Talking About The Orphan Barrel Project With Diageo’s Whisky Ambassador By Kurt Maitland KM: As the son and grandson of two whisky men, what are some of your favorite whisky stories from your father and grandfather? EM: Some of my favorite stories I can’t repeat for various reasons as they invariably involved the, sometimes ingenious, methods of liberating liquid from ...

The WR Chats With Edrington’s “Malt Master” By Richard Thomas As the Master Blender for the Edrington Group, Gordon Motion had been the man behind the flavor profile of many high profile Scotch expressions in recent years, what with The Macallan and Cutty Sark as part of his purview. However, it’s Motion’s work with The Famous Grouse that is the ...

By Richard Thomas At The Whiskey Reviewer, we dwell a good deal on the interplay between whiskey and writing, but aqua vitae has a strong presence among musicians too. Plenty of songwriters mention whiskey in their work, and some devote entire songs to it. A few even name their band after the stuff, which brings us to Whiskey & Women. ...

Interview with the Award-Winning Tasmanian Distillery By Richard Thomas Sullivans Cove wasn’t the first whisky distillery to come out of Australia’s early 1990s legalization, but it got started early and has come out twenty years later at the forefront of one of the most vibrant of the world’s new national whiskey industries. The distillery now has three single malt expressions ...

By Kurt Maitland KM: First off, let’s talk about how you got into the business. JT: Cooley gave me my start in Irish whiskey and instilled my own passion for the industry. From my 10 years with them I received a well-rounded experience as I worked myself up from a Commercial role to Sales & Marketing Director to eventually Managing ...