Featured news, interviews and articles covering whisky, rum, gin, tequila and mezcal and other drinks and spirits, as well as the drinks industry.
Roaming Road Spirits is built on a simple, stubborn idea: go anywhere, taste everything, bottle only the casks that stop you mid-sip, and leave them exactly as you found them….
Bushmills 12 Year Old is the new front door to the Irish whiskey distillery’s single malt range. It’s replacing Bushmills 10 Year Old, having already done the rounds internationally, picking…
Sandy Hyslop’s retirement marks the end of an era. No matter how mighty the lighthouse, there comes a time to switch keepers. Keeping the ships off the rocks going forward…
Whisky tourism did not begin as an experience economy. It grew out of a simple impulse. As whisky crossed oceans in barrels and boxes, carrying Scotland and Ireland to places…
An Instagram message at the end of November 2021 introduced me to Retribution Distilling Co. It simply read: ‘Hello, random message of the week. Can I send you a new…
The Ultimate Drinks Calendar. Because if someone can invent Bikini Day, we can absolutely justify Daiquiri Day. Somewhere on the internet, every single day of the year has been assigned…
The Islay whisky peatlands are famous. Their smoke defines a style, a place, and an expectation in the glass. But the bogs themselves tell a much longer and more complicated…
Whisky has always had a foot in two worlds. It has warmed cold bones, steadied hands, and followed working people through rain and labour. The Geamair, or gamekeeper, lives in…
Burns Night. Each year on 25 January, whisky drinkers join Scots, people who love the Scots (a group which actually contains very few Scots), and anyone up for a good…
Mindful drinking. Dry January. Damp January. Zebra Striping. January has a habit of turning into a personality test. Are you virtuous enough to resist temptation? Or rebellious enough to mock…
If you read every drinks trends report for 2026, you would conclude that the next year will involve drinking earlier, drinking louder, drinking locally, drinking less alcohol, drinking more cocktails,…
New whisky distilleries. Once, that was a concept that excited me so much. All the possibilities. As we enter 2026, I find myself in more stoic territory. There have been…
As the European Rye Whisky Producers take collective action against the EU-Canada trade agreement, it looks like Dave Worthington got (part of) his Christmas wish… I was ecstatic to read…
Meet The Heart Cut x Barley. It is the bottler’s first core release following 21 independent pickings from various distilleries. The brand’s USP over the last two years has been this:…
This is a love letter to rye whisky from Dave Worthington (AKA Boutique-y Dave) that covers history, specifications, countries, cultures… It’s the comprehensive guide to rye whisky. I’ve got a…
Why does whisky have to be three years old? Is it time to overturn the 1915 Immature Spirits Act? Dave Worthington (AKA Boutique-y Dave) asks and answers some big questions….
The Coleburn Distillery revival is one of the most ambitious whisky projects in Scotland right now, and it is happening quietly in a Speyside gully that most visitors speed past…
Sweet drinks, step aside. Savoury whisky cocktails and spicy whisky cocktails are in vogue now. According to the Hospitality Insights 2025 cocktail forecast, anyway. It claims that the sweet and…
Boutique-y Dave himself, Dave Worthington, joins us on the blog to chart a history of American single malt. In part two, Dave takes a closer look at Virginia Distillery, one…
In part two of a deep dive into American single malt, Dave Worthington (Boutique-y Dave) turns his attentions to the Virginia Distillery Co. Virginia Distillery Co. is a prominent craft…
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