Author: thedailywhisky
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The Glenturret Deux Terrains: a 21 year old Highland whisky finished in Sauternes casks from Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey
The Glenturret Deux Terrains is a 21 year old single malt Scotch whisky finished in casks that once held Sauternes from Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey, a Premier Grand Cru Classé estate in Bordeaux.It is the distillery’s first release finished in Sauternes wood, following initial maturation in sherry-seasoned oak. Deux Terrains is bottled at 42.8% ABV in 70cl…
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The Heart Cut Ardnamurchan #24: a fully PX sherry-matured single cask from the west coast’s most requested distillery
Ask whisky drinkers which distillery they most want to see bottled independently, and Ardnamurchan keeps coming up. The Heart Cut listened. For its 24th release the bottler has gone back to Scotland and chosen its most-requested name, and it has done something Ardnamurchan rarely does outside its own walls: a single cask matured entirely in…
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Kilchoman Rockside 11 Year Old: the farm distillery finally gives 100% Islay a permanent home
Twenty years in, and Kilchoman has done the one thing it was built to do but never quite managed to make permanent. Rockside 11 Year Old is the first whisky made entirely from barley grown on the distillery’s own farm to earn a fixed place in the core range. Every 100% Islay before it was…
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The Macallan Six Pillars and Red Collection, assembled for one night at Kunsten in Aalborg by Rare Wine
Seeing one bottle from The Macallan Six Pillars Collection is rare enough. Seeing all six Lalique decanters lined up together, in the same room, on the same evening, is the kind of thing that almost never happens outside the distillery’s own archive. That is exactly what Rare Wine put in front of us at Kunsten…
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Four Roses Experimental Series No. 001: the brand’s first cask finish lands in Japanese Mizunara oak
After 138 years and 10 recipes, Four Roses has never once finished a bourbon in a second cask. That changes on 30 July. Experimental Series No. 001 is the inaugural release in a new limited-edition line from the Lawrenceburg distillery, and it is the first time Four Roses has taken a finished bourbon and put…
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Monkey Shoulder’s first creative partner isn’t a distillery, it’s Fred again
Monkey Shoulder, the Speyside blended malt from William Grant & Sons, has named British musician Fred again.. as its first ever creative partner. It is a three-year global agreement, and the first thing it produces is not a bottle. It is a tour. Fred again.. will play his debut shows in India this December, his…
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Boann Legacy Cask Strength: the Boyne Valley’s most complex pot still, bottled raw at 59.2%
Boann Legacy Cask Strength is the 2026 Summer Solstice release from Boann Distillery in Ireland’s Boyne Valley, a single pot still Irish whiskey bottled at 59.2% ABV and limited to 777 individually numbered bottles. It takes the same intricate mash bill and seven-cask recipe as the standard Boann Legacy and strips away the dilution, presenting…
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Little Brown Dog x Living Souls: a 46 year old blended Scotch built from three 1970s casks, two of them from closed distilleries
The Little Brown Dog x Living Souls 46 Year Old is a blended Scotch built from three casks distilled in the late 1970s, two of them from distilleries that no longer exist. Little Brown Dog supplied a 1978 Glen Garioch, the malt component and the distillery closest to their Aberdeenshire base. Living Souls brought a…
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Lindores Abbey Nectere: four sherry cask styles in one single malt
Lindores Abbey Nectere: four sherry cask styles in one single malt Lindores Abbey Nectere brings together four different sherry cask styles in a single malt, which is something very few distilleries attempt. Oloroso, Pedro Ximénez, Amontillado and Palo Cortado are usually treated as distinct tools, each pulling a whisky in its own direction. Lindores has…
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Kavalan just put a 16-year age statement on two single casks, and added a rare Colheita Port to the Solist range
Kavalan single cask strength: three new releases, two 16-year Spirits Castle editions and a rare Solist Colheita Port. Tasting notes and availability. Kavalan rarely tells you how old its whisky is. The distillery sits in Yilan, in Taiwan’s humid subtropical north, where casks lose spirit fast and wood works quickly. A handful of years there…
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