Author: thedailywhisky
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Johnnie Walker Fill Your Own Bottle: the Edinburgh souvenir no one can copy
There is a bottle of Johnnie Walker on our shelf with our own name engraved into the glass. Every time we open it and pour for friends, the first question is the same: how did you get your name on a Johnnie Walker? That bottle is the Johnnie Walker Fill Your Own Bottle experience, and…
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Johnnie Walker Journey of Flavour: an honest review of the £30 signature tour
A live performer strides across moving walkways telling the story of a Kilmarnock grocer, the lights swing from a soft glow to a full Times Square finale, and you are holding a highball mixed to match a wristband you were given at the door. This is the Johnnie Walker Journey of Flavour, and it is…
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Johnnie Walker 1820 Rooftop Bar: castle views, exclusive cocktails and a seriously rare whisky list
Most people climb to the Johnnie Walker 1820 Rooftop Bar for the view, and the view delivers: Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town laid out in front of you, best of all from the terrace in summer sun. But the thing that keeps a whisky person up there is hidden behind the bar, in a…
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The Johnnie Walker Experience Edinburgh: an honest review of the adults’ Disneyland of whisky
Every trip to Scotland, we start in the same place. Before the Highlands, before a single distillery, before the drive to the coast, we walk into Johnnie Walker Princes Street and order a whisky. We call it the adults’ Disneyland, and we mean it as a compliment. You can open your Scotland trip here or…
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The Macallan opens its first UK boutique at Harrods, with a 100-bottle Rare Cask exclusive
The Macallan Harrods boutique is now open, the brand’s first dedicated shop in its home UK market. It sits inside Harrods in Knightsbridge, in the space that used to hold the store’s Baccarat Bar next to the Fine Wines and Spirits department, and stocks one of the widest ranges of Macallan single malt available outside…
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Raasay Rye Cask 3.4x Distilled: an unpeated single cask that breaks the house style
The Isle of Raasay Rye Cask 3.4x Distilled is the distillery’s first 3.4 times distilled single malt, and master distiller Alasdair Day describes it as “completely, untypically Raasay.” It is unpeated, fully matured in a single ex-Woodford Reserve rye cask (2019/649), and bottled at 59% natural cask strength with natural colour and no chill filtration.…
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Lochlea Red Wine Cask 2026: a Tuscan Sangiovese finish from Scotland’s grain-to-cask farm
The farm where Robert Burns once dug a living out of the Ayrshire soil now grows its own barley and finishes single malt in wine casks from Tuscany. That is the Lochlea Red Wine Cask 2026 in one sentence, and it is a stranger, better whisky than that contrast might suggest. This is the second…
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Johnnie Walker Blue Label NYC Champions: a commemorative bottle for the Knicks’ first title in 53 years
Fifty-three years. That is how long New York waited between Knicks championships, and the city spent this week making up for it, parade and all. Johnnie Walker has marked the moment the way drinks brands tend to: with a bottle. The Blue Label NYC Champions Limited Edition Design is a commemorative release that wraps the…
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Ballantine’s x Malbon: two limited edition Scotch whiskies built around Glentauchers and Glenburgie
Ballantine’s has put a golf-shaped twist on two of its older blends, and the catch for most readers is geography: you can only buy them in South Korea. The Ballantine’s x Malbon collaboration, unveiled at a launch event in Seoul on 28 May 2026, pairs the Scotch house with Malbon, a lifestyle golf brand known…
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Tormore is back as a single malt: Elixir gives the Pearl of Speyside its first ever core range
For most of its life, Tormore was a distillery you drank without knowing it. Built in 1959, it spent decades feeding some of the world’s biggest blends while almost never appearing as a single malt of its own. That ends now. On 15 June, owners Elixir Distillers launched the Tormore core range: three permanent single malts…
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