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    CASKAWAY

    Jul 15, 2021 3 minutes
    WORDS MARTHA CRASS

    hen asked if it was an interest in whisky or auctions that came first for her, Isabel Graham-Yooll is quite clear: “It’s always been whisky; even before it was whisky, it was whisky.” Her more than 20-year career in the drinks world began with a part-time job at Oddbins, where she was able to sample every wine and spirit on the shelves, before she became a spirits buyer for Milroy’s of Soho.

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