What is Rye January, you ask? Well, it's a celebration of one of our favourite, most under-rated categories of whisky: rye.

What's better than an old-school video game? An old-school video game reference-packed, wine cask-finished, holding-no-punches whisky tasting box, that's what - it's Maltal Kombat!

Sherry-matured whiskies are full of Christmas flavours, with notes of dried and stewed fruits, and sweet festive spices like cinnamon and ginger. Some of these drams are like liquid Christmas cake. It's the perfect gift for any whisky fan.

As our regular readers will know, we've been a little bit cask-obsessed here at The Dram Team HQ lately. Here's a tasting box we put together to explore cask ageing for November 2020: Whisky and Wood!

If you're not already familiar with Loch Lomond Distillery, they have one of the most unique and complex distillery set-ups around. That gives them the ability to make whisky with huge variety of flavour and styles, unlike any other Scotch distillery.

Marked from the southern border with England to just north of its two major cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Lowland whisky has been most associated with a light, floral style of whisky. Here's the best of what the Lowlands has to offer.

The Single Cask, for those that haven’t already come across them, are experts at seeking out unusual and high quality Scotch whiskies. Their independently bottled single malts (and occasionally bourbons) are guaranteed to expand your horizons. So here's the latest in our series highlighting the best independent whisky bottlers - all about The Single Cask.

Picking our favourites from all of Douglas Laing's whiskies is no easy task, as there are a lot to pick from, and as they release so many single casks, their expressions come and go fairly frequently.

For now, here's 6 very enticing drams that we picked out with help from the wonderful folks from Douglas Laing.