Around The Glass is a whisky and spirits society founded by Kaan Buyukkopru, a Certified Spirits Educator by WSET, Edinburgh Whisky Academy, and Agave Spirits Institute, based in Dubai. We publish expert tasting notes, whisky education guides, and distillery stories from Around The World and host tastings, masterclasses, and events for our members.

Joining the Society is free: subscribers receive tasting notes, distillery journeys, and event invitations by email.

Kaan didn't find spirits in a bar or a classroom. He found them across borders.

He first graduated as a Geomatics Engineer in Istanbul, but it was years of living and working across the Philippines, Spain, Dominican Republic, and United Arab Emirates that changed everything. Every country had its own drink, its own ritual, its own way of telling a story through a glass.

That curiosity became a calling.

He went deep. WSET Level 3 in Spirits. All three levels of the Agave Spirits Institute's Mezcal Advisor program in Mexico. Diploma studies at the Edinburgh Whisky Academy and hands-on Spirits Education in Scotland, Cuba, UK, and France.

Today, he serves as Ambassador at Pernod Ricard Middle East, leading Distilled Spirits Education across the Gulf, Mediterranean, and Southeast Asian markets.

But the credentials were never the point. The point was always to understand not just what's in the glass, but why it exists, where it comes from, and what it says about the people who made it.

Around The Glass is his way of sharing that with the world.