Redbreast Collabs With Toronto Film Festival
Single pot still Irish whiskeymaker Redbreast collaborated with the popular Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to become their official whiskey partner, signing a two-year agreement for the 2025 and 2026 TIFF festivals. Redbreast will promote themselves and so-called hidden cinematic gems with their ‘Redbreast Unhidden’ promotional campaign showcasing films at TIFF 2025 and 2026. Redbreast’s […]
Chivas Touts Tour
Chivas Brothers, along with Midleton Very Rare are hosting a five-day Grand Whisk(e)y Tour, which takes 10 guests via private jet to Ireland and Scotland [with accommodations] from October 6-10, 2025. The Grand Whisk(e)y Tour takes the guests to three distilleries that produce Royal Salute, Chivas Regal, The Glenlivet, and Midleton Very Rare. The tour […]
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The Glenlivet Reveals 40 Year Old
The Glenlivet has released The Glenlivet 40 Years Old – a new 40-year-old Scotch whisky – just after celebrating the distillery’s 200th anniversary. The Glenlivet 40 Years Old was finished in a blend of seasoned Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez sherry casks, bottled at 46.9% alcohol by volume [93.8 proof] and is said to offer notes of apple, cherry, cinnamon, dark chocolate and licorice. The Glenlivet 40 Years Old is being […]
Stranahan’s Unveils Founder’s Release American Single Malt
Colorado-based American single malt producer Stranahan’s has released a new whiskey – Stranahan’s Founder’s Release – in celebration of the designation and recognition of American single malt as an official category by the federal government’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) on January 19, 2025. Stranahan’s Founder’s Release is a a 12-year-old whiskey initially matured in charred oak barrels, finished in former bourbon and blonde ale casks, bottled […]
Lochlea Celebrates Sixth Anniversary With Whisky Release
Lowlands Lochlea Distillery has released a limited edition whisky – Lochlea 6 Year Old – to celebrate, appropriately enough, their sixth anniversary. Lochlea 6 Year Old blends liquid from six casks – three bourbon barrels and three Oloroso sherry casks – from the distillery’s inaugural year of 2018, was bottled at 50% alcohol by volume and is said to offer notes of berries, caramel, dates, ginger and vanilla. Lochlea 6 […]
Sexton Reveals 11-Year-Old For Travel Retail Venues
Irish whiskey brand, The Sexton, has released their initial offering for worldwide travel retail venues – an 11-year-old single malt Irish whiskey aged in Oloroso sherry-soaked French oak barrels originating from Jerez, Spain. The Sexton 11 Year Old Single Malt was derived from 100% Irish malted barley, triple-distilled in copper pot stills, matured in Spanish Oloroso sherry-soaked barrels, bottled at 43% alcohol by volume [86 proof] and is said to […]
The Glenmorangie Company Preps Ardbeg House For 2025 Opening
The Glenmorangie Company is preparing for the opening – currently scheduled for Autumn 2025 – of their new Ardbeg House hotel, near Port Ellen, a few miles from the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay in Scotland. Formerly named Glenmorangie House, the Glenmorangie Company’s Ardbeg House is being described as a world-class whisky and hospitality experience, with the newly refurbished hotel having been designed to celebrate the spirit of […]
Santa Fe Spirits Rebrand Line of Whiskies
New Mexico-based American single malt producer Santa Fe Spirits has re-branded some of their whiskies – replacing their line of Colkegan single malts with a new look and name – The Original Santa Fe Whiskey – in an effort to elevate sense of terroir and regionality. Santa Fe Spirits was founded in 2010 by Colin Keegan, then subsequently purchased by Stockwell Reserve, a cooperative of craft distilleries, in April 2024. […]
Jim Beam Tackles Seven Stages Of Defeat
Jim Beam is preparing themselves to be the bourbon or whiskey shoulders upon which American football fans can cry on when their teams lose in the National Football League playoffs [Minnesota Vikings fans are already candidates] by offering condolences via a “7 Stages of Defeat” video, starring actor Keegan-Michael Key [a devoted Detroit Lions fan] focusing on what fans experience when their beloved team loses – shock, denial, anger, bargaining, […]
Woodford Reserve Doubles Down With Double Double Oaked
