Millie Milliken is a spirits writer and community manager for The Drinks Trust charity’s new member platform, the Drinks Community. Formerly deputy editor at Imbibe UK, she now specialises in bars and spirits, writing for both trade and consumer magazines. Millie has been named the IWSC’s 2022 Spirit Communicator of the Year, sponsored by Chivas Brothers.
It might be the poster child for American whiskey but beyond bourbon, styles from rye to single malt are showing not only confidence but a strong sense of identity too, as Millie Milliken discovered at the 2025 IWSC North American Whiskey & RTD Judging in Kentucky
From an Aztec goddess and the Spanish invasion to a 21st-century resurgence, the history of Tequila encapsulates hundreds of years of sociological, political and cultural change, all leading to the bottle on your table. In this extract from her new book, Tequila: A Tasting Course, Millie Milliken explores its beginnings
