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Fettercairn — Refreshed for 2024
From its inception in the Grampian mountains, Fettercairn have always strived for the exotic. The first distillery was converted from an old corn mill at Nethermill in 1824 by Alexander Ramsay. He soon after had to sell the estate to the Gladstone family – the head of which went on to become Prime Minister and…
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Procera — Native Ambition
“Doing the right thing creates better gin.” This is the Procera ethos. It means resisting the urge to take the easy route. Procera is beholden to nature’s course and they never stray from it to expedite their process. Procera’s equatorial, high altitude, sun-drenched junipers are what create the distinctive flavours it is renowned for, and…
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The Circle is Widening
There is something ineffably warm about the Irish. Theirs is a culture that elevates kinship above all else and nothing encapsulates that spirit more than sharing a whiskey (and the inevitable singsong that follows). In keeping with that spirit is Jameson’s latest push to embrace whiskey drinkers of all creeds and savviness: ‘Widen the Circle’.…
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Forte_Forte + Acqua di Parma
Together with Acqua Di Parma, forte_forte invites you to the impossibly elegant beachside setting of Forte Di Marmi to immerse yourself in their new capsule. Both symbols of timeless Italian summer, the pioneering fashion house founded by Giada and Paulo Forte, is to be beset with scents as established as the season itself. It’s fitting…
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Decem — Modern Spirits for Modern Times
It’s an unfortunate paradox, the fact that the more we drink, the less we remember. There are so many hours in a night out, with those towards midnight so readily dulled by our enjoyment of cocktails. Sobriety is always an option, so too is restraint. Thankfully, DECEM have invented something to help us avoid such…
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Heart in the Mouth — Appleton Rum Revisits a Fan Favourite
Esteemed rum masters Appleton Estate are revisiting their Hearts Collection and bequeathing connoisseurs with a second instalment of the sought after capsule. Created for true rum aficionados, the exquisite 1984 and 2003 vintages have been hand-selected from Appleton Estate’s legendary stock and are comprised of 100% pot still single marque rum. Normally, distilleries create rums with varying aromas and…
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Champagne Telmont — Organic Growth
Environmentalism is such an enormous and crucial duty that, for many, it bypasses comprehension altogether. In fact, in its current gridlocked iteration, most people feel pretty powerless to affect meaningful change – and indeed to halt it altogether. The climate crisis is a regulatory issue, it has to be a collective stride and to do…
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Avión Tequila — Cristalino Clear
In the past decade, tequila has enjoyed a much deserved boost of image. Gone are the days where a shot of tequila was a grimly tolerated steppingstone towards getting “blackout blotto”. Tequila is one of Mexico’s most famous – or infamous – exports, but this newfound prestige may have something to do with…
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Christie’s presents Au Bord Du Lac
Space: a boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. With such a definition, it’s hard to see space as anything other than otherworldly, but we inhabit it in every moment of the humdrum of our lives: crossing the hallway to brush your teeth, shuffling through a…
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Royal Salute 51 — A consumable NFT?
You might see the words ‘whisky’ and ‘NFT’ and wonder how they could possibly overlap. One is a new-fangled entity that facilitates digital ownership while the other is a real life drink you can hold in your real life hands and experience on a multi-sensory level. The beginnings of their similarities – or similarity in…
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A Grandfather’s Legacy — Ron Abuelo
Quite literally translating to “grandfather”, Ron Abuelo can count itself as a founding pioneer of heritage rum. Forget coconut flasks and paper umbrellas. This sweet spirit hailing from the fertile fields of the Azuero Peninsula, Panama counts its very antiquity as its secret weapon. Don Jose Varela founded the country’s first sugar cane fields and…
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Midleton Very Rare — The Arboreal Nectar of Kylebeg Wood
Four ancient forests. Seven carefully chosen trees. A multitude of stories immemorial, given voice by way of cask and dram. Midleton – one of the world’s most revered makers of whiskey – have gone about their aging process in perhaps the most enchanting way we’ve yet witnessed. Their new range is called Dair Ghaelach, which…
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The Frozen Vignettes of Alex Prager
For much of her career, photographer Alex Prager has sought minute meaning in large, crowded compositions; often deftly nudging the viewer’s eye to a mischievously planted detail. Signatures on the cast of a high school football player, a bandage on the nose of a woman running in terror, the face in the reflection of a…
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Tercet — Born of Brotherhood
One would think that an institution as esteemed and established as Rémy Martin would have hit something of a(n extremely lofty) plateau by now. The legendary cognac house is nearly 300 years old. The fact they have lasted – or rather, dominated – for so long is not down to reaching pinnacle status and resting…
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