Sabrina Carpenter Moves On From Espresso With Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker has replaced espresso as Sabrina Carpenter’s new best friend after the Grammy-award-winning singer signed a global multi-year collaboration with the blended Scotch whisky brand. Carpenter hit the musical scene with a bang with her song “Espresso” became the world’s top hit of 2024. Carpenter is starring in a series of short promotional films […]
Glenmorangie Gets Spicy
Glenmorangie has released A Tale of Spices – the sixth entry in their annual limited edition ‘A Tale Of’ series, where Glenmorangie emphasizes the role of spices in their Scotch. Glenmorangie A Tale of Spices was initially aged in bourbon barrels before being finished in a quartet of casks: French oak Moroccan red wine, new […]
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Crown Royal Adds 16-Year-Old Rye To Their Noble Collection
Crown Royal – the world’s best-selling Canadian whisky brand – has released a 16-year-old rye they will be adding to their Noble Collection, making it the fifth addition to that series. The Crown Royal Noble Collection Rye Aged 16 was bottled at 45% alcohol by volume [90 proof] and is said to contain notes of anise, caramel, cherry, cinnamon, clove and vanilla. The Crown Royal Noble Collection Rye Aged 16 […]
Karuizawa Budo Collection Sets Available Tomorrow
Online retailer Dekanta will be offering sets of the three-bottle Karuizawa 35 Year Old ‘The Budō Collection’ (1981-2017) #7147 Japanese single cask whisky. The whisky was distilled in 1981 at the Karuizawa distillery [which closed in 2000] then matured for 35 years in an ex-sherry cask, before being bottled at 51% alcohol by volume [102 proof] in 2017 and is said to contain notes of cocoa, plum, licorice and toffee. […]
Glengoyne Reveals 50-Year-Old Scotch Whisky
Glengoyne has released a 50-Year-Old Scotch whisky that one lucky person will receive for free [free is a very good price] via online ballot. The Glengoyne 50 was matured in first-fill oak casks, bottled at 45.8% alcohol by volume [91.6 proof] and is said to contain notes of red apples, cloves, licorice and walnuts. Only 150 decanters of Glengoyne 50-Year-Old are being made available for $30,000 per decanter – with […]
Isle Of Raasay Introduces Their First Single Malt
The Isle of Raasay distillery – located in Scotlands Hebrides Islands – has released their first single malt whisky called, appropriately enough, The Isle of Raasay Single Malt – Inaugural Release 2020. The Isle of Raasay Single Malt Inaugural Release 2020 was matured in first-fill Tennessee whiskey casks, finished in first-fill Bordeaux red wine casks before being bottled at 52% alcohol by volume and is said to contain notes of […]
Copper Rivet Debuts First Whisky – Masthouse Single Malt
Copper Rivet distillery – based in Chatham, Kent – has released their inaugural single malt English whisky, which they are calling Masthouse. Copper Rivet Masthouse Whisky is a three-year-old pot-distilled expression, matured in ex-Bourbon and virgin American white oak barrels, bottled at 45% alcohol by volume [90 proof] and made with the Kentish malted barley, Belgravia, from the nearby Isle of Sheppey, off the northern coast of Kent. Copper Rivet […]
Jameson Offers Whiskey Tree For The Holidays
Irish whiskey spirits giant Jameson has a constructed a whiskey tree for the holidays and you can win it. The Jameson Whiskey Tree stands eight feet and six inches tall and is comprised of 130 empty Jameson bottles. Seven such trees have been made, each featuring a lighting system, and consumers can win one during the holidays this season. To win one of seven Jameson whiskey trees, Irish whiskey lovers […]
Blue Spot Resurfaces After 56 Years With New Irish Whiskey
When Blue Spot Irish whiskey was last available, the world was a much different place – but also, in some ways, not too different – the year was 1964 and we were being told that flying cars were in our future. Instead, we got the internet and now, a newly re-imagined Blue Spot. The re-imagined Blue Spot Irish whiskey has been matured for seven years in bourbon, sherry and Madeira […]
Glenfarclas Reveals 60-Year-Old Limited Edition Whisky
Speyside distiller Glenfarclas has released a single cask limited edition 60-year-old single malt Scotch whisky. The Glenfarclas 60-year-old limited edition single malt was in a first-fill Oloroso sherry hogshead, bottled at 40.9% alcohol by volume [81.8 proof] and is said to contain notes of cake, dark chocolate, marzipan and orange. Only 105 bottles of the Glenfarclas 60-year-old limited edition single malt whisky are being made available for a whopping $25,870 […]
Glenfiddich Bows 22-Year-Old Gran Cortes Whisky
Glenfiddich has released their 22-Year-Old Gran Cortes single malt whisky as part of their new Grand Series Collection. Glenfiddich’s Gran Cortes XXII single malt whisky – named after the grand palaces in Spain – was finished in rare Spanish Palo Cortado Sherry casks and is said to contain notes of citrus, dark chocolate, marzipan and raisins. Alas, Glenfiddich Gran Cortes XXII is only being made available in China and Taiwan.
