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There's a stag on every bottle of Dalmore. Twelve points on its crown. Most people assume it's branding. It isn't...

Collectors who built their cellars around Scotch and Japanese whisky are turning their attention to 1970s and 1980s cognac bottlings...

Before Japanese whisky had a global reputation, before the prices rose, and long before collectors began pursuing them, Suntory was...

In 1811, Helen Cumming ran an illicit still on a Speyside farm, waved a red flag to warn the neighbours...

Before Bowmore became a global name, there was the dumpy. The 1980s 'dumpy' bottle is one of the most iconic...

The story of Aberlour, a Victorian time capsule, and the whisky it inspired.

Why India is producing some of the most exciting single malts in the world, and why you should be paying...

It's easy to use words like "paddock-to-bottle" and have them mean very little. The whisky industry has borrowed the vocabulary...

The distillery that almost didn't happen, the whisky that shouldn't be this good for the price, and a cask strength...