If you’ve ever seen photos of a traditional dunnage warehouse, or even seen a whisky cask or barrel used as a bit of chic (read: hipster) decor, you may have…
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Single cask whiskies are very special on account of their purity. Why, we even have our own dedicated range of single cask whisky bottlings. Read all about single cask whisky right here.
Ten great single cask whiskies await in this selection, from bold Islay drams to overlooked grain expressions. There’s nothing quite like the pleasure of a single cask whisky. Spirit drawn…
This week we’re shining the New Arrival Spotlight on an independently-bottled whisky from one of Speyside’s more obscure distilleries. It’s Auchroisk 12 Year Old 2009 Storm (Fable Whisky). It was…
Bourbon hogshead or red wine barrique? Limousin or American oak? For devoted whisky lovers keen to call a barrel their own, there’s never been quite so many cask options available….
In the second part of his investigation, Ian Buxton looks at well-known distilleries that have specialist sales teams selling mature casks at six figure prices and above to high rollers,…
Remember, remember the Fifth of November fondly this year with these cracking tipples… Bonfire Night, or as those who own cats and dogs presumably call it, National Scare the Crap…
Hear ye hear ye! We have a brand new selection of Master of Malt Single Cask Series Bottlings, so flock to MoM Towers my fellow whisky-lovers – you don’t want…
Bear with us while we compose ourselves – the latest Master of Malt exclusive bottling is here and it’s so good it’s got us in a right fluster. Behold: Redbreast…
Gather round dear friends of the whisky-world – for I bring delightful news… We’ve got nine brand new Master of Malt Single Cask Series bottlings! Independent bottlings are such an…
They say good things come in threes and today’s dose of deliciousness is a trio of Malt Single Cask Series expressions – incredible single cask Scotch whisky bottlings from some of…
We’ve got 6 brand new Master of Malt Single Cask Series bottlings! Independent bottlings are always very exciting, and we’re particularly excited about these ones – because they’re ours! Yes,…
Long time readers of the Master of Malt Blog will know that we visited the home of the English Whisky Company in Norfolk all the way back in 2009 –…
So it may be gorgeous, So it may not be famous, Armagnac, twenty-one years old. There’s a new release in the Master of Malt Single Cask Series charts, and the…
So, here’s the thing. We fucked up. We got the pricing on our recently released Bruichladdich single casks wrong. To be precise, we accidentally used the figure per litre of…
You may have seen that we recently launched a couple of single casks that featured our shiny new innovative glass closures, which you can read all about here. We also…
Earlier this year, I became rather enamoured with what is arguably the drinks world’s most prestigious address – No. 3 St James’s – home to the wine and spirits merchant,…
It’s an exciting one, this… It’s not often that we get involved with Exclusive, Single-Cask bottlings direct from the distilleries themselves, as there’s generally much better value to be had…
The most recent addition to our single cask whisky selection is a 30 Year Old Caol Ila, distilled in 1980. It was aged in a refill hogshead, and is…
Earlier this year we flew up to Glengoyne to help select a very special cask for bottling. The cask would be chosen by the great and the good from England’s…
We made a pact… To boldly offer samples of what no online retailer has ever offered samples of before. We started with some old favourites, and had some pretty exciting…