Whiskies and Distilleries

Still time to get tickets for tomorrow night's tasting in Houston at Reserve 101! Tickets are $20, and all proceeds benefit the Rescued Pets Movement! We'll be tasting Reserve 101's own bottlings of Old Weller Antique and Knob Creek Single Barrel, along with Redbreast Lustau, the Lagavulin 8-year-old 200th anniversary bottling, Johnnie Walker Gold, and Yamasaki 12. Tickets are available at https://t.co/KPgNGICVQg, and if you're not in the Houston area and want to support the Rescued Pets Movement (which helps find homes for pets all over the USA), please consider buying a ticket...you won't knock a local out of a seat at the tasting. If you're in the area, I hope to see you there!

Join Reserve 101 for a WhiskyCast Tasting with Mark Gillespie on Tuesday July 25th at 6:30pm! Tickets are $20 and 100% of the proceeds will go to The Rescued Pets Movement.

Jim Boyko's career took him from the old Seagram's distillery in Waterloo, Ontario to the Canadian prairie in Gimli, Manitoba, and eventually around the world for Diageo. Once he got to Gimli, though, he and his family made the tiny town on the shore of Lake Winnipeg their home. Now retired, he shows up at the home of Crown Royal to lead the occasional tour for distillery guests. He'll share his stories with us on this week's WhiskyCast In-Depth, including the saddest day of his career when he was one of 210 Seagram's employees suddenly put out of work when the Waterloo distillery closed in 1992. In the news, there's talk yet again of reviving whisky production at the old Dallas Dhu Distillery in Scotland, while another spirits company is investing in Irish Whiskey. Heaven Hill is about to wrap up yet another expansion of its Bernheim Distillery in Louisville, and has also unveiled this year's special Parker's Heritage Collection whiskey. We'll also find out about next month's Bourbon Women "Sip-osium" in Louisville and put four Texas whiskies to the test in this week's tasting notes.

Jim Boyko’s career took him from the old Seagram’s distillery in Waterloo, Ontario to the Canadian prairie in Gimli, Manitoba, and eventually around the world for Diageo. Once he got to…

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