By Richard Thomas Last year, I took the traditional pairings approach to producing a Thanksgiving guide, and that approach is still a perfectly valid way to go about serving whiskey with your holiday feast. The thing there, though, is that such an approach is categorical, making recommendations for different stages of the feast: aperitif, pairing with the meal, dessert whiskey, ...

In time for the start of the holiday gifting season, the acclaimed The Singleton of Glendullan Single Malt Whisky portfolio will now be available in the US, joining the Classic Malts portfolio. The Singleton was founded on the belief of producing whiskies that are immediately enjoyable and perfectly balanced with superior taste. Each whisky is crafted by a team of ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Scotland’s tradition of independent bottling offers whisky connoisseurs a variety of choices they wouldn’t ordinarily have were they limited only to the brands owned by the companies that actually owns the distilleries. This is true not only of crafty blenders, such as Compass Box, but also in the realm of single malts. Take this Gordon ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B The history of whiskey is replete with distilleries that are not merely shuttered, but actually lost. In Ireland, Scotland and the U.S., a combination of economic tumult, Prohibition, wars and plain bad business practices shut down, many of them so long ago that even the very building is gone, and the names of these places ...

By Richard Thomas One of the signature flavor characteristics routinely associated with Scotch whisky is smoke, specifically peat smoke. Not all whiskies are smoky; in fact, most of them aren’t. Many of the most famous have at least a wisp of smoke in them, however. Islay, arguably the most famous of Scotch whisky regions, embraces peat smoke as a key ...