Winter Whiskeys

Winter WhiskeysBritish Spirits Maven John Doxat--author of Stirred, Not Shaken and the Complete Drinker's Companion--changes his alcohol intake with the weather as faithfully as he changes the oil in his motorcar. Come the first cold snap in autumn, he "abandons gin and vodka" and switches to whiskeys. Doxat's law is neither capricious nor eccentric. Most of us modify our fuel consumption with the seasons--though not, as a rule, as rigidly as this opinionated English scribe. Raw, nasty...