Author: thedailywhisky
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Garrison Brothers Hye Rye pre-sale: pay $99 now, pick up your bottle in October 2028
Garrison Brothers wants your money in July 2026 and will hand you the bottle in October 2028. That is the deal with the Garrison Brothers Hye Rye pre-sale, the Texas distillery’s first, and it is the most interesting thing about this release. The whisky itself, Hye Rye, is a 98 proof rye-heavy bourbon that has…
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Kavalan Peatist Oloroso Sherry Cask is IWC 2026 Whisky of the Year, and Kavalan took three of the top five places
Kavalan Peatist Oloroso Sherry Cask Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky was named Whisky of the Year at the International Whisky Competition 2026, scoring 96.97 points in a double-blind judging format. It is a lightly peated Taiwanese single malt matured entirely in Oloroso sherry casks, bottled from a single cask at 57.1% ABV, non-chill filtered…
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Royal Salute Small Batch Collection: the last of Sandy Hyslop’s private reserve lands across Asia travel retail
Every bottle in the Royal Salute Small Batch Collection comes from the private cask reserve of a master blender who no longer holds the job. Sandy Hyslop retired from Chivas Brothers at the end of 2025 after 42 years in Scotch. The whiskies he set aside are now being released across Asia travel retail, and…
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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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