Ted Bruning visits the distilleries making waves in Brittany.
Imagine a rugged foreshore with seals cavorting on a rocky outcrop a couple of hundred yards out to sea. The clouds are low and gunmetal-grey; there’s a spatter of tepid drizzle; and steam drifts sluggishly from the open worm-tubs outside the ancient stone-built distillery.
You take a reflective si...
By Ted Bruning
from Issue 70 published on
The world of whisky may well still be dominated by the big five traditional producers,but they’re no longer having
it all their own way.Dominic Roskrow looks at the new wave of world whisky
It was a telling moment. We were at the launch of a new expression of a single malt whisky and we were being addressed by a very proud and very Scottish whisky maker.
No-one makes whisky like the Scots, he said, and although other countries tried, they just weren’t up to it. Even the English were t...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 66 published on 25/09/2007
