Recent Single Cask Whisky Articles

Inside the Vault: Diageo's Lagavulin 1991 Cask Is the Rarest Single-Cask Islay Whisky Ever Offered for Private Sale There are whisky releases, and then there are moments that force even seasoned collectors to stop and recalibrate their sense of what rare actually means. Diageo's unveiling of Lagavul

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Crosses 40,000 Members — But a Cask Sales Drag Is Testing the Story For American whisky drinkers who have been tracking the global single-cask scene, the name Scotch Malt Whisky Society needs little introduction. For four decades it has operated as one of the most si

The Balvenie 88-Year-Old: How a Single Cask Survived Nearly a Century to Become the World's Oldest Scotch On March 5, 1931, a distillery worker at The Balvenie in Dufftown, Scotland, made a routine entry in the handwritten production ledger. European oak sherry butt cask #239, sourced from Jerez,

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

SMWS Owner Artisanal Spirits Catches a Break: Trade Deals, Tariff Relief, and a Hard-Fought First Half For anyone who has tracked the fortunes of the Scotch whisky industry over the past two turbulent years, the latest trading update from Artisanal Spirits Company — the Edinburgh-based owner of th