Jackanackanory it's Tobermory!

What's the story? A tasty new Tobermory! Our fourth batch of this single malt from the Isle of Mull is 21 years old.

Tobermory distillery on the Isle of Mull produces two different malts, a regular upeated Tobermory and a peated version often known as Ledaig. If a whisky label simply states that the contents were "distilled at Tobermory" how can you be sure which you are getting? You can't! (Careful now. - Ed) This was one of the concerns whizzing round our brains when we redesigned our Tobermory label and what fell out was one of our favourite scenes from Alan Partridge transported to the appropriate Scottish isle complete with torches-attached-to-bicycle-wheel lights and a toilet-door-balanced-on-a-Black-&-Decker-Workmate table, the handle of which has a hard on hat. Except Pete off of Dante Fires has a cross over him. No Pete. Clearly, this was the most straightforward way to convey that this is an unpeated whisky. That much is entirely clear.

Tobermory 21 Year Old is available from fine retailers now. Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.

U can has candles too

Introducing our new batch of Clynelish single malt - a 15 year old!

Those grammatically challenged cats of the internet are back one again with our third batch of Clynelish, the first since we introduced age statements for all new releases. You may also notice that the ginger tom cat now has a small candle in his cute little paw. Is this because Clynelish can in fact hold a candle to Brora? Or simply a reference to the spirit's waxy character? U can makes decide.

Clynelish 15 Year Old is available from fine retailers now. Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.

Birds of Prey, Ghost Bears and Flying Monkeys

Exciting new batches of Bruichladdich (23yo) and Arran (19yo) single malts as well as North British (27yo) grain!

Birds of prey? Ghosts? Crazy flying creatures? Tentacled beings?! No, this isn't a post about Pokémon GO, or even a booze-related version, but you'll still want to catch them all. That's right, we have another bunch of new batches for your whiskydex!

First up it's our fourth batch of Bruichladdich and our first to carry an age statement. In fact, you'll notice that the "cuddly toy!" on the label has become transparent. That's because, like us, Bruichladdich publicly supports the Campaign for Scotch Whisky Transparency. Meanwhile, what we can legally tell you about the age of the whiskies that went into this batch is that they're all at least 23 years old.

Now, if your thinking "Hold on, what happened to Batch 3?", then congratulations. You, Sir or Madam, are truly paying attention. Not much gets past you, eh? Don't worry, Batch 3 is on the way, this one just happened to be ready first so why make you wait? You see, each TBWC release is naturally in the pipeline for some time and - like the pipeline in The Living Daylights ("Pigs? Borscht? Cake? There must be another way!?") compared to say the pipeline in The World Is Not Enough ("The killer doesn't want to see this pipeline continue!") - pipelines come in different lengths and, like life, can be "full of small challenges".

Speaking of James Bond films, as we apparently now are, here's our third batch of North British single grain whisky - a 27 year old - featuring a sinister super genius who perhaps wouldn't look entirely out of place in said franchise, along with his Persian. He's still listening to his henchman's report on the progress of the 20ft chickens, but the flying monkeys seem to be coming along well.

Last, but by no means least, it's Batch 6 of Arran single malt - a 19 year old! What's that? What happened to Batch 5? You really are an observant bunch, aren't you? Nothing to do with pipelines or poorly disguised secret agent segues this time, though - Batch 5 was actually an exclusive for all the awesome people who attended Dramboree 2016 (if a whisky weekend in Scotland run for - and by - true lovers of Scotch whisky sounds like it might be right up your street then keep your eyes peeled to their site and social media accounts for announcements about next summer's event, probably early in the new year).

These beauties are available from fine retailers now, both at locations you can set your GPS to and find on a map and also online. (That's right, it's possible to have them delivered to your door - they practically catch themselves!) Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.