Pour & Sip October 2025 Box

As we were putting your set together this month, two of the featured whiskies hadn’t even been released yet! We have two intriguingly beer-influenced drams, and the oldest whisky to ever feature in Pour & Sip too! Enjoy.

Meikle Tòir The Original 5 Year Old: Meikle Tòir (“mee-kuhl tor”) is a peated single malt from the usually unpeated GlenAllachie distillery. Celebrated master distiller Billy Walker began making the first peated whiskies at GlenAllachie (for just 6 weeks a year) back in 2018, shortly after he acquired the distillery. Meikle Tòir uses mainland peat (35 PPM here), with a lengthy 160-hour fermentation to retaian a sweeter side. The Original is aged in a combination of first-fill bourbon barrels, fresh American oak casks, and rye barrels.

Girvan 40 Year Old 1985 (Master of Malt 40th Anniversary Bottling): Master of Malt, the award-winning online retailer behind Pour & Sip began life as a mail order independent bottler way back in 1985! Girvan, meanwhile, was founded in 1963 in the town of the same name. It’s owned by William Grant & Sons (the family owned company off of Glenfiddich, Balvenie and Ailsa Bay single malt distilleries, the latter on the same site as Girvan). A batch of just 473 bottles, matured in refill sherry butts.

Berry Bros. & Rudd 12 Year Old Speyside Sherry Cask - The Classic Range: Not simply one of the oldest wine merchants in the world, Berry Bros. & Rudd – founded in 1698(!) at 3 St James's Street, London – also bottles some incredible whiskies. BBR’s previous Classic Range of blended malts was replaced last year by new single malts including this age statement Speysider matured in oloroso sherry butts. Classic Speyside stuff, while also being an absolutely perfect everyday sipper.

Nc'nean Quiet Rebels Simon: We love this organic, certified B Corp distillery, powered by 100% renewable energy. We also love their Quiet Rebels series, celebrating the humans behind the whisky with releases selected by, and named after, members of the team. Still unreleased at the time of writing, Simon here means distiller Simon Hewitt, whose very own Nc’nean single malt started life in shaved, toasted and re-charred (STR) red wine casks, but was finished in stout casks from famed Scottish brewery Innis & Gunn.

Timorous Beastie x WEST Brewery Beer Cask Finish: Douglas Laing's long been one of our fave indie bottlers. From their ‘Remarkable Regional Malts’ range, Timorous Beastie's a blended malt exclusively containing Highland malts such as Glen Garioch, Dalmore & Glengoyne. There’s a twist, however, as this one's been finished in casks that previously held WESTWERK03 – a rich, strong (8.4%) malt-forward limited edition Doppelbock, which was itself barrel-aged for 80 days in former Timorous Beastie whisky casks!