Author: thedailywhisky
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Rare Find Glenglassaugh Collection: three finishes, 335 bottles, and two casks you will probably miss
Two of the three whiskies in Rare Find’s new Glenglassaugh Collection exist in quantities of 48 and 53 bottles. That is not a limited edition in the marketing sense. That is one small cask, emptied. Rare Find, the Edinburgh independent bottler owned by Gleann Mòr Spirits Company, has announced three Glenglassaugh single casks arriving on…
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Spiritory Munich shop: the marketplace opens its first physical store in Munich
Spiritory has spent its whole existence as a screen. A live bid and ask marketplace where bottles move like shares, prices update in public, and the whisky itself never gets closer to you than a photograph. On Friday 24 July 2026 that changes: the Spiritory Munich shop opens inside a protected historic barn in Sendling,…
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New Riff Headliner 2026 is the oldest one yet, and the hardest one to actually get
New Riff Headliner 2026 is the third annual charity release from the Newport, Kentucky distillery, and the first in which every component is at least ten years old. It blends 50% 11-year-old malted rye bourbon, 25% 11-year-old rye and 25% 10-year-old Balboa rye, bottled at 59.4% ABV (118.8 proof) without chill filtration. The price is…
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Glenglassaugh 15 Years Old: the first core bottling built without a single bourbon cask
Glenglassaugh 15 Years Old is a permanent addition to the coastal Highland distillery’s core range, released on 20 July 2026 at 46% ABV and an RRP of £85 for 70cl. It is matured in a combination of Pedro Ximénez sherry casks and Spanish wine casks, with no ex-bourbon component at all, making it the only…
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Bardstown Bourbon Victoria Pineapple: fresh fruit went into the barrel, and that changes the conversation
Victoria Pineapple Barrel Finish Whiskey is Bardstown Bourbon Company’s first release under its new Finishing Series. A custom blend of 10 and 11-year-old Indiana bourbon and 11-year-old rye spent 27 months in Caribbean rum casks that had previously held rum matured with Victoria pineapples, with oak staves and fresh pineapple added to the barrel during…
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Infrequent Flyers Batch 21: Alistair Walker’s new seven-cask run spans a 33-year-old grain to a peated Islay
The most interesting bottle in Infrequent Flyers Batch 21 is a 33-year-old single grain that has spent time in virgin Ozark oak, a cask type you can go years without seeing on a Scotch label. Around it sits a batch built almost entirely on unusual wood: chinquapin oak, Premier Cru Bordeaux, Barolo, ruby port. This…
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Arran 12 Year Old Private Cask: a single first-fill PX hogshead, and only 334 bottles
Arran’s latest 12 Year Old Private Cask is a single first-fill ex-Pedro Ximénez sherry hogshead, hand-selected by Lochranza distillery manager Stewart Bowman and bottled at full cask strength. Cask 19-VA-1431 was distilled on 4 December 2013 and bottled on 7 May 2026 at 55.6% ABV, non-chill filtered and natural colour. It is a web exclusive…
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Jim Beam Cadillac F1 Team 2026: the bourbon giant joins the grid with a £24.95 Kentucky straight
very few whisky brand chasing Formula 1 right now is reaching for prestige. Jim Beam has done the opposite: it has put its Cadillac F1 partnership on a bottle of standard White Label and priced it at £24.95. Jim Beam has become an Official Partner of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team, and to mark it…
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Kilchoman Family Collection 1st Edition: four Islay single malts, and the oldest general release the distillery has ever bottled
Twenty years after the first spirit ran off the stills at Islay’s farm distillery, Kilchoman has bottled a 20 year old. For a distillery that only started distilling in 2005, that is not a rounding error. It is the oldest general release in its history, and it heads up a new four-bottle series called the…
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Raasay Na Sia 7 Years Evolved: a peated and an unpeated ex-Bordeaux single cask, and which one to pick
Two years ago, Isle of Raasay started ageing its Na Sia single casks in public. The idea was simple and slightly unusual: bottle the same recipe casks every two years and let drinkers taste maturation happening in real time. The first drop landed at Five Years Young. This is the second, and it arrives at…
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