Aug/Sep 2022

Whisky Magazine

Celebrating the whiskies of the world

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Schrödinger’s Terroir
A strange kind of doublethink has a grip on much of the whisky world. We celebrate single malt as the quintessential flavour of a single place and accept that distilleries have quirks of personality which make them, broadly speaking, unique. This is
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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 executive – Bradley Weir bradleyw@paragraph.co.uk Canada – Blair Phill
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The Second Half
So far, 2022 has been an incredibly busy and fulfilling year for events in the whisky world, thanks to the return of in-person tastings and festivals around the globe. As we enter the second half of the calendar year, the events are showing no signs
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Beyond Regionality
When I teach the agricultural history of bourbon, I start off by explaining that frontier whiskey was nothing more than a way to preserve crops. The agricultural part is something most people don’t think about. In different parts of the country the s
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Agave Vs Grain
The headline in Bloomberg on 8 June might have had the vague sound of a street-fight challenge: ‘Americans Will Spend More on Mezcal and Tequila This Year Than Whiskey.’ To a whisky insider, it reads like the financial media equivalent of, ‘Come at m
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Highland Sour Mash Distillers
The organic acids and bacteria that sour or acidify the mash have become synonymous with Tennessee and Kentucky whisky, where distillers use a portion of spent distiller’s wash to lower the pH for fermentation. However, the fog of time makes it diffi
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Extreme Environments
Dutch football player Johan Cruyff was known for a lot of things, not just his efforts on the pitch. Some of his sayings have gone on to live a life of their own. One of them applies to whisky distillers who have chosen to set up shop in remote or ex
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Taste of Terroir
Throughout his decades-long career, Mark Reynier has become something akin to a religious figurehead in the world of whisky. The son of a wine merchant – who would ask his children to identify the wine in their glasses at dinner time – Reynier’s firs
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Distilling With Altitude
The modern whisky landscape is inhabited by a panoply of practitioners and spans six of the seven continents. From the traditionalists forging fantastic whiskies in Scotland, Japan, Canada, the US and beyond to the mercurial craft distillers dotting
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Behind biodynamic
Following the Scotch whisky industry’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2040, whisky’s environmental footprint is now scrutinised more than ever before. This has meant thinking hard about how grain is produced. Cultivating cereals such a
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Island Organics
The island-city of Bainbridge is eight miles due west of Seattle, in the Puget Sound. It takes about 35 minutes to get there by ferry – there’s a morning run and an evening run. The island, which is 28 square miles in size, has 53 miles of coastline
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Emerging Styles
For many decades, bourbon and Tennessee whiskey were the only styles made in the United States that had any sort of known regional tie. But to say those were the only two types of American whiskey easily recognisable to consumers isn’t an easy argume
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Getting Technical
Distillery name: Bainbridge Organic Distillers Parent company: Free Range Distilling Company Address: 9727 Coppertop Loop NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Years of operation: 2009–present Open to the public: Yes Distillery manager name: Keith Barnes P
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Kentucky Is Booming
Kentucky bourbon is still having a major growth spurt. Across the Commonwealth, construction is taking place at shocking rates and new brands are emerging on what seems like a monthly basis. Despite lags in tourism, visitors are still flocking to the
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New Beginnings, Old Ways
Future generations will surely look back on the present day as one of the major boom times for Scotch whisky – but amongst all the public fanfare of what is surely a golden era, there’s one story that quietly yet singularly attests to the industry’s
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Cheers!
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Glassware’s Golden Age
The words of 20th-century novelist and poet James Joyce, from the pages of his famous 1914 book Dubliners, elegantly capture what many whisky drinkers seek when they twist the cork from the bottle: “The light music of whiskey falling into a glass – a
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Tastings Latest
As editor of American Whiskey Magazine and deputy editor of Whisky Magazine, Phoebe splits her focus between the US and ‘global’ whisky scenes. She is also co-host of Whisky Live TV and a global whisky taster for this title. A member of the team sinc
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Recovery Moves Up A Gear
The floodgates have well and truly opened. Although international travel has yet to recover to anywhere near pre-Covid levels and China, the most important travel-retail market globally, remains closed to overseas travellers, the industry has been bu
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Caskaway
Having studied theatre at the University of Texas in Austin and trained at the Atlantic Film Company in New York, Jennifer Blair began her early adulthood as an actor. Landing roles in a handful of films and television shows (including an episode of
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New Travel-retail Exclusives
Double Agent 16 Years Old JOHN DEWAR & SONS ABV: 40% ABV Style: Blended Price per 50cl bottle: US$70 Bottling type: Distillery Availability: Global travel retail Country of origin: Scotland This new release from Dewar’s first made its appearance at S

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