Mark Gillespie

The rough, cold waters off Scotland’s Isle of Islay are a challenge for even the best sailors, and one might think it madness to try… Read More

While the cause of last Friday’s warehouse collapse at Kentucky’s Barton 1792 Distillery is still not known, the whiskey industry has known for years about… Read More

If you’re young, you might think 45 is old. If you’re older, you might think 45 is still pretty young. But when you’re talking about… Read More

June 23, 2018 – An investigation is underway into the cause of Friday morning’s warehouse collapse at Sazerac’s Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, where… Read More

The Glasgow Distillery Company won’t release its first 1770 Glasgow single malt whisky until later this year, but the four-year-old company is already kicking off… Read More

June 18, 2018 – The list of countries scheduled to impose import tariffs on Bourbon and other American-made whiskies has grown again, with China becoming… Read More

There are plenty of cocktail competitions for bartenders, but Speed Rack was one of the first to highlight women working behind the bar. Lynette Marrero… Read More

Tax cuts that took effect at the start of 2018 encouraged many US whisky distillers to expand their facilities. Now, they’re caught in the middle… Read More

Historians aren’t sure who distilled the first Scotch-style single malt whiskey in the United States, but Oregon’s Clear Creek Distillery has a pretty solid claim… Read More

June 8, 2018 – Independent Stave Company, the largest supplier of barrels to the American whiskey industry, is expanding its cooperage operations in Kentucky. The… Read More

With Father’s Day coming up, we’ll meet a Scottish woman following her father into the whiskey business. That’s right…whiskey. Jennifer Nickerson married her Irish farmer… Read More

June 6, 2018 – This weekend’s G7 Summit in Quebec with heads of state from the world’s largest industrialized nations is likely to be one… Read More