For the first time since it was originally unveiled in 2015 as part of their Distillery Series, Woodford Reserve has released their Double Double Oaked Bourbon across the USA for the first time. Woodford Reserve Double Double Oaked is a fully-mature Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon that has been finished for an additional two years in a second, heavily toasted, lightly charred, new oak barrel, bottled at 45.2% alcohol by […]
Isle Of Tiree Debuts Initial Single Malt Whisky
The newly invigorated Isle of Tiree Distillery – located in the Inner Hebrides portion of Scotland’s Hebrides island group – has released their inaugural single malt whisky after being founded in 2012 by traditional folk musicians Alain Campbell and Ian Smith and is one of Scotland’s smallest whisky distilleries. Isle of Tiree First Release was bottled at 47% alcohol by volume [94 proof] and is said to offer notes of […]
Bob Dylan’s Heaven’s Door Adds Sixth Whiskey To Bootleg Series
Coming on the heels of the release of “A Complete Unknown” – a feature film starring Timothee Chalamet about the rise of 1960s-era folk singer, Bob Dylan – comes an addition to the Bootleg Series from Dylan’s Heaven’s Door whiskey company. Heaven’s Door Bootleg Series Volume VI is the sixth release in the Bootleg series and blends straight wheated bourbons aged 12, 13, and 14 years, bottles the combined liquid […]
Kavalan Reveals 2025 Gift Sets
Taiwan-based whisky producer, Kavalan, has announced the release of their 2025 limited edition gift sets. The 2025 Kavalan gift sets collection features three of the distillery’s single malts – the Kavalan Triple Sherry Cask, Solist Vinho Barrique Single Cask Strength and Concertmaster Vinho Barrique Cask Finish – with each set’s packaging inspired by the theme of ‘blossom’, symbolizing prosperity, happiness, and beauty. Kavalan Triple Sherry Cask was aged in a […]
Woodford Reserve Unveils Batch Proof Bourbon
Woodford Reserve has released their annual limited-edition, high-proof bourbon – Woodford Reserve Batch Proof. Woodford Reserve Batch Proof is the result of batching together more than 100 different Woodford Reserve barrels together, with those barrels being drawn from many dates of production and matured in various warehouses and different floors within those warehouses. Woodford Reserve Batch Proof has been bottled at 59.75% alcohol by volume [119.5 proof] and is claimed […]
Old Forester Brings Out Warehouse 1
Old Forester has released a new, limited-edition expression – Warehouse I – as the latest addition to their 117 series, featuring bourbons with experimental characteristics. Old Forester Warehouse 1 features an 11-year-old bourbon aged in barrels emerging from Old Forester’s Warehouse I, which were heat-cycled since 2013. Old Forester Warehouse I was bottled at 47.5% alcohol by volume [95 proof] and is said to offer notes of apricot, butterscotch, clove, […]
Hidden Barn Does A Slow Fade
Hidden Barn Bourbon has released Slow Fade – the 10th and latest offering in their Series One lineup – with Slow Fade being so named for its claimed sweet, slow fade on the finish. Hidden Barn originates from the Neeley Family Distillery and Slow Fade is a blend of five-to-six-year-old barrels from the distillery, features a mashbill consisting of 70% corn, 20% rye and 10% malted barley, was double pot […]
October London Debuts Bourbon
Jared Erskine – aka October London – has collaborated with Kentucky-based brand Mr & Mrs Bourbon to become the latest musical artist to create a limited edition spirit. The partnership with two-time Bet Award nominee and four-time Soul Train Music Awards nominee, known professionally as October London, has produced a wheated bourbon called October London x Mr & Mrs Bourbon, distilled in Kentucky, aged for six years, bottled at 50% […]
ColdSnap Offers Bourbon Based Ice Cream
ColdSnap, a Boston-based food technology company, launched their ice cream and frozen confection machines in 2024 for commercial markets and, in their first year of availability, secured a roster of customers for their machines which included Best Buy, Holiday Inn, LinkedIn, Marriott Hotels, Mastercard, NBC Sports and three universities – Ohio State, South Carolina and somewhat surprisingly, Utah. ColdSnap’s impressive system freezes shelf-stable liquid ice cream or beverage mix from […]
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