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Kevin Balmforth: Stepping Into the Chivas Brothers Master Blender RoleSandy 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…
New Master Blender For Chivas Brothers As Sandy Hyslop RetiresWhisky legend Sandy Hyslop is retiring from his role as master blender at Chivas Brothers. After more than 40 years at the forefront of Scotch whisky, Hyslop will move into…
What is the best-selling whisky brand in the world?The best-selling whisky brand in the world is Johnnie Walker. Thanks for playing, everyone. Oh, ok. We’ll explain a little more. Because working out what the best-selling whisky brand in…
The Nightcap: 22 AprilThe working week may have been slimmer but there was no shortage of stories in the post-Bank Holiday period including a new manager at Lagavulin, Guinness has been at the…
How did The Glenlivet, Chivas Regal and Jameson perform in 2018?With Pernod Ricard’s full-year sales results hot off the press, we take a peek at how the likes of Scotch whiskies The Glenlivet and Chivas Regal, Ireland’s Jameson, Cognac brand…
The Master of Malt World Cup of ScotchShin-pads, sticker books and half-time oranges at the ready, folks. It’s time for the The Master of Malt World Cup of Scotch! You might have noticed that there’s some sort…
Ballantine’s Single Malt? The blended Scotch giant branches outBallantine’s Single Malt is officially a thing – the Chivas Brothers-owned blended Scotch (the second-largest in the the world by volume) is launching three 15 year old single malts under…
Space. The final front ear. Home of paranoid robots named HAL, space stations that ain’t no moons, cats and David Bowie. Recently whisky has also been crowbarred into this list…
If you’ve long been wondering about what Chivas Brothers will be doing with the site of the Imperial distillery, which was mothballed in 1998, you can wonder no longer. Today,…
They say a picture speaks a thousand words. If this is true, then emoji means you could write a novel in no time at all. If you’ve not got a…
You put the lime in the Ballantine’s, you drink ’em both together, Put the lime in the Ballantine’s, then you feel better, Put the lime in the Ballantine’s, drink ’em…
Well that was quite a Christmas. In fact it’s been so busy that 4 new releases have passed us by with nary a mention. Changing that, now I am here…
Told you we’d be back soon (and we’re not done yet)… Another week, and another 4 brand-spanking-new releases from That Boutique-y Whisky Company have hit the shelves in time for…
So – with the distillery tour over and done with, it was time to move onto the main event; that which we had all been invited along to see. The…
Okay. I’ll start here with an apology. This is possibly the most overdue blog post in the history of man (except my review of Dead Rabbit NYC, that’s more overdue)….
