One of Scotland’s newest distilleries opened its doors for the first time to visitors this week, though opportunities to visit InchDairnie Distillery in Fife will… Read More
Mark Gillespie
I'm the host and executive producer of WhiskyCast.Metze Departs As MGP’s Master Distiller
May 20, 2016 – The Master Distiller at Whisky Advocate magazine’s reigning Distiller of the Year is departing after 38 years on the job. MGP… Read More
Management Dispute Goes Public at WhistlePig Farm
May 20, 2016 – Farms are known for a couple of things…mud and manure, and according to a Vermont newspaper, there appear to be plenty… Read More
The Preakness
May 20, 2016 – With the 141st running of the Preakness at Baltimore’s Pimlico race track this weekend coinciding with this week’s publication of Michael Dietsch’s… Read More
Interview & Review: Michael Dietsch’s “Whiskey: A Spirited Story”
May 20, 2016 – It’s hard to write a book about whisky. Make it too elementary so newcomers will understand, and longtime whisky connoisseurs will… Read More
Four Roses Introduces New Master Distiller With Elliott’s Select
May 19, 2016 – Brent Elliott took over for longtime Four Roses Master Distiller Jim Rutledge last September, but he’s still getting used to some of… Read More
Jura’s Willie Cochrane Retires After 39 Years of Making Scotch Whisky
May 19, 2016 – On the eve of the year’s biggest week for Scotland’s Isle of Jura, the veteran manager of the island’s only whisky… Read More
Glenturret’s Newest Malt Honors 16 Men…And a Dog
May 16, 2016 – It’s amazing what turns up in distillery archives…let alone an old cupboard. A vintage photograph found recently in a dusty cupboard… Read More
Episode 589: May 14, 2016
Booker Noe passed away in 2004, but some of the whiskey he laid down shortly before his death is adding a new chapter to his… Read More
Booker’s Rye? Believe It…At $300 a Bottle
May 12, 2016 – Booker Noe preferred his Bourbon uncut and unfiltered…straight from the barrel whenever possible. In 2003, a few months before his death… Read More
Glenmorangie Adds Tarlogan Single Malt to Travel Retail Series
May 10, 2016 – The name Tarlogan sounds as though it could have been one of the houses in Game of Thrones, but it’s actually the… Read More
Accident Idles Longmorn Distillery
May 10, 2016 – Production has resumed at Longmorn Distillery near Elgin after firefighters from Speyside and Aberdeenshire spent several hours cleaning up a hazardous… Read More