By Richard Thomas George Washington was a soldier, patriot, and statesman, but he was also an ambitious businessman, determined to break out of the failing business model of the Virginia tobacco planter and wring profit from his land holdings. Part of that effort was building a distillery on his Mount Vernon estate in the late 1790s, which at the time ...

By Richard Thomas Blended scotch is dominated by its big brand names, and most of those names are well-established, decades-old fixtures. Johnnie Walker, Dewar’s, Grant’s and several others besides have been on store shelves for more than a century now, and while single malt scotch saw new activity from the 1980s onwards, blended scotch continued to be the province of ...

The Whiskey Reviewer doesn’t have any formal awards to give out, at least not yet. However, that does not mean that we don’t have our opinions. Our staff comes across plenty of noteworthy whiskey during the year. Our purview extends to embraces all types of whiskey, from bourbon to moonshine to scotch; covers whiskey from around the world, from Australia ...

The whiskey trade is surging, and no sector of it more so than Irish whiskey. Irish whiskey sales have grown by 17.5% in the United States, and recent reports have Jameson alone up by 25%. Hibernian hootch is more popular than ever, and partly because of that, labels unfamiliar to any but Irish eyes are beginning to appear in bars ...

“Blended scotch” means a blend of one or more malt whiskeys with one or more grain whiskeys, and it is scotch of this type that dominates on the shelves of bars and liquor stores everywhere. Even some of the entries on the top shelf are blended scotch, rather than vatted malt or single malt, and this type of whiskey constitutes ...