NEWS

Meeting your Maker - Sarah

With only a few months left until the release of our first Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky, we thought it might be time you got to know a bit more about the merry gang that make the stuff. Notoriously difficult to pin down, we finally managed to...

Liquid Gold - what's behind the colour of whisky?

   Without wanting to get too technical, it’s all to do with the interaction between compounds in the wood and the water and alcohol in the liquid. You’ve got all sorts of different compounds that will affect the colour of the whisky – tannins come into it,...

Why do we bottle at 46% ABV? A bit of insider info...

    But a lot of the flavour and mouthfeel of the drink actually depends on the strength, so it’s something that we’ve chosen very carefully.   Looking around our range of products you might be tempted...

Distillery Diaries - How to Whisky

There is a perception that the world of whisky is one shrouded in mysticism; beasts and legends and deeply obscure tasting notes. And to a certain extent that’s true – there’s an awful lot of it out there and there are periods in whisky’s history where...

Distillery Diaries, by Zoe

For a bit of context, the reason whisky-types get so excited about casks (which, from the outside at least, look like a collection of almost-identical, slightly grubby and weathered wooden barrels that have seen better days) is because approximately 75% of the flavour of the whisky...