500 lucky people can hop in Auchentoshan’s time machine and travel back to the year 1975 for some triple distilled single malt Scotch whisky from that year – and all without having to wear bell bottoms, wide collared shirts or suede of any kind. That’s because Auchentoshan has released 500 bottles of its 1975 vintage […]
If you suddenly find yourself flush with cash this holiday season, the folks at Bowmore would like to have a word with you. Seems as though they find themselves with 200 bottles of 50-year-old single malt Scotch whisky from their 1961 release. Distilled in December 1961 in a pair of former bourbon hogshead casks, each […]
Mortlach single malt has typically been used as a blending element in other whiskies [you can usually find it nestling within Johnnie Walker bottles] with only a few bottles of the single malt produced on its own for limited distribution. But that will all change in 2014 as the uniquely distilled Mortlach single malt whisky […]
Until recently, you haven’t been able to get Overeem single malt in sherry cask, port cask or any other kind of cask from Tasmania unless you actually lived Down Under. But, now, if you live in the UK and are lucky – very lucky – you might be able to get your hands wrapped around […]
Laphroaig launched their An Cuan Mor – Gaelic for “The Big Ocean” – an Islay single malt Scotch whisky that will only be available in duty free shops around the world. An Cuan Mor is Laphroaig’s third in a series of Scotch whiskies released only to duty free shops – joining QA Cask in April […]
2007 was the last time the Kilchoman Distillery made whisky good enough to wash your boots. We kid, we kid, get that blood pressure back down. Kilchoman Distillery, in case you are not familiar with the name, is the newest distillery on the whisky-famous Scottish island of Islay – it opened in 2005 as the […]
You will probably see the usual array of frightening figures appearing on your doorstep in four weeks – vampires, zombies, any member of the Kardashian or Lohan family – but if you see a bottle of Cu Bocan at your door, the next thing you should do is determine if you have enough glassware to […]
Usually, The Irishman will unveil its special 12-year-old single malt whisky with a 6000-bottle production run, but this year, the company is using only 12 first fill bourbon casks for its special non-chill filtered brown liquid and that means only 4000 will be available at 43% alcohol [86 proof]. The Irishman 12-year-old single malt is […]