20 Minutes With: Kavalan Master Blender Ian Chang
Since it started in 2005, the Taiwanese brand Kavalan has garnered dozens of awards, beating out traditional Scottish, American, and Japanese names. Kavalan’s secret weapon has been Ian Chang, the young, baby-faced master blender from Yilan County, the quiet, coastal area where the brand is based. Surrounded by lush jungle, a scenic lake, and with a rare orchid garden on-site, the sprawling distillery site has twice won Visitor Attraction of the Year at the World Whisky Awards. (Barron’s Penta)
Eight Ways Wine Will Change in 2020
Peer into Bloomberg’s crystal glass. There’s a touch of hysteria in this article, but for real hysteria read Deadly bushfires could plunge Australia into a Recession as consumers stop spending and entire businesses are threatened, experts say (Daily Mail), We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires (The Guardian) and Wine grape growers felt the squeeze in 2019, and 2020 looks no friendlier, in which The Washington Post notes “there’s a saturated market and luxury chardonnay and pinot noir have hit a plateau.”