Contents
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As has been mentioned before in the pages of Whisky Magazine, the appreciation of whisky is a convivial pursuit. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than on adventures such as the Classic Malts Cruise...
By Marcin Miller in the section
From the Editor
p7
Michael Jackson enjoys a Glenkinchie or two and celebrates the unbuttoning of Edinburgh
The King leaned back and stroked Lucille until her growls of pleasure could be heard from the highest parapet of Edinburgh Castle.
B.B. King, his guitar Lucille, and the brassiest of blues bands, wer...
By Michael Jackson in the section
Musings with Michael Jackson
p8
Dave Broom considers the merits of the Flying Lure when fishing for bass and one-dimensional, ole-fashioned whisky advertising
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By Dave Broom in the section
A dram with Dave Broom
p18
Stuart Maclean Ramsay catches up with wild Turkey's Jimmy Russel, roving bourbon ambassador, family man and true Kentucky gentleman.
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By Stuart MacLean Ramsay in the section
Whisky Hero
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Tom Bruce-Gardyne talks to Fred and Stewart Laing, the independent bottlers who are not only brothers and business partners but a potentially successful cabaret duo as well
Douglas Laing & Company of Glasgow may not be the oldest bottler of single malts on the planet, but as Stewart Laing is at pains to point out: “We’re no johnnie-come-latelys either.”
Stewart is a par...
By Tom Bruce-Gardyne in the section
Independent Bottlers
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Ian Wisniewski explains how differing still designs influence the style and flavour of whisky
Knowing that stills of a certain size and shape yield spirit with a particular flavour profile is all very well, but applying this knowledge the other way around is far more challenging. In fact, desi...
By Ian Wisniewski in the section
Whisky Production
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"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’...
By Dave Broom in the section
Whisky walks
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Gavin Smith traces the reportedly romantic but often mercenary history of illicit distilling in Speyside
A great deal of romance has grown up around the figure of the noble Highlander, distilling without benefit of a licence in order to feed and clothe his family, opposed by the brutal forces of the exci...
By Gavin D. Smith in the section
Whisky Production
