Including Oloroso, but also Matheusala and Apostoles. For example with their King Alexander III expression, they mature the whisky in no less than six styles of sherry cask.

Rather than maturing in a single style of sherry cask, like an oloroso cask for example, they mature their whisky in multiple styles of sherry casks. The Dalmore has been known for their sherry style whiskies for many years. We all know that our sense of smell and taste, just like music, can be one of our most powerful tools for nostalgia and imagination, so pour that dram, get some records on and enjoy some downtime like it’s 2019… All aboard! Around the world in 6 whiskies (It’s known as the water of life, so that’s got to be something good!) So, kick your feet up and enjoy a flight around the world with these delicious and diverse whiskies. What can we do instead? The pleasures of meeting people from another culture and tasting their food and drink can never quite be replicated from home, but here’s the next best thing. Keeping calm and carrying on can take up a fair bit of effort, and I don’t know about you, but I’m still reminiscing about slurping on gelato, guzzling cold beer like there’s no tomorrow and lapping up the sunshine like a lazy cat. Holidays (or lack of) may have lower priority now, but we are all still dreaming of our favourite escapes. Several months, drinks and meltdowns later and we’ve nearly made it through 2020. Our home alcohol shelves, bars, or cabinets had never looked so desperately empty, but you couldn’t order off Majestic, Tesco’s queue was too big and that old bottle of Bell’s had never looked quite so appealing. In collective lockdown madness, we were mostly doing 3 things: baking bad banana bread, freaking out over Zoom and panic-buying British apocalypse essentials: pasta, toilet roll and alcohol, apparently. Mere weeks later, and the whole world was changing fast.

There was an inkling that something bigger was about to happen, but we were still in a dream-like stage of mourning cheap wine on sunny terraces, gorging on tagine under the stars or sinking cold pints in a random European bar. Think back to very early 2020, when some of us may have had a tiny sulk about something like a cancelled holiday. Here are her suggestions for creating your very own world whisky flight. Katie Groves, the new bar manager at whisky lover’s heaven ‘Milroy's’ in London Soho, is lamenting the lack of travel but consoling herself with a whisky tasting tour from around the world.

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