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Whisky Sustainability - Transforming The Landscape
10-09-2025

Whisky Sustainability - Transforming The Landscape


Sustainability - What Is It? What is whisky sustainability and why has it become such an important topic to discuss? To understand whisky sustainability let's first look at the pure meaning of the word in context to the environment.  Sustainability: is the avoidance of the depletio

Plans To Increase Tax on Alcohol Scrapped
10-09-2025

Plans To Increase Tax on Alcohol Scrapped


On Friday September 23rd 2022, chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced that the plans to increase the duty on alcohol (spirits, beer, cider, and wine) will be canceled. This news comes as part of an overall mini-budget which is an economic policy announcement by the new prime minister Liz Truss which

How Scotland's Proposed Alcohol Advertising Ban Impacts The Whisky Industry
10-09-2025

How Scotland's Proposed Alcohol Advertising Ban Impacts The Whisky Industry


To address what it refers to as the country's "deep, long-standing, and dysfunctional connection with alcohol," the Scottish Government is consulting on how it might restrict the advertising of alcohol goods. Officials contend that alcohol advertising makes drinking more appealing to adolesc

Huge Tax Increase Hits The Scotch Whisky Market
10-09-2025

Huge Tax Increase Hits The Scotch Whisky Market


With The Chancellor’s (Jeremy Hunt) Spring Budget announced a cry of outrage went up from whisky fans all over the world as it directly opposes government’s pledge to “ensure the tax system is supporting Scottish whisky” The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt Announced in the Spring Budget that there w