The 2025 Beverage Testing Institute (BevTest) Irish whiskey judging has announced the top Irish whiskeys of the year. One exceptional Irish single malt whiskey received a prestigious Platinum medal, ...

We have over a decade of experience writing about (and sampling) whisky. That’s an awful lot of whisky. Some years are better ...

Every month, we sort through dozens of new releases and old favorites to highlight the whiskeys that stood out the most. September 2025 was by far the best month of the year. We tasted several ...

It’s that time of year again, when St. Patrick’s Day approaches and the thoughts of beverage writers across the land turn to Irish whiskey. But for American spirits drinkers, Irish whiskey is clearly ...

Three Irish whiskeys keep reaching the Beverage Testing Institute’s top medal tiers, showing just how broad, rich, and complex the category has become. Irish whiskey is more crowded and competitive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Port finishing is a technique that can result in great whiskey — or totally ruin an expression. Done well, it threads the needle ...

A bottle of whiskey being poured into a glass with blurred lights in the background - 5PH/Shutterstock The Irish whiskey market is dominated by a few famous names. Yet behind huge brands such as ...

As chief blender at Midleton Distillery, the maker of brands like Jameson, Powers, and Redbreast, Dave McCabe oversees a tradition that stretches back to the 12th century yet nearly went extinct in ...

The 2026 vintage is a blend of five different distillates selected by O’Gorman—three single pot still and two single grain whiskeys, one of which is made from a mashbill of malted and unmalted barley ...