The US whiskey industry is breathing a sigh of relief as US and EU officials struck a deal this week to postpone a 50% tariff that was set to take effect this year. Whiskey distilleries feared that the looming import tax would greatly damage their performance in a key market. The European Union on Tuesday […]
The long list of the top one hundred premium whiskies in the world in 2023 has finally been released. This year the Luxury Lifestyle Awards has added two new Indian whiskies to the list. The spirits earned rankings positions in the prestigious Top 100 Premium Wine and Spirits Brands of the World 2023. As a […]
The debut of Element Irish Whiskey in the Nigerian whisky market has not come as a surprise to whisky enthusiasts. The co-founder of New Era Spirits, Elements parent company, was a former brand ambassador for Jameson Irish whiskey, covering West Africa. Living in Ghana, he looked after the world’s biggest Irish whiskey brand in Nigeria, Cameroon, […]
USA’s Brown-Forman spirits company is shuffling their Jack Daniels facilities – making the 80,000-square-foot Pinnacle warehouse facility, the manufacturing site for Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails, available for super-premium American whiskey production – and moving their ready-to-drink (RTD) products to an undisclosed external manufacturing facility. The Pinnacle warehouse is located on the same Louisville, Kentucky campus […]
Another popular whisky distillery has joined the China bandwagon that has seen whisky giants such as Pernod Ricard, open distilleries, Angus Dundee Distillers is constructing a new whisky distillery and a visitor experience center in Ghan’un, China. Diageo and Camus already hold constructions in China. As part of its expansion plan, Angus Dundee Distillers, which […]
Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky distillery has rolled out a limited edition whisky dubbed the Johnnie Walker Blue Label Xordinaire. The new expression was launched exclusively for the travel retail sector and will become a permanent release. The whisky was bottled from only 1 of 10,000 casks of the Johnnie Walker reserved aged stock. Johnnie Walker […]
Whisky distillery, Bareface Canadian Whisky, has released the first expression in its recently launched Wilderness Series. The spirit is dubbed Matsutake 01 and is one of the world’s most unique whiskies made with unusual components. Ingredients include distinctive notes of Matsutake mushrooms, a natural fungi that grows in the Canadian forests and wilderness. “With each […]
Indian whisky brands have outperformed renowned distillery giants Diageo and Pernod Ricard. Indian spirits are changing the global whisky market and forcing established brands to reconsider marketing strategies and whisky components. No one expected the whisky distillery kings, Diageo and Pernod Ricard, to lose the throne. At least not to newcomers like India. This country […]