We look at some whisky producing nations outside the big players.
It’s a well established fact that whisky tourism in Scotland, Ireland,Kentucky and Japan has reached such a level of sophistication and advancement that it has become an integral and important part of the whisky business.
More surprising, though, is that distilleries are springing up in the oddest ...
By Rob Allanson
from Issue 72 published on 19/06/2008
Once rich in distilleries, Ireland has few left and only one permits visitors. So whisky tourists have to work domainly with museums. Great country to do it though.
No matter how much you might love Irish whiskey, there’s no escaping the fact there is a palpable sadness over the whiskey industry there.
With the exception of Jameson, an increasingly cosmopolitan whiskey and a major world success story, little Irish whiskey crosses its borders.Great Irish brands...
By Rob Allanson
from Issue 70 published on
Speyside falls in to two halves:that reached by flying in to Inverness,and that reached from Aberdeen.In this issue we take the Aberdeen route.
Approach Speyside from the Aberdeen side of the region and it’s worth making a short detour off to the right and to Old Meldrum.
Here nestled behind an unimpressive housed street is Glen Garioch, a distillery owned by Morrison Bowmore and in something of a no-man’s land.
In recent years it has bee...
By Rob Allanson
from Issue 69 published on 18/01/2008
