It’s not too late to buy a Father’s Day gift. The liquor stores are open all day. Forget ties — he doesn’t ever wear them, forget watches — the time goes by too fast, just buy whisky so he can drink away all the tsoris you are causing him. Here’s what to buy this year…
Just as the Berlin Wall was falling, something was Jewish happening at the Bruichladdich distillery on Scotland’s Isle of Islay. First of all, they were releasing the “Bruichladdich Scotch Islay Single Malt Carmel Kosher Wine Finish 1989” — which, by all accounts was a fine (if now rare) whisky. It was kosher in the way…
Every time I hear the old saw that Jews aren’t drinkers, I scratch my head and wonder if my family, colleagues and friends are all somehow a minority-within-a-minority — or whether this little piece of conventional wisdom is all wet. Luckily, I work down the hall from an expert in such matters, Dan Friedman, the…
I thought I’d pop a couple of whisky-drinking cherries in time to review the two labels for Purim. Until this year, somehow I’d never tried Dewar’s White Label nor any of the offerings from the Bulleit company. And now, for you — Dear Reader — I have. In some ways the two companies are the…
Polyester pants, shag carpets and Elvis in Hawaii. The ’70s was a different world, one with quaalude eyes, avocado green shower cubicles and 8-track players. It was a world where cigarettes were cool, where salad meant “add mayonnaise” and where a gentleman’s whisky was a Scotch blend. Related A single-malt Scotch is made from various…
Whether you are celebrating Donald Trump’s Scottish roots or drowning your sorrows at the thought of a teetotal president, here are five whiskies to get you through each day, while affirming your faith in friends, families and the kindness of strangers. Breakfast Glenmorangie Milsean I’ve always been attracted by the French custom of drinking a…
My late father in law liked to refer to aluminum as “energy in solid form” because we’ve always known where it was and how, roughly, to extract it, but not until the late 20th century did we have the massive quantities of energy necessary to produce it on an industrial level. By that logic, whisky…
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