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The Story of The Balvenie 27 Year Old – A Rare Discovery From Distant ShoresThe newest addition to its Stories Range, The Balvenie 27 Year Old – A Rare Discovery From Distant Shores celebrates rum finishes, remarkable distilleries, and the long-term friendships this industry…
Rhum Agricole 101 With Ashera GoonewardeneWe love agricole rhum, and so does our friend Ashera Goonewardene, so she’s here to help introduce you to a spirit that you won’t be able to resist once you…
How to Sell Whisky to Women (Without Being Patronising)It’s one of the hot topics in the drinks world, how to sell what has traditionally been perceived as a man’s drink to women. Lucy Shaw talks to some experts…
The Portsmouth Distillery: Making British Rum With IntegrityThe Portsmouth Distillery makes a truly British rum including the new 1812, the first 3-year-old cask aged rum to be made from scratch in the UK. We talk to the…
Spirits Competition Medals – Do They Actually Mean Anything?Our educator-in-chief Richard Legg takes a look at wine and spirits and competitions, and asks whether those little medals on the bottles actually mean the contents are worth drinking. Even…
How to Pair Beer and Whiskey with FEW SpiritsGrain. Yeast. Water. You can make some truly sensational stuff with just those three ingredients. Beer, for one. Whiskey, for another. In fact, in a sense whiskey is distilled beer….
Axia: The Brand Revolutionising Greece’s Spirit HistoryUsing the resin of the ancient mastiha shrub, Axia is turning Greek tradition on its head. Millie Milliken headed to Greece to find out how this intriguing spirit came to…
Mini Oak Cask Ageing Part Two: Tequila Meets GuinnessOur in-house innovator James Evans has once again taken to his mini cask to create an interesting and (hopefully) tasty concoction. This time he’s seeing how well Tequila takes to…
Five Minutes with David King, Sales Director at Gordon & MacPhailAs Gordon & MacPhail releases a £50,000 1949 Milton (aka Strathisla), its oldest ever single malt from the distillery, we talk to sales director David King on trying to get…
Five of the Best Agave Bars in EnglandIt’s Tequila week here at Master of Malt so whether you want a great cocktail or fine sipping mezcal, we’re looking at some of the best agave bars in England…
The Sticky History of Punch and Its Modern ResurgenceFollowing on from our Rum Punch cocktail earlier this month, Lauren Eads takes a deep dive into the history of Punch, from 17th century India to its renaissance in 21st…
Chase Distillery RevisitedFive years ago we told the story of Chase Distillery. Now we’re back to see what’s changed at one of England’s most popular white spirits distilleries. Did you ever do…
£16 million Ardbeg Cask: A Source of Pride for Everybody?Dr. Nick Morgan asks if the industry really should be shouting about the record-breaking £16 million Ardbeg cask from 1975 that sold this week, the sale price of which is more…
Master of Malt Tastes… Torabhaig Allt GleannTorabhaig’s second bottling of the Legacy Series is here, so we thought it was high time we had a taste. It’s called Torabhaig Allt Gleann and it’s rather easier to…
Toasts Over Tariffs: American Whiskey’s Cause For OptimismWe spent an evening at the US Embassy with the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. to raise a glass to celebrate the long-awaited end of tariffs on American Whiskey…
Whisky Heroes: The Whisky BaronsIan Buxton returns to add The Whisky Barons to his Whisky Heroes series, and shed some light on how former Prime Minister David Lloyd George fits into the picture in…
