“Our ambition is to make Scotch the number one international spirits category in China” – Interview – Cristina Diezhandino, Diageo’s Scotch category director & MD of Reserve brands

In the same week as International Women’s Day, the National Association for Female Executives named Diageo’s North American unit as one of 2018’s ‘Top 60 Companies for Executive Women’. The news follows a raft of pledges from Diageo, through both its business and its brands, to champion equality. To mark International Women’s Day, just-drinks talks to Cristina Diezhandino, Scotch category director & MD for Diageo’s Reserve portfolio, about working in the whisk(e)y sectors, the future of Scotch and how bartenders are helping to propel Reserve brands.