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Whisky Magazine Issue 10

Whisky Magazine Issue 10

Published on 16/6/2000

Whisky Tastings

Wild Turkey Rare Breed

This is more like a supercharged Wild One. Defiantly ro.....

Baker's 7 Years Old

Good flavour development. Well balanced......

Knob Creek 9 Years Old

Easily drinkable, appetising......

Maker's Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Beautifully structured. Tightly combined flavours. Ever.....

Evan Williams 1990, Single Barrel

Very different in style. Liqueur-ish......

Elijah Craig 12 Years Old

Less structured than might be expected in a 12 Years Ol.....

Jack Daniel's Single Barrel

An interesting interplay of Jack Daniel's house charact.....

Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit

Wild Turkey in a coat and tie......

Blanton's Original Bourbon

A bourbon with dessert......

Rock Hill Farm Single Cask Bourbon

The flavours may sound similar but it is the interplay .....

Hancock's President's Reserve

Liked that spicy-lemon rye character, but lacking in co.....

Booker's 6 to 8 Years Old

Every time I taste small batch bourbon, this one comes .....

Four Roses Single Barrel

Lacking in dimension for a single barrel. Saved by the .....

Clynelish 10 Years Old

The true maritime taste of Clynelish......

Glen Kirk 8 Years Old

Flavours do not combine. Lack roundness......

Elijah Craig 18 Years Old

Very urbane......

Elmer T. Lee Kentucky Bourbon

Light in both flavour and body for a small batch bourbo.....

Jack Daniel's Gentleman Jack

A slightly richer and more restrained interpretation of.....

Van Winkle 23 Years Old

Even more age to handle, but it has wistful, nostalgic .....

Famous Grouse 1987 Vintage Malt Whisky

The Grouse at its most graceful......

Van Winkle Family Reserve, 13 Years Old

Certainly showing its age, but full of character......

Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Perhaps encouraged by the dark-orange colour, the descr.....

Contents

p5

From the Editor

New madness from the European Commission about controls on water, and even its taxation, threatens the long standing water rights of Scottish distilleries. This is being vigorously opposed by the Scot...

By Charles MacLean in the section From the Editor

p7

Getting off at Saint Cloud

Michael Jackson, Master of the Quaich, in sheepish mood.

Had I fallen asleep in the passenger seat, or had I really stepped out for the afternoon in a place called Rainbow Village, in Saint Cloud, Minnesota? It sounded like America at its most conservativ...

By Michael Jackson in the section The Gospel According to Michael Jackson

p8

Nose out.

Jim Murray recounts a nasty case of whisky writer's block.§

There are so many things we all take for granted. Walking, for instance; the miracle of vision, hearing your children laugh. And from recent events I can now add the extraordinary pleasure of two amon...

By Jim Murray in the section The Gospel According to Jim Murray

p16

A taste of home

Jane Slade talks to racing yachtsman Andy Hindley about his love of the dram and the sea.

It was a heart-breaking moment when Andy Hindley saw his dream literally break up before his eyes. Just days after the dramatic launch of Team Phillips, from the quayside in Totnes, and its naming by ...

By Jane Slade in the section Whisky and Sport

p20

Emporio whisky

Whisky collecting is alive and well in Italy Angelo Matteucci's travels have brought him into contact with some of the great characters in the business.

When Valentino Zagatti opened the door of his house in Lugo di Romagna, a broad smile on his face, it was a great moment for me. After years of writing letters I was at last meeting the man who is kno...

By Angelo Matteucci in the section Collecting Whisky

p24

Liquid assets

Malcolm Greenwood digs beneath the surface to discover how water works to make Scotch so special

I read recently that nine hundred billion litres of rain falls on Scotland every year and, from this, nine million litres of whisky is produced. The Scotch Whisky Association can of course verify the...

By Malcolm Greenwood in the section Whisky Tasting

p28

Whisky from the wild side (Glenlivet)

The spirit of innovation has always been a part of distilling at Glenlivet. Dave Broom charts ahistory shot through with passion, rebellion and imagination.

