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EVENTS & GUEST COLUMNS
07 Whisky Live
An update on Whisky Live’s 2020
events schedule
09 Thoughts from: Becky Paskin
Embracing life in lockdown
11 Thoughts from: Liza Weisstuch
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13 Thoughts from: Maggie Kimberl
Praise for the underrated whisky
cocktail culture
15 Thoughts from: Chris Middleton
The river of whisky-taxed revenue
DISTILLERY FOCUS
16 Yasato Distillery
Stefan Van Eycken looks at a new
kind of whisky
38 Bunnahabhain
A trip out to one of Islay’s most
remote distilleries
PRODUCTION
58 Port cask power
With great strength comes great
responsibility
TASTE
62 The Epicurean
The turning of the seasons
66 Tastings: New releases
Rob and Becky go on a whirlwind for
the senses
NIGHTCAP
79 Puzzles
Word games and a puzzling picture
80 Travel retail
Joe Bates looks at the uncertain path
ahead for the industry
82 Castaway
Five whiskies, one luxury and one
solitary destination. In this edition we
send Robin Coupar.
FEATURES
24 Bushido Whisky
Greg Dillon meets the new brand
joining Japan’s innovators
28 The Dalmore’s 180th
We look back on the legacy with help
from the brand’s helmsman
34 Baker and Bunna
Hans Offringa discovers the legends’
secret to success in jazz and whisky.
44 Saskatchewan whisky
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hundreds of thousands of acres of
grain into liquid wonder
50 Sustainable distilling
Christopher Coates discovers the
Scotch whisky industry’s plans to
protect our planet
56 Valentino Zagatti
Thijs Klaverstijn discovers one of
the new holy scriptures of the
whisky world
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