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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.

Nov 10, 2023 | whiskymag.com | Moa Nilsson |Gavin Smith |Felipe Schrieberg

How does one truly define luxury, especially in whisky? Is it based on price? Age? Exclusivity? Investability? Is it based on a feeling, or personal connection? Or is it some assemblage of all of the above? In reality it will be a marginally different definition for everyone.

Nov 9, 2023 | whiskymag.com | Moa Nilsson |Gavin Smith |Stefan van Eycken

On a rainy afternoon a few months ago, the staff office at Tormore Distillery was in an uproar. Distillery manager Polly Logan and assistant manager Sam Douglas were hunting everywhere for a small handheld pump to help them move liquid used for samples. “We don’t know what it’s actually called,” says Logan, “so we’re going with the technical term ‘whisky sooker-ooper’ because that’s what it does, it sooks the whisky oop.”“We’re trying to describe what we need to the team,” Douglas laughed.

Nov 8, 2023 | whiskymag.com | Moa Nilsson |Gavin Smith

In the span of just 100 years, Japan has established itself as one of the world’s five major whisky-producing regions. The crucible of this colossal movement was a distillery that remains at the forefront of the industry today: Yamazaki. The town of Oyamazaki, where the distillery is located, is steeped in history. It’s here that the fateful Battle of Yamazaki was fought in 1582.

Sep 11, 2023 | whiskymag.com | Moa Nilsson

The Isle of Skye is the second-most-visited place in Scotland after the city of Edinburgh. It draws in some 650,000 visitors each year to delight in its glorious and dramatic scenery, including such instantly Instagrammable locations as the Fairy Pools, Kilt Rock, the Old Man of Storr, and Neist Point. Among the most-visited attractions on Skye is the Talisker distillery, situated in the north-west of the island on the shore of Loch Harport and in the shadow of the mighty Cuillin Hills.