Teeling Whiskey Company has announced the special release of some of the oldest Irish Single Malt in the world. The Teeling 34-Year-Old Vintage Reserve Single Malt was distilled in 1983, aged exclusively in ex-American oak bourbon barrels and bottled at 40.9%. The whiskey’s suggested retail price is $5,000 and there are 38 bottles total. Jack Teeling, founder of the Teeling ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B That an eight year old whisky is the oldest single malt ever released by Kilchoman for global distribution ought to tell you a lot about how young the distillery is, especially for a distillery on the fabled island of Islay. When Kilchoman went operational in 2005, it was the first new distillery built on Islay ...

The award-winning Isle of Arran Distillery visitor centre at Lochranza welcomed a record number of visitors last year. Almost 110,000 people made the journey to find ‘the Arran Waters’ in 2017 – a 6% increase on 2016 – meaning visitor numbers have more than doubled since 2012. With the Scotch Whisky Association’s most recent report estimating 1.7 million visits to ...

Every year Glenmorangie invites whisky aficionados to explore its passion for innovation through an award-winning collection of rare and limited-edition single malts. Today, Glenmorangie introduces the ninth release in the Highland distillery’s Private Edition series, Glenmorangie Spìos, the first single malt whisky fully matured in American ex-rye whiskey casks. Glenmorangie Spìos (Scots Gaelic for ‘spice’ and pronounced ‘spee-oss’) recalls the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Orkney-based distillery Highland Park rebranded their core range last year, and in doing so they fully embraced the Viking theme that had characterized their limited edition releases. Now everything is Norse at Highland Park, even if it doesn’t have a Norse name attached to it, because of the sexy bottling. One item that does have ...