If you’ve ever wondered how to work on your whisky tasting from the comfort of your own home, then you’re in luck. This month, we take a look at a whisky taste chart that is going to help you tell your tobacco from your peat, or your medicinal from your pungent. (If you’re new to […]
If you’re a wine drinker, you’ll be well-aware that each wine-producing region has a distinct character. A wine from the Bordeaux region – due to the fact they only grow five types of grape – tends to be full-bodied and well-structured, while wine from the Champagne region will be light and crisp. Whisky is no […]
If you’ve ever read the Whisky Foundation blog, you’ll know that we’re huge fans of sherry cask whisky. We’ve written articles about our favourite sherry cask whiskies, have a huge selection available to purchase and – best of all – some of us like to end the day with a sherry cask whisky. And, according […]
If you’ve just started your journey towards an appreciation of whisky and are starting to think about how to improve your whisky tasting, then welcome to the club. But, before we begin talking about oaks and peats, remember: it doesn’t matter how you got to this stage. Don’t feel embarrassed by not knowing much about whisky […]
Chocolate-lovers of the world unite, for today is International Chocolate Day, a day to celebrate everything that is great and glorious about chocolate. (Fun fact, this year it’ll be the 467th anniversary of the year that chocolate was introduced to Europe.) Now, while we love chocolate here at Whisky Foundation, there’s something that’s even better: […]
With Independence Day coming up, we thought it was only right that we celebrate the influence that our whisky brethren across the pond have had on our beloved Scotch. Like Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and even Uncle Sam himself, these whiskies are the perfect result of Scottish heritage meeting American culture; distilled in the […]
If you read our last instalment in the Women and Whisky series, you’ll know that women have a long and important history with our most precious of liquids. They invented the alembic still, they ran bootlegging operations and they repealed Prohibition. Many of them also burnt at the stake for selling whisky during the Middle […]
Dear readers, we have a confession to make. Brace yourselves. On occasion, when the weather is hot, we treat ourselves to a couple of summer whisky cocktails. Now, we know that to a lot of you, this is the ultimate sacrilege (‘Scotch should be drunk straight!’ we hear you cry.) but hear us out. When […]
It’s World Music Day today, so what better excuse for us to dig through our record collection and pull out our favourite songs about whisky? One thing we discovered writing this list: there are lots of songs about whisky out there. Most of them are pretty terrible. It seems that, if you’ve ever picked up […]
Before we start, here’s a quick recap of what this series of blog posts is all about, just in case you missed last month’s entry: As you know, at Whisky Foundation, we’re all about the independent bottlings. And, while reading about malts, casks and behind-the-scenes stuff is all well and good, it doesn’t quite compare […]
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