Ritzy drams at dawn on Jura – see You Tube 7.00pm Thursday
published this on 1:29 pm, Sunday, 12th July, 2009Community News| Whisky | Comments (rss) | Respond | Ping |
Not pistols but palates. Not cocked instruments of death but cocktails. Jura has just witnessed a taste to the death of an argument between two of the world’s major figures in the drinks industry.
In the visitor’s corner of the arena below the Paps of Jura was Colin P Field, celebrated mixologist from the Hemingway Bar at Mohammed Al Fayed’s Ritz Hotel in Paris. The armoury he carried into the contest was a marriage of Jura malt, mint, orange rind and marmalade.
His opponent in the local corner was Richard Patterson, master blender at the Isle of Jura distillery, bringing only Jura malt and a splash of water.
At issue as the tension between the modernist approach to drinking and the traditionalist’s protectiveness of the sanctity of the single malt.
Field feels that this ingrained conservatism is making people afraid to experiment with the use of malt whisky in cocktails, freeing the dram into new taste impacts and obviously into new markets.
Patterson was convinced that Field would see the error of his ways when presented with the simplicity of the great dram liberated to hit the taste buds only by a judicious splash of water.
For Whom did the Bell Toll? Send to know from You Tube at 7.00pm this Thursday night (16th July) when a film of the Gotterdrammering will be shown.
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