Category: Whisky Events
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Whisky Week 2026: the festival that hands the city back to its bars
Most whisky festivals bring the whisky to one big room. Whisky Week does the opposite: it turns the whole city into the festival and sends you out to the bars themselves. From 20 August to 13 September 2026, more than 50 venues across Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh become outposts for individual distilleries, a £9 wristband…
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SMWS Caskmaster 2026: eight drams, nine names, and a lifetime membership on the line
Eight drams in front of you. Nine names on the sheet. Thirty minutes, no conferring, and one of the names is a decoy. That is SMWS Caskmaster 2026, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s first UK blind tasting championship, and it is a genuinely nasty piece of competition design. The extra whisky in the lineup means…
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Glen Scotia tasting: eight whiskies, one distillery, and why Campbeltown still matters
Our Glen Scotia tasting ran to eight whiskies in one evening, hosted by European Brand Ambassador Alan Reid at Juuls in Copenhagen for the shop’s 100th anniversary. The line-up ran from the Double Cask finishes and the core 12 Year Old through Victoriana, the 18, and the World’s Best 25 Year Old, finishing on the…
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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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Talisker x Parley Wilder Seas: an evening beneath the surface at Den Blå Planet
Talisker x Parley Wilder Seas is the first Talisker single malt ever finished in French oak XO Cognac casks, bottled at 48.6% ABV without an age statement. Created with ocean charity Parley for the Oceans, it comes in a bottle made from 100% recycled glass with no carton, cutting the bottle’s carbon footprint by 77%,…
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The Whisky Event London 2026: 600 whiskies, two masterclasses and a buffet worth the trip
The Whisky Event London 2026 took place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel: over a thousand guests, more than 60 exhibitors, and 600-plus whiskies poured across a single afternoon. Unlike most festivals that lean on core ranges, this one goes deep into 20-, 30- and 40-year-old expressions you won’t find at a bar or shop. Two…
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Rosebank: from ruins to renaissance, a masterclass with Gordon Dundas at The Whisky Event London
At The Whisky Event in London, Rosebank’s Gordon Dundas led a masterclass through four expressions from the Lowland distillery that closed in 1993 and is distilling again under Ian Macleod Distillers. We tasted the 30 Year Old (48.6% ABV), 31 Year Old (48.1%) and 32 Year Old (47.6%) from the Legacy series, a 1993 single…
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Sukhinder Singh’s masterclass: 40 years of whisky obsession in six glasses
Sukhinder Singh, co-founder of Elixir Distillers and former co-owner of The Whisky Exchange, hosted a six-whisky masterclass at The Whisky Event in London. The line-up ran from an Aultmore 12 Year Old refill bourbon cask to a Caol Ila 40 Year Old Director’s Special, with Benrinnes, Dailuaine, Benriach and a closed-distillery Imperial in between. The…
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Gordon & MacPhail historical whisky tasting: nine rare single malts from the Elgin warehouses, hosted by Richard Urquhart
This Gordon & MacPhail tasting brought nine well-aged single malts from the family’s Elgin warehouses to the glass, led by fourth-generation Sales Director Richard Urquhart. The line-up was drawn straight from the company’s Speyside warehouses and spanned vintages from a 1965 Glenlivet and a 1976 Ardbeg to a single-cask 2005 Macallan Speymalt. Three Benromach expressions,…
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GlenAllachie 35-Year-Old 1990 Cask Strength: Billy Walker’s most ambitious Speyside in five decades
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Billy Walker has spent fifty years making whisky. The GlenAllachie 35-Year-Old 1990 Vintage Cask Strength is the bottle he points to when asked what that time has been building toward. We were at HIDE in London for the global launch Michelin-starred kitchen, whisky legend across the table, four cask…
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