Every year, February 8 is celebrated as International Scotch Day. It marks the worldwide celebration of Scotch, a popular alcoholic beverage prepared using fermented grains. Also known as scotch ...

I recently attended a special tasting dinner at Le Bernardin to try a newly released single-malt 50-year-old Glenlivet Scotch ($25,000 a bottle, a stocking stuffer for aficionados). What follows are ...

Peated single malt Scotch whisky is very hit or miss with a lot of whisk(e)y drinkers. In a grey world, peated scotch is very black and white for a lot of palates out there. You kind of either fall in ...

Single malt Scotch whisky is a two-sided coin. On one side are the value bottles that don’t taste like value bottles at all. I’m talking ten to twelve-year-old whiskies from some of the most ...

In 2019, scotch whisky got a significant upgrade when new guidelines were passed to allow a range of new casks to be used for maturation. That included tequila barrels, which while still a relative ...

Each of the whiskies lined up on the tasting mat, one through five, was a light gold color. Each was the shade of spring, youth, nectar-like, really. You wouldn’t know by looking that each was 37 ...