Whip-smart, wickedly funny and a whisky drinker of exceptional style and taste (both of which she also possesses in abundance) we at Barley Towers are tremendous fans of the Scottish performer and writer Anna Lou Larkin.
As well as her inimitable writing on wine and spirits, the nattily attired Larkin is the brains behind a brilliant one-woman show called #LeWineClub — a delightfully twisted cabaret night that serves up a silly and satisfying mix of anecdotes, accordion playing and live vino tasting. It’s as original and fetching as one of Anna’s favourite French berets.
We’re chuffed to introduce Anna as the star of this week’s The Last Sipper video interview – have a watch for her top tips on secret cocktail bars, exquisite Irish whiskey, bargain bottles and a very unusual choice of snack to try with your next dram…
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H so my first dram ever was a Ben R um it wasn’t my first drum but it was the first dram that I had that made me realized that my Jack and Coke from a paper bag days were over and my favorite Whiskey Bar in the UK I think has to be
Actually the bar at knocking ham Lodge near Port Patrick uh not necessarily a whiskey bar but they’ve got a really good sele ction and they’ve also got their own Beach win-win so I really like Lily Lang trees in uh in New York in Manhattan Broadway uh yeah it’s really
Really fun really really old school o an oldfashioned is definitely my go-to whiskey cocktail uh feels a bit grown up doesn’t it do you know as a bargain bottle I think the corop actually do a really good uh unbrand single malt which yeah has been very useful at Christmas
And other things like that I like whiskey with a little bit of ice because I like the sound I’ve totally gone off very very pity whiskey I love the aisle of Sky just the whole place I think it’s a stunning place and uh just far enough
Away from the mainland that you know it really means business so my latest whiskey Discovery is in fact an Irish whiskey at Waterford whiskey which we had a bottle of at Christmas time and it’s the quick I’ve ever seen a bottle disappear and my granny only had two
Glasses so uh yeah Waterford whiskey very nice I love a talisker maybe it comes back to my loving sky but I love just quite a simple talisker I think it’s warming it’s comforting um it does everything I want it to do I quite like a good tasting note I think they can be
A lot of fun I think they can be informative but I think everyone has to have a reference point for a tasting note you know if something smells like your first girlfriend’s hair in the afternoon sun that’s lovely but that means nothing to me so uh yeah there’s a
Time and a place I think I love uh Dorothy Parker as a cabaret performer she’s absolutely a hero of mine witty filthy Unapologetic all of these wonderful things um and also a whiskey drinker so in my dram fam H it’s literally just me and my sister so me and my sister
Katherine uh because you don’t want to share those good bottles with loads and loads of people H and also Catherine is amazing at snacks and snacks are very very important I qu like actually sweet snacks like a sort of a chocolate Ginger is quite nice um or something a bit
Creamy like a sort of smoked fish creamy chowdery little craddy thing yeah or nuts nuts are great too love a up so my last sipper is a a green spot Leal Barton now I know it’s Irish um but my husband is actually Irish and this was a
Whiskey that he gave to my father as a present because label Barton is his favorite Bordeaux and uh in fact Thomas Barton who gave the name to Leo Barton is an Irishman so I just really like the sort of double connections and Irish connections family connections um it’s
Also just really fru and really easy to drink and I’d probably mix it with ginger ale just to really ramp up the Scandal