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Whisky Live Paris 2026: our recommendations for the biggest whisky show in Europe
One year we stood at the Diageo stand with a dram of Talisker in one hand and a fresh oyster in the other, tasting the pairing the way they serve it on the Isle of Skye. That is the kind of thing Whisky Live Paris does to you. You arrive with a plan and leave…
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Glengoyne 1979 46 Year Old: a one-of-one bourbon cask, poured by the dram at SCOTCH, The Balmoral
Glengoyne 1979 46-year-old single casks end their lives sealed, catalogued and sold to the highest bidder. This one is being opened. SCOTCH at The Balmoral in Edinburgh has secured a single bottle of Glengoyne distilled in 1979 and left undisturbed in the distillery’s Warehouse Eight for 46 years. There is exactly one bottle, it will…
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Glasgow 1770’s 2026 annual releases: a new sherry cask debut joins Ruby Port and Bourbon
The Glasgow 1770 2026 releases are three limited editions from The Glasgow Distillery, headlined by a whisky that has never appeared in the range before: a Sherry Cask Matured single malt made with Spanish sherry house Ximénez-Spínola. Alongside it sit the returning Ruby Port Cask Finish (now 7 years old) and the Bourbon Cask Matured…
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Borders Distillery Deep Time: the final Workshop Series bottle marks 300 years of James Hutton
Borders Distillery Deep Time is the fourth and final release in the Hawick distillery’s Workshop Series, and it is built around an anniversary 300 years since the birth of James Hutton, the Borders-shaped farmer and scientist remembered as the father of modern geology. It is a blended Scotch whisky bottled at 40% ABV, and it…
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Bowmore x Snarkitecture: Beyond the Threshold, and the 20-year-old bottle hiding behind the art campaign
Bowmore has pulled the cover off its next big collaboration, and it is not another distillery or another cask type. It is a New York art studio. The project is called Beyond the Threshold, a partnership between Bowmore and Snarkitecture, the studio that works at the meeting point of art, architecture and design. Bowmore is holding most…
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Wylye Distillery: the one-man Wiltshire single malt hidden in plain sight
Wylye Distillery is a single malt distillery at Windmill Farm in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire, run entirely by owner and distiller Sam Barber. Production began in July 2023, and Sam has quietly laid down well over 1,000 casks of unpeated English single malt. As of August 2026 there is nothing to buy: the first casks…
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Duncan Taylor’s first Mizunara Octave is a 14-year-old Auchentoshan, and a light Lowland spirit is built for it
The Octave Auchentoshan Mizunara is the first Japanese-oak cask Duncan Taylor has ever filled, and the whisky inside it is a 14-year-old Lowland single malt. For anyone who has quietly watched the Octave range without ever hearing much noise about it, this is the kind of release that explains why it is worth watching. The…
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Kavalan Solist Oloroso is TWSC 2026 Best of the Best, and Kavalan took six of the top ten places
Kavalan Solist Oloroso Sherry Single Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky has been named Best of the Best Single Malt at the Tokyo Whisky & Spirits Competition (TWSC) 2026, the competition’s highest honour. It is Kavalan’s fourth consecutive Best of the Best title and its seventh world championship at TWSC. Kavalan was also named Best Asian…
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Jim Beams Creator Campus: the Clermont distillery is turning its grounds into a studio for podcasters, musicians and filmmakers
James B. Beam Distilling Co., the company behind Jim Beam, has launched Creator Campus, an open call inviting podcasters, musicians, filmmakers and digital creators to make original work at its Clermont, Kentucky distillery. Selected creators get access to the grounds and dedicated spaces for recording, filming and producing music, plus whiskey tastings, on-site restaurants and…
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Never Say Die’s first brand home lands in downtown Lexington, with a bourbon you can only get there
Never Say Die, the Kentucky bourbon matured across the Atlantic in England, is opening its first brand home in downtown Lexington in autumn 2026. The two-floor site at 249 W. Short St. pairs an English-style pub with an immersive tasting experience, and it will be the only place in the world to buy Double Ocean…














