Category: Whisky News
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Chivas Regal 16 Charles Leclerc: the first 16-year-old in the brand’s history, built around a number
Chivas Regal 16 is the brand’s first-ever 16-year-old whisky and Charles Leclerc’s debut signature blend, named after the number he was born on and races with. Co-created with then-master blender Sandy Hyslop, it brings together 16 whiskies each aged at least 16 years, with sherry-matured Longmorn single malt at its heart. Bottled at 40% ABV,…
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Johnnie Walker Blue Label Azure: the summer-only Blue Label you can only buy when you travel
Johnnie Walker Blue Label Azure is a travel-retail-exclusive Scotch whisky and a brighter, coastal-leaning take on the classic Blue Label blend. Created by Master Blender Dr Emma Walker and unveiled on 27 April 2026, it leads with citrus, orchard fruit and a gentle wisp of smoke, built for warm-weather drinking rather than the winter fireside.…
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Johnnie Walker Couture Blend: inside the Vault tasting of a $2,500 Balmain collaboration
The Johnnie Walker Couture Blend is the second collaboration between Master Blender Dr Emma Walker and Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing. It is built from ten rare whiskies drawn from the Johnnie Walker Vault beneath Edinburgh’s Princes Street, including closed-distillery “ghost” stock from Port Dundas, Caledonian and Port Ellen, alongside Teaninich, Roseisle, Mizunara, Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez…
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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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Inside the Glenmorangie boutique at Heathrow T2: rare casks beyond duty-free
The Wondrous Glenmorangie Boutique in Heathrow Terminal 2 is the world’s first standalone Glenmorangie shop, opened by Moët Hennessy Travel Retail with Avolta (Dufry). It exists to sell what normal duty-free never stocks: Dr Bill Lumsden’s single cask and small-batch experiments, including 25-year-old expressions limited to 1,000 bottles globally. The headline bottles are the 25…
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The Ultimate Heathrow Terminal 2 Duty Free Whisky Dilemma: You Can Only Pick One
Stuck in Heathrow Terminal 2 duty free with only one whisky to choose? From Laphroaig 33 to Midleton 24, here are the best bottles you might find and the hardest decision you’ll make. A Dangerous Place for Whisky Lovers: Heathrow Terminal 2 Duty Free ✈️🥃 If you’ve ever passed through Heathrow Terminal 2 duty free, you’ll…
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Decoding the SMWS whisky codes: what the numbers mean, plus the full distillery list
Every bottle from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) is labelled with a code such as 29.273 instead of a distillery name. The first number is the distillery: 29 is Laphroaig. The number after the dot is the cask: the 273rd single cask the Society has bottled from that distillery. SMWS hides the name on…
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