By Kurt Maitland Actually Dave’s full and proper list of titles are: David Sweet, President USA and Canada Whisky Live USA, Whiskies & Spirits Conference USA, and Senior Vice President North America Whisky Magazine. With both the Whiskies & Spirits Conference (February 23rd) and Whisky Live NYC (February 24th) hitting New York City this week, I reached out to Dave, ...

Putting Together Interesting, Affordable Whiskey Flights For Home Tastings By Richard Thomas With whiskey trendier than ever before, more whiskey fans are introducing friends to their drink of choice in their own homes, taking the bar concept of the whiskey flight and building a tasting party around it. The problem every tasting party host confronts is the painful pouring a ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A Michter’s 10 Year Old Rye is one of the most hotly sought after items on the rye whiskey circuit that is still in semi-regular release. As recently as a few months ago, Wine Searcher traced a price spike for the whiskey, peaking at an average of over $200. That is a hefty 25% mark-up above ...

By Richard Thomas In our last installment of “Bad Whiskey Writing,” I explained my hopes of going at least a year before I had enough material to justify a fresh article looking at the factual errors and gross misconceptions that plague major media coverage of the “Water of Life.” Little did I know back then that it would take less ...

Where To Go For Fine Food And Finer Whiskey By Richard Thomas For even the most diehard and devoted whiskey enthusiast, actual whiskey travel is the exception rather than the rule. Whether it be due to competing interests, family or necessity, entire vacations spent in Speyside, Islay or the Kentucky Bourbon Trail are far from the norm for most whiskey ...