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Glen Scotia Icons of Campbeltown Release No.4 takes the series in a sweeter, warmer direction: an unpeated 12-year-old single malt given a full year in Vin Santo casks, the Italian dessert wine made from dried white grapes. Here are the key facts up front. This is a Campbeltown single malt, distillery-bottled at 53.8% ABV, which…

The Chichibu 2026 releases are four new Ichiro’s Malt whiskies from Japan’s Chichibu distillery, distributed in the UK by Speciality Brands and available from 1 October. The line-up is Distillery II Hint of Sherry (53.5% ABV, £145), Double Distilleries (46.5% ABV, £110), The Peated 2026 (50.5% ABV, £192) and The London Edition 2026 (50.5% ABV,…

There is now a permanent whisky shop at Sydney Airport built around a working conveyor belt. The new Sydney Airport Whisky Emporium borrows the baggage-carousel idea for its centrepiece: a mini revolving display set into the counter, with a central digital screen, that rotates the newest and most exclusive bottles into view as the year…

For the first time since 1837, there is a single malt that was actually distilled in the Scottish Borders. The Borders Distillery in Hawick has unveiled The Borders First Release, an eight-year-old first-fill bourbon single malt finished in malmsey Madeira casks. This is the whisky the distillery has been building towards since spirit first ran…

Remanence is a real word from physics. It is the magnetism a material keeps after the force that created it has been switched off, the trace that stays behind once the field is gone. As a name for a peated whisky built entirely around what a dram leaves behind, it is a sharp piece of…

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has created The Whisky Equinox, a new annual moment to mark the start of whisky season on the autumn equinox, 23 September. To launch it, the Society has released two half-size 35cl single malts today: Riesling Spritz in the Sun, a 12-year-old Speyside at 57.7% ABV, and Spice It Up…

GlenAllachie Sinteis Part IV is the first Scotch whisky matured in Mongolian virgin oak to be bottled for a global release. It is a 2015, 10-year-old Speyside single malt, bottled at 58.5% cask strength, natural colour and non-chill filtered, with a UK RRP of £75.99. It went on sale on 10 September from the distillery and…

Islay whisky almost always sells itself on the distillery name. This collection does the opposite. It takes the distillery off the label and puts the island itself front and centre. The Islay Studio Minerva is a new three-bottle Islay single malt collection from Master of Malt, created with female-founded brand design agency Studio Minerva. It…

An Irish whiskey brand spending up to $5 million to buy strangers a drink is not a product launch. It is a statement about where Jameson thinks the next round of Irish whiskey growth is won: at the bar, on a Sunday, with a game on. The Jameson NFL bar tab, confirmed on 9 September,…

Jim Beam wants you to cheer for the worst sound in football. Jim Beam Hit The Beam, the brand’s new season-long US campaign, is built entirely around the “doink”, the flat metallic clang of a field goal attempt bouncing off the goalpost. Every time it happens on an NFL Sunday, fans have a shot at…