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Laphroaig Càirdeas 2026 French Oak: the first 100% French oak in 18 years of releases
Laphroaig Càirdeas 2026 French Oak is the 18th annual release in the Friends of Laphroaig series and the first to use 100% French oak maturation. Bottled at 52.6% ABV with no added colour and non-chill filtered, it brings freshly cut wood shavings, campfire smoke, dark chocolate, and star anise alongside Laphroaig’s signature saline, smoked-meat finish.…
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Big Peat’s 2026 Fèis Ìle release swaps refill hogsheads for Pedro Ximénez Sherry casks
Big Peat Fèis Ìle 2026 is Douglas Laing’s festival-exclusive Islay blended malt for the 40th anniversary of Fèis Ìle. Where the 2025 edition used neutral refill hogsheads, the 2026 release is finished in Pedro Ximénez Sherry casks. It is bottled at 52.6% ABV, with no added colour and non-chill filtered. Expect Islay peat smoke meeting figs,…
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Deanston 5 Year Old: why Sukhinder Singh thinks five years is enough
The Deanston 5 Year Old (2020–2025) is a Single Malts of Scotland Small Batch bottling from Elixir Distillers, matured in PX and Oloroso sherry butts and bottled at 48% ABV, non-chill filtered and natural colour. Only three casks were selected. Sukhinder Singh used it as the centrepiece of a recent masterclass to make a point:…
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Port Askaig Sherry Cask: when peat meets sherry, and neither one wins
Port Askaig Sherry Cask is a 50.5% ABV Islay single malt bottled by London-based Elixir Distillers, drawn from a small batch of 20 Oloroso sherry butts sourced from the Spanish cooperage José y Miguel Martín. Now a permanent part of the core range, it carries a UK RRP of £64.95 and is non-chill filtered with…
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Glen Scotia Victoriana: A whisky named after a golden age that nearly never came back
Glen Scotia Victoriana is a no-age-statement Campbeltown single malt bottled at 54.2% ABV. It blends 10–12 year old first-fill bourbon spirit with 16–18 year old refill European oak, then finishes the batch in heavily charred bourbon barrels and Pedro Ximénez sherry butts before a six-month marriage. The result is rich and dark: roasted sugars, dark…
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Glen Scotia 25 Year Old: the Campbeltown malt that beat 3,800 whiskies to World’s Best Single Malt 2021
Glen Scotia 25 Year Old is the Campbeltown single malt that won Best in Show at the 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, beating 3,800 entries across 31 categories. Distilled by Glen Scotia and bottled at 48.8% ABV, non-chill filtered, it is matured in American oak and finished in first-fill bourbon casks. It carries a…
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Glen Scotia tasting: eight whiskies, one distillery, and why Campbeltown still matters
Our Glen Scotia tasting ran to eight whiskies in one evening, hosted by European Brand Ambassador Alan Reid at Juuls in Copenhagen for the shop’s 100th anniversary. The line-up ran from the Double Cask finishes and the core 12 Year Old through Victoriana, the 18, and the World’s Best 25 Year Old, finishing on the…
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Glen Scotia Campbeltown Malts Festival 2026: pink, peaty, and worth every penny
Glen Scotia’s Campbeltown Malts Festival 2026 release is a 7-year-old single malt matured for seven years in first-fill bourbon barrels, then finished for six months in a ruby Port cask. That finish gives it a striking salmon-pink colour and a layer of ripe red fruit over the distillery’s medium-peated spirit. Bottled non-chill filtered at 53.9% ABV cask strength, it…
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Laphroaig Willem Dafoe ‘Willem by Willem’: we tracked down the bottle, here’s what it’s like to drink
The Laphroaig Willem Dafoe bottle, officially called Willem by Willem, is a 14-year-old Islay single malt matured in American oak and finished in Oloroso sherry casks, bottled at 53.7% ABV. Dafoe selected the spirit himself alongside Laphroaig’s Senior Whisky Maker Sarah Dowling, and the brand deliberately shipped it with no official tasting notes. It carries…
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The best Japanese whisky highball in London is on tap at Mitsu
Mitsu in East London serves the best Japanese whisky highball in the city, and it pours from a tap rather than getting hand-built at a busy bar. The whisky is Suntory Toki, the blended Japanese whisky (43% ABV) that Suntory designed for exactly this drink: light, faintly sweet, with a clean finish that holds up…
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