Category: Whisky News
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Ardbeg Trudernish: the first permanent 15-year-old, and a new look for the whole core range
Ardbeg has done something it has never done before: given its core range a permanent age statement beyond the Ten. Ardbeg Trudernish is a 15-year-old Islay single malt, bottled at 48.8% ABV and non chill-filtered, and it arrives alongside a full redesign of every whisky in the distillery’s standing line-up. The RRP is £80, and…
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Four Roses Honey Cask Finish: Experimental No. 002 puts no honey in the bottle
Four Roses Experimental Series No. 002 Honey Cask Finish is the second release in the Kentucky distillery’s experimental line, and despite the name, no honey is added. It is a Kentucky straight bourbon blending the OESQ and OBSK recipes, aged six to eight years, then finished for three to nine months in casks that previously…
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American Wolf: Sazerac blends American whiskey with Indian grain spirits for the world’s largest whisky market
Sazerac, the American company behind Buffalo Trace, has launched American Wolf whiskey in India, and it is not quite American whiskey. It is a blend of American whiskey with select Indian grain and malt spirits, built specifically for India and bottled under the country’s Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) rules. It arrives alongside a second launch,…
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Laphroaig 35 Year Old Strong Characters Chapter 2: a softer, ex-bourbon tribute to Dugald Johnston
Laphroaig built its name on young, medicinal, unapologetically peaty whisky. The second chapter of its Strong Characters series goes somewhere quieter. This is a 35-year-old Islay single malt matured entirely in American white oak ex-bourbon barrels, and after three and a half decades the peat smoke has been worn down to something creamy rather than…
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House of Hazelwood at the Fife Arms: the largest collection of the Gordon family’s rarest Scotch lands in one Highland hotel
The Gordon family spent the better part of a century quietly building one of the deepest reserves of aged Scotch anywhere in the world. You can now drink your way through more of it at a single Highland hotel than at any bar or restaurant on earth. House of Hazelwood, the private cask library behind…
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Teeling Phoenix Twist: the Dublin distiller’s first canned cocktail is a 6% Small Batch highball
Teeling is putting its Small Batch whiskey in a can. Teeling Phoenix Twist, the Dublin distiller’s first ready-to-drink cocktail, is a 250ml can at 6% ABV that blends Teeling Small Batch whiskey with ginger, lime and a twist of yuzu It debuts on 29 August, the same weekend American college football returns to the Aviva…
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Glenfiddich Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2026: a 14-year-old single cask you can only buy from one shop
Two hundred and thirty bottles, one cask, one shop. Glenfiddich has marked its partnership with The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo with a whisky that is about as far from the everyday Speyside dram as the brand gets: a single first-fill bourbon cask, bottled by hand at natural cask strength, and sold exclusively through a single…
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Ardbeg new packaging: the core range gets a redesign that brings each whisky’s story to the label
The Ardbeg new packaging is here, and it lands across the whole core range. Over the coming months, the Islay distillery’s four permanent expressions, Ten Years Old, An Oa, Uigeadail and Corryvreckan, will start appearing on shelves in redesigned boxes and labels. The whisky inside each bottle is unchanged. What is new is how much…
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The World’s Most Admired Whiskies 2026: Michter’s makes it four in a row as nine countries fill the top 50
Michter’s has been named the World’s Most Admired whiskies 2026 for a fourth consecutive year, holding off Japan’s The Yamazaki and Hibiki on an unchanged podium. Published by Drinks International and voted for by an Academy of independent buyers, bartenders, writers and educators from more than 25 countries, the 2026 top 50 hands Johnnie Walker…
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Bowmore Captivo Collection: Snarkitecture shapes two 20-year-old Islay single malts
Bowmore has launched the Captivo Collection, two 20-year-old Islay single malts released with New York design studio Snarkitecture. It is the studio’s first project in whisky, and the design came first: a concept of threshold and passage, expressed through carved, portal-shaped packaging that frames each bottle like a doorway. The two whiskies went on sale…
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