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Gordon & MacPhail Have A Very Pricey, Very Old Collection Coming

Leading malt whisky specialist, Gordon & MacPhail, has launched an exclusive collection which focuses on six consecutive years from a single distillery. The limited-edition Gordon & MacPhail Glen Grant Collection offers consumers the opportunity to explore six rare and exquisite expressions from the historic Speyside distillery with a vintage selected for each year between 1950 and 1955. Since the founding ...

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Heritage Distilling Company Dual Barrel Rye Whiskey

HDC Dual Barrel Rye

By Father John Rayls Rating: B- Heritage Distilling Company (HDC), a craft distillery based in Gig Harbor, Washington, has won many awards since starting work in 2012. In fact, HDC is the American Distilling Institute’s most award-bedecked craft distillery in North America four years in a row now, from 2014 to today. And, for a trendy women in whiskey twist, HDC ...

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Craft Whiskey In Crafty Vermont

By Richard Thomas Vermont is a little state. Only Wyoming has fewer people in it, and in geographic size it is typical of the small states of New England. Yet that little place is renowned for its natural splendor, and that combined with an iconoclastic streak have given rise to Vermont having a reputation for craftiness in many things. Charming ...

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The Macallan Unveils Edition No. 3 Single Malt

The Macallan, the world’s ultimate luxury single malt Scotch whisky, unveils today Edition No. 3, a collaboration between Master Whisky Maker, Bob Dalgarno and Master Perfumist, Roja Dove.  This third release in the innovative Edition Series is an extraordinary collaboration uniting the worlds of whisky and aroma to showcase the complexities of single malt character. Like preceding releases, Edition No.3 ...

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Q&A With Ewan Henderson, Lost Distillery Company

By Kurt Maitland Quoting myself and The Lost Distillery Company, “The Lost Distillery is an independent whisky company whose stated mission is ‘to create present day expressions of legendary whiskies that belonged to the craft of whisky distilling almost a century ago’.” Between Prohibition and the time of Scotland’s “whisky loch,” (i.e. the whisky crash of the 1970s) many distilleries ...

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