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The Port of Leith Old Fashioned can is a ready-to-serve cocktail from Leith Bond, the blending and bottling arm of Edinburgh’s Port of Leith Distillery. Officially called the Velvet Old Fashioned, it combines the house Table Whisky single grain Scotch with Pedro Ximénez sherry and a small amount of saline, replacing the sugar syrup and bitters of a classic Old Fashioned. It is presented at…

Barrell Craft Spirits has released Barrell Decade 2, a 20-year-old Canadian whisky bottled at 141.3 proof (70.65% ABV) and finished in Spanish brandy and Hungarian oak casks. It is a blend of whiskies distilled in every single year from 1995 to 2005, with liquid in the blend running from 20 to 30 years old, and…

The English 17 Year Old Heavily Smoked Rum Cask is the distillery’s heaviest peat, dropped into a rum cask and left there for 17 years. There are 177 bottles, bottled at 56.4% ABV and priced at £295 each, and it is the first release in the Founders’ Private Cellar range built on heavily smoked spirit.…

Koopers Barrel Reserve Bourbon is a wheated, barrel-proof bourbon from Koopers Whiskey, a family-owned blending house in Ledbetter, Texas. On 21 July 2026 the brand made it available online for the first time, with direct shipping to eligible US states, after two years as a tasting room exclusive. It blends a six-year-old wheated bourbon with…

Garrison Brothers wants your money in July 2026 and will hand you the bottle in October 2028. That is the deal with the Garrison Brothers Hye Rye pre-sale, the Texas distillery’s first, and it is the most interesting thing about this release. The whisky itself, Hye Rye, is a 98 proof rye-heavy bourbon that has…

Kavalan Peatist Oloroso Sherry Cask Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky was named Whisky of the Year at the International Whisky Competition 2026, scoring 96.97 points in a double-blind judging format. It is a lightly peated Taiwanese single malt matured entirely in Oloroso sherry casks, bottled from a single cask at 57.1% ABV, non-chill filtered…

Every bottle in the Royal Salute Small Batch Collection comes from the private cask reserve of a master blender who no longer holds the job. Sandy Hyslop retired from Chivas Brothers at the end of 2025 after 42 years in Scotch. The whiskies he set aside are now being released across Asia travel retail, and…

Two of the three whiskies in Rare Find’s new Glenglassaugh Collection exist in quantities of 48 and 53 bottles. That is not a limited edition in the marketing sense. That is one small cask, emptied. Rare Find, the Edinburgh independent bottler owned by Gleann Mòr Spirits Company, has announced three Glenglassaugh single casks arriving on…

Spiritory has spent its whole existence as a screen. A live bid and ask marketplace where bottles move like shares, prices update in public, and the whisky itself never gets closer to you than a photograph. On Friday 24 July 2026 that changes: the Spiritory Munich shop opens inside a protected historic barn in Sendling,…

New Riff Headliner 2026 is the third annual charity release from the Newport, Kentucky distillery, and the first in which every component is at least ten years old. It blends 50% 11-year-old malted rye bourbon, 25% 11-year-old rye and 25% 10-year-old Balboa rye, bottled at 59.4% ABV (118.8 proof) without chill filtration. The price is…