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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,

Karuizawa Distillers Breaks Ground on Furaliss, Its Second Distillery — and the Most Ambitious Bet Yet in Japanese Whisky The Japanese whisky world has been on a sustained upward trajectory for years, drawing collectors, drinkers, and investors from across the globe. But few companies have moved w

The Dalmore's Long-Awaited 17-Year-Old: A Sherry Trilogy That Changes the Game for Highland Scotch There are distilleries that release something new every few months, chasing trend cycles with limited editions and special casks and promotional bottlings that blur together after a while. And then t

Diageo Rare Series 2026: Five Bottles, Decades in the Making, and a New Standard for Collectible Scotch There are limited releases, and then there are moments in whisky history. The Diageo Rare Series 2026 belongs firmly in the second category. Introduced under the company's Rare & Exceptional

Rare Find's Summer 2026 Single Cask Scotch Collection: Four Casks, Three Regions, One Uncompromising Standard Every few months, a small independent bottler out of Edinburgh quietly drops a collection that commands the attention of serious whisky drinkers across two continents. No celebrity endorse

Starward Whisky Inks Multi-Year Deal With Rugby Australia, Betting Big on the World Stage Australian whisky has spent the better part of two decades clawing its way into the consciousness of serious spirits drinkers worldwide. Now, one of its most decorated distilleries is making a move that goes

Woven Whisky Is Bringing Blending Back to Leith — and This Time, Everyone's Invited On a stretch of Edinburgh's waterfront where the warehouses once sweated with the smell of aging spirit and the docks hummed with barrels bound for every corner of the empire, something is stirring again. Woven Whi

From Investment Vault to Independent Bottler: Whisky 1901 Launches The Ledger Series There is a particular kind of credibility that comes only from years spent inside a bonded warehouse, cask stave under your nose, debating maturation curves with a master taster rather than a marketing team. That

Old Pulteney Turns 200 With Its Most Ambitious Whisky Release Ever — A 50-Year-Old That Rewrites the Record Books There are distilleries that make whisky, and then there are distilleries that make history. Old Pulteney, the weather-beaten operation tucked into Scotland's far northern coastline in