The Berry Bros. & Rudd Odyssey 2026 collection runs from an £80 Glencadam to a £1,500 Glenlossie 1975, with a Danish farm distillery and an Indian single malt sitting in between. Twenty single casks, priced across that whole range, and the spread is the story.
Berry Bros. & Rudd has released The Auld and the Bold, its fourth annual Odyssey collection. It gathers 20 single-cask bottlings from 20 distilleries: 16 whiskies, three Caribbean rums and one Cognac. Prices run from £80 for a Glencadam to £1,500 for the Glenlossie 1975, and the bottles go on sale from 16 July 2026, exclusively at the Berry Bros. & Rudd spirits shop at No. 1 St James’s Street, London. The full list is at bbrspirits.com.
The Odyssey series began in 2024 as a themed annual release, each edition built around a shared influence. This year the theme is the dialogue between Scotch tradition and the newer distilleries that grew up learning from it. Berry Bros. & Rudd also ties the name to Homer’s epic and to Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation, the idea being a spirit that travels far from home.
For readers outside the UK: Berry Bros. & Rudd is Britain’s oldest wine and spirits merchant, trading from St James’s Street since 1698, holding a royal warrant, with offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Alongside the wine business it has bottled whisky under its own label for more than a century, which is why an independent single-cask collection like this carries weight.
The Scottish casks: from a 1975 Glenlossie to teaspooned Islay
The Scottish selection is where the age and the provenance sit. The headline is a Glenlossie 1975 (cask #5966, 44.6%, £1,500), a Speyside single malt of around 51 years in wood. Berry Bros. & Rudd describes it as a style shaped by restraint rather than an assertive cask, all candle wax and light florals over fruit that has stayed alive across five decades.
Around it sit the more affordable Speyside and Highland casks. A Glencadam (£80) and a Blair Athol finished in a Viognier wine cask (£85) lead the fruit-forward side, the Viognier being an unusual white-wine finish that points to apricot and waxy stone fruit rather than sherry weight. GlenWyvis (£85), the community-owned Dingwall distillery, brings a clean cereal core.
Sherry and fortified wine carry three names: Longmorn (£95), Glen Garioch (£95) and a Moscatel-driven Tamdhu (£115), the last a distillery we have covered closely and one that builds its house style around sherry maturation. Peat covers the other flank with Caol Ila (£95), plus two trade names worth knowing. Williamson (£100) is the name long associated in the industry with teaspooned Laphroaig, and Ruadh Mhor (£100) is the heavily peated spirit made at Glenturret. Independent bottlers use these names when a distillery does not want its own label on a third-party cask, so seeing them here is a small insider signal about the liquid inside.
The bold half: whisky from beyond Scotland
This is where the collection earns its title, and where TDW readers will find the most interesting buys.
Australia’s Lark (£270) matured fully in an Australian Tawny Port cask, which gives it a dried-fruit, sherried depth despite its youth. India’s Paul John (£195) marries Scottish-sourced peat with Indian barley and rapid Goan maturation, meaning heavier wood influence per year than any Scotch of the same age. New Zealand’s Thomson (£135) uses malt smoked over native Manuka wood, a sweeter, resinous alternative to peat. England’s Spirit of Yorkshire (£125) lands a vibrant, fruit-driven malt rested nine years near the North Sea at Filey Bay.
Two Nordic names complete the international whiskies. Denmark’s Thy (£165), an organic farm distillery in Thisted that we have visited, and Finland’s Teerenpeli (£130) both rework Scotch technique through local barley and climate. The Thy cask has a neat detail: it was distilled from peated Odyssey barley, a variety name that happens to echo the collection, then matured in ex-bourbon before a short oloroso finish. For a Danish reader, a Thy cask in a Berry Bros. & Rudd collection is a genuine marker of how far the Nordic scene has come.
Rum and a Cognac round out the twenty
Three Caribbean rums join the whiskies. Foursquare from Barbados (£110) brings a refined column-and-pot tropical profile, Diamond from Guyana (£135) a spirit-led fruit character off the Versailles wooden pot still, and Caroni from Trinidad (£495) the tar, rubber and barbecued-fruit intensity that has made this closed distillery one of the most chased names in rum. Closing the release is a Frapin 1990 (£195), a 35-year-old early-landed Cognac bottled at natural cask strength. Early-landed means the spirit was shipped young and matured in cool UK cellars rather than the Charente, which produces a drier, more restrained style than most Cognac.
Every cask in the Berry Bros. & Rudd Odyssey 2026 collection
| Bottling | Type / Origin | Vintage | ABV | Cask | RRP with link to buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenlossie | Speyside single malt | 1975 | 44.6% | #5966 | £1,500 |
| Caroni | Rum, Trinidad (closed) | 1997 | 58.3% | #879 | £495 |
| Lark | Whisky, Australia | 2016 | 62.9% | #CC21 | £270 |
| Frapin | Cognac, France (early-landed) | 1990 | 44.0% | #1 | £195 |
| Paul John | Whisky, India | 2015 | 57.9% | #6329 | £195 |
| Thy | Whisky, Denmark | 2016 | 54.5% | #67 | £165 |
| Thomson | Whisky, New Zealand | 2017 | 52.2% | #221 | £135 |
| Diamond | Rum, Guyana | 2003 | 57.4% | #49 | £135 |
| Teerenpeli | Whisky, Finland | 2014 | 56.8% | #11082014A | £130 |
| Spirit of Yorkshire | Whisky, England | 2017 | 57.1% | #2231 | £125 |
| Tamdhu | Speyside single malt | 2008 | 61.2% | #80000778 | £115 |
| Foursquare (Barbados) | Rum, Barbados | 2011 | 60.2% | #22 | £110 |
| Ruadh Mhor (Glenturret) | Islay-style peated malt | 2011 | 60.6% | #284 | £100 |
| Williamson (Laphroaig) | Islay single malt | 2010 | 56.0% | #875032 | £100 |
| Caol Ila | Islay single malt | 2011 | 52.4% | #312219 | £95 |
| Glen Garioch | Highland single malt | 2011 | 55.1% | #8029 | £95 |
| Longmorn | Speyside single malt | 2011 | 49.9% | #263 | £95 |
| Blair Athol (Viognier finish) | Highland single malt | 2011 | 56.9% | #308064 | £85 |
| GlenWyvis | Highland single malt | 2018 | 58.1% | #157 | £85 |
| Glencadam | Highland single malt | 2011 | 57.8% | #800224 | £80 |
Tasting highlights (as described by Berry Bros. & Rudd)
We have not tasted this collection, so the notes below reflect Berry Bros. & Rudd’s own descriptions, not our assessment. We will publish first-hand notes if we get access to any of the casks.
