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In the press

What the press writes about Maison Lineti, from the first article to the most recent, in reverse order of time.

2025
  1. The Spirits Business

    Maison Lineti seeks buyer as major investor leaves

    9 July 2025 · Nicola Carruthers

    The British trade press gives the House the floor: the end of a chapter, the World Whisky Forum held regardless, and three criteria for a buyer — long-term vision, equity, passion for craft.

  2. Forbes

    One Of The Best New Craft Whisky Distilleries Is About To Close Down

    3 July 2025 · Felipe Schrieberg

    Dave Broom and Dawn Davies publicly stand up for a House that has yet to release its first bottle, in the name of the quality of its spirits and its method. The story of a turning point.

  3. The Whisky Manual

    Why saving Maison Lineti is important

    2 July 2025 · Dave Broom

    Back for the World Whisky Forum, Dave Broom goes down to the molecular level of the House's method and concludes: there are few genuine innovations in whisky, and this is one.

  4. Club Oenologique

    Bordeaux's avant-garde spirit

    21 May 2025 · Becky Paskin · Print

    Becky Paskin spends a day at the House: fermentation eggs, lees ageing, malolactic fermentation, and one conviction, drinkability from the youngest age.

  5. Whisky Experts

    6th World Whisky Forum at Maison Lineti distillery near Bordeaux – tickets now available

    27 March 2025

    The German press announces the 6th World Whisky Forum, hosted by the House, and its theme: building distilleries that last.

  6. Whisky Mag

    Maison Lineti hosts the World Whisky Forum

    10 March 2025 · Christine Lambert

    For the first time, the World Whisky Forum is held in France. The House is its host, with Dave Broom moderating and a programme focused on the industry's future.

  7. Bouillantes

    When spirits taste like amphora

    15 January 2025 · Thibaut Neuman · Print

    Five leading players discuss ovoid vessels. The House explains its choice of egg-shaped fermentation vats, a world first in whisky.

2024
  1. Les Échos Série Limitée

    The powerful women of whisky

    6 December 2024 · Béatrice Brasseur

    Six pioneering women at the head of the world's finest distilleries. Among them, the House's Whisky Master and her vintage whisky, conceived in five chapters.

  2. La Revue du Vin de France

    French Touch for foreign spirits

    25 November 2024 · Cyrille Mald · Print

    The spirits supplement singles out the House as the example of a distillery uniting the worlds of wine and whisky, from egg fermentation to ageing the wash on lees.

  3. Swedish Whisky Girl

    Visiting Maison Lineti in Bordeaux

    15 November 2024

    A tour led by the Whisky Master, a comparative masterclass and five things learned along the way, told by a whisky enthusiast from Sweden.

  4. Speakeasy

    A Master Notes to learn all about whisky making

    8 November 2024

    One of the most closely watched projects of recent years. Speakeasy presents the Master Notes, free publications that democratise the scientific approach to whisky.

  5. On The Sauce Again

    Maison Lineti French Single Malt Whisky – New Era of Creativity

    30 September 2024

    From winemaking traditions to molecular chemistry: a detailed report on a House that innovates at every step, for enthusiasts who want to understand.

  6. Bilan Luxe

    Whisky like a Grand Cru

    11 September 2024 · Print

    A bridge between spirits and wine: the House aims to pioneer vintage whisky and positions itself from the outset at grand cru level.

  7. Distilnews

    Maison Lineti Master Notes: democratising the scientific approach to whisky

    9 September 2024

    Eight themes, from raw materials to research, to share the House's know-how with professionals and enthusiasts alike.

  8. Gault & Millau

    Maison Lineti, French Grand Cru whisky

    6 September 2024 · Guillaume Rebière · Print

    The pioneers of vintage whisky explain their ambition: a whisky at the interface of spirits and grands crus, readable over time through its chapters.

  9. Whisky Mag

    Maison Lineti takes care of our spiritual education

    29 August 2024 · Christine Lambert

    A themed Master Note every two months, free to download: Whisky Mag salutes a House that shares its research while waiting for its first whiskies.

  10. Luxsure

    Maison Lineti: Pioneers of Vintage Whisky inspired by the Grand Crus

    21 June 2024 · Pascal Iokavou

    Vintage, chapters, lees ageing and the appointment to host the World Whisky Forum: the portrait of a House redefining whisky's parameters.

  11. Decanter

    Maison Lineti: Meet the French distillery that thinks it's a winery

    17 May 2024 · Peter Ranscombe

    For World Whisky Day, Decanter visits a distillery that borrows pre-maturation techniques from wine and tastes the first cellar samples.

  12. Whisky Cask Club

    Investing in Maison Lineti: The French answer to the whisky market

    7 May 2024 · Danny Pedroni

    The only French distillery on Whisky Mag's list of ones to watch, the House is introduced to collectors through its 2023 vintage.

  13. Whisky Mag

    20 distilleries to watch in the coming years

    25 April 2024 · Christine Lambert

    20th anniversary special issue: the House is among the twenty distilleries to watch. Concrete eggs, Charentais stills, long fermentations, and distillates judged superb.

  14. Distilnews

    Maison Lineti appointed to host the sixth World Whisky Forum in 2025

    3 April 2024

    After High Coast, Cotswolds, Westland, Stauning and Komoro, the House is chosen to host the sixth edition of the industry's world forum.

  15. The Whisky Manual

    Egg-sperimental whisky: Maison Lineti

    1 April 2024 · Dave Broom

    Dave Broom spends a day in the egg box: lees, tension, slow and fast tails, pink oak. The view of one of whisky's leading authorities.

2023
  1. Vigneron

    Vintage single malts

    30 November 2023 · Léa Delpont · Print

    Slow fermentations, pumping over, lees ageing, new casks: even before its first bottle, the House already inspires the wine press.

  2. L'Express

    A Vintage in whisky

    5 June 2023 · Philippe Bidalon, Jean-Pierre Saccani

    Can whisky still innovate. Yes, answers L'Express, with the vintage concept and five spirits aged for different lengths of time each year.

  3. La Revue du Vin de France

    In Bordeaux, Maison Lineti invents Vintage Whisky

    13 January 2023 · Thierry Masclot

    The first drops have just flowed from the stills. La RVF discovers a brand-new distillery where nothing was left to chance and tastes a promising first distillate.

2021
  1. Whisky Mag

    Saint-Emilion, a new land of whisky

    1 September 2021 · Christine Lambert

    The very first article. A distillery still on paper, seven white concrete eggs, two Charentais stills, and a promise: vintages.