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This month we’re taking a closer look at American whiskey, with two different bourbons (one made with rye, the other wheated) and a fabulous single malt drawn from a single cask that you won’t find anywhere except Master of Malt and Pour & Sip. There are also a couple of exciting Scotch whiskies to keep things balanced. A light, zesty blended malt with a little Campbeltown influence, and a big, complex, highly sought-after, heavily peated Campbeltown single malt!

Four Roses Small Batch Select: A quirk of history means Four Roses have 10 recipes, using five different yeasts and two different mashbills. The classic Small Batch uses all 10, while this excellent Small Batch Select utilises six. The focus is on spice, with herbal and light fruit supporting. If you only had room for one bottle of American whiskey in your drinks cupboard, then this rye-forward sippable non-chill filtered bourbon might just be the one!

Bardstown Bourbon Co. Wheated Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon: This Kentucky straight bourbon is part of Bardstown Bourbon Company’s Origin Series, which means it all comes from their own distillery. Wheated bourbons such as this swap some or all of the rye out in favour of wheat. Famous examples include Maker’s Mark and Pappy Van Winkle. This leads to a more approachable, milder, smoother style of bourbon that many favour.

Westland 7 Year Old Exclusive Single Cask - Cask 6205: A Master of Malt and Pour & Sip exclusive from Seattle craft distillers leading the way for American single malt, and using exciting full flavoured malts (including some common in dark beers, porters and stouts). Cask 6205 is a Jurançon French white wine casks used to finish this whisly. Westland is also a Certified B Corporation, meaning that they’ve met extremely high social and environmental standards.

Noble Rebel Orchard Outburst: A blended malt brand launched in 2023, with Orchard Outburst providing “zingy citrus & salty ocean waves” alongside crisp ripe orchard fruits. Loch Lomond distillery offers vast versatility, with malt whisky from Glen Scotia also used. Some is also fermented using Chardonnay wine yeast to help intensify the fruit and citrus flavours, before being matured in ex-bourbon casks and bottled at natural colour without chill filtration.

Kilkerran Heavily Peated Batch No. 9: Campbeltown whiskies, especially those from J&A Mitchell & Co.’s independently owned Springbank and Glengyle distilleries, are in very high demand these days! We’re therefore delighted to share this Kilkerran single malt from Glengyle with you. Glengyle only operates for part of the year with the majority of production dedicated to their lightly peated style, making this heavily peated whisky an even rarer treat.

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As summer beckons, we’ve brought summer fruits via Jerez, Veneto, and Great British whisky making! Plus a cult world blend, and Michelin-starred action.

The Lakes Signature: English whisky has come of age. Perhaps none more so than The Lakes. Distilling single malt since 2014, their Whiskymaker's Reserve range included the World Whiskies Awards’ World's Best Single Malt in 2022. Signature leads directly on from that range’s seven limited releases. The Lakes have a proactive and demanding approach to maturation - they tinker, taste, intervene, move cask positions, recask spirit, blend during maturation, marry for over a year etc. to build and layer flavour.

Ichiro's Malt & Grain World Blended Whisky: When we think of Japanese whisky, Suntory and Nikka usually come to mind. Ichiro Akuto, however, is the multi-award winning rock star founder of Chichibu (the first new Japanese distillery in 35 years when it started producing in 2008) who’s done more than anyone to disrupt that duopoly and lead a new wave of independent Japanese whisky makers. This is his ‘world blend’, bringing together whiskies from America, Canada, Scotland, and Ireland, alongside Chichibu!

Kingsbarns Balcomie: Kingsbarns distillery was built by the Wemyss family and opened in late 2014. It produces a light, floral and fruity spirit thanks to slow fermentation and slow distillation with a high, early cut point. Here, that’s been aged exclusively in American oak oloroso sherry butts selected to complement that fruity character. Balcomie is part of the core range alongside Coaltown (ex-peated casks), with but representing a departure or variation from Kingsbarns' signature Doocot style (90% bourbon, 10% STR red wine).

Glencadam Riserva di Amarone: Founded back in 1825, Glencadam was purchased by family owned Angus Dundee in 2003. It’s located in Brechin, a few miles from the coast between Aberdeen and Dundee. It'sknown to produce a light spirit thanks to plenty of reflux, and can be both floral and notably creamy. Riserva di Amarone has a pronounced Amarone Italian red wine cask finish, after starting out in bourbon casks, all aged in the distillery’s traditional dunnage (traditional stone walled and earthen floored) warehouses.

Highland Park 16 Year Old - Between You And I: Founded in 1798 (officially licensed 1826), Highland Park is celebrated for its unique lightly peated heather smoke character. Here it's teamed up with the best Swedish chef outside of Sesame Street. In fact, Björn Frantzén is the only chef with 3 restaurants that each have 3 Michelin stars. That’s one hell of a foodie collaboration! Aged largely in fresh Swedish oak casks (said to give a distinctly nutty spiciness, and a distillery first), a handful of bourbon, and sherry casks are also used.

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New whiskies. Unreleased whiskies. Sought-after whiskies. Islay whiskies. A Norwegian whisky? Unpeated through to heavily peated. May is huge!

Aberargie Inaugural: One of the most exciting releases of 2026 hit shelves in March, and widely sold out. Why? It’s the first ever Aberargie. Built by the Morrison family on their own farm, they grow all the barley they use. Yes, it’s another (of still only a tiny handful) exciting single estate farm distillery, and they’ve already been calmly distilling since 2017! Inaugural uses 52% Golden Promise (heritage) and 48% Laureate (modern higher yielding) barley, and a 50:50 split of first-fill bourbon and sherry casks.

