The eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building had an Art Moderne observation lounge containing a panelled "writing room," for addressing postcards, a tearoom, and a "sunset lounge," whose Belgian-marble bar served five kinds of champagne, along with a house cocktail, the Empire State, made with Amstel bitters, orange bitters, French vermouth, Scotch, and dry gin.
Aged for an average of seven years in American whiskey, French Cognac and Scotch whisky barrels, the rum comes on sweet, all vanilla and coconut and brown sugar and a hint of citrus.
The workers are American, English, Scotch, Irish, German, French, Flemish, French-Canadian, Polish, Italian, Syrian, Russian, Armenian.
She made an appearance on French television news to scotch the gossip.
Many world-famous spirits Are matured in precious wooden casks Scotch whisky, French brandy, Bordeaux wine… They all spend long days inside wooden casks.
In the 18th century, the American writer Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, himself an immigrant from France, catalogued the continent's bewildering mix of "English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes".
Who loves ya, baby? the Glenlivet is releasing its French Oak Finish 1983 Cellar Collection scotch this fall with 3,000 bottles earmarked for America.
End the evening at Chez Quasimodo (Takakura Dori, Nijo-agaru, Nakagyo-ku; 81-75-231-2488), an intimate bar with a low, barrel ceiling where the mustachioed owner, Yoshio Sawaguchi, pours rare Scotch, stokes the fire and plays French chanson and jazz on vinyl.
Nine out of every ten bottles produced are exported from Britain, which might explain why the Greeks drink more Scotch than ouzo, and why the French put away more Scotch in a month than they do Cognac in a year or so the SWA claims.
There are also substantial communities of Slovaks, Hungarians, French, Slovenes, Czechs, Ukrainians, Arabs, Dutch, Scottish, Russian, Scotch Irish, Croats, Puerto Ricans, West Indians, Romanians, Lithuanians, and Greeks.
It lived up to my imagination, though we were both jealous of the French couple next to us who also ordered the confit — with Scotch and wine.
