“Is Japanese whisky Better than Scotch whisky?” Without a doubt it’s one of life’s great questions, up there with “should the chap in the Clash song have stayed or gone?”…
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Featured news, interviews and articles covering whisky, rum, gin, tequila and mezcal and other drinks and spirits, as well as the drinks industry.
If you’re reading this blog, then you know Jess. You know her because she’s written for us for over five years. And because in the last couple of years, she…
Clase Azul is known for its beautiful decanters as much as the liquid inside them. This is luxury Tequila, the kind collectors love, the type that people pay the big…
Vanilla. Christmas cake. Baking spice. Orchard fruit. Oak char. Homemade apple pie. An autumnal bonfire. Pot-pourri. Old bookshelf must. Nail polish remover. The smell of yesterday’s cabbage and the ghost of last…
“I would hate to make a whisky that is boring”. Stephanie Macleod, director of blending, Scotch Whisky for Bacardi, has a lot of briefs and responsibilities when it comes to…
Why, yes, there’s a market for everything… For example, in the year 2000, a slice of French toast, half-eaten by Justin Timberlake, sold on eBay for $1,025. Now obviously he…
There is a certain aura surrounding the very rarest of the rare… an allure… dare we say, a mystique? It could be a Rothschild Fabergé egg, some of that ‘white…
Before we dive into the murky world of bathtub gin, not literally, of course, we should take the time to differentiate between bathtub gin and Bathtub Gin. One is a…
A few years back I was at a literary festival giving a talk about booze history and someone in the audience asked where the current gin boom came from. Why…
Following on from our Scotch whisky regions article, we’re delighted to have a piece by Mark Reynier from Waterford in Ireland looking at how the whisky industry misuses the concept…
Where does the term whisky originate from? It derives from the Gaelic word uisge beatha (in Scottish Gaelic) or uisce beatha (in Irish Gaelic). It’s pronounced “ish-ka ba-ha” and they…
Ireland was once the grand capital of whiskey. At one point in the mid-19th century, it boasted 88 licensed distilleries and countless more illicit producers. The largest distilleries in the…
Bourbon is the classic American whiskey, distinguished by its specific production requirements and geographic origins. To be legally labeled as bourbon, the spirit must adhere to several criteria, namely that…
You’ve asked a big question and we’ve come back with an even bigger answer. One you can see from space, like Lard Lad from The Simpsons stretching out through the…
How does a prestigious whiskey brand celebrate a 40th anniversary? With great whiskey, obviously. This year Irish Distillers gives us not only Midleton Very Rare 2024, but also the Midleton…
Following on from our Short History of Scotch Whisky, today, we’re taking a look at another country with a rich whiskey heritage… America. The country’s most prominent styles, bourbon and…
To mark the return of our Scotch whisky regions campaign we asked you what burning questions you had and you didn’t disappoint. A host of responses have come in and…
Blended whiskies like Johnnie Walker or Famous Grouse make up something like 90% of global Scotch whisky sales. But unlike single malts, they don’t really get the attention they deserve….
Two exciting new age statements from Islay’s Bruichladdich Distillery are here, celebrating its legacy and looking forward to the future. Bruichladdich’s story almost came to an end in 1994, when…
Japanese whisky is one of the world’s leading categories alongside Scotch, American, and Irish whiskey. But you may have noticed that your average bottle will set you back a bit…