The Balvenie Distillery Adds Two New Whiskies for Festive Season
The Balvenie Distillery is enhancing the festive season with the release of two new expressions. Adding to the Revelation of Cask and Character, and Rare Discovery from Distant Shores Stories collection, which rolled out in 2019. The Speyside-based whisky maker has decided to close 2023 with style. The Balvenie has a cooperage on site, giving […]
Mars Whisky – History in a Bottle
Kiichiro Iwai and the Hombo family teamed up in 1949 to create Mars Whisky. However, when it was finally opened in 1960, Japanese consumers found it too smoky and heavy. The brand relocated the distillery to Nagano, a city high in the Japanese Alps which is abundant with glacial water. As a result of the […]
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Deutsch Family Finds Redemption
New York-based Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits has officially bought Redemption Whiskey – which is distilled in Indiana and bottled in Kentucky. Deutsch, previously primarily a wine brand owner – whose most notable brand in yellow tail from Australia – purchases a Redemption portfolio which consists of Redemption Straight Rye Whiskey, Redemption High Rye Bourbon, Redemption Bourbon, Riverboat Rye, White Whiskey and Limited Edition Barrel Selections. Redemption Straight Rye Whiskey, […]
Brown-Forman And Teeling Make Moves As Irish Whiskey Explosion Underway
Not waiting around for the market to soften, both Brown-Forman and Teeling have made moves involving actual and potential Irish whiskey distilleries in Ireland. Brown-Forman – whose bourbon/whiskey brands include Jack Daniel’s and Woodford Reserve – have formally purchased Slane Castle Whiskey Limited with the intent of opening a distillery near Dublin. Meanwhile, Teeling has beaten them to it and already opened their Dublin distillery in the Liberties District this […]
GlenDronach Brings Out Eight-Year-Old The Hielan
Scottish distillery GlenDronach has brought out an eight-year-old Highland single malt Scotch whisky dubbed The Hielan [Scottish version of “Highland”]. Matured in both bourbon and sherry casks, the whisky is said to have notes of butterscotch, raisins and spice. GlenDronach’s The Hielan single malt Scotch whisky is bottled at 46% alcohol content [92 proof].
Bordeaux Casks Hit The Green Spot
For the first time ever, Green Pot Single Pot still Irish Whiskey will be finished in Bordeaux casks. Originally aged in three different casks – consisting of former Oloroso sherry, former bourbon and new bourbon – Green Pot is finished out in the former Bordeaux wine casks for a period ranging between one and two years. The result is a whiskey that is bottled at 46% alcohol content [92 proof] […]
Ardmore Has Two More
Ardmore has released two more whiskies specifically for the travel retail market – The Ardmore Tradition and The Ardmore Triple Wood. The Ardmore Tradition is a Highland single malt Scotch whisky matured in American oak casks and then also aged in 19th-century quarter casks to produce a peated whisky with spice and vanilla notes. The Ardmore Tradition is bottled at 46% alcohol content [92 proof]. The Ardmore Triple Wood is […]
Cask Strength Scallywag Wades Ashore
Speyside malts were blended and what has emerged is a Cask Strength Scallywag. The 53.6% alcohol content [107.2 proof] used Macallan, Mortlach and Glenrothes malts [among others] for its creation and the result is a whisky with mocha, orange and vanilla notes. Only 1000 cases of Scallywag will be made available globally beginning June 1, 2015.
Isle Of Arran Releases The White Stag
Members of the White Stag online community associated with the Isle of Arran single malt Scotch whisky have selected their first bottling – an 18-year-old that was bottled last month and will be available this month. Those interested in becoming White Stag members may do so at the link below. The first White Stag bottling will be limited to only 214 bottles and available only to White Stag members for […]
The Glenlivet Unveils Single Malt Triple Threat
The Glenlivet will be releasing three triple-cask matured single malt whiskies as part of its Master Distiller’s Reserve signature collection. The whiskies each use a different oak in the maturation process. The Glenlivet triple-cask single malts in the Masters Distiller’s Reserve collection will be available in travel retail outlets beginning July 1, 2015. Glenlivet’s New Triple-Cask Single Malts: • Master Distiller’s Reserve – Traditional oak casks are used to deliver […]
Carlsberg Adds Seven Craft Beers For 2015
Danish brewing conglomerate, Carlsberg, has added seven craft beers to their roster for 2015 – listed below – joining the more than 500 beers the company controls worldwide, making them the fifth-largest brewing company in the world. Carlsberg’s Crafty Seven for 2015: • Boulevard Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale – Tank 7 is a strong, yet crisp and refreshing beer that combines American hops with the fermentation aromas and flavors of […]
Netherlands Unveils Whisky By X
You got your standard 12-year-old Scotch whisky, good, but Company X in the Netherlands has imported said Scottish whisky, filtered it with both gold and diamonds and since that is so clearly not enough, they then “body-blended” it – by which, they mean they have poured it over the body of one of two porn stars – Tori Black or Joy van Velsen…
Johnnie Walker Launches Special Philippines Edition Bottle
In honor of the upcoming Philippine Independence Day on June 12, 2015, Johnnie Walker will release a Johnnie Walker Blue Label Special Philippines Edition bottle that will be embossed with a gold map of the Pacific nation archipelago on the label. Only 7,107 – representing the number of Philippines islands – bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue Label Special Philippines Edition will be available in the Philippines only.
Chivas Offers Three Week Course To Be A Gentleman
If you are not already a gentleman, then Chivas Regal will give you a three-week course in how to be one with its upcoming Chivas Regal Gentlemen’s Lounge. The catch is, you have to be in London – specifically, at the Hyde Bar in the Park Tower Knightsbridge hotel – to take advantage of the experience. Chivas will be offering proper gentlemen the opportunity to try their whisky cocktails, enhanced […]
Whisky And Formula One
Last year, Johnnie Walker was named as the official whisky of the Formula One racing series, and if you watched last weekend’s 2015 Monaco Grand Prix, chances are you couldn’t miss JW’s branding all over the famed Cote d’Azur track. A recent [2014] study indicates that last year’s broadcast of the Monaco Grand Prix had a visual exposure to alcohol branding every five seconds during the two-hour broadcast – not […]
New Raasay Distillery Nearing Birth
“New” is not usually a good word in the whisky industry but new distilleries in tradition-rich Scotland don’t come around very often, so excitement is gurgling as the new whisky distillery on the Isle of Raasay nears fruition. R&B Distillers is seeking to develop what had been a failed hotel into a whisky-producing distillery beginning operations in 2017. R&B Distillers was formed last year by Bill Dobbie and Alasdair Day […]
LOL – It’s Law Of The Land
LOL – the new Law of the Land beer from the UK’s Batemans Brewery – is a ruby red beer which is a nod to the famed Magna Carta, where the brewery’s Lincolnshire county location is home to one of only four surviving copies of the historic document. The 5.5% alcohol content beer mixes sweet English barley with spicy Minstrel hops that are thought to exhibit some of the characteristics […]
Ardbeg Launches Pepetuum
The world had its Whisky Day last week but Ardbeg wants its own day and toward that end, they have launched Ardbeg Pepetuum tocelebrate what the distillery calls Ardbeg Day on May 30, 2015, commemorating the first day the Islay single malt Scotch whisky was first distilled 200 years ago. Ardbeg Pepetuum single malt Scotch whiskly is bottled at 47.4% alcohol content [94.8 proof] with notes of both chocolate and […]
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