When considering how much whisky costs - and how much of it is actually affordable - Mason puts the case forward for ditching your mid-priced wine habit for some tasty Dutch Millstone single malt.

Hughie ignores travel retail on his business trips. As such he embraces the serendipity of what he might find locally. Today, he’s found a rye so compelling, it forces him to agonise over scoring it.

Ogilvie has the luxury of being able to custom order almost anything from his local liquor store. In these days of next-day delivery, the wait time for the New Riff Single Barrel will shock you.

In a very interesting flavour piece we discover the reason for seeing so little of Aengus recently, he returns to share the parallels between whisky and coffee while reviewing a Kings County Peated Rye.

Looking ahead to a wet summer and thinking of summers past, Dougie wanders on to wonder why Lindores hasn’t caught fire with the exciter crowd just yet. He offers two banging examples of why it should.

Double prizes! Another Broddy auction haul inspired a face-off comparison as well as a handy guide to help you navigate your way around the costs involved in whisky auctions.

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