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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…
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: 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…
How Many Brands of Scotch Whisky Are There?Last week we looked at how many whisky distilleries there are in Scotland, the answer is quite a lot and growing the whole time. Now, it’s time to answer once…
New Arrival of the Week: Tomatin Italian CollectionItaly meets Scotland for our New Arrivals this week as Tomatin releases its Italian Collection, a series of three single malt Scotch whiskies finished in Italian wine casks, a Marsala…
How Many Different Scotch Whiskies Are There?There’s loads of Scotch whisky out there. How much exactly? Well… That’s not a very easy question to answer. We’ve run the maths and all we can say for certain…
New Arrival of the Week: Allt-á-Bhainne 21 Year Old 1996 Single Cask (Master of Malt)We love featuring an under-the-radar distillery in our New Arrival slot and they don’t get less high profile than Allt-á-Bhainne. Before we go any further, this is how it’s pronounced: …
Rhythm & Booze Records #1: 13 Year Old Single Sherry Butt Blended Malt Whisky reviewAt Master of Malt we love music and we love whisky so we especially love it when music and whisky collide. Regular readers will know about musicians Felipe Schrieberg and…
Top 10 Most Underrated WhiskiesNot every whisky gets the love it deserves. Here’s 10 underrated whiskies we believe should get a greater share of the spotlight. Not that picking an underrated whisky is exactly…
Bankhall Single Malt Cask Strength – First Release ReviewOne of England’s most interesting new whisky makers has released its first single malt. Here’s the lowdown on Bankhall Single Malt Cask Strength – First Release, which just has arrived…
What We Loved This Week: Buffalo Trace, Port Charlotte, and Rare Cognac!Terroir-tastic Port Charlotte, the rarest of Cognac, a snippet of Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, whisky cake… It’s a bumper edition of What we loved this week! Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!…
Top ten Islay whiskies to celebrate Fèis Ìle 2022!Now that Fèis Ìle 2022 has kicked off, we can’t think of anything we’d rather have right now than some delicious Islay whisky. If only there was somewhere we could…
Cocktail of the Week: The PenicillinThis week we turn our attention to one of the great modern cocktails and the ultimate smoky Whisky Sour: the Penicillin cocktail! I’ve been thinking about pineapple on pizza a…
The Amber Light whisky film: Dave Broom interviewHang on to your hats because there’s a new whisky film coming to a screen near you. On the eve of the national release of The Amber Light, we talk…
Discover the bottling process at Glenfiddich!We join the European Bartender School’s Scotch Whisky Expedition for a behind-the-scenes tour around the bottling plant at Speyside’s Glenfiddich Distillery! It may not be the most glamorous part of…
