Angela D’Orazio is the new Creative Director of Whisky Making at Compass Box. She spent 17 years as master blender at Sweden’s Mackmyra Distillery, building… Read More
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Celebrating the Great Jim McEwan
As we continue our series leading up to the 20th anniversary of WhiskyCast in November, it’s important to celebrate the whisky legends who are still… Read More
Glendronach Releases The Master’s Anthology Series
Scotland’s Glendronach Distillery has released a new collection of three no-age-statement single malts created by master blender Dr. Rachel Barrie, including a rare peated Glendronach.… Read More
Turning the Tables on Mark
With WhiskyCast celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025, we thought we’d start the year by turning the tables on host and creator Mark Gillespie. Longtime… Read More
Caitlin Bartlemay: Craft Distilling’s Future
Caitlin Bartlemay of Oregon’s Hood River Distillers is one of the up-and-coming craft distillers on the American whiskey scene. She makes the whiskey widely regarded… Read More
Leaving Laphroaig…and Islay Behind
Barry MacAffer is leaving Laphroaig Distillery and his native Islay for a new adventure: building a malt whisky distillery in South Korea. This week on… Read More
Eight Special Single Malts…and a Cowboy Bourbon
We’ll have a double feature on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth, as Diageo’s Dr. Stuart Morrison joins us to detail this year’s Special Releases series –… Read More
A New Era for Gordon & MacPhail
The 128-year-old family-owned independent bottler stunned the whisky world this week with news that it will stop sourcing new make spirit from other distillers starting… Read More
Big Changes for Wyoming Whiskey
Wyoming Whiskey marked its 10th anniversary last December, and this April, Edrington took majority ownership of the Cowboy State’s first distillery. That ended the run… Read More
April New Whisky Releases
Here’s a quick look at some of the new whisky releases heading to store shelves… Molson Coors is expanding its range of Coors whiskeys with… Read More
Experiments in Whisky
Dr. Bill Lumsden has been conducting whisky experiments at both Ardbeg and Glenmorangie distilleries. His latest Ardbeg release, Heavy Vapours, involved taking part of the… Read More
Ireland’s Slane Distillery Coming of Age (Episode 833: August 23, 2020)
It’s been almost three years since Brown-Forman and the Conyngham family fired up the stills at Slane Distillery on the family’s Slane Castle estate near… Read More