By Richard Thomas Playmate, fitness model, social media icon. These days its the latter part that has earned Cerny enough fans to populate a medium-sized city, and she stands as both the “Queen of Snapchat” and a titan of Vine comedy. Running into Cerny in a bar is the kind of daydream scenario that most of her male fans can ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Named for Scotland’s famous Scapa Flow that served as Britain’s major naval base through two world wars, Scapa Distillery arguably stands as the most remote in a country known for remote places. Highland Park might be half a mile more northerly than Scapa, but it lies in Kirkwall, the largest town in the Orkneys. Scapa ...

By Richard Thomas BenRiach, the Edinburg-based whisky company that owns the BenRiach, GlenDronach and Glenglassaugh distilleries, announced pre-tax profits of £11.1 million for last year, a rise of 24% over the previous year. According to the BBC, the company cited an “unprecedented” spike in demand last year across all five of their major markets: Taiwan, Germany, the UK, Africa and ...

Updated October 6th, 2017 By Kurt Maitland Average Rating: B This review demands I cover two histories here, that of the Lost Distillery Company and also the Stratheden Distillery. The Lost Distillery is an independent whisky company whose stated mission is “to create present day expressions of legendary whiskies that belonged to the craft of whisky distilling almost a century ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: A- The Dalwhinnie Distillery has a long and eventful history. Started in 1897, but was in and out of insolvency the very next year, and the distillery saw several ownership changes after that. It eventually came under the Diageo umbrella, which is how it came to be included among “The Classic Malts of Scotland.” Included ...