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After just two runs in Singapore, Vinexpo Asia has finally announced that the major trade show organiser will be permanently based in Hong Kong f...
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Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is set to launch its highly sought-after 16-Year-Old Mizunara Oak and the new Oak Masters’ Series in...
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Line, in Athens’ Kato Petralona neighbourhood, has been unveiled as Europe's best bar.
Co-founders Vasilis Kyritsis and Nikos Bakoulis opened the b...
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It's not everyday that an entire new category, industry and country is unlocked, yet when it does happen, those once in a lifetime early chapter...
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As the story goes - and has been going on for some years now - the meteoric rise of the global popularity of Japanese whiskies was by all counts...
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Ask any whisky fan what's the must-go whisky festival (or "fes" as it's often abbreviated) in Japan and unanimously you'll hear the Chichibu Whis...
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Source: MO Bar Singapore.
How do you capture experience in a cocktail? We're not talking about simple sight, taste and smell - we're talking abo...
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The first thing I was handed at Braveheart Sake was a small gold-lined cup of Kiku-Masamune Shiboritate, on the house. It’s fresh, fruity, gentl...
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Walking the streets of Sapporo’s Susukino district in blizzard conditions is not for the fainthearted. Yet amongst the hostess bars of googly-ey...
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(Source: Johnny Kyunghwo Sheldrick / @johnnykyunghwo)
Before 20th-century liquor licensing and commercial consolidation, Korean brewing was deep...
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(Source: @tswf.sg)
A wine writer friend recently corrected me. I had been raving about discovering Chinese natural wines, all the surprisingly...
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“Vines are kind of like people in a way. When they're young, they're vigorous... some vintages produce too many grapes, and then the quality is no...
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India in its sheer size, diversity and deep heritage, has for the better part of its modernity been a country whose palates have been dominated ...
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In a city built on reinvention, there’s pleasure in discovering a new thing behind a door that looks like it belongs to something else. Not a ve...
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In 2026, sparkling wine and Champagne are at a crossroads. The Grandes Marques are leaning harder into luxury branding, while a new generation o...
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Ishigaki Island is a pure and pristine agricultural paradise with a subtropical oceanic climate that is painted by scenic beaches and crop field...
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When you think of flavour diversity in the world of rum, you’d normally associate it with varying distillation marks, the use of different raw ma...
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The Black Tot Rum, since its debut launch in 2010, has come to arguably be the most prominent and also most trustworthy Navy Rum brand actively ...
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Chapter 28: Memories; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
It runs in the family: Billy Chambers' father David worked at Bushmills before him (here filling casks, 1973)
For six people, the 400th anniversa...
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Chapter 27: New Frontier; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making"
Full steam ahead. Bushmills' new ambitions mean Colum and his team have never been busier.
There is only one certainty in the drinks industry —...
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Chapter 26: Le Whiskey; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
In 1987 Bushmills launched their now world-famous ten-year-old single malt, but it was one of the few innovations that Irish Distillers had pion...
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Editor: This article was first published on Forbes on 30/12/2018. Find the original article here.
Felipe Schrieberg
Felipe is an awa...
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Editor: This article was first published on Forbes on 29/11/2018. Find the original article here.
Felipe Schrieberg
Felipe is an awa...
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Editor: This article was first published on Forbes on 27/11/2018. Find the original article here.
Felipe Schrieberg
Felipe is an awa...
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“If it would reflect my career in whisky: ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ by Queen. I love it. Love the job, love the evolution, love the brands....
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(Source: House of Suntory)
The House of Suntory has been making whisky since 1923, when founder Shinjiro Torii built Yamazaki, Japan's first mal...
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"The concept of Australian whisky is very much proved. The concept of Tasmanian whisky is proved, and it's now the time to think to get to the nex...
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島崎酒造 日本酒 洞窟貯蔵低温熟成酒 熟露枯 （ うろこ ）
As Sake lovers continue to pursue the absolute frontiers of flavour, its breweries too have persisted in their ...
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Lisztomania
Think less, but see it grow
Like a riot, like a riot, oh
Not easily offended
Not hard to let it go
From a mess to the masses
The f...
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We've been big fans of Sakari for some time now - and it's not just because they're the official Sake of the Japanese Imperial Household! - with...
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Japan’s beer market is brutally competitive, crowded with technically polished big-brand lagers whose differences can seem subtle until you pay ...
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Not much is needed to get folks to have their beers to go with food, in fact, some might say that beer and food are a match made in heaven and t...
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There is a small hill in Bavaria – not much to look at from the outside, maybe forty meters high, perched above a quiet town called Freising – t...
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If you are familiar with gin and whisky but never touched a genever, then this spirit is the room your gin walked out of without saying goodbye....
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On a stretch of Donggureung-ro, in Guri – a satellite city of Seoul – there is a small soju distillery where rice isn’t steamed, pounded or s...
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Danong Bio Distillery (with its Gamuchi Soju) is amongst the most talked-about producers in Korean spirits lately, yet it doesn’t neatly fit int...
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Joe Micallef
Wine and spirits judge, historian and bestselling author. Apart from dealing with sobering world affairs, Joe has been an ...
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Joe Micallef
Wine and spirits judge, historian and bestselling author. Apart from dealing with sobering world affairs, Joe has been an ...
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Joe Micallef
Wine and spirits judge, historian and bestselling author. Apart from dealing with sobering world affairs, Joe has been an ...
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Article first published by our partner, Japanese Whisky Dictionary. Visit them here. Find the original article here.
The two new products, “...
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Article first published by our partner, Japanese Whisky Dictionary. Visit them here. Find the original article here.
The two new products, “...
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Article first published by our partner, Japanese Whisky Dictionary. Visit them here. Find the original article here.
The “MARSMALT Le Papill...
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Continuing with our selection of Speyside Scotches, we are moving on to Linkwood, one of the most intriguing of Speysiders. Linkwood's original bo...
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Long before I became a whiskey nut, I was drinking Tequila. Prior to my first trip to Mexico, I had mostly been a wine and beer drinker with the o...
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Hedonism is one of the most acclaimed products of popular blender Compass Box. What makes it different from most popular Scotches is that it's a gr...
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This poster was part of a series of advertisements during the 1920s targeted at the United States market promoting Bacardi Rum as produced in Cu...
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This vintage lithographic print by artist Charles Louput was created in 1930, and features a reimagined design of Pierrot Cointreau - a pantomime ...
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This 1976 vintage poster was part of a series of 1970s advertisements published in housekeeping magazines in the United States. The posters were...
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Hendrick’s built an empire on limited-edition curiosities. “Another Hendrick’s Gin” boldly breaks that formula entirely.
Recently I've found my...
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Most people travel to France and buy a bottle of wine as a souvenir. But in the case of Englishman Chris Watson, he bought a 90-year-old parcel o...
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I still have memories of the smell in the air from when I first queued for and tasted a croissant at Lune Croissanterie's maiden outlet in Elwood...
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