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Speyburn 10 Year Old: The Diamond Jubilee Distillery — Charles Doig's Pagoda Design, Workers Without Windows, £25 Value

Founded 1897 in Rothes by John Hopkins & Company. Designed by the legendary Charles Doig, the architect who created the ...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

WhistlePig 10 Year Old: 100% Rye at 100 Proof — Dave Pickerell's Vermont Farm Whiskey - whisky Review

8 Review

Straight Rye

WhistlePig 10 Year Old: 100% Rye at 100 Proof — Dave Pickerell's Vermont Farm Whiskey

100% rye mashbill, 100 proof, 10 years. Founded by Raj Bhakta on Vermont farmland in 2007, with legendary Dave Pickerell...

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Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Hibiki 17 Year Old: The Discontinued Masterpiece — Suntory's 24-Faceted Bottle of Japanese Harmony - whisky Review

9 Review

Blended Whisky

Hibiki 17 Year Old: The Discontinued Masterpiece — Suntory's 24-Faceted Bottle of Japanese Harmony

Discontinued in 2018 due to soaring demand outstripping aged stock — one of the whisky world's most lamented losses. Mar...

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Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Lagavulin Distillers Edition: Pedro Ximénez Sherry Meets Islay Peat — Double Matured Since 1997 - whisky Review

8.5 Review

Single Malt

Lagavulin Distillers Edition: Pedro Ximénez Sherry Meets Islay Peat — Double Matured Since 1997

Part of Diageo's Classic Malts Distillers Edition series, released annually since 1997. Double matured — first in ex-bou...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Maker's Mark Cask Strength - whisky Review

9 Review

Bourbon

Maker's Mark Cask Strength

Maker's Mark uncut and unfiltered — everything the standard does well, amplified to cask strength with concentrated cher...

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Sienna Blackwell April 10, 2026

Tullibardine 228 Burgundy Cask Finish: Highland Malt Meets Chassagne-Montrachet — Pinot Noir Barriques from Burgundy - whisky Review

7 Review

Single Malt

Tullibardine 228 Burgundy Cask Finish: Highland Malt Meets Chassagne-Montrachet — Pinot Noir Barriques from Burgundy

Highland malt finished in 228-litre Burgundy Pinot Noir barriques from Château de Chassagne-Montrachet — the '228' refer...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof: Whisky Advocate's 2017 Whisky of the Year — 12 Years at Cask Strength, No Water Added - whisky Review

9 Review

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof: Whisky Advocate's 2017 Whisky of the Year — 12 Years at Cask Strength, No Water Added

Whisky Advocate's 2017 Whisky of the Year (Batch B517). Named after Reverend Elijah Craig, an 18th-century Baptist preac...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Tomintoul 16 Year Old: The Gentle Dram — Scotland's Highest Village Speysider, Unhurried at 40% - whisky Review

7 Review

Single Malt

Tomintoul 16 Year Old: The Gentle Dram — Scotland's Highest Village Speysider, Unhurried at 40%

Known as 'The Gentle Dram' — from the highest village in the Scottish Highlands. Founded 1965 with four steam-heated sti...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

7 Review

Single Malt

Connemara Peated Single Malt: Ireland's Only Peated Whiskey — Double Distilled Bog Peat from Cooley's Rebel Distillery

Ireland's only modern peated single malt — a genuinely rare style. Created by Cooley Distillery, founded 1987 by John Te...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glengoyne 18 Year Old: Scotland's Slowest Distillation — Unpeated, 100% Sherry Oak, Straddling the Highland Line - whisky Review

8 Review

Single Malt

Glengoyne 18 Year Old: Scotland's Slowest Distillation — Unpeated, 100% Sherry Oak, Straddling the Highland Line

Scotland's slowest distillation — air-dried, unpeated barley through unhurried copper pot stills. The only fully unpeate...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Bulleit 10 Year Old: Tom Bulleit's Frontier Recipe Aged — The High-Rye Bourbon with 28% Rye at 91.2 Proof - whisky Review

7 Review

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Bulleit 10 Year Old: Tom Bulleit's Frontier Recipe Aged — The High-Rye Bourbon with 28% Rye at 91.2 Proof

Tom Bulleit left a legal career in 1987 to revive a frontier whiskey recipe from his great-great-grandfather Augustus Bu...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Port Charlotte 10 Year Old - whisky Review

9 Review

Single Malt

Port Charlotte 10 Year Old

Bruichladdich's heavily peated alter ego — 40ppm, ten years in American and French wood, and a sweetness that makes the ...

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Duncan Cairns April 10, 2026