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By Mark Gillespie July 12, 2021 – After four years on the job, Scotch Whisky Association chief executive Karen Betts has announced her plans to… Read More

By Mark Gillespie June 15, 2021 – The trade dispute over government subsidies to Airbus and Boeing that spilled over into the whisky industry has been… Read More

Whisky lovers can probably name at least a few varieties of barley commonly used to make single malts, but rye? Rye doesn’t get the same… Read More

Virtually every major whisky event worldwide in the past year has been cancelled, postponed, or gone virtual because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, live events… Read More

Commentary by Mark Gillespie March 6, 2021 – After the United States reached tentative truces with Great Britain and the European Union this week and… Read More

Mickey Heads retired recently after 13 years as Ardbeg’s distillery manager and four decades of work at distilleries on Islay and Jura. Now, Ardbeg has… Read More

Hong Kong has become a key center for the world’s whisky makers, and we had more evidence of that this week. Gordon & MacPhail’s new… Read More

It’s been a little more than three years since Billy Walker and his partners acquired Scotland’s GlenAllachie Distillery from Chivas Brothers. What had previously been… Read More

With more people looking at rare whiskies as investments, more of the world’s top auction houses are adding spirits experts to their in-house wine teams.… Read More

By Mark Gillespie December 4, 2020 – Irish Whiskey makers have had a decade to remember. The years between 2010 and 2019 saw arguably the… Read More

OK, we’re not going talking about politics this week, but whisky has been made in and around Washington, DC for 400 years, including a distillery… Read More

Very few Bourbon brands can claim much of a pre-Prohibition heritage, but Brown-Forman’s Old Forester can. George Garvin Brown created Old Forester in 1870 in… Read More