Awesome Whiskies

The Dalmore Distillery Exclusive, with tastes of marmalade, roasted Java coffee, crushed pecan nuts and licorice, is a vintage 1991 single malt aged for 20 years in American white oak casks.

Online spirits retailer Master of Malt is offering Drinks by the Dram samples in simple, stylish packaging; customers can purchase 3cl samples of whisky at the fraction of the price of a whole bottle.

With its final 18 months spent luxuriating in French Bordeaux barriques, the Dalmore Castle Leod limited edition single malt whisky offers a sensual finish of kiwi, sweet pear and sweet mango.

Scottish Spirits is producing whisky in a 12 ounce can. It’s being promoted as an outdoor venue option, since the packaging is recyclable. And also because people like to get all tore up outside.

Buffalo Trace Distillery is releasing the 2 latest whiskeys in its rare and limited Experimental Collection – one aged in a new toasted French oak barrel; the other from a used American White oak.

Monkey Shoulder whiskey is the world’s first Triple Malt, a blend of 3 of Speyside’s finest single malt whiskies, matured in Bourbon casks under a Malt Master’s supervision before being released.

The new Rich Oak 14-Year Old from Glenfiddich has significant flavors of oak, sweet vanillas and light fruit, due to a short maturation in both new European (12 weeks) and American (6 weeks) oak.

Bruichladdich’s Octomore Whiskey is the world’s heaviest peated malt at 113ppm, making it three times more peaty than any other whiskey; all 6,000 bottles are already sold out.

The Dalmore 50 is a bit misleading, as it actually contains whiskey distilled over 140 years ago; to put this into perspective, this is before even the Statue of Liberty or Eiffel Tower were built.

The Macallan’s Rankin Edition is about as limited as it gets: 1,000 unique bottles will be sold with 30 year old single malt whiskey; each will include an original polaroid by photog Rankin.

Cloaked in secrecy, Signet Whiskey is a premium combination of the oldest and rarest Glenmorangie whiskeys; it’s aged in made to order casks with a roasted chocolate malt barley.

(ri)1 Whiskey hopes to capitalize on the growing popularity of straight rye whiskey; it’s a cocktail couture brand with a swank, modern bottle and a slightly spicy flavor to match.

Whittled down to a handful of years, Balblair Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is hand-selected from only the best vintages; it has a smooth, creamy and long-lasting finish.

48 years in the making, The Last Drop is a run of 1,347 bottles blended from 82 whiskies, which come from many distilleries that no longer exist; they’re bottled straight from the cask.

The Glenlivet XXV is a special edition 25 year-old Scotch whisky, aged in Sherry casks. It has a rich, elegantly balanced flavor and is packaged in a wood box with limestone and brushed steel.

Millionaire jetsetters: Johnnie Walker’s Black Label F1 Night Race whisky will only be available at airport duty free shops, but get this: you’ll need to chase it, as it will change locations monthly.

The aptly named Rare & Prestige Collection is to whisky connoisseurs what Bentley is to car collectors. In all, there are four aged scotches (1965-1977) scattered across the globe.