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Ardbeg to launch new range
The fine folks at Ardbeg are launching a new range called the Anthology Collection, per a recent article from Spirits Business. The first entry in the range will be dubbed “The Harpy’s Tale”. It will be a whisky aged for 13 years in a combination of ex-bourbon and ex-Sauternes casks, bottled at the Ardbeg standard…
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Gordon & MacPhail to shift away from independent bottling
Per The Herald, Gordon & MacPhail, one of Scotland’s oldest independent bottlers, has announced recently that, starting in 2024, it will no longer fill casks from distilleries it does not own. The firm has been in the whisky brokering business for most of its existence, and has been bottling single malts from distilleries both widely…
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Rosebank rises from the ashes!
If you’re well-versed in the history of single malts, you’re probably well aware that the Scotch whisky industry has had a boom-to-bust cycle over the years. One of the worst busts in recent history was the “whisky loch” of the early to mid-1980s (so-called because there was enough surplus whisky to “fill a loch”). With…
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