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Inside the Glenmorangie boutique at Heathrow T2: rare casks beyond duty-free
The Wondrous Glenmorangie Boutique in Heathrow Terminal 2 is the world’s first standalone Glenmorangie shop, opened by Moët Hennessy Travel Retail with Avolta (Dufry). It exists to sell what normal duty-free never stocks: Dr Bill Lumsden’s single cask and small-batch experiments, including 25-year-old expressions limited to 1,000 bottles globally. The headline bottles are the 25…
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Chichibu at Juuls 100th anniversary tasting: Ichiro Akuto brings the little mermaid single cask to Copenhagen
The Chichibu Juuls 100th Anniversary tasting took place on 26 March 2026 Chichibu bottles travelled to Copenhagen for a landmark tasting at Juuls — Denmark’s premier wine and spirits institution, celebrating its 100th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Akuto created an exclusive single cask bottling featuring The Little Mermaid on the label: a fusion of…
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Teeling “The Last Dance”: eight rare Irish whiskeys, the 30 and 32 Year Old, and a farewell at Frederiksberg
The last of Denmark’s rare older Teeling stock got one final night out. On 12 March 2026, Juuls Whisky Shop and Teeling Whiskey closed a long partnership with “The Last Dance,” a sold-out tasting in the vaulted Frederiksberg Basement in Copenhagen. Eight whiskeys were poured, topped by a 32 Year Old finished in rum and Pedro…
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Tobermory & Ledaig Tasting in London: Rare Casks, 27 Year Gems & Unforgettable Stories
In March 2026 we joined a Tobermory and Ledaig tasting at Melody Whisky Bar in London, hosted with Juliean and Dawn from the Isle of Mull distillery. The lineup ran from a Tobermory 21 Year Old up to a 27 Year Old, alongside rare cask samples: a 29-year-old Tobermory 1996 finished in Sauternes (45.4% ABV)…
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The Ultimate Heathrow Terminal 2 Duty Free Whisky Dilemma: You Can Only Pick One
Stuck in Heathrow Terminal 2 duty free with only one whisky to choose? From Laphroaig 33 to Midleton 24, here are the best bottles you might find and the hardest decision you’ll make. A Dangerous Place for Whisky Lovers: Heathrow Terminal 2 Duty Free ✈️🥃 If you’ve ever passed through Heathrow Terminal 2 duty free, you’ll…
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Decoding the SMWS whisky codes: what the numbers mean, plus the full distillery list
Every bottle from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) is labelled with a code such as 29.273 instead of a distillery name. The first number is the distillery: 29 is Laphroaig. The number after the dot is the cask: the 273rd single cask the Society has bottled from that distillery. SMWS hides the name on…
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The Whisky Shop: inside the UK’s largest specialist retailer, and whether it’s worth your money
The Whisky Shop has been selling Scotch since 1992, and somewhere along the way it quietly became the biggest specialist whisky chain in the country. Twenty-three shops, boutiques in Paris and Cannes, and more than 2.5 million people through the doors every year. That scale is the whole story here, and it cuts both ways.…
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Whisky Live Paris 2026: what Europe’s biggest whisky show is actually like, and how to do it right
Whisky Live Paris is the largest whisky and spirits tasting event in Europe, held every September at La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris. The 2026 edition runs 26 to 28 September, with two public days followed by a trade day, in the same 16,000 m² hall that drew over 24,500 visitors in 2025.…
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Sotheby’s Whisky & Spirits: inside the auction house that sold the £2.19m Macallan
Sotheby’s Whisky & Spirits is the auction house’s dedicated rare-spirits department and the current market leader for collectible whisky. It runs live auctions, timed online sales and private sales across London, New York, Hong Kong and Paris, handling everything from vintage Macallan and Brora to Japanese Karuizawa and rare bourbon. It holds the world record…
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Just Whisky Auctions: the monthly online auction where sellers pay 0% commission
Just Whisky Auctions made one decision that sets it apart from most whisky auction houses: it takes nothing from the seller at all decided to take nothing from the seller at all. Sellers pay 0% commission and a flat £7.50 per bottle, and that single decision is the main reason the platform keeps turning up…
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