Eagle Rare 12 Year Old Joins Permanent Range For Buffalo Trace
Buffalo Trace Distillery has added a 12-year-old straight Bourbon to their Eagle Rare range which includes the original 10-year-old, Double Eagle Very Rare, Eagle Rare 25 Year Old, and Eagle Rare 17 Year Old [an annual limited release in Buffalo Trace’s Antique Collection]. Eagle Rare 12 Year Old was bottled at 47.5% alcohol by volume […]
Sazerac Joins Irish Whiskey Fray With Garavogue
Buffalo Trace Distillery-owned Sazerac has joined the Irish whiskey fray with their inaugural Irish single malt, Garavogue, via their Hawk’s Rock Distillery [previously known as the Lough Gill Distillery in Ireland, which had produced Athrú Irish whiskey]. Garavogue gets is named after the river that flows past the distillery. Sazerac’s Garavogue 20-year-old Irish Whiskey is […]
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Jack Daniel’s Coffee – A Good Idea Or Not?
On the surface, coffee infused with Jack Daniel’s should elicit the response of “what’s not to like?” So when the Tennessee-based whiskey distillery recently released their Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey Coffee in partnership with World of Coffee, it should be all good, right? The coffee in question is made with 100 percent Arabica coffee, but the blend is non-alcoholic, and therefore only infused with the aroma and some wispy taste […]
Irish Coffee By The Dead Rabbit
Irish coffee is one of those staple holiday drinks – well, okay, it doesn’t have to be a holiday, we know… – that warms the cockles of almost any Grinch’s heart and makes it grow 2.5 sizes. The Dead Rabbit in New York City has their version of the classic cocktail that you may imitate and enjoy this holiday season…
The 12 Days Of Whisky Celebrated By West Cork
It is the holiday season and West Cork Distillers of Ireland are celebrating it the correct way with their release of three new 12 year old single malts to, coincidentally, celebrate their 12 years of existence. The three new releases are West Cork 12 Year Old Sherry Cask, West Cork 12 Year Old Port Cask and West Cork 12 Year Old Rum Cask. West Cork Distillers, in addition to being […]
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…
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