Pour & Sip November 2025 Box

This month’s pack runs the gamut from fun cask, to souped up American classic, to rarely seen. Plus something well-aged and truly timeless...

Highland Park 17 Year Old 2007 (cask 5358) - Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon & MacPhail): Legends collide. We’ve rightly featured Highland Park several times over the years, including at cask strength, but never this old, and never as an independent bottling. Established in 1895 G&M have been filling different distilleries’ new make into their own casks, and aging them in their own warehouse for four generations. This Highland Park was aged for 17 years in a first fill sherry butt, and celebrates 130 years of G&M.

Maker's Mark 46: A household name whisky, but this one has a twist. All Maker’s is made with the same wheated mashbill (70% corn, 16% soft winter wheat and 14% malted barley) producing an approachable, ‘milder’ style of bourbon, but Bill Samuels Jr. – son of founders Bill and Margie – has created his own signature edition by fitting 10 seared French oak staves inside each barrel and maturing it further. Bigger. Bolder. Still smooth. No rye? No problem.

Glen Moray 2014 Tequila Finish - Warehouse 1: Glen Moray, founded in 1897, is a well-respected classic fruity, ‘toffeed’ Speyside single malt from Elgin with an always affordable and more than solid core range. They also release special and sometimes experimental treats in their Warehouse 1 collection. Distilled in 2014, this whisky spent 8 years in bourbon barrels before being moved into Tequila casks. (It was only in 2019 that these casks were actually permitted by the Scotch Whisky Association!)

Clydebuilt Anchorsmith: With their Ardgowan distillery now up and running, the award-winning Clydebuilt blended malt series is coming to an end. Anchorsmith one of the final two bottlings, created by master whisky maker Max McFarlane (previously lead whisky maker at Edrington, working on whiskies like Highland Park). It’s a blend of six single malt whiskies from the Highlands, Lowlands, and Speyside, all fully matured in first-fill oloroso sherry casks.

Roseisle 12 Year Old (Special Release 2024): Only the second whisky ever released from Roseisle distillery! Dubbed ‘Origami Kite II’, it's matured in a combination of first-fill bourbon and refill casks. The distillery was founded in 2009, and showed what a modern, energy efficient distillery built by the big boys could look like. Both a workhorse (for blends), and a chameleon, it’s able to produce various styles. Integrated and inviting, we’re told this release is a “marriage of three spirit streams”.