Located in the Monts d’Arrée, in the heart of the Armorique Natural Park, the Yeun Elez is a swamp considered in Breton legends as the Gateway to Hell. It is now also the namesake for a new peated whisky from France. According to the legend reported by Anatole le Braz, it is the place where the evil souls who haunted ...

By Richard Thomas Although the hot summer weather might not be ideal in terms of sipping on a fine whisk(e)y, that does not translate into it being a slow season for new whiskey releases. This summer is no exception, but is instead exceptional. A clutch of new, noteworthy bourbons are in the pipeline, as well as other American Whiskeys, Scotch ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Part of having a whiskey tradition is having a region or regions where the bulk of whiskey-making takes place. Britain might have English and Welsh whiskey, but Scotland is where it’s at. Whiskey making the United States has spread to almost all of the 50 states in recent times, but Kentucky and Tennessee are still ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ The whiskey boom has been underway for several years now (two decades by some accountings), and with it has come both the opening of many new distilleries, as well as interest in whiskey-makers in some out of the way places. I think a common mistake among whiskey fans is to assume that just because a ...