Willie Tait has been a fixture at Whyte and Mackay for 34 years, and is most known for his work at Isle of Jura Distillery.… Read More
Macallan
Episode 173: November 16, 2008
Malt Advocate Magazine handed out its annual awards at this week’s WhiskyFest New York, and you’ll hear from some of this year’s winners in this… Read More
Episode 156: August 3, 2008
Night and Day, Positive and Negative, Black and White. There are opposites all around us, which means that if there is a Black Bowmore, there… Read More
Episode 150: June 22, 2008
If you’re looking for “buddy trip” ideas, a distillery school might be just the thing. Fellow Malt Maniac Lawrence Graham just finished up a “buddy… Read More
Episode 142: April 27, 2008
This is Kentucky Derby week in Louisville, and that makes it a perfectly good time to focus on bourbon. We’ll hear from Ron Givens, author… Read More
Episode 127: January 13, 2008
This time around, we’ll get the other side of the debate over the rare Bowmore that sold for more than $50,000 at McTear’s in Glasgow… Read More
Episode 123: December 16, 2007
Single malt scotches and Japan’s single malts are a world apart in geography, and some might say the same applies to taste as well. This… Read More
Episode 122: December 9, 2007
You may want to introduce your non-whisky drinking friends to the “water of life” during the holidays, but sometimes it takes a little something extra… Read More
Episode 121: December 2, 2007
The results are in from this year’s Malt Maniacs Whisky Awards, and we’ll get a rundown on the top award-winners from Malt Maniac Davin de… Read More
Episode 118: November 11, 2007
John Hall of Canada’s Kittling Ridge Distillery makes his whiskies the hard way, distilling and maturing his grains separately, then blending them years later to… Read More
Episode 112: October 7, 2007
Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible is almost required reading for serious whisky lovers, and the 2008 edition of the Bible is on its way to booksellers… Read More
Episode 101: July 22, 2007
Iain Henderson’s CV includes everything from sailing the seas as an engineer on oil tankers to managing the stills at Laphroaig, Bladnoch, and Edradour (among… Read More

