Welcome to Inbox, our weekly round-up of whisky news and PR material that has found its way into our WFE email. Inbox features items from around the world of whisky and is published by us each Friday. Here is this week’s whisky news.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has announced a limited edition blended malt for the May whisky festival season. The month sees three major festivals happening across Scotland – Spirit of Speyside, Campbeltown Malts Festival and Fèis Ìle on Islay. The SMWS – The Five Regions is a blended malt featuring single malts from five regions in one bottle. These are Campbeltown, Speyside, Islay, Lowlands and Highlands.
The whisky has been bottled at 11 years of age and the component single malts matured in a combination of ex-bourbon, ex-Oloroso and ex-Pedro Ximénez sherry and HTMC (heavy toast, medium char) hogsheads. The SMWS – The Five Regions is released at 50% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. The exact number of bottles was not revealed in the press release. They are available now exclusively from the SMWS website. Each bottle costs £74.
Spirit of Yorkshire
The Spirit of Yorkshire team is celebrating 10 years of distillation in 2026. A major part of this has just been announced – a 10 year old single malt. This is the first ever age statement whisky from the English distillery. Bottles will only be available to masterclass delegates at a special 10th anniversary celebration weekend at the distillery, which is scheduled for early August.
TheFiley Bay 10 Years Old Single Cask ‘Decade of Distilling’ has been selected by co-founders David Thompson and Tom Mellor (pictured, above). Details of the cask type and bottling strength were not revealed in the press release. There will be only 200 bottles. The Decade of Distilling Masterclasses will take place at 1pm and 3pm on August 1 and 2 with spaces limited to 50 people per masterclass. Tickets cost £250. They are available to book at https://bit.ly/DecadeofDistillingMasterclass. General tickets for the 10th anniversary open weekend will cost £20 and be available shortly.
This single cask whisky was distilled and casked in summer 2016. Presented in a special box and exclusively available at this Masterclass, it shows how our distillery style has matured over the past ten years. Be the first to both try and take home our ‘Decade of Distilling’ Single Cask.
David Thompson.
Tamnavulin
The Speyside distillery of Tamnavulin has launched a special bottling to celebrate its 60th anniversary. The Tamnavulin 25 Year Old Diamond Anniversary Edition is a cask-strength single malt. It was initially matured for 20 years in American oak ex-bourbon barrels, before finishing for an extra five years in a single ex-Moscatel wine cask. This whisky is extremely rare as Tamnavulin was mothballed between 1995 and 2007. But the stills were operated for just six weeks during 2000 – this whisky comes from that period of production.
The Tamnavulin 25 Year Old Diamond Anniversary Edition is bottled at the natural cask strength of 51.8 % ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. There are just 290 bottles and these will be available via selected specialist whisky retailers in selected world markets. Each bottle will cost £260/ US$355.
