tome.
Sporting a vest with a gold watch chain dangling from the pocket, David Wondrich took two mugs from his friend, renowned mixologist Dale DeGroff, and ignited a mixture of Glenlivet Nadurra and steamin...
From Issue 69 in
Whisky books
published on 18/01/2008