Author: thedailywhisky
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The Balvenie x Daniel Arsham: The Dawn of Our Spirit pairs whisky craft with fictional archaeology
The Balvenie has unveiled The Dawn of Our Spirit, a collaboration with American artist Daniel Arsham announced on May 12, 2026 in Dufftown and New York. Working with Malt Master Kelsey McKechnie, Arsham is building a phased artistic programmearound the distillery’s Five Rare Crafts: home-grown barley, on-site cooperage, floor malting, copper stills and the Malt…
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Port Charlotte PC5 Redux and Octomore Black Art Redux: the two bottles Bruichladdich brought back from the vault
Bruichladdich has released two limited Rock’ndaal festival bottles, both reworkings of past icons. The Port Charlotte PC5 Redux revisits the distillery’s first-ever release: 40 PPM peat, American oak, 5 years old, bottled at cask strength 63.5% ABV for £75. The Octomore Black Art Redux is a super-heavily-peated, deliberately undisclosed bottling at 54.2% ABV for £325. Each is limited to…
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Master of Malt Mystery Drop: we took the gamble, and we’d do it again
Master of Malt’s Mystery Drop is a £65 whisky box: you pay a fixed price and receive one hand-picked bottle at random, without knowing in advance what you’ll get. The pool runs across three tiers, from everyday single malts worth £70 to £100, up through premium bottles at £130 to £265, and ultra rare expressions…
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Chichibu x Selfridges Single Cask 2026: 2018 vintage, 59.5% ABV and only 195 bottles
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky The Chichibu x Selfridges Single Cask 2026 is the secondcollaboration between Chichibu Distillery and Selfridgesand Ichiro Akuto doesn’t just make whisky. He makes statements. The latest one is the Chichibu x Selfridges Single Cask 2026: a 2018-vintage, seven-year-old single malt Japanese whisky drawn from a single first-fill bourbon barrel,…
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Jura Fèis Ìle 2026: two single casks, Armagnac and Sauternes, that only a few hundred people will taste
Jura Fèis Ìle 2026 brings two single cask whiskies that mark the 40th anniversary of the Islay and Jura festival. Fèis Ìle 2026, marking the 40th anniversary of the Islay and Jura festival. The festival release is a 16-year-old matured in second fill bourbon and finished 18 months in an Armagnac cask, bottled at cask…
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White Peak Caduro X: The English whisky Sukhinder Singh calls his favourite outside Scotland
White Peak Caduro X is the 10th anniversary single malt from Wire Works distillery in Derbyshire, England, and the English whisky Sukhinder Singh names as his favourite outside Scotland. Bottled at 46.8% ABV, it vats first-fill ex-bourbon, STR and re-charred red wine casks, using both regular-cut and alt-cut spirit for a brighter, lightly peated profile.…
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Bunnahabhain An Cuan Garbh No.1 Review: the 15-year Islay malt finished in White Port that actually earns the maritime story
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Bunnahabhain An Cuan Garbh No.1 is a 15-year-old Islay single malt from Bunnahabhain Distillery, finished in White Port casks from Portugal’s Douro Valley. It is the second release in the Westering Home Collection a three-part trilogy launched in 2025 with Turas Math. Bottled at 51.6% ABV with no added colour or…
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GlenAllachie 11 Year Old Palo Cortado Sherry Cask: Billy Walker’s rarest chapter yet
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky The GlenAllachie 11 Year Old Palo Cortado Sherry Cask Matured is Chapter 4 of GlenAllachie’s Sherry Series a project that takes whisky from the same cask history and finishes each expression in a single, distinct sherry cask type. This 11-year-old Speyside single malt starts in American oak ex-bourbon barrels…
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Visit Stauning Whisky: inside the Danish distillery that floor-malts its own rye
tauning Whisky is a Danish distillery on the west coast of Jutland, founded in 2005 by nine friends with no whisky background and now exported around the world. Its tour stands out because Stauning floor-malts all its own grain by hand, distils in direct-fired copper pot stills, and lets visitors taste new make spirit and…
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Johnnie Walker Blue Label Elusive Umami: An evening where whisky met caviar
Johnnie Walker Blue Label Elusive Umami is a limited-edition blended Scotch (43% ABV) built to capture umami, the savoury fifth taste. It was created by Diageo Master Blender Dr Emma Walker and three-Michelin-starred chef Kei Kobayashi, using casks from inland and coastal distilleries where only 1 in 25,000 carries the umami character. We tasted it…
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