Whisky News — 12 February 2026
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🥃 DRAM MASTER DAILY — Wednesday, 12 February 2026
BUNNAHABHAIN 25 YEAR OLD SELLS OUT WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RELEASE Bunnahabhain's 25 Year Old limited release, priced at £220, sold out across all UK retailers within 48 hours of going on sale. The expression — matured entirely in ex-sherry casks — was allocated to independent retailers and the distillery's own shop. A secondary market appeared within hours, with bottles appearing on auction sites at £350+. Murray's Take: The speed of the sell-out reflects genuine demand, not hype — Bunnahabhain 25 is consistently excellent and consistently undersupplied.
COMPASS BOX LAUNCHES THE NO-NAME BLENDED MALT Independent bottler and blender Compass Box has released The No-Name, a vatting of Caol Ila and Laphroaig heavy malt whiskies. The expression is bottled at 46% with natural colour and no chill filtration. Retail price £65. Named as a reference to the legal grey area around naming constituent malts. Murray's Take: Compass Box doing what Compass Box does best — taking good whisky, blending it intelligently, and then explaining exactly what they've done. The industry could learn from the transparency.
R/SCOTCH REACHES 500K SUBSCRIBERS, CELEBRATES WITH NAS DEBATE The r/Scotch subreddit has passed 500,000 subscribers, marking the milestone with its perennial debate: are No Age Statement whiskies a legitimate product or an industry workaround to avoid disclosing young spirit? The thread has over 800 comments with no sign of resolution. Murray's Take: NAS whisky is fine when the distillery is honest about what it is. The problem is the ones that aren't.
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