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Two Years of Red Ink: William Grant & Sons Posts Another Profit Decline as the Global Spirits Slump Deepens For the second consecutive year, William Grant & Sons — one of the last great family-owned distilling empires on earth — has reported a significant drop in both revenue and profit. The

Johnnie Walker Blue Label's Indian Festive Blend: A New Kind of Scotch for a New Kind of Market For most of its 200-plus-year history, Scotch whisky has been a product that traveled one direction. Scotland made it, and the rest of the world received it — often in the same bottle, with the same liqui

The Whisky Loch Returns: How Scotland's Scotch Industry Drowned in Its Own Success The copper pot stills at Holyrood Distillery in Edinburgh are cold. In a building that should smell of fermenting wort and warm spirit, there is only silence. Holyrood Distillery, in the shadow of Arthur's Seat, is

When Diageo brass talk about "protecting the long-term competitiveness" of their business, it has a way of landing differently on the shop floor. At Cameronbridge — Europe's largest grain distillery, tucked away in the Lowlands of Fife, Scotland — those words have ignited a labor dispute that now t

Diageo's Cameronbridge Distillery Faces Nearly Three Weeks of Strikes as Job Cut Dispute Boils Over When the whisky runs dry, the whole world notices. For Diageo — the London-listed spirits titan behind Johnnie Walker, Buchanan's, Haig Club, and some of the most poured glasses in America — that sc

A 75th Birthday Party With a Dark Cloud Overhead: Black Velvet Whisky and the Canada-U.S. Trade War There are not many ways to celebrate a 75th anniversary in the whisky business that feel genuinely earned. Decades of grain, water, oak, and patience stack up behind every milestone, and the Lethbri

Scotland's Homegrown Distilleries Are on the Rise — and the Industry Will Never Look the Same There is a particular kind of audacity required to build a whisky distillery in one of the most remote glens in Scotland, on land that was once a smuggling route, wedged between two Munros, and accessible

For more than ten years, the story in the American spirits business was simple: people kept trading up. A guy drinking a mid-shelf bourbon moved into something nicer. A guy already buying the good stuff started looking at limited releases and small-batch bottles that cost twice as much. Even in yea

Glen Moray Doubles Down on Golf: Speyside Distillery Locks In the Senior Open Through 2029 In the world of spirits marketing, few partnerships carry the kind of cultural weight that comes from aligning a single malt Scotch whisky with major championship golf. Glen Moray, the Elgin-based Speyside d

Aperol Is Carrying Campari's Weight as Wild Turkey Stumbles in a Broken Bourbon Market There was a time, not so long ago, when bourbon could do no wrong inside a corporate spirits portfolio. A bottle of Wild Turkey on the balance sheet was a license to print money. Premium American whiskey was the