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Dramming all over the world

It was a Friday in mid-March and Charlie Prince hadn’t even started packing. He and his girlfriend were flying to Florida the next day to run a whisky tasting. Then they were headed to Mérida, Mexico City and Oaxaca. Then to Texas for stops in Dallas, Waco and Austin. There were tastings to be led, chapters of a whisky club to launch, distilleries to visit. But on that Friday afternoon in his Manhattan apartment, Charlie’s attention at the time was purely directed squarely at the Austrian Alps, via some glasses of fine fruit brandy on a table in front of him. Via the medium of Zoom.

If it wasn’t for the pandemic that brought the planet to a halt exactly a year before, Charlie likely would have made a whirlwind tour like the one he was about to embark on every few weeks. He likes to visit a city to mark the launch of a new chapter of Drammers

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