England
As well as having a proud, long heritage of brewing – beers of every style; cider; mead – and a more recent (if you call 200+ years recent) tradition of gin distillation, England has long involved itself in drinks across the world (rum, port, claret etc). Some of those are now made at home... gin was borrowed from Dutch Genever and the English wine scene has borrowed heavily from French methods. And, of course, there are now English whisky distilleries. The best of them have strived to do more than simply copy what their neighbours in Scotland are doing, for example by tapping into that brewing heritage.
Our Spirit Stories
What are The Elixir Trails?
The boss of Elixir Trails in a full and frank discussion with drinks writer Chris Madigan about how he's cutting through the, er, balderdash around bottling spirits.
A Peek Into White Peak Distillery
The distillery’s founder, Max Vaughan, explains what makes this not only a quintessentially English whisky, but a definitively Derbyshire dram.
