Every year, we seek out exceptional casks from around the world to bottle specially for Whisky Show. For 2026, these exclusives take in distilleries from Scotland, the USA and England. Across the collection we have worked closely with both distilleries and independent bottlers to curate a number of genuine firsts and unique releases.
That sees us unveiling the first-ever 12-year-old whisky from Ardnamurchan, the first retailer exclusive from Port Charlotte, a classic Clynelish, a rare UK-released single-cask Knob Creek, old-fashioned Jura and a unique release from the makers of our Whisky of the Year, White Peak.
All six releases will be available to taste and buy exclusively at Whisky Show 2026, with limited allocations of these bottles available in the show shop for purchase.
Ardnamurchan 2014 12 Year Old, Cask #32- £94.95
A genuine piece of Ardnamurchan history: this is the distillery’s first-ever 12-year-old whisky, distilled in its very first year of production in 2014. It is unpeated and was matured in first-fill bourbon cask, allowing the fruitiness of the spirit to slowly develop and show off a lesser-seen, older take on the distillery's character.
Nose: Fresh and grassy at first, with ferns and brambles. Candied peel sweetness develops, along with sweet and sour green apples, ripe pears, peaches and unripe pineapple. Gentle damp oak spiciness hides at the back.
Palate: The grassiness leads, with barley sugar sweetness and cinnamon spice, and the orchard fruit from the nose: apples and pears with an extra squeeze of lemon. The grassiness becomes herbal and lightly minty, complemented by a touch of creamy toffee and a touch more spice.
Finish: Spicy notes linger with creamy toffee and touch of mint.
Clynelish 2010 16 Year Old Single Malts of Scotland - £145
We have always been big fans of Clynelish, and we know that our former colleagues at Elixir Distillers have some excellent casks hiding in their warehouse. We are very pleased that the team has allowed us to have the whole of this 16-year-old refill bourbon cask – we know they were rather keen on keeping it for themselves. It is an absolutely classic old-school Clynelish: fruity, waxy and packed with texture. A must try at Whisky Show 2026.
Nose: Stacks of fruit: orange peel and candied lemons with apple sauce, ripe pineapple and dried apricot. Beeswax builds along with almonds, diestive biscuits and hints of vanilla cream. Barley sugar notes develop.
Palate: Rounded, creamy and waxy in texture, with fruity boiled sweets, freshly sliced, a tinned pineapple ring and just-ripe pears. Spiced sponge cake runs through the middle, with hints of butterscotch following. Zingy candied lemon and lightly bitter pith help balance, with mint fondant sweets adding a burst of freshness.
Finish: Mint chocolate fades to leave sharp green apples, crunchy pears, sugared almonds and a touch of grassiness.
Jura 2006 20 Year Old Thompson Bros “Pride of the Hebrides” - £94.95
Bottled by Thompson Bros under the Pride of the Hebrides label – one of the old whisky brands that the brothers have revived. This is a very special and seldom scene style of old Jura: peated and aged in a second fill bourbon barrel for 20 years, allowing the distillery's character to shine through, gently tempered by the cask.
Nose: Smoky bacon and singed toast with a whiff of sea breeze – breakfast sandwiches on the pier at Craighouse. Smoked butter and polished oak follow, with a touch of old leather and a sprinkle of peppercorns.
Palate: Much sweeter than expected from the more savoury nose, with apples, pineapples, star fruit and mango surrounded by a wall of freshly baked (and lightly burnt) bread. Cinder toffee and dark chocolate notes are joined by charcoal-roasted apples, brown sugar and creamy toffee.
Finish: The barbecued apples linger, with toffee, chocolate and singed oak slowly fading.
Knob Creek 2016 Single Barrel #135329 - £94.95
A bottling that continues our partnership with Knob Creek this year, a bottling to follow their first retailer-exclusive single barrel for The Whisky Exchange earlier this year. This is drawn from a single barrel of the legendary Warehouse X, Floor 4, Rick 47 – it is one of Jim Beam master distiller Fred Noe's favourite warehouses famed for yielding rich, bold flavours and perfect for single cask releases.
Nose: Butterscotch, caramel and maple syrup, with black treacle touches. Dark berry fruit develops – blackcurrants and stewed blackberries. Dutch caramel wafers and hints of Blackjack chews emerge, balanced by dark brown sugar and leafy mint.
Palate: Dark caramel with minty touches at first, diving into dark chocolate, brown sugar and cinnamon toast. Blackcurrant jam and butter-slathered dark bread follow, along with clove biscuits and nutmeg-dusted raisins.
Finish: Brown-sugar caramel and mint linger, complemented by butter toffee and baked apples.
Port Charlotte 2005 20 Year Old First-Fill Port Cask - £275
A 20-year-old Port Charlotte matured entirely in a first-fill ex-Port cask, this brings together plenty of Islay peat and smoke with a bright, jammy fruit note. It is the very first single-cask Port Charlotte bottled exclusively for are whisky shop, and it celebrates our more-than-two-decades of partnership, from the distillery's rebirth to the present day.
Nose: Rich cream stirred through with redcurrant jelly, blackcurrant jam and smouldering farmyard hay. Rich, dark peat smoke surrounds the fruit, joined by freshly milled barley and just-baked bread.
Palate: Intense, with sweet berry fruit and vanilla cream joined by dark chocolate, rhubarb, oatmeal and raisin cookies, sour cream and lots of thick, sweet, earthy smoke. A touch of fig roll hides at the back, along with mint choc chips, and cherry and blackcurrant menthol lozenges.
Finish: Buttery spongecake with dark berry jam and a thin layer of whipped cream. Blackcurrants and cherries linger.
White Peak 2019 First-Fill Bourbon- £81.95
We love White Peak’s whisky and its Bourbon Barrel release is even our Whisky of the Year for 2026. When the opportunity came up for us to bottle a single cask where all that we love about this lightly peated whisky is dialled up a notch we simply had to take it. Thanks to a broken boiler, this fermented for a whole eight days rather than the five that was usual at the distillery at the time, and was then filled into cask at a whopping 70%. That barely dropped while it matured and it was reduced to a punchy 58.4% before bottling to amplify the whisky's fruity and softly smoky character.
Nose: Grainy porridge and sauce, with aromatic wood smoke and vanilla shortbread. Fruity notes develop with a little time in the glass, starting with apples and building into unripe mango and pineapple with ripe pear following. Farmyardy touches build, along with waxiness and singed lemon peel.
Palate: Rich and thick, with a softly smoky background. Spicy notes of cinnamon and kick things off, wrapped around apples: fresh green sweet and sour, boiled sweets and Japanese chews. The mango and pineapple from the nose ripen, and the pears get a little crunchy. Darker oak spice and a hint of liquorice hide at the back, along with a bit of berry compote and dark chocolate.
Finish: A burst of gravelly smoke leads to dark fruit cake and baked apples. Polished oak and gentle fruitiness linger for a long time.