By Richard Thomas Rating: B When I took a gander at my trio of samples from the Wemyss Malts Single Cask midsummer release, Spiced Rum Baba was the one I wanted to get at most. The color immediately said “Sherry butt” to me, while the label indicated it was the oldest of the bunch. Spiced Rum Baba is a single ...

By Richard Thomas With roughly 100 active distilleries in Scotland, and that number on the rise, a whisky-lover could spend all their vacations on the Scotch trail and still not visit them all. And this is to say nothing of the historic ruins and mothballed distilleries! The same can be said of what Scotch whisky is and how it is ...

A. Hardy USA, Ltd. has announced it is introducing Scotland-based Loch Lomond Distilleries’ “Island Collection” of three distinct single malt whiskies to the United States. The Island Collection includes Inchmurrin 12 year old, Inchmurrin 18 year old and Inchmurrin Madeira Wood Finish. Inchmurrin 12 year old is aged in three hand-selected types of casks and features a distinctively light and ...

By Richard Thomas When Diageo sent subsidiary George Dickel out to do battle against the 2013 Tennessee Whiskey Law that seemed very much in Dickel’s interests, speculation at the time was that it had nothing to do with Tennessee Whiskey and everything to do with safeguarding Diageo’s Johnnie Walker, the world’s top-selling whiskey, against the challenge of rival Jack Daniel’s. ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B The midsummer batch of single cask single malts from Wemyss Malts has been out for several weeks now. My look at some of the offerings in this new collection was delayed by a month, because I was in the U.S. rather than Europe. That delay might have meant the whiskies in question were already sold ...