More regularly available Dailuaine is a good thing When entering the arena of auctions, I always keep an eye out on Flora & Fauna bottlings by Diageo. A line of bottlings so dubbed by whisky writer Michael Jackson, it contained almost all distilleries owned by Diageo at one point, with the exceptions being the classic…
Strathearn: nostalgia whisky under Douglas Laing wings The hottest talked-about bottle in recent weeks is the relaunch of Strathearn Highland single malt whisky from Perthshire, by the owners since 2019: Douglas Laing. If the name is still a bit unfamiliar to you, I cannot say that I don’t understand. Under the owners who actually established…
Brora, Clynelish and Dornoch, easy as (A)BCD The announcement that Brora Distillery would reopen could have been the most spectacular news for any whisky nerd in this world. The fact that it happened in the tail end of the biggest whisky boom since the late 1960s/early 1970s, and possible even since the end of the…