By Kurt Maitland Last year, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sukhinder Singh, the co-owner and founder of online retailer The Whisky Exchange, prior to the start of the 2019 Whisky Show. Briefly, Sukhinder is quite the force in the whisky industry. He’s been a collector since the late 1980s, and the bottles in his personal collection that are hard ...

Buffalo Trace Distillery experienced phenomenal tourism growth over the past decade, having increased visitation to the National Historic Landmark Distillery by 466 percent since 2010. The Distillery ended 2019 having welcomed a record-breaking 293,996 visitors during the calendar year. This is a 35%t increase in visitation over the previous year. Over the course of 2019, Buffalo Trace reached significant milestones ...

By Douglas Fraser On November 09, 2019, Mount Vernon hosted its new George Washington Whiskey Festival. Keeping in mind that none of the festival is held in a historic building, although some of them are part of the VIP tour, I got started with this new event. Upon entry to the museum, I was given a wristband to wear. When ...

By Paer Johansson “What am I really doing here?” I felt I had to ask myself, standing in the rain in the center of Edinburgh, way too early on a Wednesday morning? I was waiting for the ride to the Diploma course in Single Malt Whisky held by the Edinburgh Whisky Academy (EWA). But my concerns started to dispel when ...

Woodford Reserve Distillery, which last year welcomed a record 150,000 tourists from around the world, today opened its new Welcome Center. The building, a modern take on a traditional Bluegrass farmhouse set amid the rolling hills of Central Kentucky, is now where visitors start their tour. Woodford Reserve, which opened in 1996, was among the earliest distilleries that welcomed tourists ...