Talking With The Scotch Blender-Bottlers And Future Islay Distillers By Kurt Maitland Early this year, Hunter Laing, the independent bottler of brands such as Old Malt Cask, Old and Rare and Douglas of Drumlanrig, announced that it would break ground on a new distillery on Islay. This interest had been hinted at in an extensive earlier interview I had with ...

Catching Up With Teeling Whiskey Company For St. Patrick’s Week By Richard Thomas Teeling Whiskey Company released their first product, the rum-finished small batch, back when The Whiskey Reviewer was still just a blog, and our first interview with company head Jack Teeling was almost two years ago. Since then, the company became the first to open a new distillery in Dublin ...

By Richard Thomas If you enjoy watching documentaries about the Middle Ages or ancient military history, you probably recognize Mike Loades. It follows that someone who presents and provides commentary in such television programs would also be an author (Swords and Swordsmen and The Longbow), but Loades is also a fight choreographer and consultant. His fingerprints are on all manner ...

By Kurt Maitland Actually Dave’s full and proper list of titles are: David Sweet, President USA and Canada Whisky Live USA, Whiskies & Spirits Conference USA, and Senior Vice President North America Whisky Magazine. With both the Whiskies & Spirits Conference (February 23rd) and Whisky Live NYC (February 24th) hitting New York City this week, I reached out to Dave, ...

A Talk With Jack Daniel’s Assistant Distiller By Richard Thomas Sitting down with Chris Fletcher, then working in the Lead Chemist at Buffalo Trace, was only the second interview I did for The Whiskey Reviewer, and just the third published. We spoke of Fletcher’s prior work in the lab at Jack Daniel’s and the differences between Lynchburg and Frankfort, but ...