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Drawn entirely from one chosen harvest, vintage Champagne offers a taste of a year that will never unfold in quite the same way again.

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To Create, You Must Destroy: Andrés Faustinelli on the Birth of BEAR-BON Whisky

Since pioneering Elementally Aged® BEARFACE Triple Oak in 2018, Faustinelli has continued to push boundaries through the brand's Wilderness Series releases. But with BEARFACE BEAR-BON™ Charred Barrel Whisky, he has done something categorically different. He has dismantled his own framework and rebuilt it from the ground up — questioning every assumption that underpinned the BEARFACE story so far…

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The Scotch Whisky Regions are Wrong (But Here’s Why You Should Still Use Them)

Mise en place. Terroir. Both haughty French phrases that conjure up mystical feelings of faraway flavours and untouched landscapes. So perhaps it’s fitting that I find myself writing about regionality from the shade of a Parisian café, doing my best to escape the sticky humidity of the so-called city of love.

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