Author: thedailywhisky
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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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Fireball Sneaks: Fireball put a whisky flask pocket in a pair of high-tops, and it is only in the US
Fireball has built a sneaker with a hidden pocket for a pouch of whisky, and it is exactly as literal as it sounds. On 15 July, Sazerac announced Fireball Sneaks: black and red high-tops with flame detailing and a zip pocket in each tongue, engineered to hold the brand’s new Stash Flask. The Stash Flask…
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Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey lands in European travel retail, and Copenhagen is on the list
Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey, the American spirit that turned a single bar shot into a bottled category, is entering European travel retail for the first time. Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail has partnered with Heinemann Duty Free to put 1-litre bottles on shelves from July 2026 at an RRP of €24.99. It launches in seven…
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Berry Bros. & Rudd Odyssey 2026: The Auld and the Bold runs from an £80 Glencadam to a £1,500 Glenlossie 1975
The Berry Bros. & Rudd Odyssey 2026 collection runs from an £80 Glencadam to a £1,500 Glenlossie 1975, with a Danish farm distillery and an Indian single malt sitting in between. Twenty single casks, priced across that whole range, and the spread is the story. Berry Bros. & Rudd has released The Auld and the Bold,…
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Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond Double Mash: the first bourbon to marry a traditional and a wheated mashbill under the Bottled-in-Bond seal
Heaven Hill Double Mash does something nobody had bothered to do before: it puts two different bourbon mashbills, one traditional and one wheated, into a single Bottled-in-Bond bottle. It sounds like a small thing. Legally, it is the kind of small thing that other distilleries walk past for a century without noticing. Announced on 15…
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Royal Elizabeth Bond: Scotland’s newest cask bond shuns paper entirely and gives every barrel a Digital Deed
Royal Elizabeth Bond, an independent cask storage facility at the historic Royal Elizabeth Yard in Dalmeny near the Forth Bridge, has opened as one of Scotland’s largest cask bonds and is running entirely without paper records. Every cask on site is assigned a unique Digital Deed through the Proof 8 platform: a QR-coded digital identity…
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The Macallan Romantica Collection: a 1986 single cask built to carry the weight of the 1926
The most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction is a Macallan. Forty years after that whisky came out of its cask, The Macallan has bottled a cask filled the very same year, handed the labels back to the three artists who made the original famous, and priced the result at a…
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Kavalan Mizunara Oak: twelve Taiwanese butterflies, two cask-strength malts, and a release you probably can’t buy
Kavalan Mizunara Oak is a new Taiwanese single malt series matured in rare Japanese Mizunara oak, released in two cask-strength expressions: one unpeated and one peated. The labels carry butterfly artwork by Japanese painter Takahide Komatsu, with twelve native and migratory species across the range. Single bottles carry a recommended price of NT$18,000 (roughly €510…
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