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As we start 2025, the first bottle I’m opening is another first for me - a special edition. All of the bottles that I have tried so far on this journey have been from core ranges from readily available distilleries. However, as I’ve gone down this rabbit hole with Loch Lomond today’s whisky is their 2024 Cooper’s Collection expression, the annual release from Master Blender Michael Henry.
This week I'm trying something a little different — an English single malt. There are fewer than 50 active whisky distilleries in England, around a third the number in Scotland, but that isn't the whole story: most of them, the Cotswolds included, are less than 10 years old (I could find only two releasing whisky before 2017!). A very young industry indeed.
That striking turquoise bottle is one of the most recognisable on any shelf. A nudge to watch a certain film sent me back to The Classic Laddie — Bruichladdich's unpeated Islay flagship, bottled at a punchy 50%. Inside: orchard fruits, honey and a floral lift of heather. As much a statement of the distillery's transparency and ethos as it is a dram. Worth the hype?
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