Ricky Gervais Collabs With Ellers Farm Distillery To Let The Spirits Out Of Dutch Barn
UK-based actor and comedian Ricky Gervais [“The Office”] has become the latest celebrity to collaborate with a distillery – this time, UK-based [North Yorkshire] Ellers Farm Distillery – to promote products that will include a single malt whisky. With his investment, Gervais becomes co-owner of the distillery. B Corp-certified Ellers Farm Distillery’s current main claim […]
Brookies Launches Voignier Cask Whisky
Cape Byron Distillery continues to create new, unique expressions and whiskies. This time around, brookies has created its latest whisky matured in Viognier casks. The limited edition whisky will produce only 1,100 bottles. The Brookies‘ third whisky release, aged in Viognier cask, is light golden in color with notes of butter croissant, mocha, papaya, and […]
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Some John Barleycorn Whisky With Your Haggis On Burns Night?
If you reside in Scotland, portions of Ireland, UK or New Zealand, chances are you have already planned your Burns Night activities when you will be employing the whisky and haggis ploy as a means to celebrate Scottish poet Robert Burns. If, by chance, you haven’t procured your whisky of choice yet, then the Scotch Malt Whisky Society has you in mind when they announced the release of an 11-year-old […]
Scot Rockers Get Their Own Whisky-A-Go-Go
It used to be just getting a recording deal with a major studio was a big deal but now, apparently, you have to do a bit more to make yourself known in the musical industry and Scottish rockers, Mogwai, have done just that – getting their own whisky. The new RockAct81W Scotch Whisky is a 114.2 proof [57.1% alcohol content] single cask, nine-year-old from the Glenallachie Distillery in Speyside, Scotland. […]
Martell Millesimes Is Asia-Bound
If you play polo or fancy cognac, then Asia is where you want to be right now. Just a few days after the announcement by Pernod that a special batch of blended Scotch whisky will be made available for Asian markets comes news that a special cognac – Martell Millesimes 1971 – will be made available for Asian markets as well. The MM71 was created using three of the rarest […]
Pernod Whips Up The Polo Batch
Polo is recognized as “the sport of kings” and apparently the sport is missing a suitably royal blended Scotch Whisky, so Pernod Ricard took the liberty of mixing up a special batch to enjoy when the ponies are polo-ing about the field – they call it Royal Salute: The Polo Batch – and it’s a 21-year-old blend. Because polo is big in Asia, Royal Salute: The Polo Batch will only […]
Constantine Attracts Big Money
As expected, people threw big money at Constantine and after the flurry of money was over – Constantine went for $631,850 to the highest bidder [and no, we don’t imply the usage of marijuana]. Constantine, as you may recall from WC’s article a little over a week ago, is the name of one of the largest ever crystal decanters containing Macallan whisky. Only four six-liter crystal decanters of this size […]
Aarrrgh – New Blended Scotch Whisky Dunadd
Although the actual Castle Aaarrrggghhh from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” was the much newer [13th century] Doune Castle – it bears a spittin’ image to Dunadd Castle [first century], the castle depicted on the label of Dunadd, the newest blended Scotch Whisky brand emerging from Scotland. Dunadd is named for the medieval site where Scottish kings were likely crowned and the new blended whiskies will be a three-year-old […]
Fill Up With TinCup
Distiller Jess Graber was enjoying success with his master creation, Stranahan’s Whiskey, but then one day he mixed corn, rye and malt with pure Rocky Mountain water and – voila! – TinCup American Whiskey was born. The whiskey is said to carry aromas of citrus, black pepper and ginger snaps along with palate notes of rye spice, cinnamon and caramel. TinCup American Whiskey will be available in Arizona, California, Colorado, […]
Some Widow Jane For Your Soul
Let’s say you find yourself with some Widow Jane Bourbon, what do you do? Why drink it, of course! But what if you have an entire barrel of Widow Jane Bourbon only – alas – without the Bourbon within? You still want the barrel so you simply stash it in the boot area of your Kia Soul which just so happens to come in Bourbon barrel size for 2014. Those […]
Crown Royal Gives Hugs, Blows Kisses With XO
Crown Royal collected 50 of their finest whiskies maturing in cognac casks from France’s Limousin Forest and put them all together to create their newest ultra-premium Canadian blended whisky brand – Crown Royal XO. Said to have scents of vanilla, spice and unnamed dried fruit XO is also reported to have a smooth finish. Crown Royal XO will be sold for $49.99 per 750ml bottle and is available beginning this […]
Whisky Walks On Water
While working on solving the arsenic-poisoned water problem in Bangladesh for her PhD, Scottish scientist Leigh Cassidy turned to a process she was familiar with in her homeland – the art of whisky-making. In this particular case, what interested Cassidy was the “draff” of the matter. Draff are the leftover and discarded barley husks used in making whisky and Cassidy’s idea was that compressed draff might act as a good […]
Dead Beer Comes To UK
The Brits are used to having their beer dark but they are not used to having it dead, nor Mexican, for that matter. But that is exactly what they will get as six new mostly dark Mexican beers will become available in the UK – all with Day of the Dead themes. The six new beers are Death Rides [a pale blond ale with a 5.3% alcohol content level], Immortal […]
Glenmorangie Plies You With Companta
Glenmorangie has announced the arrival of its fifth annual single malt whisky private edition release – Companta. The newly arrived Companta was matured in bold, spicy Grand Cru casks from Clos de Tart as well as sweet, fortified wine from Cotes du Rhone in France. The resulting liquid is Companta – Gaelic for “friendship” – and a whisky which exudes scents of berries, damp forests, fragrant wood smoke and nutty […]
Beam Me Up, Says Scotty Suntory
Japan’s Suntory Distillery just became the third-largest spirits business in the world after their $13.6 billion cash acquisition of iconic American Bourbon producer, Jim Beam this month. Suntory will now import Beam products into worldwide markets as well as take 11% of the American spirits market. Beam’s product list now owned by Suntory include Maker’s Mark and Knob Creek for Bourbon, Teacher’s and Laphroaig for Scotch whiskies, Canadian Club for […]
Sazerac Makes An Appearance On Bob’s Burgers
Sazerac is known for two reasons in America. It is a brand of rye whiskey produced by the Buffalo Trace Distillery and as the oldest cocktail – with its pre-Civil War-era birth in New Orleans – and now it has what is perhaps its first appearance [in name only] in the television animation industry with the debut of Mars Sazerac, a magician [voiced by Andres du Bouchet – a writer […]
Shipwrecked Whisky Resurfaces At Auction
When the SS Politician sank in 1941 near the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, it went down with several bottles of whisky – 28,000 cases to be exact – never making it to its ultimate destination of Jamaica. Some of those bottles were lost forever but many others washed ashore and were subsequently collected by locals who either drank them or hid them […]
Macallan Decanter Going Up On The Block
If you think you may have a fat enough wallet, Macallan is putting up its largest ever crystal decanter up on the auction block next week. Only four six-liter crystal decanters of this size were commissioned by The Macallan – each one named after a Roman emperor – two have been kept by the company, one was bought by a private collector in Asia and the fourth, named Constantine, is […]
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