Capital FM Kenya

UK’s oldest person says whisky is her secret
Capital FM Kenya
All I have is the whisky at night. Whisky is very good for you. “I started having a nightly tot of it when I turned 50 so I’ve been having it every night for the last 60 […]

Highland Park 50 Year Old unveiled
Scotchwhisky.com (blog)
Whisky from the two casks was combined and married for a further eight years, along with a ‘small amount’ of liquid from Highland Park’s 50-year-old release from 2010. The whisky was bottled at 42.5% without chill-filtration or artificial colour, with …

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How can Scotch whisky build on 2017 growth in the years to come? – Research in Focus
just-drinks.com
The 1% sales increase recorded in this year’s Global Scotch Whisky Insights report from just-drinks and The IWSR epitomises a category that, for all its size, is failing to fully exploit the brown spirits revival […]

Scotchwhisky.com (blog)

Macallan Rare Cask eyes collectors market
Scotchwhisky.com (blog)
Nick Savage, Macallan master distiller, said: ‘This whisky truly exhibits the art of cask selection and the role of our whisky making team to hand pick the casks for each batch. ‘The casks give the greatest contribution to the character and […]

Forbes

Japanese Whisky Release: Nikka Announces Yoichi And Miyagikyo Manzanilla Finished Single Malts
Forbes
This year hasn’t been the most exciting for the Japanese whisky category, as Suntory’s loved Hakushu 12 Year-Old and Hibiki 17 Year-Old were discontinued and few releases have been added to the category in 2018. In a […]

Manchester Evening News

Family-run distillery Forest branches out into whisky and new overseas markets
Manchester Evening News
A family-run distillery is expecting its exports to grow tenfold after securing unprecedented pre-orders from Japan for its new line of whisky. Forest Gin, run by Karl and Lindsay Bond, and based in Macclesfield […]

Scotchwhisky.com (blog)

Christophe ‘Billy’ Van Gysel
Scotchwhisky.com (blog)
By his own admission, Christophe ‘Billy’ Van Gysel came to the whisky world a little late – when prices were rising and ‘holy grail’ drams became the realm of the super-rich. But that hasn’t stopped him from enjoying his passion to the full, […]

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen man who drank litre of whisky caught almost five-times drink-drive limit the morning after
Aberdeen Evening Express
A butcher who drank a litre of whisky at a family barbecue before being caught almost five times over the limit driving to work the next morning has been banned […]

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen man who drank litre of whisky caught five-times drink-drive limit the morning after
Aberdeen Evening Express
A butcher who drank a litre of whisky at a family barbecue before being caught almost five times over the limit driving to work the next morning has been banned from […]

Scotchwhisky.com (blog)

Conor McGregor unveils Proper No. 12 whiskey
Scotchwhisky.com (blog)
MMA fighter Conor McGregor has launched Proper No. 12, a blended Irish whiskey created with former Bushmills’ distillery manager David Elder. Conor McGregor Proper No. 12. Fighting talk: Like his approach to MMA, Conor McGregor is entering Irish …