![]() ![]() Shielded from the world’s prying eyes, deep in the fertile ‘Granary of Aberdeenshire’, and only ever produced in small, precious batches, Glen Garioch is a rare find indeed, but warmly appreciated by those who like a hearty Highland malt, non chill-filtered as nature intended, with a wholesome maltiness, honeyed sweetness and delicious creamy texture to savour. ![]() One of the oldest operating distilleries in Scotland – and its most easterly – Glen Garioch (pronounced Geery in the ancient Doric dialect still spoken in these parts) has been making its mighty malt in the quaint and historic market town of Oldmeldrum, near Aberdeen in North East Scotland, ever since 1797. We made the trip over the pond to pay a visit to one of Glen Garioch’s fervent supporters in the US and talked to Sales Manager and whisky lover Nima Ansari. In 2012 we partnered with Astor and together hand selected a single cask from our archives, a bourbon cask distilled in 1997, now sold exclusively in store and online with Astor. In the city, Astor are known for their excellent and friendly service, encouraging clients to discover and try something new as well as hosting regular tastings both in store and in their new purpose built Astor Centre. Their policy has always been to embrace unconventional thinking and independent behaviour a trait that is reflected in their broad selection and one that we here at Glen Garioch can identify with. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be bringing you stories from some of the very best specialist whisky shops around the world.Īstor Wines & Spirits has been serving New York’s Greenwich Village since 1946, an extraordinarily long time for a city that changes at such a fast pace. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.“Astor are known for their excellent and friendly service” She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University.īefore entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. The pilot jumped out, did something to the engine, jumped back in, started the engine, used the lawn as a runway again and took off.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The plane touched down and came to a halt. Everyone said “Oh my gosh” and scrambled out of its path. ![]() It must have taken off not far away and had trouble, and now here it was, barreling down toward them to land on the lawn. It was an airplane, the first any of them had ever seen. There were tables scattered along the lawn where people were eating lunch, and suddenly they heard a sound from the sky, a deep booming series of stutters. It was a summer day on the north shore of Long Island and she was at a club or great mansion of some kind with a big broad lawn. The conversation took a turn and she told us a story of when she was young, in her 20s, in the 1920s. Once in Manhattan in the 1990s at a lunch to celebrate a friend I met the great philanthropist Brooke Astor. ![]() Images: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters Composite: Mark Kelly Speaking to a Senate subcommittee on May 16, 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, IBM chief privacy officer Christina Montgomery and NYU professor emeritus Gary Marcus gave suggestions for regulating the AI industry-and highlighted the associated perils. ![]()
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