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Tag: Speyside Whisky

Speyside Whiskies are brilliant – we love them. Find the latest news and releases from top Speyside distilleries including Aberlour, Balvenie, Macallan and Glenfarclas.

ISC Trophies for our 40 Year Old Speyside & #WhiskySanta!

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Master of Malt #WhiskySanta ISC

Master of Malt 40yo Speyside and #WhiskySanta pick up Trophies at the International Spirits Challenge 2016!

Last night we were bursting with pride as we picked up two massive shiny trophies at the International Spirits Challenge (ISC) 2016 awards dinner. Firstly, our Master of Malt 40 Year Old Speyside was named Best Single Malt Scotch Over 21 Years Old! An absolutely colossal and humbling win, beating hundreds of fantastic whiskies to the prize. Our 50 Year Old Speyside also picked up a Gold medal.

The tasting trophies are shaped like big ‘ol tasting glasses. You could drink award-winning speyside whisky out of them if you were so inclined (and we were).

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Categories : News, Scotch Whisky, Whisky
Tags : awards, International Spirits Challenge, Single Malt Whisky, Speyside Whisky, Whisky Santa
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6 New Master of Malt Single Cask Series Bottlings!

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Master of Malt Single Cask Series

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, we’ve been very busy indeed and bottled 6 new whiskies for our Single Cask Series.

These newest 6 releases include a pair of Aberlours, a very old Bunnahabhain, an Ardbeg, a Speyside and a Benrinnes! Feast your eyes on all of them below!

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Categories : News, Whisky
Tags : Aberlour, Ardbeg, Benrinnes, Bunnahabhain, Peaty Whisky, Single Cask, Speyside Whisky
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‘The Exceptional’ Whiskies Now Available!

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The Exceptional whisky

The Exceptional Malt, Grain and Blend from Don Sutcliffe and former Managing Director of The Macallan Willie Phillips launch in the UK.

Available on Master of Malt today are three new Scotch whiskies from American independent bottler Sutcliffe & Son, brought to the UK by Number One Drinks. Called ‘The Exceptional’, the chaps behind them are none other than Willie Phillips, who was Managing Director of The Macallan between 1978 and 1996 (crucial years for the development of this famous single malt, of course) and Craft Distillers Managing Director Don Sutcliffe who worked with him to grow The Macallan in the US back in the late 1980s. Friends for 25 years, The Exceptional is something of a passion project for them both, working also with Master Blender Bill Arthur.

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Categories : News, Scotch Whisky, Tasting Notes, Whisky
Tags : Balvenie, Glenfiddich, Loch Lomond, Macallan, Speyside Whisky
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Father’s Day Tasting Sets!

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Drinks by the Dram Father's Day

Pre-Order Drinks by the Dram’s new Father’s Day Whisky Tasting Sets now!

Drinks by the Dram have released two new whisky tasting sets especially for Father’s Day 2016: The Father’s Day Whisky Tasting Set and The Father’s Day Deluxe Whisky Tasting Set! Both of these fantastic gifts are now available for Pre-Order, despatching early next week.

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Categories : Japanese Whisky, News, Whisky
Tags : Balvenie, Bourbon, Bowmore, Compass Box, Dalmore, Deanston, Drinks by the Dram, Father's Day, Jura, Kilchoman, Loch Lomond, Macallan, Nikka, Speyside Whisky, Tasting Set, Tomintoul, Tullamore Dew
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That Boutique-y Whisky Company Adds Age Statements

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That Boutique-y Whisky Company

That Boutique-y Whisky Company has announced that they’re introducing age statements to all future releases with immediate effect and, right on cue, they have a raft of new and exciting releases on the way!

All the new releases are listed below and are also available to buy or pre-order from Master of Malt now.

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Categories : News, Whisky
Tags : Aberlour, Age Statements, Ardbeg, Ben Nevis, Bison Grass, Blended Malt, Blended Whisky, Bowmore, Compass Box, English Whisky Company, Girvan, Glenrothes, Glentauchers, Invergordon, Islay Whisky, Lagavulin, Macallan, Mortlach, Paul John, Peaty Whisky, Port Charlotte, Speyside Whisky, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
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It’s 105 Day! Get Free Shipping plus Win Signed Bottles of Glenfarclas 105!

