Harrison Ford Enjoys His Bruichladdich
Speaking a little slowly, Harrison Ford tells a joke while sipping some Bruichladdich single malt whisky from Islay with host Jimmy Fallon…
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Big Peat Coming This Christmas
Big Peat from Islay will be coming this Christmas from Douglas Laing. Big Peat Christmas 2017 is bottled at natural cask strength – 54.1% alcohol by volume [108.2 proof] – and is said to contain notes of “ferry engine rooms, rock pools, harbor walls, beached seaweed and creosoted beach huts, with a suggestion of chewed […]
Glen Grant Collection Released
Make room in your bank account if you want the recently released Glen Grant Collection – a limited edition collection of six whiskies selected from 1950-55 from the Speyside distillery. Only 75 Glen Grant Collections will be made available but each Glen Grant Collection will cost you – wait for it – $13,000 per collection.
Benromach Introduces Triple Distilled Single Malt
Speyside’s Benromach Distillery has released their first triple distilled single malt whisky. The appropriately named Benromach Triple Distilled is an eight-year-old matured in first-fill Bourbon barrels, bottled at 50% alcohol by volume [100 proof] and said to have notes of fruit. The Benromach Triple Distilled is available in Europe and the UK for $60 per […]
Glen Scotia Releases 18-Year-Old
Campbeltown whisky distillery Glen Scotia has released an 18-Year-Old single malt whisky. Glen Scotia – one of only three distilleries remaining from the Campbeltown region once known as the ‘whisky capital of the world’ during the 19th Century has produced their 18-Year-Old single malt whisky after maturing it in oak casks for a minimum of […]
Theatre Of Drams Coming To Islay In October
A new Whisky festival – Theatre of Drams – is coming to Islay in October. The Theatre of Drams Whisky Symposium is a five-day event focusing on whisky making with distillers, barley experts, chemists, coppersmiths, coopers and brand ambassadors all present to provide their knowledge in the process. There will be lectures each morning follow […]
Bruichladdich Reveals World’s Most Heavily Peated Single Malt Whisky
Where there is smoke, there is fire – the old saying goes – and there is a metric ton of smoke in Bruichladdich’s newest four-whisky range of peated single malt whiskies called Octomore – including Octomore 3 – which is said to be the “world’s most heavily-peated single malt whisky”. Peated whiskies are frequently measured […]
Spirit Of Speyside: Distilled Just Around The Corner
What could be better than some of your favorite distilleries congregating in one place to offer samples of their hard work and then pairing that with food? It can’t get much better than that – the only downside is if you are not already nearby, then you have to find some way to get to […]