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Sam Heughan's Sassenach Spirits Jamie Fraser Collection: Inside the Most Personal Whisky Drop of 2026 Whisky has always trafficked in stories. The best bottles don't just sit on a shelf — they carry weight, history, and some measure of emotional truth. By that standard, the recently released Sasse

National Scotch Day lands on July 27, and for anyone who takes their whisky seriously, that's as good a reason as any to pour something worth sipping slowly. This year, The Macallan is putting a spotlight on a handful of expressions from its Timeless Collection that cover just about every kind of w

Two Distilleries, One Bottle: The Historic American-Israeli Whiskey Collaboration That Just Changed the Game On a Wednesday evening in mid-July 2026, something genuinely unprecedented happened in a distillery nestled in Chamblee, just north of Atlanta. Master distillers from two countries — one fr

Isle of Harris Distillery Drops Its Signature Single Malt — A Decade in the Making There is a particular weight to the phrase "ten years in the making" when it comes from the remote edge of the Outer Hebrides, where time moves differently and the Atlantic winds shape everything from the barley in

Scotland's Most Ambitious Mashup: Kingsbarns Distillery Opens a Putting Green and Sets Its Sights on Golf's Global Faithful There is a moment every golfer knows — the round is done, the bag is off your shoulder, and the only thing standing between you and a proper dram is the walk from the 18th gr

Port of Leith Distillery Puts Scotch Whisky in a Can — And It Might Actually Be Brilliant There is a moment in any whisky lover's Saturday afternoon — somewhere between the second pour and the third — when the idea of carrying that experience somewhere else sounds genuinely appealing. Maybe it's a

Taiwan Wins Again: Kavalan Takes Back-to-Back Whisky of the Year at the 2026 International Whisky Competition When the International Whisky Competition announced its 2026 results on July 7, the envelope might as well have been addressed to Yilan County before it was ever opened. For the second con

Glenglassaugh Drops a 15-Year-Old Single Malt — and It's Nothing Like the 12 There are distilleries that grow old quietly, adding age statements the way a craftsman adds tools to his bench — methodically, purposefully, one at a time. Then there's Glenglassaugh, a coastal Highland operation that ha

The Chase Family's Second Act: How Lorna Chase Is Putting English Single Malt on the World Whisky Map There is a particular kind of audacity required to walk away from a £70 million spirits sale, spend three years watching your life's work get absorbed into a multinational corporation, and then ca

Torabhaig Taigh: The Isle of Skye's Second Distillery Finally Plants Its Flag For nearly two centuries, a single copper still stood watch over the Isle of Skye's whisky heritage. Talisker, founded in 1830, was long the island's sole voice in Scotland's great chorus of single malts. Then, in 2017,