Silicon Valley's Single Malts
Silicon Valley is the technology center of the world, but Virag Saksena has made the switch from mashing together code to mashing barley. He's a former software engineer and Oracle executive who found...
1 Mar 202150min
A Solution to Japan's Whisky Conundrum
Japan's whiskies have been getting more attention on the world stage. While some "Japanese Whiskies" are rightly winning awards in major competitions, others with the same label are often Scotch or Ca...
22 Feb 202145min
Another New Distillery for Islay
Scotland's legendary whisky island is getting yet another new distillery. Local officials have approved the plans for the new Elixir Distillers project just east of Port Ellen, making it the third new...
15 Feb 20211h 8min
Ardbeg's Pirate Captain Sails Into the Sunset
Mickey Heads retired recently after 13 years as Ardbeg's distillery manager and four decades of work at distilleries on Islay and Jura. Now, Ardbeg has released a special whisky in Mickey's honor, and...
8 Feb 202148min
Asia's Whisky Capital
Hong Kong has become a key center for the world's whisky makers, and we had more evidence of that this week. Gordon & MacPhail's new 72-year-old Glen Grant single malt won't hit the market until the e...
1 Feb 20211h 3min
A Fèis-Less Islay Again in 2021
For the second straight year, Islay's biggest party of the year has been cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fèis Ile, the Islay Festival of Malt & Music, will be replaced this May by a series...
26 Jan 202147min
A Bright Future for The GlenAllachie
It's been a little more than three years since Billy Walker and his partners acquired Scotland's Glenallachie Distillery from Chivas Brothers. What had previously been single malts destined for blendi...
18 Jan 20211h 2min
Distilling Irish Whiskey History
Irish Whiskey makers once dominated the world with their single pot still whiskies, but the collapse of Ireland's whiskey industry a century ago closed dozens of distilleries and consigned their uni...
11 Jan 20211h
