Author: thedailywhisky
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Eight whiskies. One distillery. One evening that reminds you why Campbeltown still matters.
There are distilleries you read about. And then there are distilleries you only truly understand once the glass is full. Glen Scotia is the second kind. And this evening, we went all the way. A distillery that should be dead but isn’t Campbeltown was once the whisky capital of the world. At its Victorian peak,…
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Glen Scotia’s 2026 Festival Bottle Is Pink, Peaty, and Worth Every Penny
Look at that colour. That blush, almost salmon-pink hue sitting in the glass isn’t an accident or a gimmick. It’s what six months inside a ruby Port cask does to a whisky and Glen Scotia’s Campbeltown Malts Festival 2026 release is the proof. We got to taste this one presented by Alan Reid, and it’s…
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We tracked down the Laphroaig Willem Dafoe bottle. Here’s what it’s actually like to drink.
Some bottles you seek out because of the liquid inside. Some because of the design. The Laphroaig x Willem Dafoe release managed to make both arguments at the same time. We had it on our list before we even walked through the doors at the whisky event. It had just been released, the bottle was…
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The best whisky highball outside of Japan is being poured in London right now
The Japanese whisky highball is one of those drinks that sounds simple until you have a bad one. Then you realise how badly wrong it can go: flat, warm, over-diluted, poured from a bottle sitting under harsh bar lights for six months too long. Mitsu London gets it right. What Mitsu is actually doing Mitsu…
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Liquid orange marmalade in a glass: Deanston’s 17 year old orange wine cask finish
It smells like sunshine and tastes like the best orange marmalade you’ve ever had. That’s the short version. The longer version involves a Highland distillery, a 34-year-old master blender with family roots in southern Spain, 7,000 bottles, and a type of fortified wine most whisky drinkers have probably never heard of. But if you love…
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Tamnavulin did that: why Whiskyland chapter thirty one deserves your attention
Tamnavulin doesn’t usually stop anyone in their tracks. Built in 1966 on the southern edge of Speyside, it was a blender’s workhorse big stills, short fermentation, light and grainy spirit that quietly propped up an enormous share of blended Scotch for decades. It wasn’t a name that whisky writers typed in excitement. It was a…
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19 Years in the cask one eeek at Royal Birkdale: Loch Lomond’s open course collection 2026
Royal Birkdale is back. So is Loch Lomond. The 154th Open Championship returns to the Southport links this summer, and Loch Lomond has marked the occasion with something worth paying attention to: a 19-year-old single malt distilled in 2006, finished in hand-selected Tawny Port casks, and limited to just 3,000 bottles worldwide. This is the…
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When a whisky distillery and a futurist artist realize they’re speaking the same language
There’s a strange thing that happens when you put a sculptor obsessed with decay next to a Malt Master obsessed with preservation. You’d expect friction. What The Balvenie and Daniel Arsham got instead was a conversation that had apparently been waiting to happen for decades. Their collaboration, The Dawn of Our Spirit, was unveiled on May…
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Two bottles that Bruichladdich should have left in the vault — but didn’t
Bruichladdich just dropped two of the most loaded releases in its recent history, and they’re not new expressions. They’re old ones, brought back with better whisky and a lot more context. The Port Charlotte PC5 Redux and the Octomore Black Art Redux are the centrepieces of the distillery’s Rock’ndaal festival releases limited to 2,500 bottles each, dispatching from 15th…
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We tried our luck with Master of Malt’s Mystery Drop and we’d do it again
We didn’t know what we were getting. That was the whole point. When we stumbled across Master of Malt’s Mystery Drop concept, our first thought was: is this just a clever way to sell us random whisky? Our second thought: doesn’t matter, we’re in. What is mystery drop? The concept is simple in the way…
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