Michael Egan: Celebrating Irish History
Kilbeggan U.S. brand ambassador Michael Egan joined #TasteWithSpace on March 5 to demonstrate how to make an Irish coffee, and discuss the brand s single pot still whiskey.
Kilbeggan is Ireland’s oldest continually licensed distillery: It opened in 1757 and survived famine, world wars, Prohibition, and more before going silent in the 1950s. After being revived in 1989 and restarting distilling in 2007, it is now a leader of the
Irish whiskey renaissance. Brand ambassador Michael Egan joined Whisky Advocate’s
#TasteWithSpace Instagram Live series on March 5 to discuss Kilbeggan’s history and longevity.
“There were multiple opportunities for it to shut down and fail,” Egan said. “It’s a testament to the people that work there, the whiskey that they made, their level of resilience, [that they] never gave up and there was still that demand for Irish whiskey as a category and as a result, Kilbeggan.”
Tal Chotiner: Pioneering Israel’s First Single Malt
Tal Chotiner, international head of sales for M&H Distillery, joined #TasteWithSpace on Feb. 12. all the way from Tel Aviv.
Single malt whisky was once synonymous with Scotland, its original homeland, but that’s starting to change. Distillers around the globe are producing unique and flavorful single malts showcasing their maturation climate and New World approach to the popular style.
M&H Distillery (short for Milk & Honey) is a prime example, as the Tel Aviv-based producer is the first to make single malt in Israel. “We started in 2020 with launching our first whisky,” said Tal Chotiner, M&H’s international head of sales, during a Feb. 12 interview for
Alan Lodge Award names 2020 winner 1st February, 2021 by Melita Kiely
Susannah Skiver Barton has been crowned winner of The Alan Lodge Young International Drinks Writer of the Year Award 2020.
Susannah Skiver Barton has been named The Alan Lodge Young International Drinks Writer of the Year 2020
Skiver Barton, senior editor, tasting and digital at
Whisky Advocate, and editor-at-large at
Market Watch, succeeded against numerous entries from other international journalists, columnists and bloggers.
The 2020 edition of the annual award was judged remotely in January 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The judging panel comprised Emily Harris, director of May Fox Communications; Becky Paskin, spirits journalist and co-founder of Our Whisky; and Melita Kiely, editor of