By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Ardbeg is almost as well known for their splashy promotions as for the quality of their whisky. Or maybe that is the other way around? This is the distillery that invented the notion of “space whisky,” having brought their samples home from the International Space Station the year before Suntory announced they were sending theirs ...

A Look At The Most Recently Founded And Opened Scotch Whisky Distilleries By Richard Thomas Part of the romance of Scotch Whisky is its plethora of distilleries. Having survived the series of world events that shook the American and Irish whiskey industries to near-rubble, Scotland became the place where enthusiasts could wax about how the thin cut of a pot ...

By Richard Thomas The famed Islay distillery Lagavulin started the commemoration of it’s 200th year in operation with an eight year old single malt. Now Lagavulin is making its second bicentennial release in the form of a 25 year old single malt. Lagavulin 25 Year Old is drawn from sherry cask-aged stock and bottled at cask strength. This new 2016 ...

With midsummer looming, independent bottler Wemyss Malts is releasing a fresh gathering of nine new single cask whiskies ranging from 18 to 27 years old. As always, the descriptive names of these whiskies are based on the flavours and aromas discovered by the Wemyss tasting panel. The full single cask list of this release comprises of: “Arbor in Bloom” 1995 ...

By Richard Thomas Every time I pen a new chapter on whiskey writing on the web that should be professional, but sadly misses that mark, I hope it will be longer than four or five months before I have enough material to justify returning to the subject. Alas, I was again disappointed. Chapter 8 was in February, and just barely ...