Four days on Belmond’s Royal Scotsman, out of Edinburgh and through Speyside with stops at Tullibardine, Tomatin and Benromach, plus single-cask tastings and a Scotch Malt Whisky Society membership waiting at the end.
Flying Scotsman Whisky Journey Read More »
Edinburgh and Glasgow are worth the days, Speyside and Islay are the reason you booked them, and the distillery roads, ferries and hotels are where first-timers lose whole days. Direct flights from Toronto and Vancouver make it doable.
Scotland Distillery Trip Planning Read More »
Bonded storage, annual warehouse and insurance fees, and roughly 2 percent of the cask lost to evaporation each year. Also how you get out, which is the part most brokers leave out.
Thinking of Buying a Whisky Cask? Here’s What It Actually Involves Read More »
Our first tasting, poured from the distilleries whose casks we hold. Craigellachie 13, Bladnoch 10 and three Tullibardines, and a look at why an independent bottler exists at all.
Modern Whisky’s First Tasting Read More »
No e in Scotland, Canada or Japan, and an e in Ireland and the US. The spelling tells you where it was made; the distillation style and grain tell you what it tastes like.
Whisky or Whiskey? What is the difference? Read More »
