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This year’s Chivas ‘Made for Gentlemen’ collaboration is with the (usually) aviation-themed watch company Bremont. It’s a good fit in more ways than one: Bremont, like Chivas, was founded by two brothers, both passionate about craftsmanship and investing in the details that matter. After a visit to the Strathisla distillery where they met Chivas Master Blender…
Some people think golf is a boring sport. If you’ve ever Googled ‘fun facts about golf’ you might agree. But after all that fist-pumping at Gleneagles last weekend we decided it was utterly gripping. Besides, it’s the only sport we know where practice doesn’t make perfect; it doesn’t seem to help at all. Which means Ryder…
Having inhaled the estery fumes of practically every still house for each category of spirit several times over, I was surprised to realise that I had never once passed the threshold of a Scottish distillery, despite their relative proximity to myself in person as well a having somewhat of a soft spot for the spirit in question. As a…
Aside from serving as one of our most evocative euphemisms, the Crown Jewels are a potent symbol of Britain’s noble heritage. The same could be said of a great bottle of Scotch. Royal Salute is probably the only brand who could bring these two pillars of high society together, and do them both proud. The end…
There are certain things we can all do to avoid the heinous post-holiday comedown. One is book a one-way trip to the Bahamas. The other is to adopt the little-known mantra ‘New Year, New Booze’, and stock up the drinks cupboard. Alright. We made it up ourselves. Balblair 1983 Whiskey First Release £200 Balblair is…
Purity Vodka, as the name suggests, is incredibly pure. Distilled a whopping thirty-four times at one of the smallest distilleries in the world (located within 13th century Ellinge Castle to be precise), this crystal-clear spirit is 100% organic. It was master blender, good old Thomas Kuutanen, who spent ten years carefully developing something that would challenge the…
We all have them. Those nagging recollections, those guilty secrets, those faded memories that stubbornly remain afloat in the pool of time. They still make you cringe, they still make you wince and they still make you wish that you had heeded the Headmasters bellowed advice of, think boy, think! That ill-advised act of investigational…
Your journey from the toilets of Cheltenham to the sands of Necker can be bumpy and, ultimately, lacking in cheer. Alain de Botton wrote of how we only need to be slightly richer than our immediate peer group to feel contentedly on top. Slightly richer is the key. Any less and we suffer status anxiety.…