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One of the great post-war writers on architecture and the built environment was Ian Nairn. He was passionate, idiosyncratic, and angry, especially…

How much are you willing to pay for your whisky? How much extra are you willing to pay for an incremental gain in…

Like most visitors to Vancouver I have walked round Gastown, the oldest part of the city, and taken a picture of the…

It was a dark and cloudy November night in 1945 when Rueben Martirosoff took a telephone call at home. “I have to go…

I thought I was done with Jay Pomeroy but research is never neat and tidy and fully resolved. There are always threads left…

I have written many, many more words about Jay Pomeroy than I would have thought possible. Now though, I have now come to…

I have been trying to find sources for the way Jay Pomeroy has been described in the whisky literature The previous post mentioned…

I started this whole, lengthy, exercise by accident. I was using the Malt Whisky Yearbook¹ to look at the timelines of various…

As far as whisky history goes the history of Strathisla has two parts. The first is the dim, distant past when the distillery…

My next post will explain how Jay Pomeroy, and others, made a lot of money by avoiding the Excess Profits Tax. For one…

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