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Speyburn Distillery: tours, tastings, and 125 years of historyThis 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…
New 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…
The Speyside single malt Scotch whiskies you need to knowOh, 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…
Port of Leith: inside Edinburgh’s vertical distilleryLast 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…
Balblair 21 Year Old reviewBalblair 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…
New 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…
New Arrival of the Week: Holyrood Arrival Release #1Holyrood 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…
Tasting Evan Williams, Elijah Craig and other Heaven Hill whiskeysThe 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…
Top 10 interesting cask whiskies to try in 2023This 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…
Diageo 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…
Berry 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…
Top 10 whiskies from independent bottlers to drink in 2023This 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…
New Arrival of the Week: Compass Box MetropolisCompass 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…
New Arrival of the Week: Circumstance Single Grain Rye WhiskyAs 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…
New Arrival of the Week: Highland Park Cask Strength – Release No.4 WhiskyBack 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…
The peated single malt Scotch whiskies you need to knowWhether 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…
