All four nations of UK whisky now have equivalent legal protection as English Whisky joins Scotch, Welsh and Irish counterparts under the UK Spirit Drinks Geographical Indications Scheme.

Our February 2026 distillery focus is from Daniel Szor, Founder of Cotswolds Distillery. What does English Whisky mean to you? To me, English Whisky is about confidence rather than comparison. It’s about respecting the foundations laid by others, while having the freedom to interpret them through our own landscape, climate, ingredients, and sensibility. English Whisky should never be an exercise in imitation. At its best, it reflects where it’s made and who made it - flavou

Our Winter 2025 distillery focus is Spirit of Yorkshire What does English Whisky mean to you? To us, English Whisky means identity over imitation - respecting tradition but doing things our own way, to create something delicious, rooted in where it is made. What makes your whisky (and distillery) unique within the English Whisky sphere? Single estate from field to bottle. We’re farmers (since 1945), brewers (since 2003) and distillers (since 2016). 100% homegrown barley i