Since my European visitors are quite sporty I figured that renting a bicycle would be the perfect way of exploring the city. So to join them on their first guided bicycle tour I grabbed my bike and the 5 of us headed off to the subway station to go to Bicycle Solutions near Parliament and Carlton Streets. Getting outfitted with…
Tag: Distillery
Glenfiddich Scotch Whisky
Glenfiddich Nothing is straightforward in whisky. Here is a distillery which makes the biggest selling malt in the world, but still uses coal-fired stills, a technique most distillers have abandoned for being too expensive and liable to give variable results. It’s a light dram produced from tiny stills, when industry wisdom maintains that small equals big. Only Glenfiddich and Springbank…
Jack Daniels An American Whiskey
The Jack Daniel’s legend starts with the eponymous founder of the distillery, who allegedly owned his first distillery at the tender age of 13, having learned his skill at the knee of Dan Call – one of those moon shining preachers who pepper the history of American whiskey. Jack was a clever operator, but it’s hard to imagine that he…
Glens Whisky
Glen Ord At a glance, the fertile plains of the Black Mr Horn a pretty fine site for a distillery quality supplies of barley, some peat from illy hansons ground, pure water.. Given the fecundity of the area it Is perfectly logical that UDV, Glen Ord has one of its main makings on the market, making Glen Ord one of…
Glenmorangie Scotish Whisky
Glenmorangie Single Highland Rare Malt Scotch Whisky Few distilleries have been as transformed I the malt explosion as Glenmorangie. ‘In til 1970s there were two stills and we were selling five cases of malt a year,” says manager Graham Eunson. ‘Now we’ve go( eight stills, we’re the biggest selling malt in little chance that success will breed complacency here on…