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The Dalmore Debuts Distillery Select Series

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Highland-based distillery The Dalmore has released a new limited single malt whisky series – The Distillery Select – which will feature rare whiskies from specific casks hand-selected by The Dalmore. Three whiskies mark the debut of the series, led out by Dalmore Distillery Select 2009 single malt, matured for 15 years and finished in rare […]

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Bruichladdich Brings Out Octomore 14

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Bruichladdich Distillery has released Octomore 14 – their annual trio of heavily-peated single malts – consisting of the Octomore 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3 – which have been released since 2008. All three Bruichladdich Octomore single malts are matured for five years, bottled ‘close to cask strength’ and are always heavily peated [to a whopping 309 […]

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Compass Box Revives Metropolis For Extinct Blends Quartet Series

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Metropolis whisky

UK-based whisky bottler/producer Compass Box has released Metropolis, the third of an expected four entries in their limited edition Extinct Blends Quartet series, which celebrates blends that have been ‘lost to history’. Compass Box Metropolis initially spent time in sherry casks, was bottled at 49% alcohol by volume [98 proof] and is said to offer […]

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It’s Madness! WhistlePig Goes One Step Beyond – FarmStock

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Vermont-based WhistlePig, noted for their rye whiskies, have gone one step beyond with their latest limited edition farm-to-bottle whiskey series – FarmStock Beyond Bonded – where all whiskies in the series have been bottled in bond, having been harvested and distilled at the WhistlePig farm and distillery in Vermont in one season. Whistlepig FarmStock Beyond […]

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Gleneagles Launches Quartet Of Whisky Pursuits

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Scotland-based luxury hotel+spa Gleneagles has released a quartet of single malt whiskies as a series called Pursuits, inspired by four countryside activities – falconry, fishing, horse riding and shooting – offered at the estate [never mind golf, which will have Gleneagles as the host the International Pro-Am golf tournament later this year]. Each of the […]

Redbreast Supplements Dream Cask Series With 27-Year-Old

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Redbreast has supplemented their Dream Cask Series with Port to Port Edition – a 27-year-old single pot still Irish whiskey produced at Midleton Distillery in Cork. Redbreast Dream Cask Port to Port Edition combines a pair of whiskies aged separately in bourbon and ruby Port casks for 27 and 28 years respectively, before being joined […]

Loch Lomond Finishes Off Remarkable Stills Series

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Loch Lomond has released Loch Lomond 47 Years Old – the final single malt whisky in their Remarkable Stills series featuring high-age single malts. Loch Lomond 47 Years Old is unpeated, bottled at 44.3% alcohol by volume [88.6 proof] and is said to offer notes of apple, caramel, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange, toffee and vanilla. Only […]

The Singleton Reveals 40-Year-Old

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Diageo-owned The Singleton has released a limited edition 40-year-old single malt as the third and final addition to their Epicurean Odyssey series, which explores an ‘epicurean journey of flavour’ and ‘sensorial maximalism’. Other releases in the series were 38-year-old and 39-year-old whiskies. The Singleton 40-Year-Old was bottled at 45.9% alcohol by volume [91.8 proof] and […]

Writers’ Tears Issues Vintage Cask Strength

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Irish whiskey Writers’ Tears has released their 2023 Vintage Cask Strength – their 13th edition of the Cask Strength series. Writers’ Tears 2023 Cask Strength Irish whiskey is a blend of aged single pot still and single malt whiskies – both spending time in American oak ex-bourbon barrels – bottled at 54.8% alcohol by volume […]

Glenmorangie Issues 12-Year-Old Amontillado Cask Finish

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It may seem like WC is promoting Glenmorangie this month after WC recently reviewed Nectar d’Or – but it is genuine coincidence that the Highland single malt brand has released a 12-year-old whisky finished in Amontillado Sherry casks as the fourth entry in their Barrel Select Release series of small batch single malts. Glenmorangie Amontillado […]

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