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Writing on whisky

Tasting notes, distilleries, auctions, and the patience whisky demands.

Whisky

Two constants

Whisky is not something you drink. It's something you understand — or try to. For years I've been doing exactly that, handling bottles, reading labels, tasting time. Strongly enough to get married at a distillery in a kilt while it snowed in the Scottish mountains.

Meanwhile I was building software. At some point those two worlds collided. Just after Brexit, with a gap in the market and a codebase I'd already written once, we launched European Whisky Auctions. It has been growing ever since. Two constants, one platform.