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Bruichladdich has just released the Octomore 17 Series, and the headline number belongs to 17.3: 132.1 PPM, one of the most heavily peated single malts the distillery has ever bottled. This is the annual moment peat drinkers wait for, and the 17 Series arrives under a new banner, Chromatic Signatures, with three core five-year-old Islay…

The oldest whisky The Dalmore has ever put into its Cask Curation Series is a 45 year old, and it closes the series for good. The Dalmore has released the Cask Curation Series: The Madeira Cask Edition, the fourth and final chapter of the collection it began in 2023. It is a set of three Highland…

For a distillery whose whole identity is built on Spanish sherry, adding a French red wine cask is a statement. That is exactly what GlenDronach has done for its 200th birthday. The GlenDronach Boynsmill House Edition is a 14-year-old Highland single malt released for the distillery’s 200th anniversary in 2026. It keeps GlenDronach’s signature oloroso…

The Balvenie has released an 88 Year Old single malt, distilled in 1931 and bottled in 2019, now the oldest whisky ever brought to market. It edges past the 85 Year Old Glenlivet from Gordon & MacPhail. Only 17 bottles exist at 43.2% ABV, sold to private clients and collectors with no public price. It…

A $130 bottle of Blue Label, bought on the way home from a business trip to New York. Twenty years later, that one purchase has grown into the largest Johnnie Walker collection ever brought to auction. The collector is Frans Op den Kamp, based in California, and the whole archive is now on its way…

Loch Lomond has bottled plenty of peated whisky over the years, but never this old. Waypoint 31 Year Old, out globally from 1 September, is the oldest peated single malt the distillery has ever released, and it lands with a 99/100 score from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition already behind it. It is the…

Smoky Shores 14 Year Old is a limited-release blended malt Scotch whisky from independent bottler Wemyss Malts, and the return of the coastal expression that sold out after its 2022 debut. Master Blender Isabella Wemyss married two contrasting peated single malts from a small parcel of hogsheads to rebuild a salty, smoky, citrus-lifted profile. It…

Ardbeg has done something it has never done before: given its core range a permanent age statement beyond the Ten. Ardbeg Trudernish is a 15-year-old Islay single malt, bottled at 48.8% ABV and non chill-filtered, and it arrives alongside a full redesign of every whisky in the distillery’s standing line-up. The RRP is £80, and…

Four Roses Experimental Series No. 002 Honey Cask Finish is the second release in the Kentucky distillery’s experimental line, and despite the name, no honey is added. It is a Kentucky straight bourbon blending the OESQ and OBSK recipes, aged six to eight years, then finished for three to nine months in casks that previously…

Sazerac, the American company behind Buffalo Trace, has launched American Wolf whiskey in India, and it is not quite American whiskey. It is a blend of American whiskey with select Indian grain and malt spirits, built specifically for India and bottled under the country’s Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) rules. It arrives alongside a second launch,…