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These are casks that had a 55-year head start. Before The GlenAllachie spirit ever touched them, they spent more than half a century holding Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso inside working solera systems in Spain. That is the whole pitch of the new GlenAllachie Masters of Wood 19 Year Old Ex-Solera Sherry, and it is a genuinely…

The Maker’s Mark Old Fashioned is the centre of a new 2026 campaign in which British actor Lucien Laviscount stars in a short film for the wheated Kentucky bourbon, owned by Suntory Global Spirits. Filmed at the newly opened Hawksmoor St Pancras in London and premiered on Laviscount’s Instagram in early June 2026, the campaign…

Most wine-finished Scotch leans on the usual suspects: sherry, port, the occasional Bordeaux barrique. Benromach has gone somewhere far less travelled. Their latest Contrasts release spent its final 26 months in Côte Rôtie casks, the Syrah-driven red from the steep terraces of the northern Rhône, and that single choice is the whole story here. Benromach…

By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Nikka Whisky is the exclusive whisky sponsor of Tokyo Nights, an immersive sumo, sushi and sake event at Borough Hall in Greenwich, London, running 6 June to 8 July 2026. Guests can drink Nikka From the Barrel and Taketsuru with dinner plus district-themed bottled highballs. Tickets start around £70.…

By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Bruichladdich x Whitebox have put two of Islay’s single malts into canned cocktails and crucially it has not watered them down to do it. The Whisky Sour is built on the unpeated Classic Laddie at 19% ABV, and the Penicillin runs on the heavily peated Port Charlotte at 22.5%.…

By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky | 28 May 2026 The Glenturret Eclosion is a new limited-edition Highland single malt from Scotland’s oldest working distillery, bottled at 46.2% ABV and priced at £95. Matured predominantly in European oak PX sherry casks with a single American oak puncheon, it produces a profile that runs contrary to…

We stood outside Arbikie Highland Distillery with a glass of single malt, looking out over Lunan Bay, and genuinely struggled to think of a better place to spend a Saturday. That’s the short version. The longer one: Dram Good Whisky Festival was everything a whisky event should be and almost nothing it shouldn’t. Two sessions,…

Eight years building a reputation on single casks and limited runs. Then you do something permanent. That’s the bet Little Brown Dog just made with Aberdeenshire Single Malt — their first-ever core expression, and by far their most consequential release to date. Who is Little Brown Dog? Founded in 2018 by Andrew Smith and Chris…