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...wonder Never drink and drive - unless, that is, the drink is some of Scotland's finest whisky and the "driving" is confined to one of the world's great golf courses. This happy combination is to be found at the Machrie Hotel and Golf Links on the island of Islay off Scotland's west coast. So it's surprising that the Machrie, close to such venerable distilleries as Laphroaig, Ardbeg, Bowmore and Lagavulin, has managed to remain one of golf's best-kept secrets. It was not always so. Ten years after it first opened in May 1891, the Machrie...
...will climb even in markets like the U.S. and Japan, where overall whisky sales have declined steadily over the past decade. "Malts and premium brands are the way we need to go," says Good. If proof were needed, it is to be found on the sleepy Hebridean island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland, home to Caol Ila among others malts, and where five years ago Glenmorangie gave the kiss of life to a sleeping beauty known as the Ardbeg distillery. Closed for much of the 1980s and shut down again in 1996, Ardbeg is now producing...
...water, or like brandy in postprandial snifters. Single malts are as different from one another as Burgundy wines are from Bordeaux: a soft, sweetish Lowland malt like Auchentoshan is a wholly different taste experience from Laphroaig, one of the tangy, medicinal whiskies produced on the isle of Islay (pronounced EYE-la). Part of the appeal of these whiskies, in fact, is their craggy names. Once you've learned how to pronounce it, who can resist ordering a dram of Bunnahabhain? (Try Bu-na-HA-ven.) Worldwide, the single- malt sales leader is Glenfiddich, owned by William Grant & Sons...
...British collector, Islay Lyons, who calls Yas "the greatest living sculptor in Thailand" and has commissioned several originals from him, deplores the fact that his "energy goes into making fakes...
Married. Donovan (real name: Donovan Leitch), 24, Britain's versatile, vibrato-voiced minstrel (Isle of Islay): and Lynda Lawrence, 23, girl friend of the Rolling Stones' late Brian Jones; both for the first time; in Windsor, England...