John Dewar & Sons has unveiled a new range of whiskies from Royal Brackla, the first Scotch to be granted a Royal Warrant by King William IV in 1833. Showcasing the quality of Royal Brackla for a new generation of malt drinkers, Malt Master, Stephanie Macleod has masterfully re-imagined the brand’s core range with maturation and finishing in the finest ...
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Almost 50 Year Old Cask Of Ardbeg Fetches $19M
A one-of-a-kind 1975 cask of Ardbeg Islay single malt Scotch whisky, which survived the Distillery’s two brushes with closure, has sold to a private collector in Asia for £16million. The oldest ever released by Ardbeg, “Cask No. 3” is incomparably precious, since little single malt was created at the Distillery in the 1970s and it was closed through much of ...
Read More »A Dozen Whiskeys For Father’s Day
By Richard Thomas If you are as lucky as I am, you get two Father’s Days. Because my child lives abroad, he marks the occasion on their calendar; I mark it on the American holiday. That way, I get to celebrate it twice, and the second round is coming up, because in the United States, Father’s Day is Sunday, June ...
Read More »Glendronach Releases Tenth Batch Of Cask Strength
The GlenDronach Distillery announces the tenth release of its highly anticipated Cask Strength Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky. This expression is expertly crafted by Master Blender Rachel Barrie from a marriage of Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry casks. By bottling at the whisky’s natural cask strength, as was the custom before the turn of the 20th Century, GlenDronach Cask Strength ...
Read More »Aberfeldy 12 Year Old Scotch Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B Dewar’s is a pretty familiar sight in the United States, as well it should be: it’s the second-best selling Scotch Whisky brand in the country, and that country happens to be the world’s most lucrative whiskey market. Less well-known are the single malts (or grain whiskies for that matter) that go into this popular blended ...
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