Whisky Leads UK Drinks Exports Impressive Growth
UK drinks exports have grown by 13% this year to an impressive £9.4 billion impulsed by strong whisky sales. With Scotch whisky forming the bulk of Britain’s heritage drinks products, major European countries have maintained traditional purchases despite the sluggish economy. However, sales of other alcoholic beverages including gin and beer, have reduced drastically due […]
Eagle River Whisky Looks to Expand Facilities
The owners of the Eagle River Whisky distillery discovered that their tasting room and distillery may just be too small. The company invited whisky enthusiasts to a tasting session at the distillery hall, however, the turnout was overwhelming. The demand for the spirit led the couple to initiate expansion plans immediately. “We quickly realized that […]
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Bonhams Hong Kong Offering Full Deck Of Rare Whisky
Bonhams Hong Kong will be hosting the largest Asian whisky auction later this month when they auction off more than 200 of rare and collectible Asian whisky in The Rare Single Malt Whisky Auction. Among the items up for bid on the block include the Karuizawa 21-Year-Old in a crystal decanter along with Karuizawa Geisha Series and non-distilled years of the distillery which shut down in 2001. Alongside the Karuizawa […]
Sharknado 2: The Drinking Game
Now that “Sharknado 2: The Second One” is firmly entrenched in your memories, it’s time to watch it again over the weekend – only this time with the benefit of some liquor lubricant in the form of your favorite whisky [or other beverage, WC are not dictators]. The only way to watch Sharknado 2 again – properly – is via a sophisticated drinking game and that’s where WC comes in […]
Laphroaig Select Released
Laphroaig Select is set to hit the market as the newest expression from the fabled distillery. Laphroaig Select began life in European oak casks before moving to ex-bourbon American oak casks for the final maturation process to give the Islay single malt Scotch whisky a taste of both peat and sweet. Laphroaig Select will retail for $55 per bottle and is currently available in the USA, UK, Germany and Italy […]
Isle Of Arran Deploys The Fiendish Finale
The Isle of Arran Distillery is releasing the final single malt whisky in their Devil’s Punch Bowl trilogy of devilishly-titled single malts. Joining the first two single malts – Devil’s Punch Bowl [2012] and Devil’s Punch Bowl II [2013] – will be Devil’s Punch Bowl III, The Fiendish Finale. Devil number three is matured in Oloroso sherry butts as well as French Barrique casks and bottled at 53.4% alcohol content […]
Budweiser Launches Made For Music Search
Budweiser is searching for the busker band of busker bands to perform at their Budweiser Made in America Music Festival on August 30, 2014 in Los Angeles and have issued a challenge to busker bands in four cities – London, New York, Philadelphia and Rio de Janeiro – to compose a sort of all-star busker band, and…oh yeah, promote their product.
The Perfect Summer Treat: Whiskey Shave Ice
Summer is not normally considered to be whiskey’s best season but there is always room for growth and they found that room at the Soradoko rooftop whiskey garden in Kyoto, Japan. At the Soradoko, their specialties are whiskey highballs but this summer they have added the whiskey shave ice as a special summertime treat for adults visiting their rooftop whiskey paradise. Soradoko uses primarily Yamazaki or Shirasu whiskey for its […]
Glenglassaugh Bringing Five Whiskies To America
Glenglassaugh Distillery will be bringing five of its single malt whiskies to the USA – Revival, Evolution, Torfa [Peated] and both Glenglassaugh 30-Year-Old and Glenglassaugh 40-Year-Old. The descriptions of each are as follows… REVIVAL The Glenglassaugh ‘Revival’ is matured in combination of red wine casks and ex-bourbon barrels, finished in first-fill Oloroso sherry butts for a period of six months. Non-chill filtered and of natural color, a Highland Single Malt […]
Heineken Enlists Fred Armisen To Promote Beer While Calling A Pay Phone
Heineken paid Fred Armisen a boatload of cash for the simple act of calling a pay phone situated across the street from New York City’s Comedy Cellar comedy club and then trying to entice whoever answered the phone to come over to the club. Not surprisingly, many people would not even pick up the randomly ringing phone and even fewer could be coerced by Armisen to come across the street. […]
Aspall Debuts New Bottle For Six Ciders
Aspall Cider used to come in giant nearly wine-bottle sizes for their various ciders – it was an element of design which set them apart from other ciders in stubbier bottles – but the aspect that set them apart also provided a problem for storage as the bottles were too tall to be properly shown in display cases and forced into a lying down position which hid the label. That […]
Cotswolds Distillery Pre-Selling Organic Odyssey For 2017
Cotswolds Distillery in the UK will not be bottling their 2013 Organic Odyssey single malt whisky for another three years but that isn’t stopping them from offering the first-ever Cotswolds-sourced whisky to people a few years early. The distillery has set aside 5000 bottles of the whisky for purchase when it is ready to be bottled in October 2017 [Cotswolds will be producing the batch in September and October of […]
Kininvie Launches 17-Year-Old In Taiwan
Kininvie 17-Year-Old old batch no.1, a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky, has been released specifically for the travel retail market in Taiwan. The whisky, which has been aged for 80% of the time in American oak barrels and 20% of the time in sherry casks, boasts a 42.6% alcohol content [85.2 proof] and the fruity aroma of typical Speyside whiskies. For the time being, Kininvie 17-Year-Old old batch no. 1 […]
Cheap German Hooch Wins Gold At IWSC
Fancy whiskies vie for recognition among the sniffy, snooty crowd whisky connoisseur crowds at the International Wine and Spirits Competition but it was Queen Margot 8-Year Blended Scotch Whisky which won a gold medal at the competition in London. That a whisky won a gold medal is not surprising, the surprising part is that this particular whisky happens to be a discount liquor common in the German supermarket chain, Lidl. […]
Walsh Whiskey Distillery Gets Green Light For New Distillery
Irish whiskey maker Walsh Whiskey Distillery has received final approval to go ahead with their planned new distillery in Royal Oak, County Carlow, