"It's only through flavour that we'll understand whisky and maybe it's only by walking the country that we'll understand flavour," says Dave Broom after climbing Ben Rinnes and Lochnagar with distinguished company
Those moments of un-thinking bravado happen to us all. A year or so ago I was sitting with Alan Winchester in his leather-bound office at Aberlour talking casually about hill walking when he said: “I’ve always wanted to write about the great hills you can climb from distilleries.”
“Okay,” say I tak...
By Dave Broom
from Issue 19 published on 16/11/2001