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Dewar's Double Double 27 Year Old is a masterclass in what aged blended Scotch can achieve — rich, integrated, and serio...
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Duncan Cairns
January 18, 2026
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A 1980s Speyside time capsule in Tormore's unmistakable hexagonal bottle. At £150, you're buying character, provenance, ...
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January 16, 2026
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Douglas Laing's Timorous Beastie 10 Year Old is a well-crafted Highland blended malt that punches above its £43.95 price...
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January 16, 2026
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Douglas Laing's Timorous Beastie 13 Year Old delivers cask strength Highland character at a price that makes single malt...
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January 15, 2026
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A confidently assembled 12-year-old blended malt that showcases genuine blending craft, though the £350 price tag and 40...
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January 13, 2026
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Sheep Dip's 20 Year Old blended malt is a borderline ridiculous proposition — two decades of maturation in an all-malt S...
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January 11, 2026
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Nikka's flagship 21-year-old blended malt is a benchmark of Japanese whisky craftsmanship. Increasingly scarce and price...
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January 10, 2026
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Mars Maltage Cosmo World is a well-priced Japanese blended malt from one of the country's more interesting smaller produ...
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January 9, 2026
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Old Perth Original delivers uncompromising sherry cask character in a blended malt bottled at 46% without chill filtrati...
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January 9, 2026
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A vintage-dated blended malt from Famous Grouse that strips away the grain whisky to reveal the serious malt backbone un...
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January 6, 2026
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Gwalarn is a well-crafted world blended malt that pulls single malts from distilleries across multiple countries into so...
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January 6, 2026
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Wemyss Malts' Peat Chimney delivers assertive but approachable peat character in a well-priced blended malt format. At 4...
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January 4, 2026
