Buy Whisky For Drinking, Not Investing By Richard Thomas The end of last week saw a torrent of business stories based on The Rare Whisky Apex 1000 Report, trumpeting that rare Scotch whiskies are now a better investment than blue chip commodities such as gold and petroleum. For those who pay attention to the world whiskey trade, this is nothing ...

By Richard Thomas Where does the line between Scotch enthusiast, someone who enjoys a dram of fine single malt and knows something about it, and the Scotch geek, or the person who devotes a large and probably growing segment of their lives to the “Water of Life,” lie? To borrow a page from Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a Scotch ...

By Debbie Shocair The whiskey news is currently packed with carefully considered pining for Elijah Craig 12, now replaced by an NAS bourbon. While I have a certain fascination with the points being discussed, I should make it clear that my first interest lies with what is actually inside the bottle. If a company is producing really fine whiskey, and ...

Why Fine Single Malts Should Be Your Alternative To Pappy Van Winkle Fever By Kurt Maitland The annual outbreak of Pappy Fever has come and gone, and if you haven’t acquired a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle whiskey yet it will likely cost you dearly to do so. January is the time of the doldrums, of having come up empty ...

Updated January 23, 2016 By Richard Thomas The American whiskey blogosphere sparked ablaze late yesterday as word broke that Heaven Hill Distilleries would transition their popular Elijah Craig 12 Year Old Bourbon into a no age statement whiskey (NAS), with the new version entering the distribution pipeline as early as today. Reportedly, the stock used to make Elijah Craig will ...