Ballantine’s New Zero Gravity Whisky Glass
Once Ardbeg figures out how to get their whisky to not taste like rubbery smoke, Ballantine’s has a glass for them to put their space whisky in – the new zero gravity whisky glass…
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Glenfiddich Becomes Barrel Buddies With Somerset Cider Brandy
Glenfiddich has teamed with the Somerset Cider Brandy company in a deal which will allow Glenfiddich to use Somerset’s barrels to mature their whisky over the course of the next year. Specifically, Somerset will supply 18 cider brandy barrels to Glenfiddich – enough to produce 1800 gallons of whisky [good for 18,000 bottles of whisky] […]
Ardbeg Space Whisky Goes Up In Smoke
Ardbeg sent a sample of whisky into orbit on the International Space Station to determine the effect of micro-gravity on both the aroma and taste of whisky and after returning to Earth, the results are now in – and it is not good – unless you like smoke. Like, a lot of smoke. Ardbeg found […]
Laphroaig Unveils Anniversary Single Malt Whisky
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the opening of their Islay distillery, Laphroaig has released a 16-year-old single malt Scotch whisky. The Laphroaig 16-Year-Old Anniversary Edition, bottled at 48.4% alcohol content [96.8 proof], is said to begin with citrus and vanilla notes before transitioning into pepper and fruit tastes and finishing with sea salt and […]
Dewar’s Releases Last Of Scotland’s Great Malts – The Deveron
Dewar’s has released the final of five single malts in their Scotland’s Last Great Malts collection with the release of The Deveron – a single malt Scotch whisky from the Macduff distillery near Aberdeen – and named after the nearby River Deveron. The Deveron is the fifth and last release of this collection and will […]
Pre-World War II Mortlach 75-Year-Old Emerges
Mortlach revealed a 75-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky Speyside region’s Mortlach Distillery used a first fill sherry cask to begin its single malt Scotch whisky’s life back in 1939 and 75 years later, what has emerged is liquid gold that was bottled at 44.4% alcohol content [88.8 proof]. Only 100 bottles of Mortlach 75-Year-Old single […]
Speyside Goes Dark With Beinn Dubh Whisky
Speyside Distillery has introduced their Beinn Dubh single malt Scotch whisky – a unique ruby-black-colored whisky named after the Celtic expression for “black mountain”. The whisky gets its signature color after having aged in toasted port casks from the Douro Valley in Portugal and is said to give off notes of both fruit and chocolate […]
Edinburgh Finally Gets A Distillery
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the world’s foremost producer of fine whisky – recent Japanese products notwithstanding – but it has no distillery to call its own…until now…with the planned 2016 opening of the $3 million Holyrood Distillery in the city. David Robertson, a former master blender at the Macallan Distillery, is the driving […]