Scotch Whisky

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San Miguel sponsors film fest Premium lager brand San Miguel is sponsoring the 13th Viva film festival, featuring Spanish and Latin American...

Blend and boring

Blend and boring

If anything is to blame for the poor performance of scotch whisky in the UK, then it's traditional blends - the big-selling brands.It is quite...

Cheers

Cheers

People power ends JDW smoke ban Snifter was pleased to have some fresh light shed on why JD Wetherspoon has called a halt to its smoke-ban conversion...

BrandsBriefs

BrandsBriefs

Diageo trials alcoholic water Diageo is trialling a new Smirnoff-branded alcoholic sparkling water in Texas, USA. If trials are successful, Diageo...

Brands Briefs

Brands Briefs

Booker goes for Pinot Grigio Malt House Vintners, Booker's range of beers, wines and spirits, has extended its Caifornian River Wild brand to...

Jac Roper

Appetite for Scotch exports grows

The world's appetite for Scotch Whisky grew in 2005 according to figures released today by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA).

Scotch:

Scotch:

what's in a name? Once again, the normally placid loch waters of the Scotch whisky world are thrashing like a piranha tank. Andrew Jefford brings...

All in the mix

All in the mix

Single malts get all the glory and blends get none. But Compass Box Crafted Whiskies wants to change that, writes Adam Withrington.Tasting whisky at...

Whisky and food - Fashion passion

Whisky and food - Fashion passion

By Nigel Huddleston

The Edrington Group - owner of the Famous Grouse and the Macallan - is out to get drinkers to look at whisky in a new light. Nigel Huddleston...

The drambusters

The drambusters

Despite scotch whisky being the UK's native spirit, malts and blends are underused by pubs. Ben McFarland suggests how this can be changed.Scotch...

Poles apart

Poles apart

The six weeks leading up to Christmas traditionally account for about a third of all scotch whisky sales. Here, Ben McFarland and Phil Mellows...