Lightly Peated

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…

During World War II whisky was in short supply. There was even a debate as to whether there should be any production at…

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

For three quarters of his time Jay Pomeroy’s life was low-key and obscure. He got by, alternating periods of modest business success with…

I feel shame-faced about this post because it’s a bit of a cliche to compare real-life people to Gatsby. If anybody, in any…

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since….

As this is a blog that likes to talk about whisky whilst talking about other things, today’s post will be about Orlando Figes….