It's my daughter Amanda's birthday today.Happy Birthday!...

Note to self:When in the Glasgow airport, looking for breakfast, DO NOT get a bagel from O'Brien's. Though they mimic a bagel in both form and color - the similarities end there. They are by far, the most inedible thing I've ever put in my mouth....

I've reached a milestone here at The Scotch Blog. This is the 200th post. It's taken 1 year and 1 month and 17 days to get to this point.During that time I've: Had over 100,000 visitors from over 90 countries Visited 27 distilleries Attended six whisky expos in three countries Given away a LOT of shirts, hats and miscellaneous schwag Published two editions of my book The Instant Expert's Guide...

Anyone out there interested in coming up with an awesome logo for The Scotch Blog? I can't pay, but I can promise you some nice schwag; some free promotion; and my undying gratitude. Maybe even a nice bottle of Scotch. Contact me with your ideas and we'll go from there. ...

A reminder to people to sign up for the mailing list. Just to the right under Stay in Touch... click on ...Join the mailing list Be sure to include where you live, as I occasionally send out emails to people in specific cities about local information and events. I promise ...

On my recent stint at the Bruichladdich Distillery Academy, while I was moving casks into and out of Bruichladdich's Warehouse #2 (the last stop for most casks before being moved to the bottling hall), I ran into Teun, Arthur and Bob, the Bruichladdies from Holland. You may have seen Bob ...

A year or so back, we started up a discussion forum called Whisky101.The idea was to have a place for novices to learn more about whisky, a place for connoisseurs to share knowledge, and a place for both to talk to the experts. Instability of the host did us in, ...

With most all of Long Island's white wine grapes in and the reds coming in as well, it's time for the first-ever LENNDEVOURS Cabernet Franc to get plucked from the vine, stomped with these size-12 feet and then fermented. That's right folks, this weekend, I'll be heading out to Peconic ...

Well, the LENNDEVOURS empire continues to expand. With this month's Mise en Place feature on the Gilded Fork , I've officially become the site's wine pairing guru. They actually list me on the masthead as an "expert" but that is a bit overstated probably. Wine pairing is much easier than ...

Pittsburgh (my beloved home town) falls within the borders of Pennsylvania, a commonwealth whose liquor laws barely have crept out of prohibition, so it should come as no surprise that it's not the most wine-savvy city east of the Mississippi River. But, with one of the city's two major newspapers ...