May 8, 2025
The Weekly Mash May 9 2025
Welcome drammers. Thanks for the kind words for last week’s screed. Let’s see if I can keep…
May 1, 2025
The Weekly Mash
So, I’m trying something new. A weekly round up of thoughts, drams, updates, reminders and anything else that’s…
April 30, 2025
The DV fall-out: spoons at the ready
Musician James Yorkston runs a series of gigs called ‘Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer’. The title is taken…
April 10, 2025
Breaking point
ANY MENTION OF Japanese craft gets my antennae tingling. The idea that a whisky was embracing the art…
January 20, 2025
The Amber Isle crowdfunder
With the hugely exciting news (we didn’t even known about it) that ‘The Amber Light’ is now on…
October 29, 2024
Luxury Whisky & The Tinkerbell Theory
I received a mail from one of my editors recently. She’d kindly sent me details of an expensive…
October 24, 2024
A NEW WORLD ATLAS OF WHISKY!
I wrote the first World Atlas of Whisky in 2010. The second edition came out in 2014.…
September 20, 2024
There’s a storm a-comin’
Whisky has always moved in waves, a giant swell of peak and troughs, a pattern that repeats at…
August 23, 2024
Bey-ond whisky
I’ve been thinking about SirDavis, the new collaboration between Moët-Hennessy and Beyoncé which was announced this week. Is…
May 31, 2024
The Smell of Temples
‘I have a very special whisky for you,’ says Yushi Noguchi. We’re in the blending lab at Yamazaki,…