Author: thedailywhisky
-
Cotswolds Hearts & Crafts Madeira Cask: the seventh release swaps wine and brandy casks for a garnet-tinted English single malt
Cotswolds Hearts & Crafts Madeira Cask is the seventh expression in the distillery’s annual Arts and Crafts series, and after a run of increasingly obscure casks, this one lands on a classic. The Madeira Cask Single Malt has been fully matured in hand-selected American oak ex-Madeira casks, bottled non-chill filtered at 54% ABV, and capped at…
Written by
·
-
World Cup 2026 whisky: the Scotch, bourbon and official FIFA bottles released for the tournament
The single most photographed whisky label of this World Cup shows a Scotsman upside down in mid-air. It is Scott McTominay’s overhead kick against Denmark at Hampden Park, the goal that dragged Scotland back to a World Cup after 28 years away, and it sits on the front of a Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottle…
Written by
·
-
Glasgow 1770 releases three collaboration single casks, including its first-ever USA-exclusive bottling
Glasgow 1770 has done something it has never done before: bottled a single malt specifically for the American market. It arrives as part of a trio of limited collaboration single casks, each released through a different retail or hospitality partner, and each pulling the distillery’s house style in a different direction. One is unpeated and…
Written by
·
-
Best whisky for Father’s Day 2026: seven bottles matched to seven types of dad
We tasted the Redbreast 27 Batch 6 at Whisky Live Paris, and it knocked us flat. Creamy single pot still, plums, a sweetness that builds rather than fades. It was the dram of the show, and it became the reason this whole gift guide exists. Because Father’s Day is the one day a year when…
Written by
·
-
The GlenAllachie Masters of Wood 19 Year Old: ex-solera sherry casks that held sherry for over half a century before they ever met whisky
These are casks that had a 55-year head start. Before The GlenAllachie spirit ever touched them, they spent more than half a century holding Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso inside working solera systems in Spain. That is the whole pitch of the new GlenAllachie Masters of Wood 19 Year Old Ex-Solera Sherry, and it is a genuinely…
Written by
·
-
The Maker’s Mark Old Fashioned: Lucien Laviscount and Hawksmoor mark Father’s Day
The Maker’s Mark Old Fashioned is the centre of a new 2026 campaign in which British actor Lucien Laviscount stars in a short film for the wheated Kentucky bourbon, owned by Suntory Global Spirits. Filmed at the newly opened Hawksmoor St Pancras in London and premiered on Laviscount’s Instagram in early June 2026, the campaign…
Written by
·
-
Benromach Contrasts Côte Rôtie: a 12-year-old Speyside finished in one of the Rhône’s rarest red wine casks
Most wine-finished Scotch leans on the usual suspects: sherry, port, the occasional Bordeaux barrique. Benromach has gone somewhere far less travelled. Their latest Contrasts release spent its final 26 months in Côte Rôtie casks, the Syrah-driven red from the steep terraces of the northern Rhône, and that single choice is the whole story here. Benromach…
Written by
·
-
Nikka Whisky and Tokyo Nights: the real story is a £48 blend going mainstream
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Nikka Whisky is the exclusive whisky sponsor of Tokyo Nights, an immersive sumo, sushi and sake event at Borough Hall in Greenwich, London, running 6 June to 8 July 2026. Guests can drink Nikka From the Barrel and Taketsuru with dinner plus district-themed bottled highballs. Tickets start around £70.…
Written by
·
-
Bruichladdich x Whitebox: the Classic Laddie and Port Charlotte now come in a can, at full strength
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Bruichladdich x Whitebox have put two of Islay’s single malts into canned cocktails and crucially it has not watered them down to do it. The Whisky Sour is built on the unpeated Classic Laddie at 19% ABV, and the Penicillin runs on the heavily peated Port Charlotte at 22.5%.…
Written by
·
-
Woven’s WXC is the World’s Best Flavoured Whisky 2026, and the Leith blender is opening its doors on the Shore
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Woven, the Edinburgh blender founded in 2021, won its first World’s Best at the 2026 World Whiskies Awards. WXC, a Scotch-and-coffee spirit drink made with London’s Assembly Coffee, was named World’s Best Flavoured Whisky 2026. It is bottled at 44.5% ABV, non chill filtered, and carries an RRP of…
Written by
·