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Comment by Darryl Musick on March 2, 2010 at 12:37pm

All our videos in one place...for free! From California to Europe and the ever popular Cocktail Hour series. Check out The World on Wheels video channel: http://tinyurl.com/yznuft9

Comment by Steve Mirsky on February 22, 2010 at 10:21pm

Would so love to attend the Islay Festival of Malt and Music...another dream event!

Comment by Mark Gillespie on February 22, 2010 at 10:51am

I'll be posting more on Islay whiskies later this spring. Have worked out a deal to spend almost two weeks on Islay for this year's Islay Festival of Malt and Music, and will be doing a show each day from one of the nine distilleries participating in the festival!

Comment by Doc Lawrence on February 14, 2010 at 6:08pm

I have a syndicated column headquarted in Atlanta, Spirits of the South, and am open to any information regarding cocktails, new releases, great new or venerable bars and wonderful stories springing from the spirits culture.

Comment by Darryl Musick on February 9, 2010 at 12:20pm

Wine and Beer Week continues with a beer taste off: http://tinyurl.com/yba2zno

Comment by Mark Gillespie on February 5, 2010 at 4:25pm

OK...here's the story. By law, the term "whisky" cannot be applied to spirit distilled in the UK until it's a minimum of three years old. The first batch of St. George's was bottled right after it turned three...but that does not mean all future batches will be. Terence, the idea that single malts need at least 10 years to mature is based on the "older is better" theory, which is dead wrong. There are many good whiskies bottled at younger ages...and most blends have young malts in them. I'm not sure where the "7-year-old whiskies should be avoided" idea came from, but whiskies are like people. Some mature at an early age, while some take years to mature. I've tasted the St. George 3-year-old, and while it's not a classic, it's very drinkable. I'll be posting tasting notes for it on WhiskyCast.com in the next few days. Hope this helps...

Mark

Comment by Terence Baker on January 23, 2010 at 4:33pm

On my Superlatives Guide to Our Planet group thread, recently, I mentioned a new whisky to be produced in England, of all places and my native country. An article on this St. George Whisky mentioned that it was ready for bottling after three years. Three years? I wrote to them, but they were inundated and could not write back, but I always thought a single malt needed at least 10 years to mature. As you know, whiskies that are 15, 18, 20, 25, etc., years old are more expensive, and that even 7-year old whiskies should be avoided, so how comes this one--and experts said that it held its own--is ready after three. Am I missing something. My favourite single-malt whiskies, by the way, are Ardbeg, Balvenie and Scapa Flow.

Comment by Darryl Musick on January 17, 2010 at 12:03pm

This week's cocktail is the daiquiri...Hemingway's drink made the way he would have had it (in other words, not a rum smoothie). Join us, and the birds, on the patio with your own daiquiri. http://tinyurl.com/yam5d8n

Comment by Darryl Musick on December 20, 2009 at 3:00pm

How about a great margarita recipe? Start off with a quality tequila, 100% puro de agave. http://tinyurl.com/yczs8b4

Comment by David Paul Appell on December 20, 2009 at 10:08am

Sounds inteteresting, Adina -- like slivovice, no? Do you know if it's exported, or just for domestic consumption?

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