The cheery community of DUFFTOWN , founded in 1817 by James Duff, the fourth Earl of Fife, proudly proclaims itself Malt Whisky Capital of the World, and indeed it exports more of the stuff than anywhere else in Britain. There isn't...
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JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA , inland towards Sevilla, is the home and heartland of sherry (itself an English corruption of the town's Moorish name - Xerez ) and also, less known but equally important, of Spanish brandy. An elegant and prosperous...
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If you're traveling by Greyhound east of the Cascade Mountains along I-90, your first major stop will be ELLENSBURG , a dusty little town with fetching nineteenth-century red-brick architecture, a state police training academy, a region al...
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