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Welcome

Welcome to my little experiment! We all love hearing what our FWM friends are discovering (to our collective wallets’ -and partners- dismay), so I thought I’d turn it into a challenge for myself. Because why not? Let’s do a blend of our 2025 finest. An infinity bottle of 2025 in a nutshell. The year in a bottle. My challenge? To make sense of it… Or at least to educate myself.

I want to do a deep dive on your whiskies and the distilleries that made them. It’s a vehicle for me to hone my Google-fu, learn some web stuff and build my whisky knowledge. Hopefully it’s at least in some way entertaining for you to follow along.

(Just in case you’re on your phone and was wondering about all the blue-ness on the front page - it’s actually a pretty cool photo of an empty FWM bottle. Turn your phone sideways and scroll back up to see it. Still learning some web stuff…)

So without further ado, here’s your FWM 2025 Infinity bottle, in the making…

Contributions

Let’s start off with what it is we’re talking about. These are the contributions I have been sent thus far:

Brand Expression Age Statement ABV Bottled Reference
Ardnamurchan AD/ Mezcal Cask Release 8 55 2025 link
Barrell Bourbon Cask Finish Series: Tale of Two Islands 5 59.11 2024 link
Ledaig Marsala Cask Finish 19 51 2016 link
SMWS Small Batch 24 - Underwater Barbecue 12 50 2023 link
Caol Ila Unpeated Style - Diageo Special Releases 2014 15 60.39 2014 link
Kilchoman Machir Bay WhiskyBrother Vatting NAS 46 2019 link
Kilchoman Machir Bay Cask Strength NAS 58.3 2021 link
Berry Bros. & Rudd Linkwood - PX Finish NAS 53.6 2025 link
Ballechin Marsala Cask Matured 10 59.1 2021 link
Ardnamurchan AD/01.21:01 NAS 46.8 2021 link
Dalwhinnie Winter’s Frost (Game of Thrones, House Stark) NAS 43 2019 link
Mackinlay Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky NAS 47.3 2011 link
Dalmore Cigar Malt Reserve NAS 43 2009 link
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban (2nd Edition) 12 46 2011 link
SMWS 82.37 - Chewing Pencils in a Barbershop 8 62.9 2020 link
Adelphi Caol Ila WhiskyBrother Exclusive 10 58 2025 link

Cask Aging and Finishing

The cask aging and finishing might give us an idea of what we’ll be tasting.

Whisky Categories

What about the contents of those casks?

Wait what?? 🤔

Regions

They’ve come a long way to get here…

Ages

…And they’ve been waiting for us. Some of them at least.

ABV

So what can we expect to be tasting?

  • ABV Median: 52.3
  • ABV Max: 62.9
  • Age Max: 19
  • Oldest Bottling: 2009

Watch This Space

That’s what I have so far. Keep coming back, I’ll update the group as and when I have more to share.