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Check out the all latest news relating to whisky - including Scotch Whisky, American Whiskey, Irish Whiskey, Japanese Whisky; whisky styles including single malt, blended malt, blended whisky and grain whisky; top whisky-producing regions like Islay, Speyside and The Highlands; and top distilleries and brands like Ardbeg, Balvenie, Glenfarclas, Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Lagavulin, Laphroaig and Macallan.
Speyburn whisky line-upSpeyburn Distillery: tours, tastings, and 125 years of history

This year Speyside whisky makers Speyburn opened its doors to visitors for the first time in its 125-year history. It was for the Spirit of Speyside festival it and won…

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Glenmorangie A Tale of TokyoNew Arrival of the Week: Glenmorangie A Tale of Tokyo

“I’m lucky to have travelled widely over the years sharing Glenmorangie around the world whilst also gathering new inspiration for whisky creations, and Tokyo has always been one of my…

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Macallan's striking distillery opened in 2018The Speyside single malt Scotch whiskies you need to know

Oh, Speyside. Scotland’s gentle whisky giant. Home to over 50 whisky distilleries, the greatest number of any Scotch whisky region, with whiskies ranging from the light, sweet, and honeyed to…

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Port of Leith: inside Edinburgh’s vertical distilleryPort of Leith: inside Edinburgh’s vertical distillery

Last week we scaled new heights during a visit to the UK’s first vertical distillery, Port of Leith. Ahead of its opening for tours today, we were hosted by founders…

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Balblair 21 Year OldBalblair 21 Year Old review

Balblair has just launched a 21-year-old single malt – the oldest single malt in the Highland distillery’s core range. Very exciting, isn’t it? The whisky began its journey in second-fill…

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Icons of Campbeltown The Mermaid on the beachNew Arrival of the Week: Glen Scotia The Mermaid 12 Year Old (Icons of Campbeltown)

It’s all go in Campbeltown at the moment with the announcement last month that plans for North Star Spirits’ Dál Riata distillery have been approved. This was preceded in May…

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A bottle of Holyrood Arrival Release #1New Arrival of the Week: Holyrood Arrival Release #1

Holyrood Distillery’s long-awaited inaugural whisky, Arrival, has… err… arrived (and gone, it’s all sold out).  The distillery, found in the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town in the shadow of…

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Guide to cheap whiskyTasting Evan Williams, Elijah Craig and other Heaven Hill whiskeys

The other day we were having a conversation here at Master of Malt about good value whiskey, as we often do. One thing we all agreed is that you get…

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Tamnavulin-DistilleryTop 10 interesting cask whiskies to try in 2023

This week we’re all about the cask at Master of Malt. Whether it’s an unusual cask finish or a whisky aged in an interesting combination of barrels, we’re getting out…

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The Diageo Special Releases 2023Diageo Special Releases 2023 whiskies have arrived!

The big red ‘new whisky’ alarm at MoM Towers is going off because this year’s Diageo Special Releases are here. Diageo Special Releases 2023 are here! A fresh batch of…

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Berry Bros the CollectiveBerry Bros The Collective #1: The Pioneers whiskies (and more) are here!

We’re celebrating independent bottlers all this week and next here at Master of Malt. And they don’t come any more prestigious than Berry Bros. & Rudd. It’s been selling wines…

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Whisky from Independent bottlersTop 10 whiskies from independent bottlers to drink in 2023

This week we’re celebrating the mavericks of the whisky world, independent bottlers. These are run by whisky-mad people who like nothing better than sniffing out unique casks and bottling them…

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New Arrival of the Week: Compass Box MetropolisNew Arrival of the Week: Compass Box Metropolis

Compass Box has just unveiled the third expression in its Extinct Blends Quartet. It’s called Metropolis, it’s now available from us, and we can tell you all about it because…

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Rye whisky samples at Circumstance Distillery in BristolNew Arrival of the Week: Circumstance Single Grain Rye Whisky

As Circumstance Distillery releases its very first rye whisky, we take a look at Bristol’s spirits mavericks to see how the business and their whisky is maturing. I first visited…

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Highland Park cask strength batch 4New Arrival of the Week: Highland Park Cask Strength – Release No.4 Whisky

Back in 2020, I tried the first batch of Highland Park’s first ever cask core range cask strength Scotch whisky, and I loved it. It didn’t seem possible for a…

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View of Ardbeg Distillery on IslayThe peated single malt Scotch whiskies you need to know

Whether it’s an Islay whisky, from the Islands or the mainland, we loved a peated single malt Scotch whisky. But there are certain bottles that are reference points, known and…

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