Some real crackers this week - a lovely new Dalmore, a new JD for the Jack fans, Glengyle's new Kilkerran (the first of a series of Works in Progress) and, best of all, a mini-flight of new Single Malts of Scotland!  We've got our first ever Glenrothes and new releases of our acclaimed Clynelish and Caol Ilas, you lucky people.

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It's fair to say that this week's offering is a hefty wallop of big-hitters from some blue-chip distilleries, with new 1970s vintages of Ardbeg and Dalmore, Douglas Laing's 60th anniversary bottling of rum-finished 1970s Macallan 30yo and a 20yo sherried Laphroaig just for starters.  It's enough to make you feel a bit sorry for the Ardbeg 1991 and the Skye-based distillery that begins with T, either of which might have had top billing in another week...

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A crop of very old, extremely distinguished malts bottled for Signatory's cask strength Reserve series, including a reasonably pale Port Ellen and heavily sherried offerings of 1960s Glen Grant and early 1970s Bowmore!  There should be some crackers there.  Also this week, we have the latest arrivals from the Number One Drinks Co.'s extremely successful Ichiro's Malt 'Card' series, featuring single cask bottlings from the lost-forever Hanyu distillery.

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Another bunch of cool new stuff that's already flying off our shelves.  Amongst the goodies this week we have the first ever single sherry cask Connemara from Cooley, a clutch of double maturations and finishes from the likes of Ben Nevis and Benriach - plus the newly-launched 'Paps' range from Isle of Jura, finished in a variety of wine casks. 

We've also got a pair of ancient sherried Speysiders from Glenrothes and Macallan, courtesy of our friends at G&M; Smokehead has hit majority with the release of their new 18yo, while newly-revived Glenglassaugh delivers a bouncing baby new make spirit; and we've dug up a couple of bottles of a very rare privately-bottled Glenfiddich 1974.

Meanwhile, over on the TWE Blog, Tim F's been reading all about a new Swedish whisky venture, recoiling from some alcohol-free whisky and rubbing his hands together over some saucy pics of this year's Octomore release.