Glenlossie 1975 cask #5966 Nose: candle wax, beeswax polish, light florals, green and stone fruit, citrus. Palate: dense, oily, structured — the age shows. Finish: candied ginger fading into toasted malt. ABV: 44.6% | Cask: refill, single | RRP: £1,500
Thy 2016 cask #67 Nose: dried apricot, orange peel, chocolate, fruit-salad sweets, gentle smoke. Palate: unctuous, roasted herbs, savoury meat, vanilla-caramel. Finish: soft caramel into toasted oak. ABV: 54.5% | Cask: ex-bourbon + oloroso finish, peated Odyssey barley | RRP: £165
Paul John 2015 cask #6329 Nose: peat smoke, sweet malt, honey, vanilla, green apple, marmalade. Palate: peat, tropical fruit, buttery shortbread. Finish: ashy peat, bright fruit, returning honey. ABV: 57.9% | Cask: single, Goan maturation | RRP: £195
Tamdhu 2008 cask #80000778 Nose: dense red fruit, apricot conserve, ripe peach, coconut. Palate: weighty distillate, candied ginger heat. Finish: soft oak, spiced warmth. ABV: 61.2% | Cask: Moscatel | RRP: £115
Blair Athol 2011 cask #308064 Nose: tropical fruit salad, honeyed brioche, soft cheese rind. Palate: coconut cream, apricot, barley sugar, mint, waxy texture. Finish: toasted oak, lemon curd, candied ginger. ABV: 56.9% | Cask: Viognier finish | RRP: £85
Caroni 1997 cask #879 (rum) Nose: demerara sugar, scorched mango, papaya, charred pineapple, signature tar and rubber. Palate: heavy, oily, thick rubber, barbecued tropical fruit. Finish: very long, intense. ABV: 58.3% | Cask: single, column-distilled | RRP: £495
Price and availability
The bottles go on sale from 16 July 2026, in person at No. 1 St James’s Street, London, and listed at bbrspirits.com. Prices run from £80 for the Glencadam to £1,500 for the Glenlossie 1975, with the Caroni 1997 the dearest rum at £495. As single casks these are one-off allocations, so the rarer names will move quickly.
Our take
The value here is in the contrast, not one hero bottle. Putting a £1,500 Glenlossie 1975 in the same lineup as an £80 Glencadam and a £165 Thy is a clear argument: the tradition and the newcomers belong on the same shelf, and the pricing tells you where the market currently places each.
For collectors, the Glenlossie and the Caroni are the obvious trophies. For value, the £80 to £95 Scottish casks are honest single-cask buys. But the most interesting pours for anyone tracking world whisky in 2026 are the Thy, the Paul John and the Thomson: three distilleries reworking Scotch technique through their own climate and grain, and all under £200. If you can only chase one, watch the Thy and Paul John casks before they are gone.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Berry Bros. & Rudd 2026 Odyssey collection? The Auld and the Bold is Berry Bros. & Rudd’s fourth annual Odyssey collection, released in July 2026. It gathers 20 single-cask bottlings from 20 distilleries: 16 whiskies, three Caribbean rums and one Cognac, themed around the link between Scotch tradition and newer global distillers.
What is in The Auld and the Bold? The Scottish casks include Glenlossie 1975, Glencadam, Blair Athol, Longmorn, Glen Garioch, Tamdhu, Caol Ila, Williamson, Ruadh Mhor and GlenWyvis. Beyond Scotland it features Lark (Australia), Paul John (India), Thomson (New Zealand), Spirit of Yorkshire (England), Thy (Denmark) and Teerenpeli (Finland), plus three rums and a Frapin Cognac.
How much does the Auld and the Bold collection cost? Prices run from £80 for the Glencadam to £1,500 for the Glenlossie 1975. The Caroni 1997 rum is £495, the Australian Lark £270, and both Paul John and the Frapin Cognac are £195. Most of the younger Scottish single casks fall between £80 and £115.
When and where can I buy the Odyssey 2026 collection? The collection is available from 16 July 2026, sold in person at Berry Bros. & Rudd’s spirits shop at No. 1 St James’s Street, London, and listed online at bbrspirits.com. These are single casks, so stock on each bottling is strictly limited.
Is there a Danish or Indian whisky in the collection? Yes. Denmark is represented by Thy (£165), an organic farm distillery in Thisted whose cask was distilled from peated Odyssey barley, and India by Paul John (£195) from Goa, which marries Scottish peat with tropical maturation. Finland’s Teerenpeli and New Zealand’s Thomson also feature.
What is the Frapin Cognac in the collection? It is a Frapin 1990, a 35-year-old early-landed Cognac bottled at natural cask strength (44%, £195). Early-landed means the spirit was shipped young and matured in cool UK cellars rather than in the Charente, giving a drier, more restrained profile than most French-matured Cognac.
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