News & New Releases

 Quick Take:  Terroir, pronounced teh-wah, is the French term used to describe the environment’s impact on a crop’s characteristics, thereby aff...

Quick Take: Whisky’s increasing popularity has encouraged a bumper crop of new distilleries; Japan is seeing a record number of new distilleri...

Japanese whiskies have been amongst the biggest themes in whiskyland over the last couple of years. Demand skyrocketed to the point that even gia...

Chichibu has added a new expression to its regular core (if you call core, absurdly difficult to get) range, called “The First Ten”, that was rele...

3 big events happened in the year 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee laid out his paper disclosing his invention of the World Wide Web. A wave of revolutio...

Yamazaki has been fairly consistent with their annual limited edition special releases. Apart from typically being included in the broader ESSENCE ...

Another year another Ardbeg Day! Every year during Ardbeg Day, the Islay distillery has a special limited release in store for its fans, known as t...

This is for those of you Parks & Rec fans out t A running theme in the sitcom was the Ron Swanson’s love of Lagavulin single malt. Well, Ron’s ...

It has sure been a long wait as major Japanese whisky Suntory has been on a 3-4 year hiatus to rebuild its reserves. But the wait is finally over! ...