Looking for a new smoky whisky, or looking for a gift for someone with a penchant for peat? Lets take a look at Islay and beyond for some of the most loved peaty Scotch.

Love it or hate it, no one can deny that peat is central to the Scotch whisky industry. But what does this illustrious material bring to the liquid, and how is it used in the process? Read on to find out everything you've ever wanted to know about peat.

Here at The Whisky Shop, we have our finger on the pulse of the spirits industry. Although primarily a whisky retailer, we stock brands from across the spirits industry, and have noticed a few trends that we think will gain steam in 2024. Let's take a look.

Traditionally, a Burns Supper consists of a meal of haggis neeps and tatties - topped with a creamy whisky sauce. Followed by a whisky infused, Cranachan dessert and washed down with a dram or three.

Try out our traditional whisky-infused dessert!

Twenty-four bottles of whisky distilled back in 1833 sold for £385,000 at a historic auction last December. They were discovered behind a door in Blair Castle, Pitlochry, nearly 200 years since it was made. The lucky buyer has the opportunity to taste a true 19th century single malt, from when methods and flavours were much different.

The Golden Age of Scotch distilleries continues! Here are four new distilleries for which 2023 was a big year, definitely ones to watch in 2024 - and the years to come.

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Johnnie Walker are offering everyone who takes home a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label Year of the Dragon the chance to win a luxury trip to London to dine at Hutong, an award winning Northern Chinese restaurant located in the Shard.

Behold the first Digital Drams Event of 2024! Held on one of the most important days of the whisky calendar, Burns Night, the tasting will commence at 7:30pm on Thursday 25th January. We will be joined by the Compass Box UK Brand Ambassador, Michael Stephenson, as he takes us through five whiskies from this popular independent bottler.

Burns Night celebrates the national poet of Scotland on his birthday, 25th January, and is one of the most whisky-filled events in the calendar. Robert Burns was a noted lover of Scotch, despite his occupation as a exciseman - an enforcer of alcohol industry taxation by the English. However, its surmised that he was not entirely comfortable with this job, having written a poem called 'The Devil is Away with the Exiseman', and a love poem to whisky called 'Scotch Drink.'