The Whisky Exchange Adds 23 Year Old Whisky
“New year, new spirits” seems to be the 2024 motto of online spirits retailer The Whisky Exchange. The company unveiled a limited edition 23-year-old Yellow Spot Irish whiskey. The whisky, named Yellow Spot 1999, was aged for 23 years in ex-Bourbon barrels before moving to an ex-Malaga cask for its second maturation. The dual maturation […]
Whisky and Cigar Festival to Debut During Super Bowl Week
Whisky EDU will debut an inaugural show of an Annual Whisky and Cigar Festival During Super Bowl Week> The show will take place in Las Vegas and is dubbed The Art of Whiskey and will launch on Thursday, February 8, 2024. This will be the first of an annual festival. During Super Bowl week each […]
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Whisky Taste Without The Bite – English Whisky Liqueur
There are people out there who like the taste of whisky but do not like the bite often associated with some of the whiskies on the market – especially some of the peatier entries. For those people, there is now English Whisky Liqueur from London-based Sacred Spirits. English Whisky Liqueur is first aged in bourbon casks before being finished in Spanish PX sherry casks and infused with orange and spice […]
Behold! The Land Of Milk & Honey Whisky
Admittedly, milk and honey are not two of the first words you might put together when you are thinking with your whisky brain, but in Israel, it is the name of the country’s first whisky distillery and first single malt whisky. Milk & Honey single malt whisky has been aged in cask for 38 months – 31 months in an American virgin oak cask and seven months in an ex-Bourbon […]
Sam Adams Brings Out Summer Ales
Summer is a mere three weeks away – officially, anyway – but Sam Adams is not waiting around for the actual date to arrive as they trot out their Summer Ales… Sam Adams “Colors of Summer” from Loop on Vimeo.
You May Now Discover Shackleton Whisky
A new whisky has been “discovered” – Shackleton blended Scotch malt whisky – named after the famed British explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton [who passed away in 1922] who led numerous South Polar expeditions. During one of his polar expeditions in 1907, Shackleton had brought along 25 cases of a Highland whisky, three of these cases were discovered in 2007 – preserved in pristine frozen condition in the ice beneath Shackleton’s […]
Thatcher’s Goes Vintage
Thatchers has launched their 2016 Vintage Cider in an attempt to bring a more traditional cider to the world. Thatchers 2016 Vintage Cider uses bittersweet apples from the previous year’s harvest and boasts 7.4% alcohol content. Thatchers 2016 Vintage Cider is available in the UK for $2.30 per 500ml bottle.
The Balvenie Releases Peaty 14-Year-Old
The Balvenie has released The Balvenie Peated Triple Cask 14-Year-Old – but only for the global travel retail market. The Balvenie Peated Triple Cask 14-Year-Old is a tribute to the good ole days of yore when peated malts were all the rage in the Speyside distilleries but peated malts were not being reproduced at the time The Balvenie Peated Triple Cask 14-Year-Old was being aged. The Balvenie Peated Triple Cask […]
Ben Bracken Gives Birth To Triplets
There are three single malt whiskies in the world this week as Ben Bracken has launched whiskies celebrating the iconic Islay, Highland and Speyside regions. But the whisky regions play no favorites in pricing as all three Ben Bracken whiskies will be available for $23 per bottle.
Jura Has Not One But Two Special Father’s Day Whisky Gift Packs
Father’s Day is right around the calendar corner and Jura is covering all their bases by creating two limited edition gift packs for bottles of their Origin and Superstition single malt whisky. Each pack will include the chance to win a trip to the Inner Hebridean island of Jura, just off the coast of Scotland. The opportunity to win a holiday and distillery visit for two is available to five […]
Johnnie Walker Keeps Walking
Johnnie Walker has released “Homecoming” – their newest commercial supporting their Keep America Walking advertising campaign, honoring USA veterans in the wake of Armed Forces Day [May 20]. Through the campaign, Johnnie Walker is calling on all USA citizens to join in on a “virtual walk” by sharing a photo or message on social media through Memorial Day, May 29, 2017, using #KeepWalkingAmerica and tagging @JohnnieWalkerUS. For each participating post […]
James Corden Takes On Benicio Del Toro In Heineken Commercial
James Corden, host of “The Late Late Show” parodies the recent Heineken commercial starring Benicio del Toro…
The Haig Club Has Father’s Day Covered For You In The UK
Now that Mother’s Day is in the rear-view mirror, Father’s Day is just around the corner – or it seems like it is, anyway – and Haig Club has you covered in the gift-idea-for-dear-old-Dad department – but, alas, only if you live in the UK, where Haig Club has partnered with UK department store Selfridges to launch a limited-edition gift. The limited edition Father’s Day Haig Club gift has a […]
Mackmyra Releases 10-Year-Old
Mackmyra has released their 10-Year-Old single malt whisky called, appropriately enough, Ten Years – and if you find yourself to be asking yourself, “who or what is a Mackmyra?” – we cannot blame you for not knowing of the whisky producer from Sweden. Mackmyra Ten Years has been matured in ex-bourbon casks as well as new American oak casks that formerly held Oloroso sherry. Only 8,000 bottles of Mackmyra Ten […]
Johnnie Walker Releases Blenders’ Batch
Johnnie Walker has released the limited edition Blenders’ Batch Bourbon Cask & Rye Finish, a whisky featuring more than 200 whiskies blended together and aged in first-fill bourbon casks before being finished for nearly six months in ex-rye casks limited edition that will only be available in a small number of selected markets travel retail markets. Johnnie Walker Blenders’ Batch Bourbon Cask & Rye Finish is said to have both […]
Bourbon, Chocolate And Cigars – What’s Not To Like?
if you made a list of some of the most enjoyable food and drink things that you can put in your mouth – we are almost 100% certain that the trio of bourbon, chocolate and cigars would be on the vast majority of the entire world population’s lists. That’s why it was a brilliant idea that Chocolate Signatures had when they came up with their Bourbon Truffle Cigars – a […]
Teeling Fortifies Itself With Brabazon Bottling
Teeling Whiskey has released the Brabazon Bottling, the first in a series of limited edition single malts that are meant as a tribute to the influence of a specific family [Brabazon] in Dublin as well as the role of fortified wines on the taste of Irish whiskey. This first release in the Brabazon Bottling series is bottled at 49.5% alcohol by volume [99 proof] and has matured in ex-sherry casks […]
Jack Daniels Wants An NBA Franchise For Lynchburg, Tennessee
Jack Daniels knows they are not as exciting as say, the swanky metropolitan icon of Sacramento, but they would still like their own NBA franchise for their hometown of Lynchburg, Tennessee. Listed as Lynchburg’s assets are no shortage of team spirit and knowledge about developing a franchise, while listed as demerits are the aforementioned not-exciting bit and lack of ability on the court. A cameo appearance by former UCLA and […]
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