My latest print feature in Gin Magazine , issue 9/Nov-Dec 2019 (from the publishers of Whisky Magazine, which I have also written for here). This issue I cover 10 top Dublin bars: Bar 1661, Bonobo, Gin Palace, The Liquor Rooms, The Cauldron, VVC, Chelsea Drugstore, The Blind Pig, Opium, Peruke & Periwig Past issues of Gin Magazine:— My San Francisco… Read more →
Published in my regular print columns at Haute Living Magazine, the November-December 2019 issue includes my feature on travels to Cognac, France (in depth on Cognac — how it’s produced, what the region is like, etc. here), and Lambay Island, Ireland, to explore a unique marriage between Cognac and Irish Whiskey between two spirits families. MY HAUTE LIVING ARTICLES— Wine… Read more →
Covering the world’s only full-on poitin bar, Bar 1661, in Dublin from Dave Mulligan, who I interview at Liquor.com in my latest feature, SHOWING OFF POITÍN, IRELAND’S HOMEGROWN SPIRIT, AT A NEW BAR. ONE THAT’S ALL POITÍN, ALL THE TIME. Bar 1661 poitin flight Bar 1661’s Belfast Coffee Read more →
West Cork is known, according to an article in Bon Appetit back in May 2008, as “the California of Ireland,” due in part to its striking coastline and artisan foods. Though I see a far wider range of produce in Northern California than I did throughout County Cork, it’s clear Cork leads the way in Ireland. The wealth of produce… Read more →
Dublin surprises me. I expect the charm of a European city, particularly that certain appeal the Irish hold, but there’s indescribably more. Despite gray days and even incessant rain one day in Summer (plus one glorious, clear night), I fell under Dublin’s eclectic, literary spell cast by Joyce, Shaw, Yeats, and the many figures who came from or made their… Read more →
Ireland is a green land of rolling hills, sheep and craggy coastline, to be sure. The people enchanted even more… a generous, welcoming, hilarious lot. One of my favorite people in recent Ireland travels was Liam O’Leary, distillery operations manager at New Midleton Distillery in County Cork, near the southern coast of Ireland. The name New Midleton may not mean … Read more →