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Remember when Macallan used to be a rarity from independent bottlers? The whisky landscape has changed markedly since I first began assembling this lineup of "infrequent indies" in early 2023.

A Dornoch single cask release (if you can get your hands on one) is never dull experience. This is especially true when you're sampling one of the small octave casks from their early crowdfunder days – every cask is different, and the early ones can be wonderfully wild.

Adelphi is mostly known for bottling high quality single casks of single malt whisky from Scotland. However, over the years they've also released some bottles that are not scotch because, of course, Scotland isn't the only whisky-producing country in the world. Let's pay a visit to Wales, England, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Japan.

The manufactured mythos of Johnnie Walker looks to me like an alcoholic, somewhat lascivious Mickey Mouse wearing a top hat, but I can't deny just how agreeable the JW blends are from yesteryear. It's an old trope at this point, but they really don't make whisky like they used to.

In between distillery visits, I had a wee bit more downtime than usual to explore the island. These explorations led me across a few tantalising single cask bottlings that ended up being the inspiration for this Bruichladdich vertical whisky tasting. However, I knew I needed an Octomore...