Author: thedailywhisky
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Jameson Distillery Bow St, Dublin: the Black Barrel Blending Class is the reason to find the laneway
Jameson Distillery Bow St. is Jameson’s original 1780 home in Smithfield, Dublin, now a visitor distillery with two bars, a serious shop and a full spread of tastings and classes. We visited in August 2025 and took the Black Barrel Blending Class: a 90 minute, small group masterclass led by a Jameson Craft Ambassador where…
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Pearse Lyons Distillery review: the Dublin whiskey distillery built inside a church
There is a copper pot still sitting on the altar of a former Dublin church, framed by stained glass, and it is one of the more remarkable sights in Irish whiskey. That church is the Pearse Lyons Distillery, and we took the Legacy Tour to see whether the setting is the whole story or just…
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Whisky Live Paris 2026: our recommendations for the biggest whisky show in Europe
One year we stood at the Diageo stand with a dram of Talisker in one hand and a fresh oyster in the other, tasting the pairing the way they serve it on the Isle of Skye. That is the kind of thing Whisky Live Paris does to you. You arrive with a plan and leave…
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Glengoyne 1979 46 Year Old: a one-of-one bourbon cask, poured by the dram at SCOTCH, The Balmoral
Glengoyne 1979 46-year-old single casks end their lives sealed, catalogued and sold to the highest bidder. This one is being opened. SCOTCH at The Balmoral in Edinburgh has secured a single bottle of Glengoyne distilled in 1979 and left undisturbed in the distillery’s Warehouse Eight for 46 years. There is exactly one bottle, it will…
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Glasgow 1770’s 2026 annual releases: a new sherry cask debut joins Ruby Port and Bourbon
The Glasgow 1770 2026 releases are three limited editions from The Glasgow Distillery, headlined by a whisky that has never appeared in the range before: a Sherry Cask Matured single malt made with Spanish sherry house Ximénez-Spínola. Alongside it sit the returning Ruby Port Cask Finish (now 7 years old) and the Bourbon Cask Matured…
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Borders Distillery Deep Time: the final Workshop Series bottle marks 300 years of James Hutton
Borders Distillery Deep Time is the fourth and final release in the Hawick distillery’s Workshop Series, and it is built around an anniversary 300 years since the birth of James Hutton, the Borders-shaped farmer and scientist remembered as the father of modern geology. It is a blended Scotch whisky bottled at 40% ABV, and it…
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Bowmore x Snarkitecture: Beyond the Threshold, and the 20-year-old bottle hiding behind the art campaign
Bowmore has pulled the cover off its next big collaboration, and it is not another distillery or another cask type. It is a New York art studio. The project is called Beyond the Threshold, a partnership between Bowmore and Snarkitecture, the studio that works at the meeting point of art, architecture and design. Bowmore is holding most…
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Wylye Distillery: the one-man Wiltshire single malt hidden in plain sight
Wylye Distillery is a single malt distillery at Windmill Farm in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire, run entirely by owner and distiller Sam Barber. Production began in July 2023, and Sam has quietly laid down well over 1,000 casks of unpeated English single malt. As of August 2026 there is nothing to buy: the first casks…
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Duncan Taylor’s first Mizunara Octave is a 14-year-old Auchentoshan, and a light Lowland spirit is built for it
The Octave Auchentoshan Mizunara is the first Japanese-oak cask Duncan Taylor has ever filled, and the whisky inside it is a 14-year-old Lowland single malt. For anyone who has quietly watched the Octave range without ever hearing much noise about it, this is the kind of release that explains why it is worth watching. The…
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Kavalan Solist Oloroso is TWSC 2026 Best of the Best, and Kavalan took six of the top ten places
Kavalan Solist Oloroso Sherry Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky has been named Best of the Best Single Malt at the Tokyo Whisky & Spirits Competition (TWSC) 2026, the competition’s highest honour. It is Kavalan’s fourth consecutive Best of the Best title and its seventh world championship at TWSC. Kavalan was also named Best Asian…
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