Mark Gillespie

Canadian whisky lovers converge on the Forty Creek Distillery in Grimsby, Ontario on the final weekend of September each year. That’s when Forty Creek founder… Read More

Baker Beam comes from one of Kentucky’s legendary Bourbon families. However, the grand-nephew of Jim Beam and cousin to Booker Noe, Fred Noe, and Parker… Read More

October 4, 2013 – Talisker Storm has hit the U.S. market, a year after it was introduced in Europe. The single malt from the Isle… Read More

October 4, 2013 – King Car Distilleries has reached an agreement to export its award-winning Kavalan single malt Taiwanese whiskies to the United States. The… Read More

October 1, 2013 – Paddy Flaherty was a legendary Irish Whiskey salesman for the Cork Distilleries Company at the turn of the last century, traveling… Read More

October 1, 2013 – Glenfiddich is releasing a new range of three single malts for the travel retail market. The lineup uses Glenfiddich’s Solera-vatting process… Read More

September 30, 2013 – Berry Bros. & Rudd, the London-based wine and whisky merchant, will export an edition of its Blue Hanger blended malt Scotch… Read More

September 29, 2013 – Diageo has reportedly been working on a plan for reopening the long-closed Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky. Now, WhiskyCast has learned… Read More

This week’s WhiskyCast comes from Forty Creek Distillery’s annual Whisky Weekend in Grimsby, Ontario. Forty Creek’s John Hall makes his whisky differently from any other… Read More

September 27, 2013 – In the first major move for Black Bottle since South Africa’s Distell acquired Burn Stewart Distillers this spring, the Islay-based Blended… Read More

September 27, 2013 – Redbreast has long been prized by Irish whiskey lovers for its classic pot still whiskey taste, but until now, the 15-year-old… Read More

September 27, 2013 – Frank Sinatra was the number one fan of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, so much so that he insisted on being buried… Read More