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The Macallan just closed out one of its most talked-about whisky series with a release that sounds more like a beach vacation than a Speyside distillery — and that's exactly the point. On August 4, 2026, the brand rolled out the sixth and final chapter of The Macallan Harmony Collection, wrapping u

Bruichladdich Greener Still: The Final Chapter of the Still Series Closes With a Nod to the Field, Not the Cask Twenty-five years ago, a group of investors with deep roots in the wine trade did something the Scotch whisky industry wasn't expecting: they walked into a shuttered Victorian distillery

The Striding Man, Bottled: How One Collector Built the Largest Johnnie Walker Archive Ever Sent to Auction The whisky world does not often sit still long enough to be catalogued. Distilleries close. Blends evolve. Labels shift across eras of graphic design, wartime rationing, and corporate rebrand

Inside Diageo's 'The Twelve': The World's Most Exclusive Scotch Whisky Cask Program There is a room somewhere in the Scottish Highlands — inside a warehouse that smells of oak and time — where decades of whisky history sleep quietly in wood. Most of those casks will never be known to the public. A

Isle of Skye Rum Cask Finish: When Scotland Meets the Caribbean at Under $30 There is a particular kind of audacity involved in releasing a 10-year-old, cask-finished blended Scotch whisky for $27.99 in August 2026, especially when the rest of the category has been quietly passing tariff costs alo

A Chinese Distillery Just Won Gold at the World Whisky Masters — And the Industry Should Be Paying Attention When Diageo quietly unveiled its first Chinese whisky distillery in the remote highlands of Yunnan Province in late 2024, the global spirits world took notice — cautiously. The questions we

Back-to-Back: Grasmere Distillery Earns Second Consecutive World Whisky Masters Medal for Its Single Malt New Make Spirit There is a small operation tucked inside two converted barns on the shores of Grasmere, in the heart of England's Lake District, that is quietly rewriting the story of English

Pizza, Chili, and Scotch: How Woven Whisky and Civerinos Flipped the Script on Collaboration In a city whose port district once served as the beating heart of the global Scotch blending trade, a new kind of whisky story is unfolding — one that starts not in a dunnage warehouse or a cooperage, but

Taiwan's Finest Just Did It Again: Kavalan Solist Oloroso Sherry Wins TWSC 2026 Best of the Best There is a particular kind of quiet confidence that comes with a fourth consecutive championship in any discipline. Athletes know it. Championship franchises know it. And as of August 4, 2026, Kavalan

There's a whisky coming out of a small village in northern India that keeps doing something nobody expected a few years back. It's not just winning awards. It's sweeping them. And this summer, it happened again in a big way. Indri Single Malt, made by Piccadily Agro Industries, took first, se