Whisky News
Suntory Donates To Maui Fund
Suntory Holdings, which owns Japanese whisky brands such as Hakushu, Hibiki and Yamazaki, will donate $70,000 to the Maui Strong Fund, Hawai’i Community Foundation, as they continue relief efforts after the devastating wildfires which decimated the town of Lahaina earlier this month. Latest estimates put the number of people killed by the wildfires at 111 […]
Benriach Unveils A Pair Of 40’s
Speyside distillery Benriach has released a pair of 40-year-old single malts – The Forty and Forty Octave Cask Matured. Benriach The Forty was matured in peated casks, bottled at 43.5% alcohol by volume (87 proof) is said to offer notes of dark chocolate, grapefruit, orange, peach, plum and red apple. Benriach The Forty Octave Cask […]
House Of Suntory Has Hakushu And Yamazaki 18 Year Olds For 100th Birthday
The House of Suntory has released both Hakushu 18 Year Old Peated Malt and an 18-year-old Yamazaki whisky aged in mizunara oak casks as part of their 100th anniversary celebration – Suntory was founded in 1923 by Shinjiro Torii who started making whisky at the Yamazaki distillery, located near Kyoto in Japan. 50 years later, […]
Beam Suntory Combines Whisky From Three Regions To Produce Ardray
Beam Suntory has created a new three-region blended Scotch called Ardray that combines malt and grain whiskies from the Highlands, Lowlands and Islay Scotch whisky-producing regions of Scotland. Beam Suntory owns the Ardmore, Auchentoshan, Bowmore and Laphroaig Scotch distilleries and, in a collaboration with Scottish spirits company Edrington [owner of Glenrothes, Highland Park and The […]
Bladnoch Releases The Dragon
Bladnoch – Scotland’s oldest privately-owned whisky distillery – has released five single malts that will comprise what they are calling The Dragon Series [a reference to the dragon curve, a mathematical term for a fractional curve]. Bladnoch I in the Dragon Series is called The Field [relating the journey from field to distillery], was matured […]