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A 34-year-old single grain from Glasgow's Strathclyde distillery, bottled by Thompson Bros at a price that makes single ...
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Joe Whitfield
March 19, 2026
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A 35-year-old single grain from Strathclyde bottled under Hunter Laing's Sovereign range at 45% ABV. At £130, it's one o...
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March 18, 2026
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A 27-year-old cask strength single grain from Girvan that punches well above its price point. At £128 for nearly three d...
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March 9, 2026
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Glendalough's double barrel single grain is a smartly priced Irish whiskey that delivers clean, layered drinking without...
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March 8, 2026
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Kanosuke's Hioki Pot Still Single Grain is an ambitious Japanese release that challenges everything you think you know a...
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March 5, 2026
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Arbikie's Highland Rye Release 2 is a rare rye-based single grain Scotch that challenges category conventions. At £199 i...
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March 3, 2026
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A 34-year-old single grain from Edinburgh's lost Caledonian distillery, bottled at cask strength by Duncan Taylor. At £4...
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March 2, 2026
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Teeling's Single Grain proves that grain whiskey deserves more than blending duty. At 46% and £46.25, it's a confident, ...
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February 20, 2026
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Suntory's Chita Distiller's Reserve makes a compelling case for Japanese single grain whisky at a price point that still...
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February 18, 2026
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Arbikie's Peated Highland Rye 1794 is a genuinely singular Scottish single grain — rye-driven, lightly smoked, and bottl...
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February 14, 2026
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A 38-year-old single grain from Girvan's earliest days of production, bottled at 48% ABV — a rare and refined example of...
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February 10, 2026
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A cask-strength Lowland single grain from one of Scotland's unsung workhorses. At £46.50 for a 12-year-old at 62.2% ABV,...
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January 31, 2026