WhiskyFest Hits New York City (Episode 743: December 7, 2018)

Whisky Advocate's annual WhiskyFest took over the Marriott
Marquis in New York City's Times Square Tuesday night, and we'll
have some of the highlights along with the sadness. There was a
pall in one corner the ballroom as whisky lovers mourned the
death of master distiller Dave Pickerell last month along with
teams from several of the whiskies he helped create during his
long career. We'll talk with one of Dave's protegés, Hillrock
Estate's Dylan Strang, about the distillery's plans to move
forward using the lessons he and his colleagues learned from
their friend and mentor. In our Behind the Label segment, we'll
have an interview you can only hear on WhiskyCast as we talk with
artist Michael Dillon, the painter who created the one-of-a-kind
label for the 1926 Macallan that shattered the world record for a
whisky auction last week in London. In the news, we'll have the
details of the U.S. Treasury Department's plan to rewrite federal
alcohol regulations for the first time in more than three decades
- and some of the agency's proposals have craft distillers
nervous.