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The Nightcap: 26 AugustThe Macallan and Bentley team up, Ardbeg ventures into graphic novels, Tomatin launches the ‘world’s rarest Japanese whisky’, and a post-apocalyptic video game inspires whisky. It’s all in The Nightcap!…
New Arrival of the Week: Ardbeg 25 Year Old (2022 Release)Back in 2021, Ardbeg announced that it was launching its oldest ever bottling to its core range: Ardbeg 25 Year Old. It sold out immediately. Luckily, there’s a new batch…
£16 million Ardbeg cask: a source of pride for everybody?Dr. Nick Morgan asks if the industry really should be shouting about the record-breaking £16 million Ardbeg cask from 1975 that sold this week, the sale price of which is more…
Ardbeg sells 1975 Islay single malt for £16 millionRecords have been smashed and jaws have been dropped as Ardbeg Distillery on Islay has sold a 46-year-old cask of single malt for £16 million! Don’t rub your eyes, this is…
The Nightcap: 13 MayGuess who stars in The Nightcap this week? If you said top pop singer Paul Heaton, Ryan Reynolds’ mum, and the Fortnum and Mason’s Drink Writer of the Year 2022,…
The Nightcap: 14 AprilIn the early Easter weekend Nightcap, we’ve got stories about one of our own getting shortlisted for an award, a bourbon brand being slammed over sexist marketing, and robots coming…
The Nightcap: 21 JanuaryWhich bar has the world’s biggest whisky selection? Where can you get free pints – or even pull your own? Can hamsters outdrink elephants? All these questions and more are…
Most-read posts of 2021I am sure you’ll all agree that it’s been quite a year. But earth-shattering events like a continued global pandemic could not stop the booze news. We had a record…
Top ten whiskies by flavourAt a loss for which whisky to buy this Christmas? We’ve handily grouped some of our favourite drams by their taste profile. Here are our top ten whiskies by flavour….
The Nightcap: 22 OctoberWe’ve got plenty of weird and wonderful stories from the world of booze including dog that can fetch gin, Arbeg’s monster ice cream truck, and Glenlivet appears on MTV Cribs….
Whisky icons – we have a winner!Whether they’re bourbons, single malts or blended whiskies, some brands are so famous that they’re iconic. But which is the biggest whisky icon? We’re running a poll on social media…
The Nightcap: 2 JulyUFOs, gold beer cans, and a bourbon heist – they are all in our weekly round-up of the news from the world of booze. It’s the Nightcap: 2 July edition!…
Master of Malt Islay Festival 2021 Day 9: ArdbegIt’s Master of Malt Islay Festival 2021 Day 9: Ardbeg time! For the ninth day we travel to the mighty Ardbeg to see what the team has planned while Lucy…
The Nightcap: 23 AprilOn this week’s Nightcap there’s new Ardbeg and Talisker to drool over, the ‘world’s first Tequila board game’ and a man pouring a pint of lager over his head. Its…
Five minutes with… Colin Gordon, distillery manager at ArdbegWe spoke to the new Ardbeg distillery manager, Colin Gordon, about being a whisky romantic, the future of the category, and what the distillery and its new stillhouse have in…
Brendan McCarron to leave Glenmorangie for DistellBrendan McCarron, head of maturing whisky stocks at The Glenmorangie Company, has announced he will leave the role to take up the mantle of master distiller at Distell. Pretty huge…