Bunnahabhain 15 Year Old An Cuan Garbh No. 1 - The Westering Home Collection 2026: This one couldn’t be hotter off the press! Unpeated and finished in White Port (made with white grapes – think citrus and toasted nut notes) casks. A match made in heaven for often nutty, subtly coastal Bunnahabhain – An Cuan Garbh being Gaelic for ‘the rough seas’. Part of the second series in the Westering Home collection, this is a release of 7,571 full-sized bottles worldwide.

Big Peat Fèis Ìle 2026: Not officially released until 22 May 2026, this special Big Peat marks the 40th anniversary of the legendary Fèis Ìle (the annual Islay festival of music and malt, with a little more emphasis on the latter…). Big Peat is of course a legend in its own right, known to include Ardbeg, Caol Ila, Bowmore and more, and even a teeny smidge of Port Ellen (now we really are talking legendary!) Here it's also had a Pedro Ximénez sherry cask finish. Still smoky and unapologetic, but richer and more indulgent.

Kilchoman Maury Cask Matured: This limited edition – only released in March 2026 – is full maturation in Maury wine casks. (Since 2021, for those wondering). Think kind of Port-style fortified wine from southern France, made with at least 75% Grenache Noir grapes. Strawberry jam and honeyed dates notes. Bold stuff from Kilchoman, a family-owned distillery we love, founded in 2004. All the malt they use is peated to a hearty 50 PPM (phenol parts per million), but distilled to preserve some lighter citrus character.

Bivrost Yggdrasil 2025: From the northernmost distillery in the world, at 69.39°N. Arctic whisky. Bivrost literally means ‘shaking road’ in ancient Norse, and is the Viking term for the Northern Lights. Yggdrasil is their ‘core whisky’ but it’s released annually. Distilled between 2018 and 2021, this release used Pilsener Malt (Planet and Popino Nordic barley) as well as some heavily peated malt. Lager and Old English ale yeasts are used, as well as glacial meltwater. It was matured in oloroso sherry seasoned, in-house charred casks.

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Whiskies from Scotland, America, England, and even Finland is this set, from classics, to limited editions, and exciting new wave distillers! All quite different, there's surely something for everyone. One of the oldest single malts we've featured too. Enjoy!

Glen Grant 18 Year Old Rare Edition: ‘The Major’, aka James Grant, inherited the distillery in 1872, and is responsible for the distillery's 22-acre Victorian Garden and also the tall, slender stills with their purifiers. This contributes to Glen Grant’s light character, with the still’s unique boil balls aiding further reflux. Glen Grant is easy-going at young ages, but also ages wonderfully. This very highly-awarded 18-year-old malt shows that.

Glen Scotia 14 Year Old - Icons of Campbeltown Release No.2: Glen Scotia’s usually unpeated, and also rarely seen in wine casks. This is ‘medium’-peated, and spent six months in Barolo red wine casks! The inspiration came from the Campbeltown Market Cross’ depiction of St. Michael slaying a dragon, but also the times when the community came together to fight historic blazes (not least at Dalintober Distillery in 1899).

Kyrö Oloroso Malt Rye Whisky: Their 100% malted wholegrain Finnish rye spirits have won many fans and awards, are made with incredible attention to detail, and provide great concentration and depth of flavour. Since we last featured them, their core range has expanded including this Oloroso Malt Rye (initially matured in new American oak and bourbon casks, but then as the name suggests finished in oloroso sherry casks).

Wire Works Bourbon Barrel: Undoubtedly one of the leading lights of English whisky, and also a whisky coming of age. Here the distillery’s oldest whisky to date has matured exclusively in first-fill bourbon casks. A small amount of peated barley is combined with unpeated (10PPM total), and a blend of yeasts are used including used brewer’s yeast from local brewers with long 6-day fermentations for fruity esters.

Bluegrass Toasted Oak: Craft distillers in the heart of Kentucky, Toasted Oak uses a classic mashbill of 75% (yellow) corn, 21% rye, and 4% malted barley. After a standard 3 years in fresh, charred American oak casks, it rested in lightly toasted casks for 21 days. Doesn’t sound long, but these lightly toasted (but not charred) barrels give up wood sugars easily and quickly. Such finishes are increasingly popular.

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Seeing as St. Patrick's Day falls in March, we've filled this month's box with four Irish whiskeys! Plus a Mortlach, because who doesn't love a splash of Scotch? Get stuck into some classic styles and new releases in this one.

J.J. Corry Anfa No.2: Created in partnership with Drinks by the Dram, the second edition of this blended whiskey is full of fresh fruit notes, wrapped up in wave after wave of vanilla and honeycomb.

Sailor's Home Stormchaser: This release brings together triple-distilled Irish single malts aged in virgin oak and bourbon casks, with two pretty unique cask finishes: craft Irish stout barrels, and Madeira casks.

Dingle Lúnasa: This is the fourth release in the nine release-strong Wheel of the Year series, this is a triple-distilled single malt, initially aged in bourbon casks before it was finished in casks that previously held bourbon from the Widow Jane distillery, bottled at a generous 50.5% ABV.

Jameson Single Pot Still - Five Oak Cask Release: Jameson's first single pot still whiskey since the 1960s, released in 2022 and matured in five different barrel types: bourbon and first-fill sherry casks, as well as three types of virgin oak made from Irish, European, and American oak.

Mortlach 15 Year Old - Distillery Labels (Gordon & MacPhail): Gordon & MacPhail's Distillery Labels series was created to honour the bottler’s long-standing relationships with over 100 distilleries across the country, and here it's celebrating Mortlach, matured in first-fill and refill sherry casks.