Felipe Schrieberg

4 weeks ago | forbes.com.au | Felipe Schrieberg |Katia Damborsky |Michael Swartz

Published on March 28, 2025 This morning, the BBC broke a story (now on the front page of its website) about Scotch whisky cask investment fraudsters. The investigation uncovered scams totalling several million pounds where victims were sold overpriced or non-existent casks of Scotch whisky, with some casks fraudulently resold multiple times.

4 weeks ago | forbes.com | Felipe Schrieberg

It’s been coming for a while. This morning, the BBC broke a story (now on the front page of its website) about Scotch whisky cask investment fraudsters. The investigation uncovered scams totalling several million pounds where victims were sold overpriced or non-existent casks of Scotch whisky, with some casks fraudulently resold multiple times.

Dec 19, 2023 | whiskymag.com | Jason Thomson |Felipe Schrieberg

The words ‘passion’ and ‘enthusiasm’ are thrown around a lot in the origin stories of whisky makers, but it would be hard to find two people more passionate and enthusiastic about the craft than Ian Stirling and Paddy Fletcher, founders of the newly opened Port of Leith Distillery. The lifelong friends grew up in Edinburgh and moved to London in their 20s, Fletcher to pursue a career in finance and Stirling entering the wine trade.

Dec 12, 2023 | whiskymag.com | Jason Thomson |Felipe Schrieberg |Stefan van Eycken

For 225 years, the whiskies of Highland Park have shouted, “ORKNEY” – a bold yet simple assertion that cuts through the lore and myth of a distillery with a storied past. Still, every drop of Highland Park, soaked in the wildness of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, recounts a thousand legends.

Dec 12, 2023 | whiskymag.com | Felipe Schrieberg |Stefan van Eycken |Moa Nilsson

When hunting for distilleries in Scotland there are often clear signs that one is close by. It could be a pagoda on a roof, a red-brick chimney poking over the brow of a hill, the blackened wall of a warehouse, or the sweet aroma of hot mash in the air, but there is almost always a signal. They rarely sneak up on you. Holyrood Distillery is different.