Islay

There will be music, food, and of course, plenty of whisky on hand during the Spirit of Speyside Festival coming up at the end of… Read More

March 30, 2017 – It could be described as a whisky connoisseur’s worst nightmare: waiting ten years for your own cask of single malt Scotch… Read More

Whisky was historically thought of as a “man’s drink” – but today, not only are more women drinking whisky, but women make up around 40% of… Read More

Mickey Heads grew up about three miles from Islay’s Ardbeg Distillery, but the third-generation whisky maker never thought he’d wind up as the manager at… Read More

It’s hard for some people to retire. Jim McEwan says he was pacing around his home on Islay “like a tiger” after retiring from Bruichladdich… Read More

Marcio Ramos started his whisky journey as a bartender in his hometown of Lisbon, Portugal…but thought he’d left the whisky business behind when he moved… Read More

This week, we’re on location at the Victoria Whisky Festival in British Columbia! We’ll discuss a new range of premium Canadian whiskies coming this fall… Read More

Blending is part art and part science, and unless you’re drinking a single cask whisky, every dram you try has been tweaked by the nose… Read More

The days when each Scotch Whisky distillery malted its own barley are long gone, and only a few distilleries still have malting floors. Now, most… Read More

What do you give the whisky lover on your holiday list? It’s easy to pick up a bottle of whisky, but let’s say your giftee… Read More

What we think of today as the boom in craft distilling started 20 years ago this year, when San Francisco brewer Fritz Maytag bottled the… Read More

Lagavulin Distillery on Scotland’s Isle of Islay is celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2016. It’s not Islay’s largest distillery, nor does it make the island’s… Read More