Jun 16th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
It's always cocktail hour somewhere in the world, they say, though if you're 8 months pregnant like me, it's not for another 5 weeks or so. Even as a non-whiskey drinker, I looked at this and wanted a nice warming glass of scotch and perhaps a fire to drink it by. Flickr user JRodmanJr snapped this drink (and presumably drank it) in Basel, Switzerland; it's a 14-year-old single malt from the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the day - Cocktail hour
Jun 16th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
It's always cocktail hour somewhere in the world, they say, though if you're 8 months pregnant like me, it's not for another 5 weeks or so. Even as a non-whiskey drinker, I looked at this and wanted a nice warming glass of scotch and perhaps a fire to drink it by. Flickr user JRodmanJr snapped this drink (and presumably drank it) in Basel, Switzerland; it's a 14-year-old single malt from the ...Photo of the Day - 51 Irish coffees for St. Patrick's Day
Mar 17th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Happy St. Patrick's Day! If you're celebrating today in America, you're probably planning to drink green beer or a nice pint of Guinness, but why not warm up with an Irish coffee, spiked with whiskey (Irish, of course)? In today's Photo of the Day, Flickr user jrodmanjr snapped these 51 coffees in action at San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe, which claims to have brought the drink to the United ...Daily Pampering: Fine and Rare Macallan for $10,500
Oct 14th, 2010 at 4:00PM: Ask a scotch drinker about their dram of choice and often you will hear two words: The Macallan. For today's Daily Pampering, we head to Speyside in Scotland - the home of malt whisky and Fine and Rare bottles that can be yours for $10,500.
Pull into The Macallan gates to learn about the magic that happens inside.
The tour begins at the distillery. Visitors see the mash tuns, washbacks, ...Daily Pampering: The Ardbeg Double Barrel Experience
Jul 22nd, 2010 at 4:00PM:
Ardbeg USA is offering a travel package that scotch-lovers won't want to miss -- that is, if they can come up with a cool $20,000.
This chocolatey bespoke leather rifle case repurposed as a gift box for two single cask bottlings of 1974 Ardbeg Single Malt Scotch Whisky (so you can taste the difference between casks), as well as silver chalices, tasting notebooks and matching Omas pen, is just ...Scotland wants you to come home
Dec 25th, 2008 at 5:00PM: Even if you don't have Scottish blood charging through your veins, you're still invited to Homecoming Scotland. In 2009, the country will host more than 200 events ... and yes, you can expect whisky to flow at a few of them. The year kicks off with the Homecoming Burns Supper, part of an entire weekend (January 23-25, 2009) to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Scotland's national poet. Down some ...Whisky School in Scotland
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Sep 18th, 2007 at 7:56AM: I'm afraid whisky is something I'll never truly understand. It's legions of fans, however, wax eloquently about 100 year old bottles and various malts as though this amber liquid was the nectar of the gods. To me, it will always be a drink that wrenches my face into painful contortions any time I try to swallow it. For those with more sophisticated palates that appreciate the finer attributes of ...
