May/Jun 2021

Whisky Magazine

Celebrating the whiskies of the world

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Join The Club
If not for a strange twist of fate, I could very well have been a rum drinker. I mean, that’s not to say I don’t drink rum now – it can be wonderful. I always have a bottle of Wray & Nephew in the cupboard for cocktails and rum was, in fact, the spir
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Editor – Christopher Coates christopherc@paragraph.co.uk Deputy editor – Phoebe Calver phoebec@paragraph.co.uk Production editor – Bethany Whymark bethanyw@paragraph.co.uk Content and marketing executive – Martha Crass marthac@paragraph.co.uk Canada
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Look To The North
Whisky Live, the world’s premier whisky tasting experience, is celebrating the addition of a Nordic show to its annual events calendar. Set to take place in Copenhagen later this year, the event is being organised by Whisky Live’s newest franchise ho
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Whisky Live Organisers Around the World
Whisky Live Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Icons of Whisky Australia Ken Bromfield………………………………… ken.b@bkd.com.au Doug Van Tienen…………………….. doug@whiskylive.com.au Whisky Live Athens, Thessaloniki Teresa Konsola………………….teres
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Meet Me At The Club
Whiskey clubs and societies have been around for a long time, but it has only been in the last decade that we have seen a veritable explosion in the numbers, types, and popularity of such organizations. Ten years ago, when I was brand new to my own j
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Hope Is In The Air
Throughout March, in the weeks before and after the one-year anniversary of New York City going into lockdown, I wandered different neighbourhoods in Manhattan – out of curiosity and concern. At this point, indoor seating was at 35 per cent. On a Thu
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Schrödinger’s Whisky
Descend into the subatomic world of quantum mechanics and we find a strange place populated by cocktails of elementary particles: charm quarks, buckyballs, muons and bosons. Whisky concoctions share equally colourful names such as Manhattans, Old Fas
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Black Bourbon Societies
In 1964, the US Congress enacted the benchmark Civil Rights Act, ending the laws that enabled segregation and prohibiting discrimination based on race. In the same year, Congress declared Bourbon whiskey to be a ‘distinctive product of the United Sta
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Opening The Door
When Glenmorangie’s Wes Anderson-style advert It’s Kind of Delicious and Wonderful landed at the tail end of 2020, it elicited an overwhelmingly positive response. A dreamscape version of the Scotch whisky distiller’s world (their words, not mine), i
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An Unseen Collection
The Este Castle, its porticoes and the 18th-century theatre lend Lugo, Italy, just enough charm to attract the occasional local tourist. Nearby Bologna is too succulent a destination for this little medieval town, a stone’s throw from the Italian Adr
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FELLOWSHIP In Whisky
Whisky is the most romanticised and mythologised of alcoholic drinks. Its public personifications are familiar archetypes portrayed in popular culture and as caricatures in advertising tropes. However, rarely do consumers rub shoulders with rebelliou
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Dramming All Over The World
It was a Friday in mid-March and Charlie Prince hadn’t even started packing. He and his girlfriend were flying to Florida the next day to run a whisky tasting. Then they were headed to Mérida, Mexico City and Oaxaca. Then to Texas for stops in Dallas
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Drams Down Under
If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that community is the cornerstone of humanity. This applies ten-fold to the intrepid souls of the Australian whisky community. Despite geographic isolation and the youthful heritage of the contemporary wa
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The New night Out
You don’t have to be an extrovert to be part of a community – although it helps. I love a knees-up, but I’m a bit of a loner too and perfectly happy in my own company. But in these last tumultuous months, community – or, in some places, a lack of it
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Patience Is A Virtue
It is hard to keep up with the soaring number of releases from Ireland at the moment, but one always stands out from the crowd: the annual ‘drop’ of Midleton Very Rare from Irish Distillers. Since 1984, this premium blend of pot still and aged grain
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Midleton Very Rare 2021
Bottled at 40% ABV, Midleton Very Rare 2021 is available online and in Ireland now. It will hit the shelves in the UK, USA, Global Travel Retail, Australia, Germany, France and Canada in the coming months at an RRP of €180. Nose: A medley of woods up
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Rewriting The rulebook
Over the past two decades, Japanese whisky has seen an almost unrivalled rise in popularity in the key whisky markets of Europe and North America. This growing interest, while propelling the Japanese industry to new heights, has led to long-term avai
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Summary Of New Japanese Regulations
To be labelled as ‘Japanese whisky’ or ‘Japanese whiskey’, a product must conform to the following criteria: • Raw ingredients being used must be limited to malted grains and other cereal grains • Malted grains must always be used • All water used mu
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Off With The Head
It’s a compelling dream. I unlock a gate, hurry across a cobbled courtyard and let myself into the still house. I’m the only one present and this being a dream I have the necessary experience to conduct the distillation process unassisted. I am maste
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Tastings: Latest
After studying English and Journalism at university, Phoebe has turned her hand to writing for the drinks industry. She splits her time between the UK and US as editor of American Whisky Magazine and Whisky Magazine’s deputy editor. A member of the t
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This Travelling Life
Joe Bates (JB): It’s often said that there is a sense of community in the whisky industry which isn’t found in many other businesses. Do you find that the among distillers? For instance, do you swap ideas and support each other when times are tough a
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Caskaway
Gillian started working with whisky in 2004, after studying chemistry at university. She describes it as a ‘broad brush’ subject that gave her a multitude of career options – one of which was a placement as a trainee distiller for Penderyn Whisky. Th

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