Ian Buxton meets the man behind Balvenie's style
With more than 45 years in the whisky industry, remarkably with just one company, you’d expect David Stewart to think carefully before putting his signature on a bottle.
And you’d be entitled to expect that bottle to be pretty special. Thankfully, though perhaps naturally for a man described by his...
By Ian Buxton
from Issue 72 published on 19/06/2008
Ian Buxton looks atone of whisky’smoreinfluential yet unassuming gatherings.
Why would more than a hundred of the most powerful international executives in the Scotch whisky industry gather in private in a Highland Castle?
Why would they need the last private army in Europe to stand guard?
What is the mysterious ‘Grand Quaich’ which forms the centrepiece of their arcane ri...
By Ian Buxton
from Issue 69 published on 18/01/2008
