Whisky - UK (2020-05)

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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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