By Richard Thomas This is an era when the popularity of world whiskey has driven prices sky high. As age statements fall, old favorites become discontinueds, and then collectibles, driving prices up. Meanwhile, more thirsty mouths are chasing the same favorites that remain, driving prices up. Take Japanese Whisky as a crystalized example. Once a category known only to the ...

By Richard Thomas Louisville has long contested Bardstown’s claim as “The Bourbon Capital of the World,” but it hasn’t always had much of a case to press in that department. There was a stretch of a few years back in the 1990s where just one big distiller was operating in the Louisville suburb of Shively, and neither of those distilleries ...

By Emma Briones On May 20, 2016, Bimber distilled its first single malt. Since then, many barrels have been filled in their west London warehouse, but since British whisky must age a minimum of three years (both British law and EU regulations stipulate this), it was those casks filled in late May those barrels that would become the first expressions ...

By Richard Thomas Spending the night in a tent or your car so you would be first in line was the stuff of rock concerts and Star Wars movies and not much else when I was young. The phenomenon is a relative newcomer to whiskey, and still one that leaves me shaking my head. Perhaps I’m spoiled (it’s certainly not ...

By Richard Thomas If any part of world whiskey is booming bigger than bourbon, it must be Irish Whiskey. When I started The Whiskey Reviewer, there were still just four distilleries in Ireland (and that only if you count the North as part of Ireland; in whiskey terms, we always do): Bushmills, Cooley, Kilbeggan and Midleton. By the end of ...