Mark Gillespie

I'm the host and executive producer of WhiskyCast.
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Episode 49: July 15, 2006

I’ll admit to skipping a few classes now and then in college, but then, none of my classes were held in a distillery! Jeff Topping… Read More

Episode 48: July 8, 2006

There’s no arguing that John Glaser of Compass Box is one of the whisky industry’s leading innovators, but John’s latest creation has been pulled off… Read More

Episode 47: July 1, 2006

WhiskyCast hits the road again, this time to the luxurious New York Yacht Club. Glasgow is sponsoring one of the ships sailing in the Clipper… Read More

Episode 46: June 28, 2006

Time for a chapter from the WhiskyCast Book Club…back in 1930, a Scotsman going by the name of Aeneas MacDonald wrote the first book on… Read More

Episode 45: June 21, 2006

It’s the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and many whisky lovers are thinking of their summer vacations. More Scotch distilleries are taking… Read More

Episode 44: June 10, 2006

Whisky and charity often go hand in hand, as whisky lovers raise thousands of dollars for those in need every year. In this episode, we’ll… Read More

Episode 43: June 4, 2006

It’s easy to stick to the official distillery bottlings of whiskies, but a visit to specialty shops may pique your curiosity with independent bottlings. Many… Read More

Episode 42: May 24, 2006

It’s time for the annual Islay Festival of Malt and Music, and that also means a bit of madness on the island…everything from sheepdog trials… Read More

Episode 41: May 21, 2006

New York’s a city full of whisky drinkers, but most of them only think of Scotch Whisky. LeNell Smothers is on a one-woman mission to… Read More

Episode 40: May 17, 2006

Japanese whiskies are a mystery to many whisky lovers, and we’ll get some insight to these special malts from Suntory consultant Lincoln Henderson, who spent… Read More

Episode 39: May 10, 2006

Whisky is a passion for distillers, but it’s also a science…and good scientists experiment to see what might make a good whisky and what won’t.… Read More

Episode 38: May 4, 2006

Laphroaig has been making whisky for nearly 200 years, but until now, no native of Islay has ever served as the distillery manager there. John… Read More