It’s impossible to keep up with 49 new distilleries producing malt in England since 2006, so Ramsay takes stock while checking out his new ‘local’ distillery, Weetwood and The Cheshire.

Brash. Robust. Unapologetic.

Not what you’d expect, but everything you want it to be.

A new Irish distiller doing transparency right. Oh, and the whiskeys are delicious!

Well-finished and balanced, except for the tippy bottle.

The Tria Prima Distillery’s Rebis CS range from the Adelaide Hills and an interview with Prof. Paul Shard

Much potential, much creativity, and much still to come

Balcones continue to spin magic in a bottle

Gentle finishing reveals a competent spirit and spicy maturation

A decent example of an STR cask whisky with added quirks

Unknown pleasures from the north

Good price, good story, good whisky. Surprise! — it’s good.

Good, but it needs a nudge towards more transparency

Tasty peated whisky with nicely rounded edges. Bad bottle design.

Premiumisation killed the star potential, should’ve been a 7

All mouth, all trousers. A super start for the Thomson stash.

A fine example of a balanced sherry cask-matured malt.

A bourbon made form 100% barley

A delicious lightly-peated malt from the haven of heavily peated whiskies

Gallie’s review of this sweet, peaty drop is not entirely objective