Episode 491: August 8, 2014

Stuart Nickerson has kept a low profile since leaving Glenglassaugh Distillery following its sale last year, but he has several new projects coming on line in the coming weeks. He’s about to launch the first single cask bottling from his own line of whiskies, and will launch a new gin this coming week as the first product from a new distillery he’s working with on Shetland – with whiskies to come in the future. He’ll discuss both projects with us on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth.

In the news, Scotch Whisky narrowly avoids Russian economic sanctions in the dispute over Ukraine, while a Kentucky Bourbon gets the boot from Moscow. The Explorers Club won the first round in its battle with Diageo over a Johnnie Walker travel retail collection, and we’ll have tasting notes for a new whisky with a dark origin.

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