Recent Scotch Whisky Articles

Scotland's Oldest Distillery Goes on Offense Against Whisky Cask Fraud The whisky investment world has a fraud problem, and it has been festering for years. Cask traders have built entire business models on the aspirations of buyers who want a piece of Scotland's liquid heritage — and in far too m

The Macallan Makes History as Scotland's First Distillery to Earn Wildlife Estates Scotland Accreditation In the long and storied world of Scotch whisky, most milestones involve the liquid itself — a rare age statement, a record auction price, a new distillery rising from the peat. The landmark ac

CaskdAI Is Here: A Purpose-Built Artificial Intelligence for Scotch Whisky Collectors Just Changed the Game The Scotch whisky world has always rewarded the patient, the well-informed, and the obsessive. Knowing the difference between an Oloroso-matured Speyside expression and a refill hogshead bot

Isle of Harris Distillery Drops Its Signature Single Malt — A Decade in the Making There is a particular weight to the phrase "ten years in the making" when it comes from the remote edge of the Outer Hebrides, where time moves differently and the Atlantic winds shape everything from the barley in

Ian Macleod Pulls Back at Glengoyne and Rosebank as Scotch Hits a Wall The numbers coming out of Broxburn tell a story the Scotch industry can no longer afford to whisper. Ian Macleod Distillers, one of Scotland's last major family-owned whisky businesses, has disclosed a 30% cut in annual product

Edrington Posts "Resilient" Fiscal 2026 Results as The Macallan Gains Ground and Prestige Scotch Stumbles Edrington, the whisky and spirits producer behind Speyside premium malt The Macallan, has cheered a "resilient" full-year performance in the face of a volatile market. That word — resilient —

Is Scotch Whisky Finally Ready to Change? Let's be honest — most of us who have been drinking Scotch for any length of time didn't think the category needed a shakeup. You find your bottle, you pour two fingers, maybe splash in a little water, and that's that. Scotch was Scotch. It was dependable,

The End of a Brief Tenure: How Søren Hagh's Sudden Exit Exposed Deep Cracks at William Grant & Sons On the last day of October 2025, William Grant & Sons — the 139-year-old Scottish distilling dynasty behind some of the world's most celebrated whiskies — quietly filed a routine document wi

Bruichladdich Yellow Submarine III: The Most Gloriously Absurd Whisky Story in Scotch History Resurfaces for the 25th Anniversary There is no other whisky series in the world that owes its existence to a bureaucratic intelligence failure, two bewildered fishermen, and a bright yellow robot submari