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Laphroaig Quarter Cask

Laphroaig at 48%, matured in smaller quarter casks for extra vanilla and spice — all the medicinal peat, wrapped in a wa...

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Duncan Cairns April 10, 2026

Hakushu 12 Year Old: Suntory's Forest Distillery in the Japanese Alps — Green, Herbal, and Lightly Peated at 700m Altitude - Japanese Review

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Hakushu 12 Year Old: Suntory's Forest Distillery in the Japanese Alps — Green, Herbal, and Lightly Peated at 700m Altitude

Suntory's forest distillery in the Japanese Southern Alps — built in 1973 by Keizo Saji, Suntory's second Master Blender...

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Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Glenfiddich 21 Year Old Reserva Rum Cask Finish: From Havana Reserve to Reserva — 21 Years Then Caribbean Rum Barrels - Scotch Review

7.5 Review

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Glenfiddich 21 Year Old Reserva Rum Cask Finish: From Havana Reserve to Reserva — 21 Years Then Caribbean Rum Barrels

Originally launched in 2002 as 'Havana Reserve' using Cuban rum casks, renamed due to US trade embargo concerns. Twenty-...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Knob Creek 12 Year Old: Booker Noe's Pre-Prohibition Vision Aged to Perfection — 100 Proof Small Batch Bourbon - Bourbon Review

8.5 Review

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Knob Creek 12 Year Old: Booker Noe's Pre-Prohibition Vision Aged to Perfection — 100 Proof Small Batch Bourbon

Booker Noe — Jim Beam's grandson, Master Distiller from 1960 — created Knob Creek in 1992 as part of his pioneering Smal...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Starward Nova: Australian Red Wine Barrel Whisky — Melbourne's 'Four Seasons in One Day' from David Vitale - World Review

7.5 Review

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Starward Nova: Australian Red Wine Barrel Whisky — Melbourne's 'Four Seasons in One Day' from David Vitale

Founded 2007 by David Vitale, mentored by Australian whisky godfather Bill Lark. Vitale's breakthrough: maturing whisky ...

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Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Sazerac Rye 6 Year Old: America's First Cocktail — From Peychaud's Apothecary to Buffalo Trace at 90 Proof - Rye Review

7.5 Review

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Sazerac Rye 6 Year Old: America's First Cocktail — From Peychaud's Apothecary to Buffalo Trace at 90 Proof

Named after America's first cocktail. In 1838, Creole apothecary Antoine Peychaud mixed brandy, absinthe, and his propri...

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Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

8.5 Review

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GlenAllachie 12 Year Old: Billy Walker's Speyside Revival — World's Best Single Malt 2025, PX and Oloroso Sherry at 46%

Crowned World's Best Single Malt at the World Whiskies Awards 2025. Billy Walker — the man who transformed BenRiach and ...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Jura 10 Year Old: One Road, One Distillery, One Pub — Where George Orwell Wrote 1984 on Scotland's Most Remote Island - Scotch Review

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Jura 10 Year Old: One Road, One Distillery, One Pub — Where George Orwell Wrote 1984 on Scotland's Most Remote Island

One road, one distillery, one pub, fewer than 200 residents — outnumbered by approximately 5,000 red deer. George Orwell...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Teeling Small Batch: Dublin's First New Distillery in 125 Years — Rum Cask Finished Irish Whiskey at 46% - Irish Review

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Teeling Small Batch: Dublin's First New Distillery in 125 Years — Rum Cask Finished Irish Whiskey at 46%

In 1782, Walter Teeling established a distillery in Dublin's Liberties. In 2015, Jack and Stephen Teeling opened the fir...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Yamazaki 12 Year Old: Japan's First Whisky Distillery, Founded 1923 — Mizunara Oak, Bourbon, and Sherry in Harmony - Japanese Review

8.5 Review

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Yamazaki 12 Year Old: Japan's First Whisky Distillery, Founded 1923 — Mizunara Oak, Bourbon, and Sherry in Harmony

From Japan's first and oldest malt whisky distillery, established 1923 by Shinjiro Torii on the outskirts of Osaka. Firs...

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Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Glenkinchie 12 Year Old: The Edinburgh Malt — Diageo's Classic Malts Lowland Representative from Scotland's Garden Distillery - Scotch Review

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Glenkinchie 12 Year Old: The Edinburgh Malt — Diageo's Classic Malts Lowland Representative from Scotland's Garden Distillery

The Edinburgh Malt — the closest distillery to the capital, in the rolling farmland of Pencaitland, East Lothian. Known ...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Wild Turkey Rare Breed: Jimmy Russell's Barrel Proof Pioneer — 6, 8, and 12 Year Old Bourbons at 116.8 Proof - Bourbon Review

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Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Wild Turkey Rare Breed: Jimmy Russell's Barrel Proof Pioneer — 6, 8, and 12 Year Old Bourbons at 116.8 Proof

Launched in 1991 by Master Distiller Jimmy Russell — 'the Buddha of Bourbon' — who joined Wild Turkey in 1954 and is now...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026