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2 days ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
Jack Daniel’s is reigniting its partnership with the McLaren Formula 1 Team, bringing back the popular Jack’s Garage experience for the 2025 racing season. The immersive platform aims to celebrate Formula 1 while creating memorable moments for fans across three major U.S. races.
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6 days ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
The results of this year’s World Whiskies Awards were recently announced, and as always, there’s no shortage of medal winners to choose from. With so many standout bourbons, knowing where to begin can be a challenge. To help you navigate the field, I’ve rounded up the Gold Medal-winning Kentucky bourbons and matched each one to the kind of drinker who’ll enjoy it most.
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1 week ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
There are bottles of whiskey, and then there are bottles that change history. In the world of spirits collecting, few names carry the mythical weight of – a bourbon that didn’t just become popular but fundamentally transformed how Americans and the world view whiskey. Before Pappy‘s rise to fame, bourbon was largely a blue-collar spirit, overlooked internationally and undervalued even at home.
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1 week ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
Whisky has always been rooted in place, but increasingly, the most exciting blends are crossing borders. Distilled in one country and matured in another, or marrying spirits from entirely different traditions, these whiskies challenge old boundaries while honoring the craft at their core. What unites them isn’t geography, but imagination: Irish and American whiskeys fused into one, Scotch aged under the Spanish sun, or Japanese malt blended with ocean water and global grain.
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1 week ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
Easter may be best known for its egg hunts and pastel sweets, but it also offers a more grown-up opportunity: pairing exceptional whiskies with fine chocolate. Done right, it’s a surprisingly rewarding experience. Whisky’s layered complexity — from spice and smoke to orchard fruit and toffee — meets its match in the richness of chocolate, especially when you find the right balance.
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1 week ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
Spring has properly sprung here in the UK (fingers crossed it stays that way), and I’ve found myself craving something a little lighter to sip in the sunshine. While a whisky highball is always a good idea — crisp, cool, and comforting — sometimes I reach for something that feels just a touch more vibrant. Enter: Aperol. Aperol is a bright, bittersweet Italian aperitivo made with bitter orange, rhubarb, gentian, and a mix of herbs.
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1 week ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
In the ever-expanding world of American whiskey, High West’s Bourye remains something of an outlier—a blend that plays by its own rules. First created in 2009, Bourye brought together straight bourbon and straight rye long before such mashups were common. Even now, it sits apart from the mainstream, always evolving with each annual release. For Tara Lindley, Director of Sensory QA and New Product Development at High West, that evolution is exactly the point.
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1 week ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
Nestled in Wellington, South Africa, far from the misty glens of Scotland or Kentucky’s rolling hills, the James Sedgwick Distillery is quietly crafting world-class whiskies. The distillery’s Three Ships brand recently secured an impressive trio of medals at the World Whiskies Awards 2025, challenging long-held notions about where exceptional whisky can be produced.
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2 weeks ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
Midleton Very Rare has unveiled the sixth and final chapter of its Silent Distillery Collection, featuring the last remaining whiskey from the historic Old Midleton Distillery which operated from 1825 to 1975. The ultra-premium release coincides with the distillery’s 200th anniversary and contains whiskey distilled five decades ago by Master Distiller Emeritus Max Crockett in what was once the world’s largest pot still.
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2 weeks ago | 
thewhiskeywash.com | Beth Squires
In a nod to its sporting heritage dating back nearly a century, Johnnie Walker is resurrecting its hole-in-one challenge with a modern twist. The legendary scotch whisky brand has launched the ‘Blue-in-One’ Challenge, offering golfers who achieve this rare feat an exclusive, personalized Johnnie Walker Sunday Golf Bag as well as free engraving with any Johnnie Walker whisky purchase.
