Being passionate about the world of distilling in all its areas we sometimes learn that people don’t always understand how being active in the world of spirits works. Many people seem to think that traveling in the spirits industry means you are intoxicated all the time. The truth is far from it. It takes up…
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Far up the North of Scotland,on the same geographical latitude as the Swedish Stockholm and Norwegian Stavanger, there is a group of British islands called Orkney. On their voyages, the Vikings landed there centuries ago and according to the many Orcadian myths and sagas, they most likely used Orkney and the Shetland islands as their…
The Sleeping Beauty..?
You know the feeling when starting something and just not getting it to complete satisfaction? It just seems not to “do” what you want it to “do”? For us, this happened to what we experienced the morning after the Benelux release of “the Beast of Dufftown” in Brussels, where we had a chat with…
Säntis Malt – Swiss Highlander
At some of the festivals we recently visited we have noticed and tasted some of the products of Säntis Malt, produced at Locher AG brewery located in Appenzell, Switserland. In 1886, the Locher family took over the brewery in Appenzell and today, the brewery has been in the hands of the family for five generations….
This place in South Africa where whiskies stand on their heads
There is this beautiful distillery in South Africa, called the James Sedgwick distillery, home of proud distillery manager Andy Watts. We already had the pleasure to meet Andy in 2014 when he was here from South Africa for a cricket tournament in the Netherlands – nothing to do with whisky, but nonetheless, we decided…
In conversation with Andrew Hart
We had the pleasure of meeting Andrew “Andy” Hart for a couple of times at festivals with the stand of Whisky Import Nederland. Andy is always ready to answer your most difficult questions about his products with a big smile on his face. Every time it is great to meet again and have a chat…
Knockdhu: A modern Tradition
After the Spirit of Speyside Festival earlier in 2014 was over, we stayed another week and visited the Knockdhu Distillery where we met distillery manager Gordon Bruce and his right hand Alistair “Ally” Reid. After this great day Alistair accepted our request to send some questions over to get some more information on this…
Tomatin Distillery – Interview with Graham Eunson, distillery manager
This is the other part of an interview done with Jennifer Masson and Graham Eunson of Tomatin Distillery. In the first part here, we asked Jennifer to tell something about herself, and in this part Graham, Tomatin’s distillery general manager answers some of our questions. First, a little information about Graham before his life at Tomatin… “Graham…
Tomatin Distillery – Interview with Jennifer Masson, marketing manager
Tomatin Distillery is one of the easiest distilleries to find, just off the A9 main road, it is a perfect stop to explore a great distillery when crossing the spectacular Cairngorm National Park coming from Edinburgh to Inverness. It is established in 1897, located in the Monadhliath Mountains, and one of the highest distilleries in…
Discovering the Swedish spirits from the Mackmyra Distillery
On the journey of Whisky Speller in discovering the wonderful world of whisky we encountered some lovely bottlings of Mackmyra, the first Swedish whisky distillery. We got curious about these bottlings and wanted to learn more about the distillery and the people behind it so we contacted Angela D’Orazio, the Master Blender of Mackmyra. She…
Zuidam Distillers, genuine Dutch masters
Zuidam, Dutch distiller of fine spirits and liqueurs, located in Baarle Nassau, in the south of the Netherlands, close to the Belgian border indisputable the most fragmented village to which both Belgium and the Netherlands have parts of their claims. Almost a year ago we have had the pleasure of visiting the distillery, being guided…
The distillery behind the Breton Whisky…
The last years have been a lot of fun discovering the wonderful world of whisky and meeting all the lovely people in it. On our journey we had the pleasure to come in contact with Franck Debernardi. He was hosting a French Whisky Twitter Tasting, for the celebration of his blogs anniversary. In this line-up we…
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