Whiskey/Whisky

Japanese whisky was once considered a bit of a novelty, with the Scottish Whiskies taking centre stage, and Irish and American whiskies (Bourbon is a whisky) being the main backing dancers. That all changed a few years ago when the God of World Whisky, Jim Murray, named the Yamazaki Sherry Cask Single Malt 2013 as the best whisky in the world in his 2015 Whisky Bible. Such is the respect for Jim’s palate that it made the world-wide community sit up and take note, particularl

Inland from Cairns, about ten minutes out of Mareeba sits Mt Uncle Distillery, a site that’s been in the news a bit lately for cracking the huge British market and selling their gin, that has an Australian twist, to the poms. Mt Uncle has been on our radars for a long time now, originally producing exotic fruit liqueurs, vodka and an interesting marshmallow vodka liqueur where the marshmallows are actually melted by the vodka giving a unique, velvety smooth and liqueur with

Sometimes writing this column is hard, coming up with something to review week in week out can be downright difficult. When that happens, I usually sit in front of the computer flicking between Zoo Weekly’s Babe of the Day and camper trailer websites just wishing, and waiting for creativity to strike. Other times you sit down and just can’t wait to have a forum to tell people about how good something is. This is one of those columns! Glenfiddich has introduced a new single m