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Ian Buxton
Ian Buxton is well-placed to write or talk about whisky, not least because he lives on the site of a former distillery!
Ian began work in the Scotch Whisky industry in 1987 and, since 1991, has run his own consultancy business. As well as giving lectures, presentations and tastings on whisky, he writes regular columns for Whisky Magazine, the Scottish Field website, and various other titles.
He is a co-author of the forthcoming Eyewitness Companion to Whisky (Dorling Kindersley) and is currently working on a history of John Dewar & Sons.
In 2005 he established the World Whiskies Conference and earlier this year established Classic Expressions to reprint facsimile editions of rare whisky classics.
Charles MacLean
has spent the past twenty-five years researching and writing
about Scotch whisky and is one of the leading authorities.
He spends his time sharing his knowledge around the world, in articles
and publications, lectures and tastings, and on TV and radio. His
first book (Scotch Whisky) was published in 1993 and since then
he has published nine books on the subject, his most recent being
Charles MacLean´s Whisky Tales, published in 2006. He was
elected a Keeper of the Quaich in 1992, in 1997 Malt Whisky won
the Glenfiddich Award and in 2003 A Liquid History was short-listed
for the André Simon Drinks Book of the Year prize.
Dominic Roskrow
Dominic Roskrow is consultant editor to Whisky Magazine, which he also edited for four years, and is East of England regional manager for The Whisky Shop chain, and his business is based at the company’s shop in Norwich. He has been writing about drinks for 15 years and has edited a number of drinks-related magazines. His new writing, consultancy and hospitality business is called True Spirit. He writes for Whisky Magazine and Malt Advocate and has regular columns in magazines in Britain, Ireland and America. He lives in Norfolk, home of England’s first malt whisky distillery, and is married with three children.
Gavin D Smith
Gavin D Smith is one of Scotland’s leading whisky writers and Contributing Editor to www.whisky-pages.com. He hosts whisky talks and tastings and produces feature material for a wide range of specialist and general interest publications. He is the author of 17 books, eight on the subject of whisky. These include Whisky, Wit & Wisdom, The A-Z of Whisky, Worts, Worms & Washbacks, The Secret Still, The Whisky Men and, most recently, Whisky: A Brief History. He lives on the Fife coast in Scotland.
David Stirk
David Stirk was born in Ripon in 1976. By his mid-twenties he had visited most of Scotland’s distilleries and contributed to Whisky Magazine before writing the Malt Whisky Guide (GW Publishing, 2002) and
The Distilleries of Campbeltown (Neil Wilson Publishing, 2005). He is now involved in bottling small batch vatted and single malt whiskies (www.creativewhisky.co.uk).
Hideo Yamaoka
was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is an editor, writer and translator.
He writes for the regular whisky tasting column in Japan, ”The
Whisky World”, and has also translated some of Michael Jackson’s
books. He has won the malt whisky nosing contest three times at
the Speyside Festival and once at the Islay Festival.
Ian Wisniewski
is a food, drink and travel writer and broadcaster specialising
in spirits. He contributes to various publications and has written
8 books on drinks, including Classic Malt Whisky, and is a regular
visitor to distilleries in Scotland.
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