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.
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.'
Getting a little meta! Our readers have made their feelings known, as we present the most read articles of 2023. Let's see which topics piqued the interest of whisky fans this year.
Wondering how to really wow your dad this Father's Day? You've come to the right place! We've put together a list of our ten favourite gift packs that will really show your dad how much you care about him, and his love of whisky.
It's been a long way since our creation in 1992 in the charming city of Edinburgh, and now The Whisky Shop is hitting the red carpet in Cannes! The new store will open on the French Riviera next week.
The Royal Burgh of Campbeltown lies at the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and once boasted over 30 distilleries, which led it to be known as 'the whisky capital of the world'. Only three now remain: Glen Scotia, Glengyle and Springbank, with their expressions known to be especially smoky, oily and briny.