Corryvreckan is a no-age-statement single malt whisky, matured in a combination of ex-bourbon and new French oak casks. It’s ...

Whiskies from Glen Grant have always felt like very solid whisky staples to me. Alongside both Glenfiddich and The Glenlivet, they are always readily available at most bottle stores in my area, and ...

Greetings from your resident booze bibliophile! In my quest for knowledge, I’ve read an ungodly number of books on American whiskey and beverage alcohol history. It’s fair to say that almost of all of ...

If someone says to you “I’m drinking Scotch made on an island,” your first guess for its provenance would probably be an Islay distillery. Yes, Islay is best known for its briny, iodine heavy, burnt ...

The devil made me do it! I am not referring to Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, or whatever moniker you prefer for the prince of darkness. Rather, I’m talking about some of the deadly sins ...

Malt uses a full 10-point scoring scale, with sensitivity based on price. Scoring is problematic, because it imparts a false quantitative precision to what is an inherently subjective experience.

I’ve never written a preface to an article before now, but I think this one needs it. Uncle Nearest – as a brand, as the people who represent it – were early additions to the Whiskey Ring family. Fawn ...

“And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ...

Canadian political historians like to use phrases like “evolution, not revolution” when describing our country’s history. As with pretty much everything else in Canadian life, we compare the ...

The idea of tasting history is one that spirits enthusiasts encounter at one point or another. While the fact that spirits like whisky are products of history is common sense to (I would hope) all ...

Peat is formed from dead, partially decayed organic plant matter that’s often built up in peatlands over millennia. The wet, acidic, low oxygen conditions of peatlands slow down decomposition, ...