Kingsbarns Debuts Balcomie Whisky
Kingsbarns Distillery has released their new Balcomie whisky – named after the Balcomie Castle in the distillery’s home of Fife. Kingsbarns Balcomie was matured in ex-Oloroso American oak sherry butts from Jerez, Spain, bottled at 46% alcohol by volume [92 proof] and is said to contain notes of dark chocolate, dried apricot orange peel and roasted hazelnut. Kingsbarns Balcomie is being made available for $65 per bottle from the Kingsbarns’ […]
Brown-Forman Updates Website For Home Hosting Cocktail Tips
Brown-Forman – corporate overlords of Jack Daniel’s and Woodford Reserve – is revamping their CheersToTheHost.com website, and now will offer tips about entertaining at home as the Covid-19 pandemic has created a new normal. The Brown-Forman site includes party recipes and entertainment themes like hosting a tailgate party while moving away from bartender-level mixology. Additionally, Brown-Forman’s CheersToTheHost.com site includes recipes for food – such as Brie Stuffed French Toast – […]
Glengoyne Offers Gift Sets And A Puzzle For Holiday Gift-Giving Season
The 2020 holiday gift-giving season – such as it is in these Covid-19 times – is upon us and Glengoyne is boarding that bus with their offering of a pair of gift sets and a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is a relatively simple 500-piece affair [that can easily be completed with a whisky by your side] by Scottish artist John Lowrie Morrison that is titled, appropriately enough: ‘Heavy Snow […]
Gordon & MacPhail Unveil 40-Year-Old Mosstowie Single Malt
UK-based bottler, Gordon & MacPhail, has released a 40-year-old single malt Scotch whisky from the Miltonduff Distillery as the third release of their 125th anniversary celebration. Gordon & MacPhail will be releasing four single malts – all from closed distilleries – this year to mark their 125th anniversary. The Gordon & MacPhail 1979 Mosstowie from Miltonduff Distillery was matured in a refill sherry hogshead cask,, bottled at 49.8% alcohol by […]
Bowmore Offers 1995 And 1997 – But Only In Frankfurt And Istanbul [Not Constantinople]
Why did Constantinople get the works? That’s nobody’s business but the Turks…as the old “Istanbul [Not Constantinople]” song lyric goes, however, in this case, Istanbul [along with Frankfurt, Germany] is getting Bowmore’s new limited edition single malt whiskies, Bowmore 1995 and Bowmore 1997 – Bowmore 1995 to Istanbul and Bowmore 1997 to Frankfurt. Bowmore 1995 and 1997 have both been matured in first-fill bourbon hogshead casks with Bowmore 1997 then […]
Teeling Introduces Ginger Beer Cask-Finished Irish Whiskey
Dublin-based Teeling has released a collaboration with London-based Umbrella Brewery and Cidery to create both Umbrella London Ginger Beer finished Teeling Whiskey and Teeling Whiskey finished Umbrella London Ginger Beer. The Teeling Umbrella Ginger Beer Finished Irish whiskey began with Umbrella’s Teeling whiskey-finished ginger beer being aged in former bourbon barrels for two years, then re-filled with Teeling and matured another nine months before being bottled at 46% alcohol by […]
Roe & Co Debuts First Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Roe & Co has released their first-ever single malt Irish whiskey called Cask Strength 2020 Edition. Roe & Co Cask Strength 2020 Edition was matured 13 years in Port casks, then bottled at 58% alcohol by volume (116 proof) and is said to contain notes of chocolate, coffee and molasses. Roe & Co Cask Strength 2020 Edition is being made available in Ireland beginning on November 9, 2020, for $85 […]
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