Whisky makers love giving ageing stocks a rummy resting period in tropical casks from sunshine shores. Here are ten of the finest bottles of rum cask-aged whisky that money can…
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As part of our Dryish January coverage, we’ve got a delicious cocktail with around half the alcohol but all the flavour of a traditional spirit-forward drink. A blend of sherry…
Here are four bottles that prove that lowering your alcohol intake doesn’t mean cutting back on deliciousness along with four lower or zero-ABV cocktails for Dry January. If you’re cutting…
In response to Nick Morgan’s recent article, ‘Without criticism there is only marketing‘, award-winning journalist Felipe Schrieberg makes a defence of whisky writing. In a recent story on this website,…
Some very special blended whiskies from Dewar’s have just landed at Master of Malt. They’re called Dewar’s Double Double and come in 21, 27, and (coming soon) 32 year old…
This week we’re sipping a rather lovely dram of 40-year-old whisky. That’s from no specific region. But also it kinda is. Allow MoM founder and managing director of Atom Labs,…
We took a trip to the Scottish Highlands to visit the brand new A Tale of the Forest experience at the stunning Glenmorangie House. If you were to hear the words…
The booze news returns for 2023 with stories on scientists reviving barley strains to recreate old whisky flavours, the booming Tequila market and a horse walks into a pub. We repeat:…
Make us laugh, cry, sing, or applaud. But timorous beasties need not apply as our Burns Night Poetry Competition returns for 2023! If you’ve always fancied yourself a poetic genius…
Sarah Burgess, of Macallan and Malteser fame, announced that she has taken up the mantle of whisky maker at The Lakes Distillery. Big news in the English whisky world this…
Desserts are delicious. Drinks are delicious. What do you get when you combine the two? Double deliciousness. Here’s a tiramisu, cranachan, and cheesecake recipe, all featuring booze. It’s been an…
People love a good chat about casks in the whisky world and we’ve noticed there’s more peated whisky casks about at the moment, so let’s find out why that is with the…
For his first column of 2023, Nick Morgan looks into the state of whisky and spirits criticism today and asks whether some writers are too close to the industry giants…
Campbeltown’s first in more than 180 years, Japan’s bright new star, and an emerging giant in New Zealand. Here’s five whisky distilleries we have our eye on this year. New…
Whether you’re doing Dry January, or Dryish January, there is now a delicious range of bottles that contain no alcohol whatsoever but have plenty of flavour so you can still…
Lagavulin, GlenDronach, Millstone and more made our top ten whiskies released in 2022. What was your favourite? Lots of whisky was launched in 2022, but only a select few have…
Following on from our most-read and silliest stories of the year, it’s time for our top ten favourite posts from 2022. This might not be the most popular but they…
Hamsters that can handle booze better than elephants, a Kentish bison fighting climate change, and monks expelled for drinking whisky all make our top ten list of silliest stories from…
The stories you read the most this year include The Macallan releasing its oldest ever whisky, peated malt shortages on Islay, and if Scotch whisky stole Fèis Ìle. Seeing out 2022…
24 drams of Christmas comes to an end with a gorgeous sherried Speyside whisky. Let’s finish our Advent journey with Glenfarclas 15 Year Old! All good things must come to…