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The Dingle 2020 Palo Cortado is a single cask of single pot still Irish whiskey that you can only buy from The Whisky Exchange. Distilled in 2020 and matured for five years in one palo cortado sherry cask, it arrives in 2026 at cask strength, 59.6% ABV, non-chill filtered and with no added colour. Just…

That Boutique-y Whisky Company has spent more than a decade on single casks and one-off runs. Its new summer collection keeps that habit, but the headline bottle does something the others cannot: it pours four countries into one glass and refuses to say how old the oldest part actually is. That Boutique-y Summertime Specials is…

Glenfiddich has released its second 16 Year Old with the Aston Martin Formula One Team, and it marks a clear change of approach. Where last year’s edition sat entirely on American oak, Release No.2 adds Port pipes and fino sherry butts to build a five-cask recipe: first-fill bourbon barrels, port pipes, oloroso sherry casks, red…

Coconut is not a word you expect to find on a Macallan tasting note. The distillery built its name on sherry-seasoned oak and deep dried-fruit richness, so a single malt that opens with fresh coconut, lime and tropical fruit is a real change of direction. That is the idea behind Macallan Fresh Coconut, known in…

The Woven Civerinos Hot Honey is a limited spirit drink from Leith blender Woven and Edinburgh pizza institution Civerinos. Built on a North British single grain Scotch base, with Scottish blossom honey and a house made guajillo and green jalapeño chilli tincture, it started life as a hot honey pizza drizzle before Woven’s Pete Allison…

Ten years ago, barley went into the ground on a farm above Lunan Bay. This weekend it comes out of the cask and into a bottle with the Arbikie name on it for the first time. That bottle is Arbikie The Signature, the distillery’s inaugural single malt Scotch whisky. The Signature is Arbikie’s inaugural single…

House of Hazelwood Calm Waters is a new bottling in the Legacy Collection, and this time the specification does something the house rarely does: it lands under four figures. This 1992-vintage blended malt Scotch has been matured for more than three decades and bottled in 2026 at £950. For a producer whose releases routinely climb…

Korea’s first single malt distillery has released a bottle you cannot buy in a shop. Ki One Distillery Edition Batch 01 is a cask-strength rum cask single malt at 57.3%, limited to 861 numbered bottles, and it is sold in one place only: on the tour at the distillery itself. First shown at the Bar…

The Jameson NFL partnership is official. Jameson has been named the Official Spirits Sponsor of the NFL under a multi-year global partnership announced on 30 July 2026. The Midleton-made Irish whiskey replaces Diageo, which had held the slot since 2021, making Jameson the first Irish whiskey to own it. The deal grants official global league…

Johnnie Walker has handed the keys to its most expensive core bottle to a leading man who is about to have a very big year. Callum Turner, the British actor stepping into the lead of Apple TV+’s Neuromancer, is the new global ambassador for Johnnie Walker Blue Label, in a year-long partnership announced in London…