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GlenAllachie 11 Year Old Palo Cortado Sherry Cask: Billy Walker’s rarest chapter yet
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky The GlenAllachie 11 Year Old Palo Cortado Sherry Cask Matured is Chapter 4 of GlenAllachie’s Sherry Series a project that takes whisky from the same cask history and finishes each expression in a single, distinct sherry cask type. This 11-year-old Speyside single malt starts in American oak ex-bourbon barrels…
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Visit Stauning Whisky: inside the Danish distillery that floor-malts its own rye
tauning Whisky is a Danish distillery on the west coast of Jutland, founded in 2005 by nine friends with no whisky background and now exported around the world. Its tour stands out because Stauning floor-malts all its own grain by hand, distils in direct-fired copper pot stills, and lets visitors taste new make spirit and…
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Johnnie Walker Blue Label Elusive Umami: An evening where whisky met caviar
Johnnie Walker Blue Label Elusive Umami is a limited-edition blended Scotch (43% ABV) built to capture umami, the savoury fifth taste. It was created by Diageo Master Blender Dr Emma Walker and three-Michelin-starred chef Kei Kobayashi, using casks from inland and coastal distilleries where only 1 in 25,000 carries the umami character. We tasted it…
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Talisker x Parley Wilder Seas: an evening beneath the surface at Den Blå Planet
Talisker x Parley Wilder Seas is the first Talisker single malt ever finished in French oak XO Cognac casks, bottled at 48.6% ABV without an age statement. Created with ocean charity Parley for the Oceans, it comes in a bottle made from 100% recycled glass with no carton, cutting the bottle’s carbon footprint by 77%,…
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The Whisky Event London 2026: 600 whiskies, two masterclasses and a buffet worth the trip
The Whisky Event London 2026 took place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel: over a thousand guests, more than 60 exhibitors, and 600-plus whiskies poured across a single afternoon. Unlike most festivals that lean on core ranges, this one goes deep into 20-, 30- and 40-year-old expressions you won’t find at a bar or shop. Two…
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Destillerie Farthofer: The Austrian distillery making whisky no one else can replicate
By Andreas Lykke, The Daily Whisky Destillerie Farthofer grows its own ancient grains on a certified organic farm in Lower Austria, malts them in-house, distils with spring water from a private nature reserve on the property, and finishes everything in barrels that once held Mostello — a pear dessert wine the Farthofer family invented. No…
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Rosebank: from ruins to renaissance, a masterclass with Gordon Dundas at The Whisky Event London
At The Whisky Event in London, Rosebank’s Gordon Dundas led a masterclass through four expressions from the Lowland distillery that closed in 1993 and is distilling again under Ian Macleod Distillers. We tasted the 30 Year Old (48.6% ABV), 31 Year Old (48.1%) and 32 Year Old (47.6%) from the Legacy series, a 1993 single…
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Sukhinder Singh’s masterclass: 40 years of whisky obsession in six glasses
Sukhinder Singh, co-founder of Elixir Distillers and former co-owner of The Whisky Exchange, hosted a six-whisky masterclass at The Whisky Event in London. The line-up ran from an Aultmore 12 Year Old refill bourbon cask to a Caol Ila 40 Year Old Director’s Special, with Benrinnes, Dailuaine, Benriach and a closed-distillery Imperial in between. The…
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Jack Daniel’s × McLaren F1 2026 Edition: Old No. 7 at 86 proof, built for two milestone anniversaries
The Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 × McLaren F1 2026 Edition is the fourth annual bottle from a partnership running since 2023, and the most significant yet. It marks two milestones in one year: the Jack Daniel Distillery’s 160th anniversary and McLaren’s 1,000th Formula 1 Grand Prix, celebrated at the 2026 Miami GP. Inside is…
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Glenmorangie Harrison Ford Limited Edition: a quietly understated Highland malt with a Portuguese red wine bite
The Glenmorangie Harrison Ford Limited Edition is a Highland single malt co-created by actor Harrison Ford and Glenmorangie’s Dr Bill Lumsden. It marries classic bourbon-cask Glenmorangie with whisky finished in toasted Portuguese red wine casks, giving the distillery’s signature citrus and honeysuckle an unexpected tangy bite. Bottled at 46.5% ABV and non-chill filtered, it released…
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