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Black Bottle delivers a savoury, lightly smoky blended Scotch with genuine character at just over twenty quid — a credib...
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Joe Whitfield
January 4, 2026
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Johnnie Walker Blue Label in the 20cl format offers the same polished, luxuriously smooth blend at a lower commitment — ...
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January 3, 2026
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Royal Salute's £20,000 tribute to the coronation of King Charles III is a collector's blended Scotch bottled at a comman...
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January 3, 2026
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A 1950s spring cap bottling from the long-lost Bulloch Lade blending house, this is drinkable Scotch history at a proof ...
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January 3, 2026
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Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve in its glass set edition is a polished, honeyed blend that knows exactly what it wants...
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January 3, 2026
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Suntory marks its centenary with Hibiki Harmony in anniversary dress — a confident statement that the blend itself is th...
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January 2, 2026
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A 42-year-old sherry cask blended Scotch at £299 and 46.6% ABV — in a market where aged stock is vanishing into four-fig...
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January 2, 2026
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Te Bheag is a non-chill-filtered blended Scotch from the Isle of Skye that punches above its weight at £34.95, deliverin...
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January 1, 2026
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Dewar's 12 Year Old is a quietly confident blended Scotch that punches at its weight — well-aged, balanced, and genuinel...
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January 1, 2026
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A souvenir-shelf blend that actually earns its place as a drinker. The Big Ben is an honest, approachable Scotch at a fa...
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December 31, 2025
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Chivas Regal 25 is a quietly confident premium blend that makes a genuine case for the art of blending at the quarter-ce...
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December 31, 2025
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A 1940s bottling of Stewart's Cream of the Barley 21 Year Old is a genuine artefact of blended Scotch history — componen...
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December 30, 2025