Category: Whisky News
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Ardnahoe’s Fèis Ìle 2026 bottle is their oldest yet, and the worm tubs are the reason to care
The Ardnahoe Fèis Ìle 2026 is the distillery’s oldest release to date: a 7 Year Old single malt matured in ex-bourbon barrels, bottled at its natural cask strength of 59.7% ABV. Just 830 individually numbered bottles were released at £85, capped at three per customer, sold at the distillery on Ardnahoe Day, 27 May 2026.…
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Bowmore’s Fèis Ìle 2026 release is 641 bottles of PX-finished floor malt, distillery only
The Bowmore Fèis Ìle 2026 release is a 9-year-old Islay single malt, distilled on 27 May 2016 and matured in a single first-fill Pedro Ximénez sherry-seasoned Spanish oak cask.It’s 100% floor malted and bottled at 55.4% ABV, with no chill filtration or colouring. Only 641 bottles were produced, priced at £130 each, sold as a…
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Lagavulin and Caol Ila just dropped three Fèis Ìle 2026 bottles, and one of them involves tequila casks
The Caol Ila tequila cask is the standout of three limited bottles Lagavulin and Caol Ila have released for Fèis Ìle 2026, the festival’s 40th anniversary. The headline is the Caol Ila 11 Year Old (56.1% ABV, £145), the distillery’s first whisky finished in former Don Julio tequila casks. Alongside it sit the Lagavulin 14…
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Laphroaig Càirdeas 2026 French Oak: the first 100% French oak in 18 years of releases
Laphroaig Càirdeas 2026 French Oak is the 18th annual release in the Friends of Laphroaig series and the first to use 100% French oak maturation. Bottled at 52.6% ABV with no added colour and non-chill filtered, it brings freshly cut wood shavings, campfire smoke, dark chocolate, and star anise alongside Laphroaig’s signature saline, smoked-meat finish.…
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Big Peat’s 2026 Fèis Ìle release swaps refill hogsheads for Pedro Ximénez Sherry casks
Douglas Laing bottled last year’s Fèis Ìle edition in neutral refill hogsheads, no cask finish, no sweetness added, just 15-year-old Islay blended malt at 50% ABV doing exactly what it was supposed to do. A lot of people thought it was the best Big Peat Fèis Ìle release in years. For the 40th anniversary of…
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19 Years in the cask one eeek at Royal Birkdale: Loch Lomond’s open course collection 2026
Royal Birkdale is back. So is Loch Lomond. The 154th Open Championship returns to the Southport links this summer, and Loch Lomond has marked the occasion with something worth paying attention to: a 19-year-old single malt distilled in 2006, finished in hand-selected Tawny Port casks, and limited to just 3,000 bottles worldwide. This is the…
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When a whisky distillery and a futurist artist realize they’re speaking the same language
There’s a strange thing that happens when you put a sculptor obsessed with decay next to a Malt Master obsessed with preservation. You’d expect friction. What The Balvenie and Daniel Arsham got instead was a conversation that had apparently been waiting to happen for decades. Their collaboration, The Dawn of Our Spirit, was unveiled on May…
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Two bottles that Bruichladdich should have left in the vault — but didn’t
Bruichladdich just dropped two of the most loaded releases in its recent history, and they’re not new expressions. They’re old ones, brought back with better whisky and a lot more context. The Port Charlotte PC5 Redux and the Octomore Black Art Redux are the centrepieces of the distillery’s Rock’ndaal festival releases limited to 2,500 bottles each, dispatching from 15th…
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We tried our luck with Master of Malt’s Mystery Drop and we’d do it again
We didn’t know what we were getting. That was the whole point. When we stumbled across Master of Malt’s Mystery Drop concept, our first thought was: is this just a clever way to sell us random whisky? Our second thought: doesn’t matter, we’re in. What is mystery drop? The concept is simple in the way…
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Chichibu x Selfridges Single Cask 2026: 2018 vintage, 59.5% ABV and only 195 bottles
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky The Chichibu x Selfridges Single Cask 2026 is the secondcollaboration between Chichibu Distillery and Selfridgesand Ichiro Akuto doesn’t just make whisky. He makes statements. The latest one is the Chichibu x Selfridges Single Cask 2026: a 2018-vintage, seven-year-old single malt Japanese whisky drawn from a single first-fill bourbon barrel,…
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