42 Trending Whiskey Tasting Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

Start A Whiskey Tasting Business

A whiskey taster analyzes and gives feedback about the whiskey.

When you become a whisky taster, you approve the whiskey best for the customer.

Before starting a whiskey-tasting business, you must have expert knowledge about whiskeys so you can discharge your role in a whisky testing business. Your target customers can be whiskey manufacturers and those involved throughout the supply chain.

Looking for some examples of a whiskey tasting business?

Interested in case studies of a successful whiskey tasting business? Check out our full list of success stories.

1. Buffalo Trace Distillery

Over 200 years of fine bourbon craftsmanship make Buffalo Trace the World's Most Decorated Distillery. Tour the grounds with our interactive Distillery map and live video. Learn about our rich heritage and award-winning whiskies.

Website traffic: 180K/month

2. Bounty Hunter Rare Wine & Spirits

As merchants, negociants and vintners, we are afforded special access to a treasure trove of exceptional wine and spirits. Since 1994, we are the Napa Valley...

Website traffic: 90K/month

Learn more about starting a whiskey tasting business:

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4. Sip Whiskey

It's never been easier to buy Alcohol online. As your go-to Online Liquor Store, We offer the best collection of whiskey & other spirits all at your finger tips and delivered straight to your door. Shop our entire collection of liquor, beer, wine & more from the comfort of your own home.

Where they're located: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Website traffic: 120K/month

5. Watershed

Watershed Distillery is committed to producing high quality gins, bourbon and other spirits with ingredients sourced close to home, helping to re-establish a vibrant distilling culture in Ohio. Tours, samples, bottle shop on site.

Where they're located: Columbus, Ohio, USA

6. Heritage Distilling

Where they're located: Seattle, Washington, USA

7. Cutwater Spirits

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA
Website traffic: 70K/month

8. WhiskyIntelligence.com

9. The Whisky Shop

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Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA
Website traffic: 60K/month

10. Whiskies of the World

Whiskies of the World is a series of fifteen hugely popular whisky festivals. Featuring whiskies from Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Japan and many others.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

11. Stranahan's

Rocky Mountain Single Malt Whiskey

Where they're located: Denver, Colorado, USA

12. Westward Whiskey

The American Northwest. We set out to make a whiskey of the elements— and along the way, we called it Westward.

Where they're located: Portland, Oregon, USA

13. Middle West Spirits

Inspired by a life well-lived, we craft our spirits with local ingredients, preserving the flavor — and capturing the character — of the place we call home.

Where they're located: Columbus, Ohio, USA

14. Whisk(e)y Marketing School

15. Westland Distillery American Single Malt Whiskey

American Single Malt Whiskey made in the Pacific Nothwest

Where they're located: Seattle, Washington, USA

16. Cleveland Whiskey

Cleveland Whiskey. Whiskey. Without Limits. Our process allows us to make totally unique award-winning flavor profiles.Check it out.

Where they're located: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

17. The Flatiron Room

The Flatiron Room is classic gathering place in NYC offering over 1,000 whiskeys, bourbons, single malts, cocktails, live jazz & food.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

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Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA

19. Whiskey Business

Where they're located: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

20. Tuthilltown Spirits

Shop Hudson whiskey, bourbon and rye today, or book a tour with us. Hudson Whiskey is New York's first whiskey distillery since prohibition. Find out more.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

21. Whiskey Kitchen

Where they're located: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

22. Glacier Distilling Company

Glacier Distilling is a craft distillery nestled in the foothills of Glacier National Park. Specializing in small-batch whiskeys that reflect the rugged beauty of our surroundings. We use local grains and pure glacial water from the Northern Rockies to create alpine whiskeys best enjoyed in the great outdoors.

23. Nelson's Green Brier Distillery

Home of the Original Tennessee Whiskey and the award-winning Belle Meade Bourbon, Nelson's Green Brier Distillery is Nashville's most historic distillery.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

24. Eastside Distilling

Eastside Distilling is Portland, Oregon’s premiere producer of premium crafted, small batch spirits including Burnside Oregon Oaked Whiskies, HueHue Coffee Rum, Oregon Marionberry Whiskey, Portland Potato Vodka, and Below Deck Rums located on Portland’s famous Distillery Row.

Where they're located: Portland, Oregon, USA

25. Fine & Rare

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

26. Chattanooga Whiskey

FIRST DISTILLERY TO MAKE WHISKEY IN CHATTANOOGA IN OVER 100 YEARS. EXPERIENCE TENNESSEE HIGH MALT, OUR UNIQUE STYLE OF STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY.

27. Edinburgh Whisky Academy

28. Henebery Spirits, Inc.

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA

29. One Eight Distilling

One Eight Distilling is Washington, DC's second distillery crafting 'District Made' vodka, gin, barrel rested gin, rye and bourbon whiskeys and 'Untitled' whiskeys, gins, and experimental spirits.

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA

30. Boston Harbor Distillery

At Boston Harbor Distillery you'll find the finest hand-crafted spirits Boston has to offer. Whether it's our Putnam Rye Whiskey, Lawley's Small Batch Rum, or other Boston inspired spirit, all of our award-winning bottles integrate passion, history and the finest quality ingredients…No compromises and all heart.

Where they're located: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

31. Universal Whisky Experience

Universal Whisky Experience presents the world’s most luxurious whisky tasting event. Luxury Whisky and Spirits Experience Rescheduled to 24th April 2021

Where they're located: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA