By Emma Briones Rating: B+ Label 5 is the 9th best selling Scotch brand in the world, with 31 million bottles sold globally. It is owned by the French company La Martiniquaise, and has won several major awards in the whisky industry. This blended whisky is made with a selection of malt and grain whiskies, one of them being Glen ...

By Richard Thomas According to a report by the BBC, exports of single malt Scotch whisky crossed the £1 billion mark for the first time in 2016, rising from £914m in 2015 to £1.02bn. Although single malts are the central focus for serious Scotch enthusiasts, it’s the big blends that account for most of both the volume and value of ...

By Richard Thomas Scotch whisky is known for being at least a little more expensive than American, Canadian or even Irish whiskeys, but that doesn’t mean you can’t buy some outstanding quality at a fairly reasonable price. Premium whiskies are, almost by definition, pricey, but the Scotch whiskies listed here aren’t painfully expensive and offer serious quality for the asking ...

Work has officially started to build the new Isle of Arran Distillery on the south of the island at Lagg. A ground breaking ceremony marked the start of ground works with the construction of 3 vital warehouses. Situated overlooking the cliffs at Lagg, on the south coast of the island, the new site sits alongside fields of barley that are ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- The blended whisky Usquaebach dates back to 1877, but it is perhaps more identified with using ceramic bottles for regular Old Rare Superior release than it’s antiquity. Still, old the brand is, and it has been almost a quarter century since a new expression came out under the Usquaebach name. That drought is now over ...