A few years ago, legendary independent bottlers Gordon & MacPhail ran a marketing campaign called ‘The Wood Makes the Whisky’ with the aim of making people more aware of the importance of wooden casks in the maturation of whisky. Speaking at the time, Ewen Mackintosh, COO of Gordon & MacPhail, said: ‘…at Gordon & MacPhail we […]
Monthly Archives: May 2017
A little while ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing Anne-Sophie Bigot, also known as The Whisky Lady, about her love of whisky, her experience in the industry and – interestingly – the idea of ‘Women Who Whisky’. On the topic of women and whisky, Anne-Sophie had a lot of interesting things to say. Firstly, […]
On 14 February 2017 – just two days before the whisky was to lose another legend, Silvano Samaroli – Dr Jim Swan passed away at his home in East Lothian. If you’ve never heard of Dr Jim Swan, that’s probably because he was very much a behind-the-scenes man, using his lifetime of experience (and staggering […]
To celebrate World Whisky Day, we’re giving away a $50 Whisky Foundation gift card to put towards that bottle you’ve had your eye on for a while. To win it, all you have to do is make us laugh (and impress us with your knowledge of whisky and film). #MoviesWithExtraWhisky The idea is pretty simple. […]
You can keep Christmas. You can keep Easter as well. And, while we’re at it, you can keep New Year. If there’s one date on the calendar (well, it’s on our calendars, at least) that we look forward to most at Whisky Foundation, it’s World Whisky Day. Quite simply, it’s an excuse to celebrate […]
If you’ve ever sipped an independent bottling by Adelphi, Berry’s or Wilson and Morgan, you might not be aware that you owe every drop of pleasure to two enterprising greengrocers from the small Scottish city of Elgin in the early 19th Century. In 1825, James Gordon and John Alexander MacPhail, under the guidance and […]
Sometimes drinking a dram in the comfort of your own home is exactly what you need. But sometimes – just sometimes – it doesn’t quite cut it. Sometimes you need something a little more sophisticated, stylish or just plain extravagant. And it doesn’t get more stylish, sophisticated or extravagant than Alfresco 64. What’s so special […]
At Whisky Foundation, we like to keep you up to date with everything from the world of malt and peat. But we also know that there’s a world of difference between reading about independent bottlings and actually drinking the whisky. (We know which we prefer to do.) And that got us thinking: what if, every […]
In some circles, the mere mention of whisky cocktails can spark furious debate. As the Scottish proverb goes – there are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky. Quite rightly, many whisky drinkers feel that whisky cocktails drown out the flavour of the whiskies, stunting the flavours on the […]
If you read the article we wrote about chill-filtration a few weeks ago, you’ll know that in a blind test of bona fide whisky buffs, whiskies that had been aged in a sherry cask were consistently ranked higher than their non-sherry-cask counterparts. And it’s not surprising – the time spent ageing in a sherry cask […]
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