And in the Highlands the A939, Cockbridge to Tomintoul, is blocked. This was the way that the onset of winter was traditionally announced in Scotland. Travel this road and you can see why this would...

By Dave Broom in the section Distillery Focus

p34

Brave new world

Visitors ot the new Dewar's World of Whisky centre will be dazzled by the arry but thank heavens real distilling gets a look in.

The Scotch whisky industry has come a long way since the day in 1969 when Glenfiddich opened the country’s first purpose-built distillery visitor centre, while their competitors looked on with a blend...

By Gavin D. Smith in the section Whisky Travel

p36

Subtle seducers

Gavin D Smith reveals the contribution grain has made to the Scotch whisky industry.

Without grain whisky Scotch would be nothing more than a cottage industry, yet the spirit has traditionally received a less than enthusiastic press. Indeed, it would probably be fairer to say that it ...

By Gavin D. Smith in the section Grain whisky

p42

Lust among the dust

some may dismiss them as flash trash or bric-a-brac, but in the eyes of collectors they are prized antiques. Ann Davies reports on whisky's objets d'art

Next time you find yourself wandering round a boot or rummage sale, keep your eyes open for anything to do with whisky. The distillers’ determination to brand their name on anything that would take it...

By Anne Davies in the section Collecting Whisky

p48

Rising star

Andrew Symington has made huge success of Signatory, the world's second largest independent bottler. But this is just the beginning, as Tom Bruce-Gardyne found out.

Tucked away in the back streets of Edinburgh’s Newhaven district, Andrew Symington sits at the helm of the world’s second biggest independent whisky bottler. No mean feat for Signatory, the company he...

By Tom Bruce-Gardyne in the section Independent Bottlers

p52

The original Mrs doubtfire

A woman's touch has made Drambuie the force it is today, with a little bit of help form Bonnie Prince Charlei. Tom Bruce Gardyne sheds light on some legendary characters.

Million dollar secret of the Cannie Wee Grannie by Herbert Kretzmer, blazed a 1961 headline in the US Sunday Dispatch. “ ... a little Scots grannie with snow-white hair and forget-me-not blue eyes .....

By Tom Bruce-Gardyne in the section Whisky Hero

p58

Toronto tasting

There's plenty of places to hang out in Canada's biggest city, but its whisky bars offer something a bit special. Kathleen Sloan and Ted Mcintosh make merry among the malts.

Contrary to what the rest of the world may think, Canadians do not, exclusively, think rye when they drink whisky. In Toronto, Canada’s largest city, the home of many fine bars and a multi-national po...

By Kathleen Sloan in the section Great whisky bars

p60

Northern lights

There's a noble tradition of whisky making in Canada based on the superb qualtiy of its grain. Kathleen Sloan and Ted Mcintosh pay tribute to a unique spirit.

With more than 85 per cent of Canadian rye whisky exported to the US alone, there’s definitely more than four and twenty Yankees singing the praises of this pale amber spirit that is exclusively assoc...

By Kathleen Sloan in the section Whisky History

p64

High society (An Quaich Society)

The members of Canada 's An Quaich Society are real party animals, but their love of Scotch and the freedom it represents could not be more serious as Stuart Maclean Ramsay reports.

I first came across Canada’s An Quaich Society on Islay three years ago. I was passing through Bowmore distillery when Christine Logan, the queen of Hebridean distillery guides, began shouting, “The C...

By Stuart MacLean Ramsay in the section Great whisky clubs

p66

Small wonders

What does smal batch whiskey actually mean? The explanation is far from simple Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan discovered.

n 1989 Booker’s, the first small-batch bourbon, hit the American market place and, rightly so, it was a great success. But it also created a mystery. Issued at cask strength (usually over 60 per cen...

By Gary Regan in the section Whisky Production

p82

In conversation with Shelia Burties

Charles Maclean talks to Sheila Burties, the highly espected sensory chemist.

CM Can everyone nose? SB Physiologically we are all the same, and whatever stimulates our senses is the same. But just as with sight or hearing, the senses of taste and smell vary from person to per...

By Charles MacLean in the section Whisky Interview

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