A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas Whisky 200916 Year Old 2026 Edition

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The Whisky Exchange

70cl / 55%

£79.95

The 2026 edition of our highly anticipated exclusive Christmas whisky is here! Selected with great care, this 16-year-old Highland single malt was distilled at Linkwood and aged in American oak oloroso sherry hogsheads, for a dram that’s deeply evocative of all those rich festive flavours we love. You can look forward to ample notes of dried fruit, jam, gingerbread, fruitcake, baked apples and Christmas pudding – just the thing to sip and savour with friends and family.

Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange

Nose

Raisin Danish pastries, sultanas, rich fruit cake and spiced sponge, with building jammy notes: cherry, blackcurrant and apricot. Gingerbread spiciness develops along with clove, brown sugar and cinnamon. Mixed peel fruitiness hides at the back on top of a pool of rich and sticky black treacle.

Palate

Bright and fruity, with layers of underlying spice. We start with baked apples with cinnamon and cloves, stewed raisins and sultanas, and sticky dates. Hints of savoury damp oak are balanced by dark sugar sweetness and fruit-forward dark chocolate. Chewy spiced oatmeal and raisin cookie batter hide at the core, surrounded by Christmas pudding and more berry jam.

Finish

Rich fruit cake lingers, fading to leave baked apples, blackcurrant jam and dark oaky spice.