By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ While Bowmore certainly has a good reputation, it’s strangely overlooked among the “Islay Eight.” I say it is strange because Bowmore was the first legal distillery on the island, receiving a license in 1779; I say overlooked because despite that historical feature and its redoubtable whiskies, few enthusiasts would point to Bowmore and say “this ...

Puni, Italy’s first whisky distillery, has introduced a new single malt. This new expression, Puni Sole, is the fourth overall and the third to their regular, core range. After an initial maturation of two years in ex-Bourbon barrels from the United States, Puni Sole was finished for another two years in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks from Spain. “Sole” means sun ...

By Richard Thomas Response to the news that the European Union might retaliate against Donald Trump’s populist proposal to impose protectionist tariffs on steel imports with duties on American bourbon has come in two flavors: critics of Trump singing a chorus of “there he goes again;” and those who somehow think higher prices in Europe would be a good thing ...

By April Manning Rating: A- Wild Turkey’s master distiller “emeritus,” Jimmy Russell, is known as the “Buddha of Bourbon” and has been an ambassador for bourbon for over 60 years. Along the way he has upheld a tradition dating to before Prohibition, never dithering on matters of quality and maintaining the Wild Turkey motto: “Wild Turkey. Not the latest thing. ...

Stock Spirits Group has purchased a one-quarter interest in Quintessential Brands, the parent company of Dublin Liberties Distillery (DLD), amounting to an €18.3m investment in the project. The distillery began life as the Dublin Whiskey Company (DWC), the first project to start an urban distillery in Dublin. Two other projects were later announced, that of Teeling Whiskey Company and the ...