Glencadam Unveils Visitor Center
Highland-based Glencadam has a new visitor center when owner Angus Dundee Distillers officially opened the facility after beginning construction in March 2024. The new Glencadam visitor center will feature a retail space, tasting rooms, a whisky lounge, café, and function suite for corporate hospitality and private events. The new Glencadam visitor center opened in Brechin, […]
Teeling Reveals Rising Reserve
Dublin-based Teeling Irish Whiskey has released the fourth entry Rising Reserve range of single malt whiskies. The fifth and final entry in the Rising Reserve line will be launched in 2026. Teeling Rising Reserve 21 Year Old was matured in ex-bourbon barrels for more than 18 years, finished in ex-white wine casks for three years, […]
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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 […]
Laphroaig Presents Book Two – The Second Ian Hunter Series Whisky
Islay distillery Laphroaig has released Book Two: Building An Icon, the second of their limited edition single malt whiskies honoring Ian Hunter, the last member of the founding Johnston family to run the Islay distillery. The entire range will eventually consist of five whiskies, each released annually. Hunter was the youngest member of the Johnston family, joining the Laphroaig distillery in 1908, after his relatives, brothers Donald and Alexander Johnston, […]
Glasgow Debuts Second 1770 Peated Whisky
Glasgow Distillery has released their second peated single malt whisky – Glasgow 1770 Peated Rich & Smoky. Glasgow 1770 Peated Rich & Smoky has been matured in virgin oak, finished in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks, bottled at 46% alcohol by volume [92 proof] and is said to contain notes of smoke, toffee and vanilla. Glasgow 1770 Peated Rich & Smoky is being made available for $63 per bottle.
Smokehead Revives Frankenshake From The Dead For Halloween Cocktail
Islay-based Smokehead whisky has revived their “Frankenshake” Halloween-themed cocktail from the dead for this upcoming Halloween weekend. But the Frankenshake is merely the tip of the spooky Halloween cocktail iceberg – Smokehead has collaborated with partner bars to create their Freakishly Tasting Halloween Cocktail range, which include the Killer Kimchi, Don’t Bite Snow White as well as the Frankenshake. Cocktail recipes are available on the Smokehead’s Youtube page.
Jim Beam Displays Their New Lineage
Jim Beam has released Lineage – their new bourbon created as part of a collaboration between seventh-generation Beam family master distiller Fred Noe and his son Freddie. Jim Beam Lineage was aged for 15 years in charred white oak barrels, bottled at 55% alcohol by volume [110 proof] and is said to contain notes of caramel, spice and vanilla and caramel. Jim Beam Lineage will only be available in global […]
Singleton Reveals 38-Year-Old Secondary Aged Single Malt
Singleton has released a 38-year-old secondary aged single malt whisky. The Singleton 38-Year-Old was originally aged 12 years then underwent an additional 26-year secondary maturation in a selection of experimental casks of ex-Bourbon, Pedro Ximénez Oloroso-seasoned casks and new American oak casks before being bottled at 49.6% alcohol by volume [99.2 proof] and is said to contain notes of red apple, mango and caramel fudge. Only 1,689 bottles of The […]
Rosebank Introduces 30-Year-Old
Lowland distillery Rosebank has released a 30 Year Old limited edition whisky from three years prior to the distillery’s closure [the restoration of Rosebank by Scottish firm Ian Macleod Distillers continues with the construction of an energy-efficient distillery, visitor center, tasting room, shop and warehouse]. A new limited edition expression will be released every year until the first new Rosebank liquid from the distillery is ready to fully open. Meanwhile, […]
Royal Lochnagar Unveils 17-Year-Old For Anniversary
Highland distillery Royal Lochnagar is celebrating their 175th anniversary by releasing a limited edition 17-year-old single malt. Royal Lochnagar was founded in 1845, one mile from the England royal family’s Balmoral Castle. Originally christened New Lochnagar, the distillery was issued a Royal Warrant after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert took a tour in 1848, permitting the use of ‘royal’ in its name. Royal Lochnagar 175th Anniversary was aged in refill, […]
Glasgow Adds 30-Year-Old Macallan To Their Munro’s Collection
Scottish bottler Glasgow Whisky has bottled a 30-year-old single malt from The Macallan and added it to their Munros collection, which was created to honor the Scottish mountain range of the same name. The Glasgow-bottled 30-year-old The Macallan whisky was matured in an ex-sherry cask and was then bottled at 49.1% alcohol by volume [98.2 proof]. Only 133 decanters of Glasgow Whisky’s The Munros Macallan 30 Years Old is being […]
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