Richard Jones surfs the ‘net to find some of the more interesting sites of whisky comment and debate
Educated bees may not have cottoned onto to the idea yet, but every other man and his dog seems to be engaged in blogging at the moment. 60 million of us host blogs according to internet search engine Technorati and many multiples more spend time posting or reading their entries. To the uninitiated,...
By Richard Jones
from Issue 64 published on 01/06/2007
A few issues back we looked at the best whisky company websites. Here Richard Jones hunts down other whisky information sites
Since the advent of the internet, anyone with a personal computer, a modicum of literacy and ‘a mate who knows something about computers’ can set up a website and become an authority on whisky.
Today, there are hundreds of different whisky websites, with the numbers continuing to grow apace. Reflec...
By Richard Jones
from Issue 48 published on 10/06/2005
Bruichladdich’s Jim McEwan is set to bring his whisky tasting sessions into your home. Mike Gerrard reports
Islay is the kind of island where you see otters washing themselves just offshore in the bays at the end of the day. Near Port Ellen is what the Ileachs know as Seal Bay, and as the sun goes down, a young girl stands playing her violin because she says it charms the seals out of the water.
There ar...
By Mike Gerrard
from Issue 33 published on 25/9/2003
Brigid James rounds up the latest news and opinions from the definitive whisky website, www.whisky-world.com
The storm caused by the Bushmills article, regarding alleged claims about the distillery being the oldest in the world, continues to rage.
The general feeling amongst the majority of visitors to the site’s forum is that Bushmills’ marketing offensive shows a clear disregard for the authentic herit...
By Brigid James
from Issue 17 published on 16/7/2001
