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Heaven Hill Double Mash does something nobody had bothered to do before: it puts two different bourbon mashbills, one traditional and one wheated, into a single Bottled-in-Bond bottle. It sounds like a small thing. Legally, it is the kind of small thing that other distilleries walk past for a century without noticing. Announced on 15…

Royal Elizabeth Bond, an independent cask storage facility at the historic Royal Elizabeth Yard in Dalmeny near the Forth Bridge, has opened as one of Scotland’s largest cask bonds and is running entirely without paper records. Every cask on site is assigned a unique Digital Deed through the Proof 8 platform: a QR-coded digital identity…

The most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction is a Macallan. Forty years after that whisky came out of its cask, The Macallan has bottled a cask filled the very same year, handed the labels back to the three artists who made the original famous, and priced the result at a…

Kavalan Mizunara Oak is a new Taiwanese single malt series matured in rare Japanese Mizunara oak, released in two cask-strength expressions: one unpeated and one peated. The labels carry butterfly artwork by Japanese painter Takahide Komatsu, with twelve native and migratory species across the range. Single bottles carry a recommended price of NT$18,000 (roughly €510…

Ardnahoe has opened its first hand-fill cask, and it is not the bourbon-and-oloroso profile the distillery built its name on. Release No 1 is a 6-year-old Islay single malt matured in Pedro Ximénez quarter casks, bottled at cask strength, and available only if you turn up at the distillery on Islay and fill the bottle…

Three bottles, three fragments of a painting, and one image that only appears when you line them up in the right order. That is the idea behind the latest version of SPEY x Picasso The Dream, a 2012 Speyside single malt now sold as a three-bottle collector’s set whose labels reassemble Picasso’s 1932 painting Le…

Most ready to pour drink cocktails in a bottle are built on neutral spirit and sugar. Penelope’s are not. The brand’s Ready to Pour range is four Old Fashioneds made on a base of straight bourbon and rye whiskey, which is a meaningfully different proposition to the sweet, low-strength stuff that usually fills the category.…

Penelope Bourbon released the collection in the US in May 2026. The three expressions are called Hole 1, Hole 2 and Hole 3, and the name is not just theming for the sake of it. Penelope’s founders, Michael Paladini and Danny Polise, sketched the brand out over a round of golf in 2018, so a…

The Maker’s Mark Artist Series City Edition is a global travel retail exclusive: 11 limited-edition bottles wrapped in city-inspired artwork by painter Alexandra Pacula, covering New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Dubai, Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney and Melbourne. Announced on 15 July 2026 by Maker’s Mark, owned by Suntory Global Spirits, the bottles roll…

English whisky does not often get to stand on the top step at an international competition. The Lakes Chocolatier just did. The Lakes Distillery has launched Chocolatier English single malt whisky in the UK, and it arrives with a Gold medal from the 2026 International Wine & Spirit Competition already in hand. The distillery says…