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Most bottles of blended Scotch whisky keep their secrets. The label gives a name, maybe an age, and not much else. For most drinkers, what's actually inside the bottle stays a guess. Compass Box, the London-based whiskymaker, has spent years pushing back against that. Its newest release puts the wh

Glen Scotia's Icons of Campbeltown No. 4 Is Here — and a Mythical Griffin Is Guarding Every Drop Campbeltown sits at the end of a long, winding peninsula on the southwest coast of Scotland, a place most American whisky drinkers couldn't find on a map but would recognize instantly in the glass. It

Where Manhattan Meets Islay: Bowmore and Snarkitecture Drop the Captivo Collection There is an old argument in the whisky world — one that surfaces every time a distillery partners with a designer, an artist, or a luxury brand — about whether the liquid in the bottle still matters once the packagi

There's a certain kind of whisky release that gets people talking not because of what's in the bottle, but because of what it represents. The Macallan's newest expression, TIME : SPACE Sherry Cask, is exactly that kind of release. On paper, it's a 20-year-old single malt Scotch whisky bottled at 44

Willem by Willem: Laphroaig's 14-Year-Old Celebrity Scotch Is Genuinely Great — But That $156 Price Tag Is Hard to Swallow There are celebrity whisky collaborations, and then there are celebrity whisky collaborations. The first category is crowded with glossy bottles backed by minimal involvement

A whisky club in India just proved something that sounds almost too simple to matter: sometimes the best way to judge a drink is to know absolutely nothing about it going in. That was the entire premise behind the latest release from Paul John Indian Single Malt Whisky and SMAC India, the country's

A Whisky That Started Aging Before the Internet Existed Somewhere in a warehouse in the Scottish Highlands, a cask of whisky has been quietly doing nothing but getting better since 1968. That's the year Richard Nixon was elected president, the first man hadn't yet walked on the moon, and a distill

Two hundred years ago, a man named James Allardice stood on a stretch of Highland farmland known as the Valley of the Brambles and decided he was going to make whisky his way. That decision, made in 1826 on the Boynsmill Estate in Scotland, would eventually grow into The Glendronach, a distillery t

Loch Lomond's Waypoint 31 Year Old: The Oldest Peated Single Malt the Distillery Has Ever Released There's a particular kind of patience required to make whisky that most people will never get to try. Thirty-one years of waiting while the world outside the warehouse shifts and changes — while dist

Ardbeg Trudernish: The Distillery's First Permanent 15-Year-Old Is Here — And It's Already Winning Gold There are moments in the Scotch whisky world that feel genuinely overdue, and the arrival of Ardbeg Trudernish is one of them. Ardbeg has unveiled the first permanent 15-year-old expression to i