Giving The Gift Of Whiskey On Father’s Day 2016 By Richard Thomas I imagine whiskey for Father’s Day means more to me than most opining on the subject this year, because unlike a lot of those other guys, I’m actually a father, and a relatively new father at that. H.L. Mencken once wrote: “No married man is genuinely happy if ...

By Richard Thomas My pursuit of the “notable people who like whiskey” beat takes me to authors more often than not, and when it doesn’t I find the interest is usually a casual one. My introduction to British model Kelly Klein was a refreshing change of pace. When we first started e-mailing on the subject, she had just discovered Dalwhinnie ...

By Father John Rayls Have you ever read an advertisement about a whiskey or a cigar and wondered if the marketers had ever even bothered to try the product they were pushing?  Sometimes the claimed flavors and aromas are the stuff of pure Hollywood fiction, with no connection to reality. Knowing how this can be the case, I tend to ...

By Richard Thomas Speyburn, the Speyside distillery owned by Inver House Distillers best noted for it’s bargain 10 Year Old single malt, has just concluded a two year, £5 million ($7.2 m) improvements project. The distillery was built in 1897, and much of the project involved restoration work on the distillery’s historic buildings. However, it also included the installation of ...

By Kurt Maitland Rating: B- Allt-A-Bhainne is a young Speyside malt whisky distillery that, founded in 1975. Built to supply the blended whisky needs of the Chivas Brothers, the distillery stayed in their hands even as the company itself passed from Seagram’s to Pernod Ricard. The distillery (pronounced Ollt-err-VANE) derives its name from the Gaelic, which means ‘burn of milk’. ...