Author: thedailywhisky
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Woven Civerinos Hot Honey: an Edinburgh pizza collaboration built around hot honey
The Woven Civerinos Hot Honey is a limited spirit drink from Leith blender Woven and Edinburgh pizza institution Civerinos. Built on a North British single grain Scotch base, with Scottish blossom honey and a house made guajillo and green jalapeño chilli tincture, it started life as a hot honey pizza drizzle before Woven’s Pete Allison…
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Arbikie The Signature: the Angus farm distillery’s first single malt is a field-to-bottle 10-year-old
Ten years ago, barley went into the ground on a farm above Lunan Bay. This weekend it comes out of the cask and into a bottle with the Arbikie name on it for the first time. That bottle is Arbikie The Signature, the distillery’s inaugural single malt Scotch whisky. The Signature is Arbikie’s inaugural single…
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House of Hazelwood Calm Waters 1992: a 30-year-old Speyside malt at the £950 floor of the Legacy Collection
House of Hazelwood Calm Waters is a new bottling in the Legacy Collection, and this time the specification does something the house rarely does: it lands under four figures. This 1992-vintage blended malt Scotch has been matured for more than three decades and bottled in 2026 at £950. For a producer whose releases routinely climb…
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Ki One Distillery Edition Batch 01: Korea’s first single malt bottles a 6-year rum cask you can only get on the distillery tour
Korea’s first single malt distillery has released a bottle you cannot buy in a shop. Ki One Distillery Edition Batch 01 is a cask-strength rum cask single malt at 57.3%, limited to 861 numbered bottles, and it is sold in one place only: on the tour at the distillery itself. First shown at the Bar…
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Jameson lands the NFL: the world’s number-one Irish whiskey is now the league’s Official Spirits Sponsor
The Jameson NFL partnership is official. Jameson has been named the Official Spirits Sponsor of the NFL under a multi-year global partnership announced on 30 July 2026. The Midleton-made Irish whiskey replaces Diageo, which had held the slot since 2021, making Jameson the first Irish whiskey to own it. The deal grants official global league…
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Callum Turner named global ambassador for Johnnie Walker Blue Label
Johnnie Walker has handed the keys to its most expensive core bottle to a leading man who is about to have a very big year. Callum Turner, the British actor stepping into the lead of Apple TV+’s Neuromancer, is the new global ambassador for Johnnie Walker Blue Label, in a year-long partnership announced in London…
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The Lakes Rivea: a US-only English single malt just landed in the UK at £99
For two years, Rivêa was a bottle you had to cross the Atlantic to buy. The Lakes Distillery released it exclusively in the United States in April 2023, first in Chicago and Washington DC. Now The Whisky Shop has it as a UK exclusive at £99, which means the fragrant, Riviera-inspired single malt that American…
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Old Elk 10 Year Old Collection: three decade-aged whiskies at $69.99, and a bourbon built on 34% malted barley
The Old Elk 10-Year-Old Collection is a three-bottle range of decade-aged American whiskies, and the first major release since Middle West Spirits acquired Old Elk in May 2025. It includes a Straight Bourbon (51% corn, 34% malted barley, 15% rye; 52.5% ABV), a Straight Wheat Whiskey (96% wheat, 4% malted barley; 51.5% ABV), and a…
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Strathearn Batch 03: one of Scotland’s smallest distilleries leans into sherry
Strathearn Batch 03 is the newest small batch Highland single malt from Strathearn, one of Scotland’s smallest distilleries, now under the wing of independent bottler Douglas Laing. It is a vatting of 31 casks spanning ex-bourbon, virgin oak and ex-sherry, with the sherry influence pushed further than on Batch 02. Expect dark honey, warming spice, chocolate…
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Glenfarclas 190: the anniversary single malt married from 78 casks across five decades
Glenfarclas 190 is a limited-edition Speyside single malt released to mark the distillery’s 190th anniversary and the final bottling in its Anniversary Trilogy, after the 175 and 185. It marries 78 casks laid down across five decades, from the 1970s to the 2000s, and is bottled at 51.4% ABV, the old 90 British proof. It…
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