To accompany his The Welsh Whisky Revival piece in our Winter issue of Whiskeria, The Whisky Shop Cardiff's Stanley Evans gives his tasting notes for seven whiskies hailing from Wales.
The second release in The Macallan's A Night On Earth series, following 2022's A Night On Earth In Scotland, The Journey is the newest limited edition bottling released to celebrate the joy of New Year - a time when we gather to acknowledge the days gone by and make plans for the future.
We've had a wonderful first year at our first Welsh store in Cardiff. To celebrate our first birthday, we've got a few exclusive offers for our locals.
To make your gift even more bespoke and special this Christmas, The Whisky Shop provide an engraving service for a handpicked selection of bottles. A number of bottles are also able to be adorned with a personalised label. A lovely souvenir for after the last drop of the contents has brought your giftee an abundance of giddiness.
Our Whisky People feature within Whiskeria Winter 2023 profiles iconic craftsperson, John Galvin. From his studio in Glasgow, he has worked with distilleries such as The Macallan, Bowmore and The Dalmore to create extraordinary display cases for extraordinary bottles of whisky. To accompany this piece, we have chosen three of his most striking works, to delve into in more detail.
We've assembled some of the best winter warmer cocktails from our favourite Scotch whisky brands for you to make at your Christmas parties. Let's take a look. Each recipe serves one, so remember to scale up for your guests!
What day can be better than Friday? Black Friday! Alongside these glorious deals that will be active all week (until they sell out, that is), we'll have an out-of-this-world one-day-only deal each day. Make sure you keep up to date on our social media for updates on today's offer!
One bottle of this glorious whisky currently takes pride of place in our Multrees Walk store, and it's also available for purchase online. We take a look back at the year of 1949, to see how far we've come since this exceptional expression was laid down.
Oily, Coastal, Briny. Sea spray, Seaweed, Sea salt. These are the tasting notes which define maritime malts: whiskies distilled and matured by the water. If you like your dram with a taste of the wild Scottish seas, look no further than these six distilleries.
Blended Scotch Whisky is composed of a mix of malt whisky and grain whisky and accounts for around 90% of all Scotch sold around the world. While blends are sometimes seen as inferior to single malts, blending is an art form all of its own, and the world’s top ten best-selling Scotch brands are all blends. Lets see some of the best blended Scotch whisky brands around.