Proving emphatically that there’s more to rum than rum and Coke, Ian Buxton presents his personal commentaries (no rankings) on 101 rums that you wouldn’t dare defile with soft fizzy drink. The book covers every style, origin, colour and flavour and includes one rum that costs over £1,000 (Havana Club Máximo Extra Añejo) as well as the NAAFI stores’ standard issue Myers.

Industry expert Ian Buxton takes a tour of remarkable whiskies across the categories of living, luxurious and lost legends. He recounts the story of each of the alphabetically listed 101 variations: from the six figure bottles of Johnnie Walker Diamond Jubilee and Dalmore Trinitas down to the more affordable luxury buys, along with some expressions that were created by fascinating individuals or distilleries.

In entertaining style, Ian Buxton records his journey around Scotland’s island distilleries, from Arran and its basking sharks to Orkney, and the whisky ‘aficionados, collectors and obsessives’ encountered along the way.