whisky at its most personal
‘Rainy days and Mondays always get me down’ sang the Carpenters, but I never fancied that, so I resolved long ago to make sure I met them head on and hands free. This can lead to some peculiar decisions, so this particular rainy Monday I wasn’t surprised when I found myself confronting the voluminous orange […]
Whisky of the week – Cutty Sark. A large Cutty Sark by the Cutty Sark on a sunny summer’s evening at the Trafalgar Tavern, an inn that has stood guard by the old Naval College in Greenwich, London for 180 years. What could be finer? Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch Whisky from […]
Malt of the month for August. Pale speyside gold with notes of citrus and toffee apples and a dreamy finish. The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve has been created using the same time-honoured distillation methods used by George Smith way back in the 1820s. The lineage certainly has provenance as it dates back to before the Excise Act […]
The first time I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd live it was their first UK tour way back in the mists of the seventies. This may have been their last. First time round they rocked the Glasgow Apollo, winter of ’74 I think, and it cost me 50p for a ticket. The Apollo was a dry venue, […]
