Diageo

Dewar’s has focused on its Blended Scotch whiskies for generations, with the limited exception in recent years of single malts from Aberfeldy. However, a team… Read More

This episode marks the end of our 9th year, and we’ll hear from two of the more outspoken voices in the whisky world on this… Read More

November 3, 2014 – As expected, Diageo has announced a deal in which it will swap the Bushmills Irish Whiskey brand with Jose Cuervo Overseas… Read More

The battle between Scotland’s illicit distillers and the excisemen known as “gaugers” is the stuff of which legends, books, and now, a movie have been… Read More

November 1, 2014 – Diageo has declined to comment on a Wall Street Journal report that the drinks giant and Mexico’s Beckmann family-controlled Casa Cuervo are close to… Read More

This week’s episode comes from Whiskey Live Dublin, and we’ll be focusing on Irish whiskies this time around with some of the winners from Thursday… Read More

Finland has a love-hate relationship with whisky. Finns love it, and the Finnish government hates it. Distilled spirits advertising is banned, and regulators went so… Read More

This week, we’ll look at the growth of craft distilling through the eyes of veteran drinks writer James Rodewald and distiller Darek Bell. Rodewald studied… Read More

October 10, 2014 – Diageo has has released the latest in a series of high-end John Walker & Sons blended Scotch whiskies, with the US… Read More

It’s Kentucky Bourbon Festival week, and there’s a lot of news coming out of Bourbon Country these days. Thousands of Bourbon lovers descended on Bardstown… Read More

September 21, 2014 – After losing an initial round in New York Supreme Court and facing more costly legal battles ahead, Diageo has reached an… Read More

For decades, the legendary Stitzel-Weller Distillery in the Louisville suburb of Shively has been a mystery for Bourbon lovers. Now, the Diageo-owned distillery made famous… Read More