Noted independent blender and bottler Compass Box has re-released The Double Single, a blended Scotch whisky expression. Commenting on the release, Compass Box Founder & Whiskymaker John Glaser opens by posing a question: “How many components are required to create true complexity in a Blended Scotch Whisky? For Double Single, instead of using many tens of component whiskies we have ...

Kilchoman, the distillery that is both Islay’s newest and the most westerly in Scotland, has released the sixth and latest installment of its Loch Gorm Single Malt Whisky. Loch Gorm 2017 is drawn entirely from whisky aged in Oloroso Sherry butts from Miguel Martin, distilled in 2009. That makes this Sherry-aged malt the oldest Loch Gorm installment yet. The whisky ...

The Isle of Arran Distillery visitor center at Lochranza welcomed a record number of visitors last year. 104,000 people made the journey to find ‘the Arran Waters’ in 2016, a 93% increase since 2012 and 18% increase on 2015. Euan Mitchell, managing director of Isle of Arran Distillery, said, “The visitor center has always been core to the distillery. As ...

By Richard Thomas A media buzz phrase these days is how we live in a “post-truth” environment, but active disinformation (to say nothing of ordinary ignorance) has been part of modern living for decades. Marketing truth and spin are more or less the same thing, applied to different fields of endeavor. Yet going on the internet in search of reliable ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: A- Since 1881, Bunnahabhain has been the Islay scotch very few people could pronounce. It’s actually spoken as boona-HAB-venn.  It’s also a Scotch whisky that many bourbon drinkers, like myself, can get behind. Ironically, Bunnahabhain has the largest production capacity of any distillery on Islay, but it uses that to produce a lot of unpeated ...