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Neat, with water, on ice, or for a tasting: this is how you choose the whisky glass that suits you and your whisky, with the glasses we sell and use ourselves.
Long before Duncan Taylor existed, a Scottish blend already bore the name Black Bull. When Duncan Taylor revived the brand decades later, it deliberately chose not to pursue a modern restart, but to remain faithful to a nineteenth-century recipe. This...
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A standard whisky cask easily holds 200 liters. An Octave cask holds only about 50 — a quarter of that. That difference in size sounds small, but it has major consequences for what ends up in the glass. Duncan Taylor...
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On the Isle of Harris brand page, alongside the whisky, there is also a gin: award-winning, with a striking botanical from the sea. Yet you won't find it in the M4W Taste Compass. Not a mistake, but a deliberate choice...
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Lowland whisky is known as the softest, most floral style of Scotland — light, honey-sweet, and rarely smoky. Yet, among the bottles of Kingsbarns, there is one striking exception: Coaltown, a peated single malt from a region known for the...
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