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Glenfarclas 105 Day

It’s the 14th April 2016 and that means just one thing… it’s the 105th day of the year! So why not celebrate with the fabulous 105 Cask Strength from our good friends at Glenfarclas, we hear you ask? Well that’s jolly well what we’ve gone and done!

We have 16x bottles of Glenfarclas 105 Cask Strength signed by George Grant to give away, here’s how you can get involved today-only:

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Categories : News, Scotch Whisky, Whisky
Tags : Drinks by the Dram, Glenfarclas, Speyside Whisky
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World Whiskies Awards and World Drinks Awards Winners

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World Drinks Awards World Whiskies Awards 2016

Yesterday saw the World’s Best whiskies and spirits crowned at the World Drinks Awards, including the World Whiskies Awards.

Before we get into the results though, some good news! Drinks by the Dram have once again teamed up with the World Drinks Awards to create an easy way to taste a whole bunch of these award winners! Head over to our World Drinks Awards 2016 page to browse their selection of 8 different World Whiskies Awards and World Drinks Awards Winners Tasting Sets.

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Categories : Armagnac, Cognac, Gin, Irish Whiskey, Japanese Whisky, Liqueurs, News, Rum, Scotch Whisky, Vodka, Whisky
Tags : Blended Malt, Blended Whisky, Hakushu, Hibiki, Highland Whisky, Jura, Master of Malt, Old Pulteney, Smooth Ambler, Speyside Whisky, Teeling, World Drinks Awards, World Whiskies Awards
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Whisky Advent Day 23: Glenfiddich 18 Year Old

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Whisky Advent Calendar

Just one day to go before Christmas Eve, which means:

You still have until 9pm tonight to get your UK Mainland Christmas orders in!

Meanwhile, in The Whisky Advent Calendar from Drinks by the Dram today is a whisky from one of the best selling speyside single malt Scotch distilleries in the world (until recently, the best selling)…

The Glenfiddich name and stag (reendowed with his 12-pointed antlers last year) have become synonymous with single malt, with Glenfiddich having been the first whisky marketed as such back in 1963. It was a gamble that paid off handsomely, and the rest, as they say, is history! It’s well worth revisiting their range, with this 18 year old having been matured in a mix of Oloroso Sherry and bourbon casks.

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Categories : Scotch Whisky, Tasting Notes, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Drinks by the Dram, Glenfiddich, Single Malt Whisky, Speyside Whisky
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Whisky Advent Day 16: Balvenie 12 Year Old DoubleWood

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Whisky Advent Calendar

December 16th? My goodness, fewer than ten days left until the main event! This is when excitement or panic sets in, in earnest, depending on how much shopping you have left to do! Try not to worry just yet though, we’ve got you covered.

So, to The Whisky Advent Calendar by Drinks by the Dram, faithfully counting down those days to Christmas in delicious style. Today’s dram is another Balvenie! We tasted the delights of Sherry cask matured Balvenie on Day 8, now it’s time to see what American oak brings to the table alongside Sherry with surely one of the most satisfying and accessible speyside whiskies available today.

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Categories : Scotch Whisky, Tasting Notes, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Balvenie, Doublewood, Drinks by the Dram, Single Malt Whisky, Speyside Whisky
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Whisky Advent Day 10: Monkey Shoulder

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Whisky Advent Calendar

We’ve made it to day 10 of #WhiskyAdvent! Time to open another window of Drinks by the Dram’s Whisky Advent Calendar, and we have a good feeling about this one…

Yep, it’s time to have some fun with Monkey Shoulder! Whether it’s Pop-Down bars or Monkey Comps with UK Brand am-BADASS-ador Grant Neave, or practising your spooning so you can mix up some delicious Monkey cocktails, pretension gets left firmly at the door today.

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Categories : Scotch Whisky, Tasting Notes, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Balvenie, Blended Malt, Drinks by the Dram, Glenfiddich, Monkey Shoulder, Speyside Whisky
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