The Drinks Business

No benefits of Brexit for Whisky industry
The Drinks Business
The Scotch Whisky Association, which acts as the industry’s trade body, has said that the European single market is key and ‘central to the success of Scotch’. According to Forbes’ Felipe Schrieberg the Scotch industry, which is worth […]

Food & Beverage Magazine (press release) (registration) (blog)

NEW JAPANESE WHISKY: Suntory Whisky TOKI
Food & Beverage Magazine (press release) (registration) (blog)
suntory whisky Japan is a land of contrasts and paradox: its culture holds a deep reverence for ancestry and heritage, but also a fascination with the future; and its […]

Entertainment Focus

EIFF 2016: Whisky Galore! review
Entertainment Focus
Whisky Galore! is the kind of film that will do tremendous business on Wednesday morning senior citizen screenings, where for the price of a ticket you also get a cup of tea and a custard cream. I genuinely see no other market […]

Huffington Post

Whisky School … It’s a Lot More Fun than College
Huffington Post
Indeed, distillers and blenders have become the newest celebrities of the whisky world. With well-known blenders and distillers receiving rock star like adulation at popular consumer shows and events. It’s all very strange to long time industry […]

Scotsman

Eddie Izzard unaware Whisky Galore was a true story
Scotsman
EDDIE Izzard has admitted he had no idea the classic Scottish comedy Whisky Galore! was based on a true story until he started working on a new version. The stand-up comic and actor said he believed the story of the […]

The Guardian

Whisky Galore! review – twee, comfy-cardigan film-making
The Guardian
The Edinburgh film festival kicked off with Tommy’s Honour, a gently old-fashioned yarn about a 19th-century Scottish golf champion that may have induced mild stirrings of patriotism. Now the festival is aiming to repeat the trick with a remake of […]

Scottish Daily Record

Whisky Galore! Film remake was only possible thanks to funding from a millionaire farmer, says producer
Scottish Daily Record
EDDIE Izzard agreed to take part in the Whisky Galore! remake because he wanted to see what Scotland was like after the Scottish Independence Referendum . Eddie, who campaigned […]

Whisky Galore
Chortle
Why remake a classic? Along with Passport To Pimlico and Kind Hearts And Coronets, Whisky Galore! defined Ealing Comedies as the gold standard when they were released in 1949. Indeed Pimlico, with its overt themes of isolationism and rebellion against …

Citizen

Toast Whisky Baron in Derby
Citizen
It should open the door for Whisky Baron to pick up the third leg of the Winter Series after finishing a 0.40-length runner-up behind Marinaresco in both the Guineas and Classic. Brett Crawford’s charge has had most of these horses behind him in one […]

Forbes

How Brexit Affects the Whisky Industry
Forbes
As the UK has voted to leave the EU, this whisky lover got curious as to what this might mean for the whisky industry in the future. No doubt the economic changes that Brexit brings will affect the whisky market, Scotland’s largest drinks […]