Celebrate World Whisky Day 2025 With These Excellent Selections
This Saturday (May 17), World Whisky Day takes place, and whisky lovers around the globe will hopefully have some pours of their favorite tried and true drams with family and friends. For World Whisky Day 2025, CASSIUS is leaning into whisky made in Scotland, Canada, and Japan, and we’ll shine a light on American and Irish whiskey at a later time.
Now that I’m a year removed from this World Whisky Day post, I’ve gotten more exposure to whisky made in the aforementioned nations. Armed with a bit more knowledge about the wide world of whisky, I feel confident suggesting the bottles I’ve compiled in this particular roundup.
I’ll share what I wrote last year as a primer:
…the term whisky applies to spirits made in Scotland, Japan, or Canada, while whiskey applies to spirits made in the United States and Ireland. Adding to this, bourbon can only be made in the United States and must feature a mash bill of 51 percent corn before other grains are introduced. Further, Kentucky bourbon, as you might get from the name, can only be called as such if it’s made in the state.
Enough nerding out about that for now. Let’s get into the history of World Whisky Day.
The holiday was officially established in March 2012 by University of Aberdeen student Blair Bowman, who was 21 at the time. According to Whiskey Partners, Bowman was studying in Barcelona and remarked that whiskey didn’t have a global holiday like other adult beverages, so he took it upon himself to create a website to get the ball rolling.
After researching the holiday more, I’m comfortable in saying that Bowman was not considering American or Irish-made whiskey in his celebration, and last year, I did include whiskies from all over the world. This year, I’m sticking to the whisky guns and only featuring juice without the “e.”
I would like to return to the Spirit.Ed space and share what I’ve learned about Scotland’s different whisky-producing regions at a later date.
For now, I hope you discover a new favorite or see a familiar brand in our World Whisky Day 2025 roundup. Cheers!
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