Sally Toms visits Demijohn,a new breed of independent bottler and off-licence in the heart of Edinburgh
Scotland has long been a nation that looks towards Europe; take the auld alliance or café culture for instance.
But now, thanks to husband and wife team Angus and Francis Ferguson, this continental influence is reaching the nation’s drinking habits.
Angus’s appreciation for the continental way of ...
By Sally Toms
from Issue 60 published on 10/11/2006
The name might suggest a certain French flavour but La Zouch is a quintessentially English restaurant
selling some rather exceptional whiskies. Richard Jones pulls up a chair.
Call me a philistine but until recently I’d never given much consideration to the strangely Gallic sounding name of Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire.
It transpires that the origins are disappointingly straightforward, if rather ancient.
This market town was known simply as ‘Ashby’ until it beca...
By Richard Jones
from Issue 60 published on 10/11/2006
Richard Parker is turning a passion for whisky in to a healthy business. Dominic Roskrow reports
The High Street in Banff doesn’t look like a mecca for whisky. In fact at 7pm on a warm summer’s evening on a weekday it doesn’t look much of anything.
The shops are all shut and the pavements deserted.
Which is a problem because we are due to start a whisky tasting, the shop is empty, and I can’t...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 60 published on 10/11/2006
