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SMWS Winter Series 2026: two peated Islay casks open a whisky season that runs from Hallowe’en to Burns Night
The SMWS Winter Series 2026 is a set of single cask, cask strength whiskies from The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, built around four winter moments: Hallowe’en, Christmas, Hogmanay and Burns Night. It opens with two peated Islay casks. Cask No. 10.304 “Witches’ Bonfire Brew” is a 12-year-old in a second-fill ex-bourbon barrel at 58.5% ABV…
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The best bourbon for Thanksgiving: one bottle for every course, from the first Old Fashioned to the last slice of pie
Thanksgiving is the one American holiday built entirely around a table. Four or five hours, a bird the size of a small child, a dozen sides and at least two pies. That is a long evening, and it deserves more than one bottle opened at random. So we built the meal the other way round.…
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Diwali whisky 2026: six bottles to celebrate India’s distilleries
Why Diwali whisky means Indian single malt in 2026 Diwali is a five-day celebration across Hindu, Sikh and Jain traditions, and gifting sits at the heart of it. Dhanteras, the first day, is traditionally an auspicious day to buy something new. Lakshmi Puja on the main evening brings families together around lamps, sweets and long,…
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Fettercairn Ode to Water is a 324-bottle tribute to the water that makes the distillery’s spirit
Fettercairn Ode to Water is a limited release Highland single malt from Fettercairn Distillery in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Only 324 bottles exist. The spirit was filled into first-fill ex-bourbon barrels on 29 June 2016, then re-casked for two more years into hand-selected first-fill ex-bourbon barrels from Louisville, Kentucky. It is bottled at 47.5% ABV, natural colour…
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Stranahan’s Mountain Angel 14 Year Old: Colorado’s oldest single malt finishes in Hungarian Tokaji cask
Stranahan’s Mountain Angel 14 Year Old is the oldest whiskey Stranahan’s has ever released, announced on 29 October 2026. The Denver distillery matured this American single malt for 10 years in new charred American white oak, then three years and three months in Cognac casks, before a nine-month finish in Tokaji wine casks from Hungary.…
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Four Roses Experimental Series No. 003: chestnut wood from Japan meets six-year-old OBSK bourbon
Mizunara oak in July. Honey-seasoned barrels in September. Now Four Roses has reached for a wood that is not oak at all. Four Roses Experimental Series No. 003 is a Kentucky straight bourbon finished in chestnut casks, the third release in the distillery’s limited Experimental Series. Four Roses took its six-year-old OBSK recipe and finished…
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Laphroaig 26 Year Old Whiskyland Chapter 39: Decadent Drinks marries two vintages of mature Islay smoke
Laphroaig 26 Year Old Whiskyland Chapter 39 is a new independent bottling from Perth-based Decadent Drinks. It is a 50/50 marriage of two refill hogsheads of Laphroaig, one distilled in 1997 and one in 2000, bottled at its natural marrying strength of 49.7% ABV in 70cl bottles. The bottler describes a soft, unfurling peat smoke…
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Rare Find The Long Game: a 36-year-old Macallan, a 38-year-old Tormore and a 34-year-old Deanston from single sherry casks
Three casks, 108 years of combined maturation, and not one of them done the same way. Rare Find, the flagship label of Edinburgh’s Gleann Mòr Spirits Company, has unveiled The Long Game: a 36-year-old Macallan, a 38-year-old Tormore and a 34-year-old Deanston, each bottled from a single cask in 2026. The bottler’s own pitch for…
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The Glenturret Nocturne: a 14 year old sherry cask single malt with a quiet thread of peat
The Glenturret has released Nocturne, a 14 year old single malt that pairs two of the richest sherry casks in the business with something the Perthshire distillery has been quietly building since its relaunch: peat smoke used as structure rather than headline. The idea behind the name is the shift from day into night. In…
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The largest whisky miniature collection ever offered in one auction goes up for sale: inside the Zelmanowitz Collection
More than 3,200 bottles, over 100 distilleries and almost 40 years of collecting, not one bottle bigger than the palm of your hand. This November, the whole lot goes under the hammer at once, in what is believed to be the largest collection of whisky miniatures ever offered in a single auction. The Zelmanowitz Collection…
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