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What I love about indie bottler Brave New Spirits, isn’t just their quality drams but their very clear branding. Whilst I’d happily drink across their ranges, I’m automatically drawn to their WhiskyHeroes series with the labels looking like films or graphic novels and which have been my star drams at festivals including The Whisky Event […]
My go-to dram is a comforting blended peated malt whisky from Islay. I drink it when I’m tired, in pain or want a dram that I don’t need to analyse but can just enjoy and relax, whether on a Friday night or lazy Sunday morning – but then I went to Whisky Live and that […]
Two things to note about this 45.8% ABV bottle of That Boutique-y Whisky Company American Bourbon Whiskey are that it’s a 70cl/700ml bottle – great to see – and also that the distinctive label is all bull which helped steer me towards the dram… If the $5bn worth of American beef being imported under the […]
Held in Glaziers Hall, near London Bridge, on 11-12 April 2025, The Whisky Exchange’s Welcome to Whisky sought to target a new audience as an introduction to whisky but ended up delivering so much more than that with over 300 drams included in the ticket price and spread over 4 rooms on 2 floors, many […]
When you attend drinks festivals such as The Whisky Exchange Cognac Show, there’s always so much to sample and it’s not easy to remember everything you managed to try. It’s why I take photos and also write tasting notes for all of them, some of which make it to my weekly Cocktail Hour radio show. […]
One of my favourite times during lockdown, that strange time when we opened our homes and bottles online, was Burns Night, thanks to an online tasting with Southport Whisky Club. Drams were poured in our respective homes, Burns quoted, laughter shared and it was an incredible experience. I felt so close to everyone there, as […]
I’m really excited about English whisky, its present and its future and each new distillery seems to have something special to offer beyond the whisky itself. Cooper King Distillery has the only Tasmanian copper pot still in the Northern Hemisphere and their first release was England’s first ever whisky to be distilled using net zero […]
There’s something irresistible about whisky subscription services, someone else doing all the work to find, package and post drams for you every month, the excitement of opening the envelope when it’s popped through your door, and discovering great whisky. One of the many advantage of Whisky Me is that it does just pop through your […]
Kent-based Terlingham Vineyard is a family-run business, a departure for the family who moved from South Africa to the UK back in 2007, near where their grandparents had emigrated to South Africa decades previously. They bought the new vineyard despite having no background in viticulture and viniculture or the wine trade generally and learnt the trade […]
I have discovered a new favourite gin and it’s from Kent! Disclaimer, I might be slightly biased as this limited edition gin of 1,300 bottles is made using the last of Terlingham Vineyard’s 2020 Bacchus wine and that’s one of my favourite grapes but it’s just so good! Botanicals include rhubarb and nettles, with honey […]
