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Sacred Spirit
Will I be a collector when I grow up? Prior to my Scotch whisky odyssey I would have dismissed such a probability with a contemptuous “not on your nelly”. Perhaps as a consequence of the style of my...
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Three Years and a Day…
I like to think that, on October 26 2010, I could empathise on a level of singular profundity with Anthony Wills and how he had felt on December 15 2008. Last week I marked my most significant whisky...
View ArticleThe Scotch Odyssist’s Handbook
If you are tired of waiting for me to produce the definitive tome to the world of Scotch whisky tourism (and I know I am) then please allow me to do the next best thing and point you in the direction...
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Fanatical about Flavour
A distillery and the outside world: neither we nor whisky are made in isolation. Dave Broom said that ‘we smell our way through our lives’. I for one get rather excited when someone meditates on the...
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Memory and the Middle Cut
‘Life through the Worm Tub’ I have been exceedingly fortunate in my explorations into Scotch whisky thus far to have had the opportunity to engage in dialogues with many fascinating people. Be they...
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Respect your Elders: G&M’s Glenlivet 70yo
Since last Tuesday’s big bang in the whisky universe, in between essay deadlines, I have been mulling over the significance of a second 70yo release from one of the world’s most illustrious whisky...
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Itchy Legs – One Year on from the Odyssey
A moment I will never forget - obliviousness as to the future makes a certain imprint on the mind. If only my mind weren’t obliged to sacrifice quite so much attention to mastering my academic...
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Whisky Quality Emigrating?
Will we eventually have to leave Scottish shores in search of whiskies with personality? Perhaps by way of compensating for the wheezing, frigid wind, and rain that strikes with an assassin’s stealth...
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On the road again…
Back in the saddle again in June 2014. The terrific thing about wrapping up a semester is that you can turn your mind to fun future projects, cogitate a little more about what you want them to be,...
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Countdown to Scotch Odyssey 2
Incredibly, I may just be in a position to take on a second circumnavigation of Scotland in search of Scotch whisky distilleries to visit. If April was chock full of coursework, May was the domain of...
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