There’s nothing we love more at Whisky Foundation than seeing an independent bottler appear with a bang and then consistently produce whisky after whisky after whisky that blow us away. (Well, there is: drinking whisky after whisky after whisky that blow us away.) And, if you’ve never heard of Rest & Be Thankful, then you’re […]
This Highland Park 27 Year Old was distilled at Scotland’s most northern distillery on October 26th, 1989. It was bottled by independent bottler Rest & Be Thankful in 2016. This is a single cask whisky that was aged entirely in an ex-bourbon barrel. Highland Park is one of Scotland’s best distilleries and the Rest & […]
This 1997 vintage Ledaig is a peated expression produced at the Isle of Mull’s Tobermory Distillery and matured in a bourbon cask for 10 years before being bottled by Rest & Be Thankful. The bottler is known for releasing excellent expressions that they hand-pick from distillery warehouses around Scotland and this is another one to […]
It’s time to have a look at our Whisky of the Month for May. This time we have decided to go for an expression from one of Islay’s most famous and cherished distilleries, a single cask expression of which only 159 bottles were released – The Bowmore 30 Year Old from Rest & Be Thankful […]
It’s time to take a look at our Whisky of the Month for March. We have decided to go with a bottle from one of Scotland’s most renowned distilleries, a single cask whisky that was produced specifically for the Japanese market (making it rather rare) – The Highland Park 19 Year Old by Gordon & […]
A few weeks ago, we told you about a few of our favourite whiskies in the Whisky Foundation store: Rest and Be Thankful bottlings. But this week, we’ve got news that’s even more exciting: we’ve got some incredible new independent bottlings available. And we can’t wait to share them with you – we’ve been […]
This Springbank 25 Year Old is a true classic from the widely acclaimed Campbeltown region. Distilled in 1991 then aged for 25 years in a Bourbon Barrel, this single malt has no added colour and no-chill filtration. It was released by the Rest & Be Thankful Whisky Company. You’ll fall in love with this whisky!
If you read our last instalment in the Women and Whisky series, you’ll know that women have a long and important history with our most precious of liquids. They invented the alembic still, they ran bootlegging operations and they repealed Prohibition. Many of them also burnt at the stake for selling whisky during the Middle […]
Bowmore 25 Year, this release was distilled at the Bowmore Distillery and bottled by the Rest & Be Thankful independent bottling company. A release of 252 cask strength bottles of top-notch Islay single malt for the taking.
Any true whisky fan will have heard the term somewhere. Whisky connoisseurs are strict on the vocabulary, urging drinkers to use nothing but the word ‘peat’ or ‘peaty’ to describe a single-malt Islay whisky. But for the general public the word smoky is a more common description of the distinctive taste. Peat is what delivers […]
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