Spirits & Data Specialist, BAXUS
Vintage spirits specialist with a passion for dusty bottles, closed distilleries and 20th-century whisky.
Owain Phillips is a spirits and data specialist for BAXUS and a dedicated vintage spirits enthusiast with a passion for dusty bottles. He spent three years as a spirits specialist at Australia’s largest whisky auction house, where he honed his expertise, before BAXUS approached him in late 2024.
Today he writes informative articles that help the community understand what they are drinking and why vintage spirits taste the way they do. His specialisms are bourbon, rum and single malt whisky history, with a particular focus on closed distilleries, blended Scotch and the ways production changes have shaped modern spirits.
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