High Life

82 品 2018年1月，Wild Turkey 的蒸馏大师埃迪·罗素首次到访香港，其间主 持了数场品酒会。埃迪·罗素乃「波本威士忌活佛」吉米·罗素之子，亦是该威 士忌家族的第四代传人。父子俩在 Wild Turkey 分别工作了36和63年之久，累 计拥有一个世纪的深厚经验。小罗素为人豁达大度，对波本威士忌的热爱乃路人 皆知。他惯例一律不批评别人的产品，更乐于与人们分享自己对美国国酒的感 受。 “我们的威士忌是纯天然产品，一律不含人造色素，亦不使用基因改造谷 物。我们的配方多年来始终不变，专有酵母菌更一直沿用至今。” 埃迪·罗素 In late January 2018, Eddie Russell, Master Distiller of Wild Turkey, hosted his first ever press tasting in Hong Kong. The fourth generation of a bourbon-making family and son of “the Buddha of Bourbon” Jimmy Russell, he and his father have been an integral part of Wild Turkey for 36 and 63 years respectively, sharing between them a century of experience. A magnanimous gentleman whose passion for bourbon is second-to-none, he made it a rule not to speak ill of other producers, but instead share with people his love for the Kentuckian spirit. “Our products are completely natural, no artificial colouring, no genetically modified grains. The recipes have never changed, and we still have our proprietary yeasts from day one.” Eddie Russell