出生于1960年的比尔·梁思敦博士是全球享有盛誉、获奖无数的酿酒大师，他是格兰杰酒厂的首席调酒师，也是阿贝酒厂的蒸馏总监。

他秉持虔诚的态度挑选雪茄，追求合适的环境、合适的心情、合适的音乐，一定要搭配威士忌。但有时候他也不得不让步，最近一次他去艾雷岛的阿贝酒厂，遇见了暴风雨的天气。

比尔·梁思敦回忆道，当时外面下着倾盆大雨，我坐在酒店房间的窗台上，一手扶着窗框，一手夹着雪茄端起威士忌。

这位身兼两家大酒厂的蒸馏总监偏爱古巴雪茄中的罗密欧与朱丽叶、蒙特（蒙特3号）。在搭配雪茄时，他不会将带有豌豆味的苏格兰威士忌作为自己的第一选择，他说，我喜欢找一些带有甜味的来搭配雪茄，所以我可能会选择格伦莫兰吉的雪莉酒。他们搭配有一种完美的味道，和你在一杯非常完美的威士忌里得到的体会一样。

Dr. Bill Lumsden, a master of distilling, picks and chooses his cigar moments. They are reverential experiences for which he pursues the right setting, the right mood, the right music, seldom without a whisky by his side. But sometimes he has to make concessions—like when he recently visited Islay’s Ardbeg distillery, with its propensity for tempestuous weather.

“It was lashing with rain, so I perched myself on the window ledge of my hotel room,” Lumsden recounts. “With one hand I was hanging on to the window frame and with the other hand I was holding my cigar and picking up my whisky. The challenge of that absolutely matched the whole experience and it just seemed to make it all the more worthwhile to me.”

The director of distilling for Glenmorangie and Ardbeg has a predilection for Cuban Romeos and Montecristos. A peaty Scotch is not always his first pairing choice. “I’m looking for a little bit of sweetness, so I would probably be erring towards some of [Glenmorangie’s] more Sherried expressions,” he says. “They have this completeness of flavor that you get in a very well married whisky.”