Recent Single Malt Articles

How Highland Park Is Rewriting the Rules of Whisky Marketing With Its Between You and I Series For most of its history, the Scotch whisky industry has sold its wares through a fairly rigid playbook: age statements, cask provenance, distillery pedigree, and an authoritative list of tasting notes ha

Scotland's West Coast Is Getting a New Craft Distillery — and the Story Behind It Is More Interesting Than You Think On September 25, 2026, a quiet but significant decision was handed down in Argyll, Scotland. Argyll and Bute Council granted planning permission to transform a former oil depot on Ard

Laphroaig 15-Year-Old Is Back — And This Time, It's Not Going Anywhere For years, Laphroaig fans in the United States had to make a choice they shouldn't have had to make: settle for the distillery's iconic 10-Year-Old or make a significant financial leap to the 18-Year-Old. The middle ground — a 15

England's New Whisky Shield Is Scotland's Headache: The Battle Over the UK's Most Consequential GI Decision in Years On September 11, 2026, the UK government did something it had never done before: it handed England its own legally protected whisky identity. The Department for Environment, Food an

The World's First: GlenAllachie Puts Mongolian Oak on the Global Whisky Map Something genuinely unprecedented landed on the whisky world's doorstep on September 10, 2026. The GlenAllachie Distillery introduced the fourth chapter in its Sinteis Series — a 2015 Mongolian Virgin Oak, Pedro Ximénez an

Ardnamurchan Just Put Single Malt Scotch in a Plastic Bottle — and That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds There is a particular kind of reverence that surrounds a bottle of single malt Scotch. The thick glass, the heft in the hand, the way light catches the amber inside — these are not incidental det

Ten Years, One Cask, One Estate: Arbikie Finally Releases Its First Single Malt Scotch Whisky There are distilleries that release a single malt because it's on the roadmap. There are distilleries that release one because the accountants need a flagship. And then there's Arbikie Highland Estate Dis

Welsh Whisky vs Scotch: More Than Miles ApartWelsh Whisky vs Scotch: More Than Miles Apart If someone slid a glass of Welsh single malt across the bar to you and told you it was a light Speyside Scotch, there's a decent chance you'd believe them — at least for the first sip. But the more time you

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

A 189-Year Gap Gets Filled: The Borders Distillery Taps a Whisky Heavy-Hitter Ahead of Its Landmark Single Malt Launch There are moments in the Scotch whisky world that feel genuinely historic — not in the breathless, marketing-department sense, but in the kind of way that makes you stop and actua