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Benromach 12yo at The Whisky Exchange – Scotch Whisky News
Benromach 12 Joining the Speyside distillery’s signature range alongside the 15 and 21 Year Olds, Benromach 12 Year Old is matured in first-fill sherry casks, with notes of cinnamon, cocoa, raspberry and rich fruitcake, alongside peppery spice and delicate smoke. After maturing exclusively in…
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The Gauldrons ‘The Eclipse Edition – Finished in Orange Wine Casks’ – Scotch Whisky News
The Eclipse Edition – Finished in Orange Wine Casks When darkness falls, something stirred in The Gauldrons. The light went out over Scotland – and won’t again in our lifetimes. Rare things don’t wait around. Neither does this. For the first time, The Gauldrons has been finished in Orange Wine…
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Christmas at Whiski Rooms – Book Your Celebration Today! – Festive Whiski News
Christmas at Whiski Rooms – Book Your Celebration Today! The festive season is fast approaching, and Whiski Rooms in Edinburgh is now taking bookings for Christmas. Whether you’re planning a family feast, a corporate Christmas lunch, or an unforgettable whisky tasting, we have the perfect setting…
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The beauty of balance: Get to know equal-parts cocktails
If you’ve ever shaken, stirred – or in any other way served up – a cocktail, you probably have a grasp on the key formats. There’s the Golden Ratio in drinks like the Margarita: two parts spirit, one part sweet and one part sour. Then there’s highball classics like the Moscow Mule, with roughly two…
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High Praise for Loire Wines: France’s Answer to Sustainable, Crowd-Pleasing Bottles Perfect for Any Occasion
High Praise for Loire Wines: France’s Answer to Sustainable, Crowd-Pleasing Bottles Perfect for Any Occasion Few viticultural areas reflect such innate diversity—as well as a commitment to sustainability—as France’s Loire region. Located south west of Paris, this dynamic wine-growing area is home…
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A night to remember – The 2026 Top 100 Most Influential and BOTY gallery is here
What a day, and what a night. Two of Sydney Bar Week’s biggest events came together on Tuesday 15 September, with the 2026 Bartender of the Year competition followed by the reveal of the Top 100 Most Influential, and now the full gallery is live. var rnd = window.rnd ||…
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“Create something that you love and believe in”: Ravenspur marks one year
Ravenspur is turning one, with owner Taran Howard marking 12 months of doing things his own way with a first birthday bash next Monday. It has been a big first year for the Sydney venue, from rising operating costs and alcohol tax increases to nights spent at capacity for hours at a time. For…
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Talisker 32 Years 1993 (Kirsch Import 50th Anniversary)
German importer Kirsch Import is celebrating 50 years in business. To mark the occasion they're release a number of limited editions. One of them is a 32 year old Talisker 1993. It will be officially presented at Whisky Live Germany in Hamburg.
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Talisker 32 Years 1993 (Kirsch Import 50th Anniversary)
German importer Kirsch Import is celebrating 50 years in business. To mark the occasion they're release a number of limited editions. One of them is a 32 year old Talisker 1993. It will be officially presented at Whisky Live Germany in Hamburg.
