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Late spring/early summer industry roundup
Lots of exciting things from Islay. Of course the island recently celebrated Feis Ile, the annual whisky and music festival, and the occasion of many sought-after special bottlings. Just in time for this year’s festival, the island’s newest distillery–Ardnahoe, near Port Askaig–released its inaugural bottling. The distillery is owned by indie bottler Hunter Laing, and…
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Diageo Special Releases 2024
Diageo doesn’t officially announce their annual special releases until the Fall, however, people seem to have gotten pretty good at getting a line on what’s coming down the pike. Last year Whisky Notes posted a preview of the releases in the Spring which proved to be perfectly accurate. Several weeks ago, he did the same…
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Winter Industry Update
Not exactly winter news, but in mid-October, Spirits Business reported the beginning of production at the Dunphail distillery, in Morayshire. Created by the owners of England’s Bimber distillery, Dunphail is one of the relatively few distilleries to crop up on Speyside in the midst of the current boom in the Scotch industry (so far, the…
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