“It’s finally time. After long months walking in the park and pounding coffees in the street you can have a small number of pals over as long as they stay in the garden. Will you have a few drinks when then come by? For the first time in months? Just a couple…? Yes, you absolutely will. Here are some of the best things to serve while you to remember how to have a conversation with more than two people.”
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Read More“The Burns Supper is not so much a dinner as it is a celebration of Scotland’s great contributions to poetry, distilling, and sausage making. Even though this year’s celebrations are set to be smaller scale than usual, the 25th of January still represents an opportunity to defy the winter gloom and raise a few glasses of guid auld Scotch drink. A dram or two, taken neat or with water, is traditional for toasting – but this is by no means the only way to enjoy your whisky on Burns night.”
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Read More“Whisky is not just for cold weather but it does make a certain kind of sense in the winter months. No other spirit can provide central heating like a good dram at the end of a chilly day. This month has seen a wave of new releases so there’s plenty of whisky fun to be had as autumn turns into winter.”
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Read More“Christmas Eve Gin reigned supreme once more this year and come Christmas many of us will be reaching for the…”
Read More“Scotch may be defined by maturity – but that doesn’t mean that the whisky industry couldn’t benefit from some fresh thinking and a little young spirit.”
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Read MoreMy contribution to this article by the wonderful Zoe Dare Hall, in which I give my tips on how to safely store and display your whisky collection.
“It’s far less complex than managing a wine cellar. Whisky doesn’t age in the same way in the bottle so doesn’t require the same balance of temperature and humidity for long-term storage,”
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Read More“Matching food and drink with films can be a lot of fun. Think eating pasta and meat sauce with Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, or drinking $5 shakes along to Pulp Fiction. But a great pairing doesn’t necessarily have to be from the film – like Hannibal Lecter’s Chianti, say – it can play on something sensory or thematic to help get you in the mood. Imagine slurping on a bright red Blood and Sand while Dracula (pick your favourite) tears into someone’s neck, or downing a Zombie cocktail with the actual voodoo undead in White Zombie.”
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Read MoreTLDR? Stay safe, be cool, and don’t try to drink absolutely everything in the room.”
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Read More“It’s an important coming-of-age moment for whisky drinkers, when we learn that single malt Scotch isn’t generally poured directly from cask to bottle. For many of us, this a Father Christmas-sized realisation.”
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