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You are male, in your early 40s. You are married with two children and have a household income of over £50,000 ($80,000) per year. You have visited distilleries in Scotland. You always read Michael Ja...
By Marcin Miller in the section
From the Editor
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Michael Jackson enthuses, but finds it hard to finish
Is there no end to finishes? I keep asking myself. I had a Finnish finish back in the spring. This happened in a pub in a country town called Lahti, 60 or 70 miles north of Helsinki. I know this sound...
By Michael Jackson in the section
Musings with Michael Jackson
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Dave Broom mulls over recent world events, the stereotypes that influence first impressions and the ties that bind us all. The world to rights over a glass....
Even now it’s like a dream, the feeling you’ve been sucked into a film set. Then the papers come and reality thunders in. They reinforce the old saying that one of the first victims of war is truth. T...
By Dave Broom in the section
A dram with Dave Broom
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Brian Hennigan examines the positive and often negative relationship between writers, their work and the water of life.
Often Daddy sat up very late working on a case of Scotch.” American humorist Robert Benchley – father of Jaws author Peter – is one of the many who could see the connection between writing and Scotlan...
By Brian Hennigan in the section
Whisky Literature
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Pip Hills penetrates the smokescreen surrounding the complexities of tasting, flavour and how to describe them in a way we can all understand …
Let’s begin by looking at wine. These days, lots of supermarket bottles carry a detailed description of the flavour of the wine on a back label. You may have noticed that the taste of the wine seldom,...
By Pip Hills in the section
Whisky Tasting
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A keen collector of first-hand information on whisky, Martine Nouet had the fantastic opportunity to make a whisky-lover and -writer’s dream come true: work in the Glenfiddich and Balvenie distilleries for a week. Have a dram of her dream.
How close can a whisky writer approach whisky, apart from nosing and tasting? Visiting a distillery certainly brings you nearer to your subject but there’s still a sense of distance. The knowledge jou...
By Martine Nouet in the section
Whisky Production
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Ian Wisniewski explains what makes a vintage worth shelling out extra cash for – and why collectors are going crazy for them …
Thriving on their inherent sense of élitism, vintage malts are a self-perpetuating phenomenon, with a growing number of distilleries regularly ‘declaring’ a vintage. In fact for distilleries such as G...
By Ian Wisniewski in the section
Vintage malts
