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Bowmore 25 Year Old: Quarter Century from Islay's Oldest — Sherry-Meets-Smoke Maturity at 43%

Islay's oldest distillery (1779). Matured in a marriage of North American bourbon and Spanish sherry casks for a quarter...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glenrothes 25 Year Old Soleo Collection: The Andalusian Sun in a Bottle — First-Fill Sherry Flagship at 43% - Scotch Review

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Glenrothes 25 Year Old Soleo Collection: The Andalusian Sun in a Bottle — First-Fill Sherry Flagship at 43%

Speyside, matured exclusively in sherry-seasoned oak casks (high proportion first-fill). 'Soleo' references the Andalusi...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glenfiddich 30 Year Old: Three Decades from Dufftown — American Bourbon and Spanish Oloroso at 43% - Scotch Review

8.5 Review

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Glenfiddich 30 Year Old: Three Decades from Dufftown — American Bourbon and Spanish Oloroso at 43%

Premium aged Speyside from the world's biggest-selling single malt distillery. Three full decades in a marriage of Ameri...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glenfarclas 8 Year Old: The £38 Family Speysider — Direct-Fired Stills, Spanish Oak Sherry from 1865 - Scotch Review

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Glenfarclas 8 Year Old: The £38 Family Speysider — Direct-Fired Stills, Spanish Oak Sherry from 1865

Entry-level expression from family-owned (Grant family, six generations) Speyside distillery. Introduced 2011. Like all ...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Aberlour Casg Annamh: 'Rare Cask' in Gaelic — Triple Cask Speyside Sherry Bomb at 48% - Scotch Review

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Aberlour Casg Annamh: 'Rare Cask' in Gaelic — Triple Cask Speyside Sherry Bomb at 48%

Name means 'rare cask' in Gaelic. Small-batch Speyside matured in three cask styles — Spanish oak Oloroso sherry butts (...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glenmorangie Allta: 'Wild' in Gaelic — Bill Lumsden's Wild Yeast Discovery from Cadboll Barley at 51.2% - Scotch Review

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Glenmorangie Allta: 'Wild' in Gaelic — Bill Lumsden's Wild Yeast Discovery from Cadboll Barley at 51.2%

Tenth Private Edition release. Name means 'wild' in Gaelic — refers to a unique strain of wild yeast Dr Bill Lumsden dis...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glenmorangie Bacalta: 'Baked' in Madeira — Sun-Toasted Malmsey Casks, Private Edition No. 8 - Scotch Review

8.5 Review

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Glenmorangie Bacalta: 'Baked' in Madeira — Sun-Toasted Malmsey Casks, Private Edition No. 8

Private Edition No. 8 (2017). Name means 'baked' in Scots Gaelic. American oak hogsheads heavily toasted, shipped to Mad...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Macallan Edition Series No. 1-6: The Annual Collaboration Collection — Six Limited Macallans, One Series - Scotch Review

8.5 Review

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Macallan Edition Series No. 1-6: The Annual Collaboration Collection — Six Limited Macallans, One Series

Annual limited series — each a collaboration: No.1 (Bob Dalgarno, 8 oak casks), No.2 (Roca brothers/El Celler de Can Roc...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Bunnahabhain 25 Year Old: Sherried Islay Benchmark — IWSC Trophy 2020 at 46.3% - Scotch Review

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Bunnahabhain 25 Year Old: Sherried Islay Benchmark — IWSC Trophy 2020 at 46.3%

Premium aged unpeated Islay (Bunnahabhain is Islay's outlier — unpeated style). Sherry-cask matured. Recently uprated fr...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Tomintoul 21 Year Old: The Gentle Dram Aged — Bourbon Cask Speysider from Scotland's Highest Village - Scotch Review

7.5 Review

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Tomintoul 21 Year Old: The Gentle Dram Aged — Bourbon Cask Speysider from Scotland's Highest Village

Speyside single malt from Tomintoul distillery (founded 1964), marketed as 'The Gentle Dram'. Matured exclusively in ex-...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Old Pulteney 18 Year Old: Scotland's Most Northerly Mainland Distillery — Maritime Sherry from Wick at 46% - Scotch Review

8.5 Review

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Old Pulteney 18 Year Old: Scotland's Most Northerly Mainland Distillery — Maritime Sherry from Wick at 46%

Maritime Highland malt from Pulteney distillery in Wick, Caithness — Scotland's most northerly mainland distillery, foun...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glenturret 12 Year Old: Scotland's Oldest Working Distillery (1763) — Reborn Core at 46.4% - Scotch Review

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Glenturret 12 Year Old: Scotland's Oldest Working Distillery (1763) — Reborn Core at 46.4%

From Scotland's oldest working distillery (founded 1763) in Crieff, Perthshire. Former spiritual home of The Famous Grou...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026