Drink
RISKY WHISKY Gustav Temple takes a voyage around the world via five single malt whiskies that do not come from Scotland
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“A doctor’s note for Winston Churchill, while he was living in New York in the 1930s: “This is to certify that the postaccident convalescence of The Hon Winston Churchill necessitates the use of alcoholic spirits, especially at meal times. The quantity is naturally indefinite but the minimum requirements would be 250 cubic centimeters”
et other poets raise a fracas ’Bout vines, an’ wines, an’ drucken Bacchus, An’ crabbit names an’ stories wrack us, An’ grate our lug: I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us, In glass or jug.” Robert Burns, Scotch Drink To some readers (and they may be right) it is already blasphemous even to suggest that whisky can come from anywhere except Scotland. But when one discovers that whisky is also made in Germany, Japan, India, Taiwan, Finland, Australia, Canada and Ireland, one feels duty bound to inspect the goods. Of course whisky is also made in the United States but theirs is called bourbon and is an entirely different, usually blended, kettle of fish – admittedly not without its charms. For the purposes of this investigation of global whisky, however, we are going to give blended
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