Biographical note:
Award-winning author and whisky expert Dave Broom has been writing about whisky for 20 years as a journalist and author. He has written eight books, two of which, Drink! and Rum, won the Glenfiddich Award for Drinks Book of the Year. He has also won the Glenfiddich Drinks Writer of the Year twice. Dave is editor of the Scotch Whisky review, editor-in-chief of Whisky Magazine: Japan, consultant editor to Whisky Magazine (UK, the USA, France, Spain) and a regular contributor to a raft of national and international titles including the Spectator, Daily Telegraph, Mixology and Imbibe (Europe). A regular broadcaster on TV and radio, he was elected the IWSC Communicator of the Year in 2013.
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Makes a powerful and evocative case for geography as an
organizing principle for understanding whiskey in its world.—Eric Asimov, The New York Times
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Simply the best book ever written on whisky . . . the most
helpful info any whisky fan who is not a world-class expert like Broom can
get.—Larry Olmsted, Forbec.com
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Splendid and authoritative.
—Susy Atkins, The Telegraph