Could whisky label colours be telling your taste buds what to expect too? Turns out, they might be.

With three easy builds, Jessica Colacci shows us just how many personalities one bottle can have and why Montenegro deserves a permanent place in your rotation.

Flavour Files spotlights one flavour camp and how it unfolds across spirits, liqueurs, and modifiers offering a lens into its versatility, personality, and creative potential. This edition features spirits that bloom with botanicals, blossoms, and aromatic elegance.

Bitter, herbal, sweet—amaro (plural amari) is one of the most diverse and misunderstood spirits categories behind the bar. Born in Italy and now made worldwide, these botanical liqueurs range from bright and citrusy to bold and bracing. This guide maps out their flavour profiles, ABV, and cocktail potential, using well-known benchmarks like Campari, Aperol, and Fernet Branca to help decode the rest. Whether you’re a cocktail enthusiast or curious newcomer, the Amari Index offers a starting point to explore, compare, and use these complex bottles with more confidence one flavour profile at a time.

Sons of Vancouver is a Canadian micro-distillery producing big, flavourful, genre-busting rye whiskies.

Is Social Media Changing the Way We Taste? In today’s cocktail culture, aesthetics aren’t just an afterthought, they’re often the starting point.

From tide to table, distilleries are bottling sips from the sea and reawakening our connection to water.

A new chapter is emerging for smoky whiskies beyond peat.