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Glenmorangie Announces Its Oldest Release Yet — A 50-Year-Old, $36,000 Whisky
Glenmorangie is joining the wave of ultra-aged whiskey releases. On Thursday, the Highland distillery announced the launch of a 50-year-old single malt, marking the distillery’s oldest Scotch yet. The half century-old whisky is one of the final Glenmorangie expressions to come from barley malted on…
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Review: 2025 Harken Chardonnay California
The ABC (Anything but Chardonnay) movement didn’t really take hold the way some people would have hoped. All of its most boisterous vocal proponents either set off to the great big vineyard in the sky or moved on to putting Merlot or Rosé on blast. But certain Chardonnays are serving as proof of…
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Replay: Leiper's Fork Virtual Tasting
A few nights ago, Lee Kennedy, founder and head distiller at Leiper's Fork Distillery, joined us for our community virtual tasting. Lee and I go back to about 2016, the same year he filled his first barrel. Leiper's Fork is a family-owned, grain-to-glass distillery about 45 minutes south of…
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The Glenlivet Launches 12 Year Old Provence Edition
The Glenlivet has introduced The Glenlivet 12 Year Old Provence Edition, a limited-edition single malt Scotch whisky inspired by the flavors and culture of Provence in Southern France. The 40% ABV expression uses The Glenlivet 12 Year Old as its base and receives a finish in a combination of…
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The Glenlivet Launches 12 Year Old Provence Edition
The Glenlivet has introduced The Glenlivet 12 Year Old Provence Edition, a limited-edition single malt Scotch whisky inspired by the flavors and culture of Provence in Southern France. The 40% ABV expression uses The Glenlivet 12 Year Old as its base and receives a finish in a combination of…
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The Largest Wine Cellar in Switzerland Sits Inside a Luxe Wellness Hotel
In the corner of northeast Switzerland, an hour’s drive away from Zurich, the Appenzell region is home to many charming curiosities: its own distinct regional variety of Swiss German, an annual cattle parade where farmers lead a herd through town while wearing enormous cowbells, and a…
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How to Make the Monkey Gland
Named after one of the strangest medical fads of the 1920s, the Monkey Gland pairs gin and orange juice with a splash of absinthe and grenadine, and somehow makes the combination work beautifully. It’s one of the odder cocktail origin stories out there, and one of the tastier reasons to keep a…
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Teeling unveils Limited-Edition Santa Teresa Cask Finish Small Batch Irish Whiskey
Teeling Whiskey and Santa Teresa rum join forces in the latest Teeling Small Batch Collaborations Series Teeling has announced the launch of Teeling Small Batch Whiskey Santa Teresa 1796 Cask Finish, a limited-edition release that brings together the best of Irish whiskey and Venezuelan rum…
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J Gow Rum Wild Yeast Series Orchweizen 2023
Introduction J. Gow have steadily built a reputation for doing things a little differently. While many craft rum producers focus on unusual cask finishes or exotic botanicals, the Orkney distillery have increasingly explored fermentation as a way to create distinctive flavour profiles. That brings…
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Aberlour Adds 21 and 25 Year Old to Permanent Range
Credit: Aberlour Speyside single malt brand Aberlour has added a 21 Year Old and a 25 Year Old to its permanent range, its oldest permanent expressions to date. The two single-batch whiskies will debut at Whisky Live Paris this month and then go to select retailers worldwide from September 2026.…
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Dual Zone Compact Fridges for Every Day
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The Macallan 1926 Leads Sotheby’s Speyside Auction 2026
Credit: The Macallan The Macallan 1926 will lead Sotheby’s first auction at The Macallan Estate in Speyside, Scotland, on October 9, 2026. The sale will mark 100 years since the whisky was distilled and will include more than 40 lots, drawn almost entirely from private collections. Sotheby’s…
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Gordon & MacPhail Announces Anniversary Releases Collection
Credit: Gordon & Macphail Independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail has launched its Anniversary Releases collection, which includes four single cask Scotch whiskies from the Longmorn, Glen Grant, Miltonduff and Linkwood distilleries. The family-owned company named each whisky after its year of…
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Love Scotch and Japanese Whisky? Try These 4 Bottles
Scotland and Japan sit on opposite sides of the world, yet few whisky-producing nations have influenced one another quite so profoundly. Japanese whisky owes much of its foundation to Scotland. Masataka Taketsuru’s years studying distilling in Scotland are well documented, and many of the…
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We Asked 9 Sommeliers: What Chardonnay Offers the Best Bang for Your Buck? (2026)
Chardonnay is one of the world’s most popular grape varieties, but not every bottle is created equally. With the grape’s wide range of expressions and price points, it can sometimes seem difficult to find the middle ground between the ultra-rich, overly oaky budget bottles and the more nuanced…
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