When you get a opportunity to sit down and have a one-on-one conversation with a legend in the whisky industry you drop everything and seize it with both hands and that’s exactly what I did. On a chilly spring morning in Johannesburg I met up with the man responsible for creating the Glenmorangie and Ardbeg […]
FNB Whisky Live Festival 2012 Preview Q&A with Ian MacMillan
The countdown to the 2012 FNB Whisky Live Festival continues! Last week we gave you a preview of what you can expect from John Glaser of Compass Box and this week it’s the turn of the Master Blender of not one, not two, but three distilleries! Of course we’re talking about Ian MacMillan, Head of […]
FNB Whisky Live Festival 2012 Preview Q&A with John Glaser
The 10th FNB Whisky Live Festival is almost upon us! The world’s largest whisky festival – spread over 3 cities this year – attracts whisky lovers in their droves, all clamouring to try old favourites, new expressions and meet the people behind the whiskies we know and love. The festival always attracts renowned international whisky […]
Whisky of the Month – The Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch 5
Choosing my second Whisky of the Month was a no-brainer. It simply had to be The Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch 5. David Stewart, Malt Master, has been with William Grant & Sons for half a century this year and has fulfilled the role of The Balvenie’s Malt Master since 1974, hand crafting their whiskies. That’s […]
Lost Spirits Distillery – Home of 110ppm peat monster Leviathan I
A dragon, a peat monster and a leviathan all roaming around California – sounds a bit like the plot for an alternate reality fantasy novel right? Well, you’d be wrong. What we’re talking about here is the Lost Spirits Distillery situated in Monterey County, a hop, skip and a jump away from the Pacific Ocean. […]
A Twitter Tasting of the Jura Range of Whiskies #JuraTT
T’was a dark and stormy night. The four weathered travellers had gathered from across the globe in the dimly lit inn and were nursing their drams as a demonic wind howled outside, rattling the inn’s shutters and the very souls of those inside. The bawdy conversation turned to that of a distillery located on a […]