The big brands still own most of the shelf space, but the most interesting bottles of the last decade have come from small distilleries. Canada proves the point. Crown Royal turned a rye-forward blending style into a following that stretches well beyond this country, JP Wiser’s has kept a recipe dating to 1858 alive and […]
Small Batch, Big Flavour: The Craft Whisky Revival Read More »
Fill a charred oak barrel with new-make spirit and walk away. Come back five years later and you’ll find whisky: coloured, softened and tasting nothing like the raw liquid that went in. That transformation is the whole reason collectors and investors care about barrels in the first place. Time alone doesn’t do it. Neither does
Whisky Ageing: Barrels, Time and the Cask Value Curve Read More »
Long before there was a whisky industry, there were brewsters. The old English word brewster simply meant a woman who brewed, and for centuries women ran the kettles, the casks, and the household ledgers that kept ale flowing. That history got buried under two hundred years of industrial distilling, when the still house became almost
Women Shaping the Whisky Industry Read More »
Ask anyone who buys and sells whisky for a living how the past several years went and you will get a tired laugh. The story has a clean shape: a frantic boom, a slow cooling, a sober reckoning, and now a cautious rebuild whose ending nobody gets to write in advance. If you poured yourself
The Whisky Market 2020 to 2028: Boom, Correction, and the Road Ahead Read More »
