Wine Enthusiast Magazine

THE RISE OF SPIRITS TASTING CLUBS

When Charles Grabitzky returned home to Saratoga Springs, New York, from a 2015 trip to Scotland, all he could think about was Scotch.

“I was dying to try as much Scotch and whiskey as possible,” he recalls. “I couldn’t afford to do that, but I said, ‘with a group of people, we could all contribute and try whiskeys.’”

Grabitzky organized a group of about 15 people to

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