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With this issue Whisky Magazine celebrates its first anniversary. The birthday party will be held in New York because this issue also marks our arrival in the US, the largest consumer of whisky and wh...
By Charles MacLean in the section
From the Editor
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Which whisky wins the bookish prize? Self's Laphroaig, Black's Glenfiddich 18 ...or Michael Jackson's Bellow Bourbon?
What do you like to read with your bedtime whisk(e)y? Or do you choose the whisky to suit the author? It has been a while since I had a Bellow’s Bourbon with its namesake Saul. On the other hand, Phil...
By Michael Jackson in the section
The gospel according to Michael Jackson
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Why Jim Murray is talking to the phoenix
I had seen snippets of film and countless photographs. But nothing had prepared me for this. I sat on my own staring at a television screen within the expanded Oscar Getz Whiskey Museum in Bardstown, ...
By Jim Murray in the section
The Gospel According to Jim Murray
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The artist and former wild man Ralph Steadman enjoyed a 30 year old love affair with whisky. It was brilliant fun, and so good that it had to stop, he told Jane Slade
Like the best affairs, Steadman's relationship with whisky has been turbulent, immensely pleasurable but dangerously addictive. So much so that two years ago, he turned his back on the seductive charm...
By Jane Slade in the section
Whisky Interview
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Powerful but elegant, Talisker is a prince among whiskies. Margaret Rand went over the sea to discover what makes the magic
Drive round the Cuillin Hills and you'll come to a huddle of white buildings looking out over Loch Harport, where the sea draws back at low tide to reveal a foreshore laced with bronze seaweed.
Surro...
By Margaret Rand in the section
Distillery Focus
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The Big Apple has some star whisky bars as tried and tasted by Dave Broom
Not surprisingly, rock singer Jim Morrison’s refrain: "Show me the way to the next whisky bar" kept raging in my head as I tramped the streets of New York searching for that very thing. Actually, it's...
By Dave Broom in the section
Great whisky bars
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Even though Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday each year, which means we do not have the luxury of a week-end immediately beforehand to prepare for it or one straight after to recover, it does not mean ...
By in the section
Whisky and Food
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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is riding high again with a trendy new bolt-hole in central London . Margaret Rand takes a closer look at this revival in fortunes
Visit 19 Greville Street, in the heart of Hatton Garden – London’s diamond district, and you’d be forgiven for thinking you had come to the wrong place. If these are the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s n...
By Margaret Rand in the section
Whisky society
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Andrew Jefford took the slow boat around Scotland’s most famous distilleries and discovered that malt whisky is the best antidote to bad weather
The skipper looked the part, anyway, even if the week's guests were a motley crew. Jamie Robinson was his name. Sea dogs don't come any saltier: weather-beaten cheeks, rolling gait, the strength of th...
By Andrew Jefford in the section
Whisky Travel
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Making whisky is all about rolling up your sleeves and getting down among the peat as Dave Broom found out at Bowmore distillery
6 o'clock in the morning! God knows when I last went to work at the same time as the sparrows are breaking wind in the trees. Still, whisky doesn't wait for lazy journalists, so it was down the road i...
By Dave Broom in the section
Distillery Focus
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Gary Regan & Mardee Haidin Regan guide us through the process of whiskey-making American-style
It's almost impossible to write about Bourbon or Tennessee whiskey without drawing some comparisons to Scotch.
Whisk(e)y drinkers tend to have a greater knowledge of Scotch, and single malts in part...
By Gary Regan in the section
American Whiskey
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Noble qualities created Chivas Regal, the 'Chieftain's Tipple' and royals’ favourite. Charles MacLean explores the history of the Chivas brand.
What's in a name? Plenty where Chivas Regal is concerned, one of the world's top selling whiskies whose label hints of royal favour and intriguing Celtic ancestry.
The figures speak for themselves –...
By Charles MacLean in the section
Whisky Hero
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There’s nothing like a heady blend of sunshine, history and great hospitality to create a great drink, as Marcin Miller discovered
I'm not sure about you, but travelling around in the air-conditioned luxury of a Chrysler Voyager, driving past signs proudly advertising 'The most awesome fleamarket in the world', admiring the yard ...
By Marcin Miller in the section
Distillery Focus
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Nature and native cunning have nurtured the distillery industry on the banks of the Spey. Tom Bruce-Gardyne took a trip through a whisky wonderland
Pity the poor wine-lover visiting Bordeaux for the first time only to discover the finest châteaux amassed on the dreary banks of the Gironde estuary. No such disappointment awaits the devotee of Spey...
By Tom Bruce-Gardyne in the section
Distillery Focus
