Just three years after investing in a complete renovation, Diageo has decided to shutter the visitors centre at Clynelish Distillery in the Scottish Highlands. In… Read More
Johnnie Walker
A Taste of Tullibardine
Scotland’s Tullibardine Distillery has been around since 1947, but has come into its own in recent years under the ownership of France’s Picard family. We’ll… Read More
Half Empty…or Half Full
Kentucky’s Bourbon distillers are in a conundrum…the industry set a new record for barrel inventories in 2024 and the number of distilleries is at an… Read More
The World’s Oldest Whisky…For Now
Gordon & MacPhail has unveiled the oldest whisky ever bottled (so far), an 85-year-old single malt distilled at Glenlivet Distillery in 1940, and priced at… Read More
The Spirit of Independents
Independent bottlers take sourced casks of whisky, mature them, and then bottle them under their own brand names. It’s a practice that’s been commonplace in… Read More
Inside the Johnnie Walker Vault
Deep below the Johnnie Walker Princes Street experience in Edinburgh lies Dr. Emma Walker’s personal playground. The Johnnie Walker master blender curates around 500 of… Read More
The Pattisons’ Empire: A House of Cards
Robert and Walter Pattison were among the most successful whisky brokers of the 1890’s, a golden era for Scotch whisky. However, their empire collapsed because… 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
Whisky Passion on Display at The Heart Cut
The wife and husband team of Georgie Bell and Fabrizio Leoni gave up their day jobs last year to launch The Heart Cut, an independent… Read More
Honoring J.P. Wiser with a Vintage Whisky
Canadian Whisky pioneer J.P. Wiser started making whisky 165 years ago in eastern Ontario, and the brand that bears his name to this day has… Read More
Johnnie Walker, Jim Beam Lead World’s Best-Selling Whisky Brands
Despite a 2.7% decline in sales during 2023, Diageo’s Johnnie Walker brand continued to lead by a wide margin among Scotch Whisky brands, according to… Read More
The Outlander and the Distiller
Actor Sam Heughan is best known for his starring role on TV’s “Outlander,” but he’s a whisky lover, too. Sam started his own whisky brand,… Read More

