Author: thedailywhisky
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Lindores Abbey Nectere: four sherry cask styles in one single malt
Lindores Abbey Nectere: four sherry cask styles in one single malt Lindores Abbey Nectere brings together four different sherry cask styles in a single malt, which is something very few distilleries attempt. Oloroso, Pedro Ximénez, Amontillado and Palo Cortado are usually treated as distinct tools, each pulling a whisky in its own direction. Lindores has…
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Kavalan just put a 16-year age statement on two single casks, and added a rare Colheita Port to the Solist range
Kavalan single cask strength: three new releases, two 16-year Spirits Castle editions and a rare Solist Colheita Port. Tasting notes and availability. Kavalan rarely tells you how old its whisky is. The distillery sits in Yilan, in Taiwan’s humid subtropical north, where casks lose spirit fast and wood works quickly. A handful of years there…
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Teeling 11th Birthday Batch: a sherry-matured vatting of Dublin’s oldest pot still and malt, with every cent of profit going to charity
Most birthday bottlings are a victory lap. Teeling’s 11th Birthday Batch is closer to a fundraiser. It is 500 individually numbered bottles of some of the oldest whiskey the Newmarket distillery has made, and every cent of profit goes to charities in the city it is distilled in. The release marks 11 years since Teeling…
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Rare Find Summer 2026: four single casks built around the art of contrast
Four casks, four maturation philosophies, one question: how much does the wood decide? Rare Find’s Summer 2026 collection answers it four different ways, from the restraint of a first-fill bourbon barrel to the full red-wine soak of a Napa barrique, then doubles down with a matched pair of oloroso quarter casks that prove the same…
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SMWS June 2026 Outturn: we tasted the line-up, and restraint beat the sherry whisky
The most restrained cask in the SMWS June 2026 Outturn won. Of the four we ranked, the one with the lightest sherry touch, a second-fill refill oloroso, walked past the heavyweight first-fill PX and oloroso bottles to take top spot. That is a useful reminder that more sherry is not always more whisky. The June…
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Johnnie Walker Cask Draw Tasting: five rare drams from the Edinburgh cellar, honestly reviewed
Down a level from the heart of Princes Street, in a cooled cellar most visitors never see, you can draw a dram of Roseisle straight from the cask. Not a bottle. The cask. And Roseisle, Diageo’s newest distillery, is a name most whisky drinkers have never tasted as a single malt at all. That is…
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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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