Author: thedailywhisky
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Brother’s Bond Bourbon JetBlue partnership puts a four-grain straight bourbon on board at 35,000 feet
The Brother’s Bond Bourbon JetBlue partnership means that since 1 October 2026, JetBlue has served Brother’s Bond Straight Bourbon onboard in 50ml miniatures. It is the flagship of the American whiskey brand founded by actors Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley. The bourbon is made from four grains (65% corn, 22% rye, 13% wheat and malted…
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Maker’s Mark Expedition 01: Mizunara, French and American oak, and you’ll need a boarding pass to buy it
Maker’s Mark Expedition 01 is the first release in the Kentucky distillery’s new World Wood Collection, a series sold only in airport duty free. It blends three separately finished whiskies: one with Japanese Mizunara oak staves, one with French oak and one with American white oak. Maker’s Mark says it is the brand’s first whisky…
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Russell’s Reserve Single Rickhouse 2026: Camp Nelson D is the bourbon Eddie Russell says you’d mistake for a rye
Russell’s Reserve Single Rickhouse 2026 is Camp Nelson D, the fifth release in Wild Turkey’s Single Rickhouse Collection. It is a non-chill filtered Kentucky straight bourbon bottled at barrel proof, 120.8 proof (60.4% ABV), drawn from barrels on five floors of a 1946 rickhouse that sits higher than any other in the series so far.…
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Indri Diwali Collector’s Edition 2026: Ruby Port Cask turns India’s festival bottle a deep shade of red
The Indri Diwali Collector’s Edition 2026 is a cask strength Indian single malt from the Indri distillery in Haryana, northern India, matured in hand-selected Ruby Port casks from Portugal. It is bottled at 58.5% ABV (117 proof), made from six-row Indian barley in copper pot stills, and is the fourth annual Diwali release from Indri.…
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The Dalmore Cigar Malt Signature Reserve 18 adds five casks, an age statement and 46% ABV to the cigar range
The Dalmore Cigar Malt Signature Reserve Aged 18 Years is a new permanent Highland single malt from The Dalmore, built to pair with cigars. It is matured first in ex-Bourbon barrels and then in four further cask types: Marsala casks, Cabernet Sauvignon barriques, Cabernet Franc barriques and Matusalem Oloroso sherry casks. It is bottled at…
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Jim Beam distillery events 2026: the autumn calendar built around bottles you can only get in Clermont
James B. Beam Distilling Co. has announced its autumn and winter 2026 programme at its Clermont, Kentucky campus, about 30 minutes south of Louisville. The Jim Beam distillery events run from 15 October to 3 December and include a bourbon and barbecue feast ($250), a Kentucky Proud dinner built around Hardin’s Creek ($175), Beam Family…
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Angel’s Envy Cellar Collection Volume 6 puts peach brandy and toasted oak on an 8 to 11 year old rye
Angel’s Envy Cellar Collection Volume 6 is a limited-edition straight rye whiskey finished in peach brandy and toasted oak barrels. It is the first release in the Louisville distillery’s Cellar Collection to use two different finishing casks. Master Distiller Owen Martin has blended rye whiskeys aged 8 to 11 years in total, with components spending…
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Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged 2026: the oldest blend yet from the limestone cellar reaches the UK
Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged 2026 is the fourth annual release of the Kentucky distillery’s oldest bourbon. It blends 49% 11-year-old, 33% 12-year-old and 18% 14-year-old wheated bourbon, the highest share of 14-year-old stock in the series so far. The whiskey spends around seven years in traditional rickhouses before finishing four to six years in Maker’s…
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Hibiki Harmony Chiso 2026: a Kyoto kimono house founded in 1555 dresses Japan’s most recognisable blend
Hibiki Harmony Chiso 2026 is a limited-edition bottling of Hibiki Japanese Harmony, the no-age-statement blend from the House of Suntory, presented in a bottle designed with Chiso, a Kyoto kimono house founded in 1555. The whisky inside is the standard Japanese Harmony, a blend of malt whisky from Yamazaki and Hakushu with grain whisky from…
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Macallan Carta Nautica: a 600-bottle 1987 leads a four-bottle collection that ends its journey in bourbon casks
Macallan Carta Nautica is a new collection of four single malts from The Macallan, launched on 28 September 2026 at the TFWA travel retail show in Cannes. Each one spends its first years in sherry-seasoned oak before moving into ex-bourbon wood. The flagship is a 38-year-old from 1987 (45.2% ABV, 600 bottles). Below it sit…
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