Author: thedailywhisky
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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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Ardnahoe Hand-Fill Release No 1: a 6-year-old PX quarter cask you bottle and sign yourself
Ardnahoe has opened its first hand-fill cask, and it is not the bourbon-and-oloroso profile the distillery built its name on. Release No 1 is a 6-year-old Islay single malt matured in Pedro Ximénez quarter casks, bottled at cask strength, and available only if you turn up at the distillery on Islay and fill the bottle…
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SPEY x Picasso The Dream: the 2012 single malt now comes as a three-bottle puzzle that rebuilds a Picasso
Three bottles, three fragments of a painting, and one image that only appears when you line them up in the right order. That is the idea behind the latest version of SPEY x Picasso The Dream, a 2012 Speyside single malt now sold as a three-bottle collector’s set whose labels reassemble Picasso’s 1932 painting Le…
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Penelope Ready to Pour cocktails: four Old Fashioneds built on real bourbon and rye
Most ready to pour drink cocktails in a bottle are built on neutral spirit and sugar. Penelope’s are not. The brand’s Ready to Pour range is four Old Fashioneds made on a base of straight bourbon and rye whiskey, which is a meaningfully different proposition to the sweet, low-strength stuff that usually fills the category.…
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Penelope Architects of Golf: three bourbons, one mashbill, three levels of oak
Penelope Bourbon released the collection in the US in May 2026. The three expressions are called Hole 1, Hole 2 and Hole 3, and the name is not just theming for the sake of it. Penelope’s founders, Michael Paladini and Danny Polise, sketched the brand out over a round of golf in 2018, so a…
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Maker’s Mark Artist Series City Edition: 11 airport-exclusive bottles painted by Alexandra Pacula
The Maker’s Mark Artist Series City Edition is a global travel retail exclusive: 11 limited-edition bottles wrapped in city-inspired artwork by painter Alexandra Pacula, covering New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Dubai, Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney and Melbourne. Announced on 15 July 2026 by Maker’s Mark, owned by Suntory Global Spirits, the bottles roll…
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The Lakes Chocolatier reaches the UK: the IWSC 2026 Gold winner, and reportedly Sarah Burgess’s last Lakes release
English whisky does not often get to stand on the top step at an international competition. The Lakes Chocolatier just did. The Lakes Distillery has launched Chocolatier English single malt whisky in the UK, and it arrives with a Gold medal from the 2026 International Wine & Spirit Competition already in hand. The distillery says…
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Glenfiddich Voyage Collection: four new travel retail exclusives and the distillery’s first ever port cask finish
Glenfiddich has never finished a whisky in port pipes before. That changes with the Voyage Collection, a new permanent travel retail range of four single malts that replaces the Perpetual Collection on airport shelves and arrives dressed in the distillery’s freshly redesigned livery. The Voyage Collection launched in July 2026 and is exclusive to global…
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Legit Highball: Isle of Raasay single malt lands in a ¥370 can at Japanese convenience stores
Isle of Raasay single malt spirit, the whisky from a Hebridean island of 161 people that won Scottish Whisky Distillery of the Year in 2022, is about to appear in a canned highball sold at Japanese convenience stores for ¥370 (around £1.90 / €2.20). Tokyo-based importer Toko launches two Legit Highball cans, Silent Moon and…
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SMWS Caskmaster 2026: eight drams, nine names, and a lifetime membership on the line
Eight drams in front of you. Nine names on the sheet. Thirty minutes, no conferring, and one of the names is a decoy. That is SMWS Caskmaster 2026, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s first UK blind tasting championship, and it is a genuinely nasty piece of competition design. The extra whisky in the lineup means…
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