A series of conversations with the people who make the whisky world worth paying attention to.
Fellowship Conversations brings together distillers and blenders, ambassadors and retailers, collectors and enthusiasts — the range of voices that shape how whisky is made, sold, and understood. Each conversation is a chance to hear, in their own words, what draws someone to this drink and keeps them there.
Pull up a chair, pour a dram, and get to know the people behind the whisky.
Brand AmbassadorOlaf Meier
Chairperson of the Tasting Panel, Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Olaf Meier has one of the coolest jobs in the whisky world: as Chairman of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's Tasting Panel, he decides glass by glass, what an entire global membership gets to drink next.
TourismMitch Bechard
Founder and Director, CopperCairn
Mitch Bechard has spent the better part of two decades convincing people to fall in love with whisky. He now runs CopperCairn, a bespoke whisky touring company built entirely around the traveller in front of him rather than a fixed itinerary.
RetailerDave Gunns
Co-founder and owner, Wild About Whisky
If you know South African whisky at all, you know Dullstroom, and if you know Dullstroom, you know Wild About Whisky. What started in 2005 as a wine bar in Auldstone House has become one of the country's true whisky destinations — a place where, on a good Saturday, a group might sit down for two hours and not want to leave for six.
RetailerMarc Pendlebury
Founder & Managing Director, WhiskyBrother
Some people build businesses. Others build communities. Over the past decade, Marc Pendlebury has quietly managed to do both.
RetailerAngelo Skoutellas
Founder, Decanter Liquor
Angelo Skoutellas, founder of Decanter Liquor, discusses rare whisky, building one of South Africa's leading premium retailers, and why curiosity matters more than collecting hype.