Never one to rush things, I came late to the charms of uisge beatha. Indeed, it took several decades for me to develop any sort of taste for whisky (or even whiskey). Single malts are still hit-and-miss and just when I think I’ve cracked it, managing to identify my all-time favourite, I get stopped in my tracks by some overly medicinal, iodine-laden, tonsil-tormentor. “Don’t panic and don’t give up,” says Dave Broom, editor of The Scotch Whisky Review and author of the Handbook of Whisky. “There’s a single malt for everyone.” I challenge Broom to convince me. Not only that, … Continue reading Whisky Tasting: Heady Flavours Put Whisky on the Map