Category: Blabber

What Would Nairn Have Thought

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

How much are you willing to pay for your whisky? How much extra are you willing to pay for an

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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