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 […]
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 […]
On the 16 February 2017, the world of independent bottling lost a legend: Silvano Samaroli. Born in Bologna in 1939, Silvano was responsible for founding the Samaroli Bottling and Importing Company in Rome in 1968. He was also one of the first people to actively and deliberately promote cask strength whisky and to spot the […]
Independent bottling is, unfortunately, a rather unknown concept to the general population. Here at the Whisky Foundation we believe that such a wonderfully experimental and educational practice should be broadcast to the world, to drinkers both young and old, to extend the reach of the amazing spirit that is Scotch whisky. Put simply, an independent […]
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