Whisky Weekly Digest — Week 34, 2026
The Only Whisky Show, from the Thursday floor. Plus The Famous Grouse changes hands.
The Only Whisky Show, from the Thursday floor. Plus The Famous Grouse changes hands.
Nae coopers, nae whisky. Plus Olaf Meier of the SMWS tasting panel, and a Killowen rum and raisin single cask.
Olaf Meier has one of the coolest jobs in the whisky world: deciding, glass by glass, what an entire global membership gets to drink next. As Chairman of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s Tasting Panel, the German-born storyteller has tasted many thousands of casks and written thousands of tasting notes over more than two decades … Read more
Mitch Bechard on life as a whisky ambassador. Plus a 1980s Old Mull, and why the good bottle shouldn’t wait.
Mitch Bechard has spent the better part of two decades convincing people to fall in love with whisky — first as a Diageo ambassador working golf clubs and global markets, then repping William Grant & Sons brands in the US, and now from his own base in Speyside, where he runs CopperCairn, a bespoke whisky … Read more
Tequila, mezcal, maple syrup — and a herring cask. Plus Dave Gunns of Wild About Whisky.