Recent Single Malt Articles

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

The Ghost of Cask #5627: How Karuizawa's 1960 Vintage Became the Most Mythologized Bottle in Japanese Whisky There are spirits, and then there are objects of obsession. The Karuizawa 1960 — a 52-year-old single malt born from a cask that no longer exists, in a distillery that no longer stands, mad

Blend vs. Blended Malt: Are You Drinking What You Think? Let's be honest. You've been standing in the whiskey aisle, bottle in hand, staring at the label like it owes you something. It says "blended malt." The one next to it just says "blended." They're both Scotch. They're around the same price.

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

Bruichladdich Greener Still: The Final Chapter of the Still Series Closes With a Nod to the Field, Not the Cask Twenty-five years ago, a group of investors with deep roots in the wine trade did something the Scotch whisky industry wasn't expecting: they walked into a shuttered Victorian distillery

Kavalan Makes Its Move: The Taiwanese Whisky Giant Reclaims Israel Through Eurostandart LTD When a whisky brand of Kavalan's stature re-enters a market, it rarely happens quietly. The Taiwanese single malt powerhouse — the distillery that rattled the established order of Scotch supremacy and force

Exploring American Single Malt Whiskey American single malt whiskey is experiencing a surge in popularity within the American whiskey landscape, with new expressions emerging regularly from both established and up-and-coming brands. The market is saturated with options, showcasing the gr

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Connemara Gold: Ireland's Most Storied Peated Distillery Makes Its Most Accessible Whiskey Yet For the better part of three decades, Connemara has occupied a singular position in the world of Irish whiskey — the one expression that dared to go smoky in a category defined almost entirely by clean,

After a Decade of Silence, Nikka's Miyagikyo Single Malt 10 Years Old Is Back — and American Fans Have a Narrow Window to Get It There are releases that generate noise, and there are releases that carry genuine historical weight. The return of Nikka's Miyagikyo Single Malt 10 Years Old belongs fir