The Speyside Festival was both a blur of activity and a civilised and leisurely jaunt through the heart of the whisky world. Dominic Roskrow reports
Over the years, there have been many occasions where I’ve looked around me and asked ‘how on earth did I get here?’
Admittedly, most of them have involved alcohol, strange floors and couches, and in one highly unmemorable case, the toilet compartment of a high speed train from Leeds to London.
But...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 32 published on 13/7/2003
James Millard explains whyt the Speyside Whisky Festival is a mean contender in the whisky event stakes
The region of Speyside must certainly be a candidate for the best location in the world in which to hold a whisky festival. Home to nearly half of all distilleries in Scotland, the area between Inverness and Aberdeen is dotted with some of the most picturesque and elegant distilleries that Scotland,...
By James Millard
from Issue 25 published on 16/8/2002
“To set foot somewhere is a physical connection, a sense of truly being there. I wanted to feel Speyside as terra firma.” Pictures and story by a footsore Michael Jackson
People who appreciate Scotch whisky allude knowingly to ‘Speyside’, a magical source of elegant, complex, distillates, but exactly where is this place? It hides among the pines and in the glens, but where does it begin and end? Like a
mythical kingdom, it is vignetted, vague, dissolving at the edge...
By Michael Jackson
from Issue 17 published on 16/7/2001
