With Father’s Day coming up, we’ll meet a Scottish woman following her father into the whiskey business. That’s right…whiskey. Jennifer Nickerson married her Irish farmer… Read More
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Whiskey Trade Barriers Going Up as Trade Dispute Escalates
June 6, 2018 – This weekend’s G7 Summit in Quebec with heads of state from the world’s largest industrialized nations is likely to be one… Read More
A Whisky Trade War on the Horizon? (Episode 703: June 3, 2018)
Canada and the European Union are planning retaliatory tariffs on imports of Bourbon and other American whiskies after this week’s move by the Trump Administration… Read More
Becoming a Bourbon Badass (Episode 702: May 31, 2018)
Bourbon scares some people away…at first. Often, those who approach Bourbon gingerly develop a true passion for it, and become what Linda Ruffenach refers to… Read More
Port Charlotte and Islay’s “Middle Child Syndrome” (Episode 701: May 27, 2018)
Bruichladdich’s Port Charlotte single malt lies in between the distillery’s namesake unpeated whiskies and its Octomore heavily peated malts, and Bruichladdich CEO Douglas Taylor admits… Read More
The Macallan’s Whisky Cathedral Opens in Scotland (Episode 700: May 24, 2018)
Edrington first announced plans for The Macallan’s new distillery in 2012, but the planning process on what may be one of the longest distillery projects… Read More
The Way of Whisky (Episode 696: May 10, 2018)
Dave Broom has been one of Japanese whisky’s most passionate observers for many years, and his latest book “The Way of Whisky” delves into Japan’s… Read More
Sip, Sip, Sippin’ On Heaven’s Door… (Episode 695: May 6, 2018)
Bob Dylan is known for many things, but slapping his name onto a product to make a quick buck is definitely not one of them.… Read More
Introducing The Pope to Pappy (Episode 691: April 22, 2018)
The Bible says “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” As proof, we have the story this week of Father Jim Sichko, a Kentucky-based Catholic priest… Read More
Craft Whisky: Optimism and a Reality Check (Episode 689: April 15, 2018)
Every distillery opens as a dream, with the backers hoping to become the next Heaven Hill, Wild Turkey, or one of countless other mainstays of… Read More
Taking Time Out of the Whisky Bottle (Episode 688: April 8, 2018)
Whisky makers have tried for decades to come up with ways of making young whiskies taste like older ones, but whisky purists will argue that… Read More
Wandering The Wonderful World of Whisky (Episode 686: March 25, 2018)
Rachel Barrie is known on Twitter as @TheLadyBlender, and she’s just winding up her first year as the master blender for Brown-Forman’s BenRiach, GlenDronach, and… Read More