Author: thedailywhisky
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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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Old Pulteney 50 Year Old and 30 Year Old: the oldest whiskies from Wick turn 200th
Old Pulteney has spent two centuries letting the sea do half the work. For its 200th birthday, the Wick distillery has bottled the oldest whisky in its history: a 50 Year Old limited to 200 crystal decanters, released alongside a 30 Year Old run of 1,000. Both were distilled and matured on Scotland’s far north…
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Whisky 1901 Ledger Series: six single cask Scotch bottlings spanning 11 to 21 years
The Whisky 1901 Ledger Series is the bottler’s debut range, and it lands six single casks at once, running from an 11-year-old Glen Garioch to a 21-year-old Invergordon single grain, every one an age-stated single cask under £160. What’s worth a second look is the spread: Whisky 1901’s debut range, The Ledger Series, lands six…
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Best whisky for beginners 2026: 10 bottles under £50 that actually teach you something
Most beginner whisky lists make the same mistake: ten variations of the same soft, inoffensive Speyside, picked so nothing scares anyone off. That teaches you nothing. The whiskies below do the opposite. Each one opens a different door, sherry, smoke, fruit, spice, rye, so that after ten bottles you actually know what you like and…
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Indri Dru review: Trini at full power
Indri Dru is the cask-strength bottling that takes everything people love about Indri’s flagship and turns it up. Where Trini is bright and approachable, Dru is the same tropical Indian character delivered at full intensity: 57.2% ABV, drawn from hand-picked ex-bourbon casks, with no chill-filtration and no added colour. It is bold, fruit-forward and surprisingly…
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