One of the things that people always said to me before I started working in the world of whisky was that everyone was friendly. Since I have started I’ve found that pretty much holds – the world of whisky is full of many lovely people. I met a bunch of them at Maltstock last year, including Jon Beach, king of drunken harmonica playing and hat wearing. When Jon heard that I was coming up to Scotland recently he ‘bullied’ me into accepting his hospitality at not only a Glenfarclas tasting at his bar, Fiddler’s in Drumnadrochit, but also by being driven around by him, his sister and his dad for a couple of days, taking in some of the booze related sites that I couldn’t get to by train. First on his list was the Glenfarclas distillery itself, just to make sure that it lived up to his high standards before the tasting…
Glenfarclas and Fiddler’s
