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It has been a passion of mine for quite a while escaping on two wheels. Sometimes breaking free to anywhere, and other times making a concerted effort to get from A to B covering as much ground as pos...
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We bring you the news,show reviews and Dave's look at the whisky world.
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Whisky Live Glasgow 2009
Whisky Live Glasgow Scotland's greatest whisky tasting event of the year, Whisky Live Glasgow,comes back to Glasgow in 2009 with a new date and a new venue. Bringing all the best whiskies of the world...
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Boom time
A huge palm tree,immaculate croquet lawns,magnificent setting and impressive whiskies… we review Whisky Live London.
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World Whiskies Awards
This year's competition saw more than 150 whiskies put through their paces during three rounds of tastings to win the coveted titles of “Best in the World”.
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Taking the pledge
Ian Mitchell charts the rise and fall of the Temperance movement in Scotland.
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Suntory time
Dave Broom talks plum liqueur, the boom years and Japan's drinking culture with the quiet genius behind some of country's best loved whiskies.
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Spirit of the times
In the first of a two part series looking at new make spirit, Ian Wisniewski considers the range of characteristics that appear in new make spirit,and how they are created.
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A rare bird indeed
Gavin Smith looks at the history of Phoenix Park in Dublin.
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Power to the people
In the latest of our series celebrating some of whisky's lesser known personalities, Dominic Roskrow catches up with David Wood, owner of The Wine Shop in Leek,Staffordshire.
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Buying in Berlin
Joe Bates find his experience a little disappointing but there is hope.
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Bowled over
Whisky Magazine's barfly slips into her bowling shoes and hits the lanes.
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The lure of the Spey
In the latest in our series of places to visit we look at North Speyside.
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Under the spanish sun
The distillery in Segovia, Spain, is one of whisky's best kept secrets and yet this year it is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Dominic Roskrow joined the fiesta.
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The Gathering
As Jim Morrison nearly put it in the film Wayne's World, if you book them they will come. So that's what a group of whisky nuts in The Netherlands have done. Dominic Roskrow reports...
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Burning Issues
How often have we read in a distillery's history a phrase along the lines of “…the following year much of the site was devastated by fire…”? Gavin D Smith investigates in the first part of our...
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The big cheese
Whisky and cheese is one of the best pairings to grace a dinner table, Kate Portman investigates why...
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Working relationship
Jefferson Chase looks at a crime thriller that does it by the book.
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