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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The Name Is Bond…Bond House No. 1
Glenmorangie, for our money, offers some of the best tasting and most affordable whiskies out there, has released a vintage collection you may want to consider splurging for called Bond House No.1 – a collection of limited-edition releases from the distillery’s reserves. The first release in the collection is Glenmorangie Grand Vintage Malt 1990. Glenmorangie’s Bond House No. 1 series refers to the 19th century practice of bonded warehouses and […]
Bowmore Goes To The Vault
Islay-based Bowmore distillery has released Vault Edit1°n Atlantic Sea Salt – part of a limited-edition collection of malt whiskies celebrating flavors – three more in the series are peat smoke, sweetness and citrus fruits – all of which have been developed in the No.1 Vaults, the world’s oldest Scotch maturation warehouse [thus the name]. Peat Smoke will be the next scheduled release with the other two releases to be launched […]
Texas Has More Bourbon Now
Texas is a big state, but apparently there was not enough bourbon in it, so they had to bring some more in. Firestone and Robertson Distilling Company (as opposed to drilling company, get it?) has released TX Straight Bourbon. TX Straight Bourbon has been aged 4.5 years, is bottled at 90 proof [45% alcohol by volume] and is connected to Texas by its claim to be the only whiskey in […]
Benromach Takes You Back To 1973
Benromach will take you back to 1973 with their release of the rare single cask malt whisky, Benromach Heritage 1973. Benromach 1973 was bottled at 96.2 proof [48.1% alcohol by volume] in a refill American hogshead cask. Only 52 bottles – one per week if you can afford it – of the limited edition Benromach 1973 are available but there is a catch – they are only available if you […]
WC Holiday Gift Idea #21 – Speyside Collection
If you are still looking for last-minute gift ideas and happen to have a little over $13,000 sitting around doing nothing in your bank account then you might want to consider the Speyside Collection, featuring six single malt Scotch whiskies. The limited edition Speyside Collection includes a bottle each of Glenlivet 1948, Glen Grant 1949, Strathisla 1953, Mortlach 1954, Longmorn 1967, and Linkwood 1972. Only 75 boxes of the Speyside […]
Say Goodbye To 2016 With Nick Offerman And Lagavulin
What better way to say goodbye to 2016 than having a bottle of Lagavulin and Nick Offerman staring at you for an hour?
Nick Offerman Show You The Treasure Of Lagavulin
The comical, yet tragic, but still comical and black-and-white story of how Lagavulin whisky came to be…
Nick Offerman Asks Lagavulin – Would You Like To Hear Me Pipes?
Nick Offerman, bagpipes, Lagavulin whisky – it’s all here – everything you need to get through the next two minutes and 23 seconds…
Chivas Gives Us The Royal Salute For The Holidays
Chivas Regal is giving you the Royal Salute for the holidays. The Royal Salute is a limited-edition gift pack celebrating the heritage of the British monarchy’s banquets – the first edition in the series is being launched to coincide with Chinese New Year, which begins on January 28, 2017. Each Royal Salute gift pack contains a bottle and miniature of Royal Salute 21 Year Old and the story of the […]
Carlsberg Gussies Up For 2017
Carlsberg giving Carlsberg Export a makeover for 2017 as a way to appeal to millennials and their beer-drinking choices. The new design of Carlsberg Export has been styled after the Danish flag and will debut in January 2017 but which remains 3.8% alcohol by volume [that will not change].
The Macallan Celebrates The Holidays With Limited Edition No. 2
The Macallan likes the holidays, you like the holidays – so what better way to celebrate the holidays than with The Macallan’s Edition No. 2? Yay! The Macallan’s Edition No. 2 is a smooth compilation of seven cask types from four Spanish bodegas: Vasyma, Diego Martin, Jose Miguel Martin and Tevasa. Tevasa casks are European oak, Diego Martin’s are American and European oak casks, Jose Miguel Martin and Vasyma casks […]
The Most Interesting Man In The World Has A New Gig
Remember “The Most Interesting Man in the World”? The dude from the Dos Equis commercials? [and we mean the first dude, not the lame-ass replacement dude they have come up with now]. His name is Jonathan Goldsmith and now he has a new gig but alas, it is not alcohol-related. Still, it’s worth a view or two to see what the pseudo-Most interesting Man in the World is up to […]
How To Make An Arrowhead Out Of Your Johnnie Walker Blue Label Bottle
Ever wondered what you should do with your empty Johnnie Walker Blue Label bottle of whisky once all the liquid joy has been removed from it? Wonder no more…
Old Pulteney Doubles Down
The second release of Old Pulteney Single Malt limited-edition 35 years old has been made available. The second Old Pulteney 35 Year Old release has been matured in ex-American bourbon and ex-Spanish oak casks and bottled at 42.5% alcohol by volume. Only 1,254 bottles of Old Pulteney 35-Year-Old will be available for $650 per bottle.
Tea-Flavored Mixers For Whisky? Sacrilege!
Most consumers of whisky do not spell it “whiskey” and consider themselves to be above the peasantry that would even think one second about combining a whisky with something clearly as evil as a mixer. But then there are some people out there – and we are not naming names – that seem to enjoy mixing their whisky with something other than air or water. For these people, a company […]
WC Tries Some Woodford Reserve And Likes It
WhiskyCritic had a pleasant Turkey Day made even pleasanter by the presence of 90.4-proof [45.2% alcohol by volume] Woodford Reserve – a straight rye Kentucky whiskey. The pairing of whiskey with the traditional accoutrements of the holiday’s feast turned out to be perfect, with the somewhat harder edge of the Woodford Reserve proving to be a good palate cleanser in between bites of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and, ultimately, pumpkin […]
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