When I last saw him during a press trip in Dublin, award-winning whisky writer and author Dave Broom managed to convey both annoyance and pride when I congratulated him on his new book A Sense of, complaining that his publisher made him tone down the amount of Gaelic poetry featured in its pages but that he was happy enough with the book in its final form. Far from a straightforward guide to Scotch whisky, in his latest book Broom draws on history, archaeology, sociology, biology, forestry, ecology and indeed poetry to answer the following question: what is bioregionalism and how does it apply to Scotch whisky?
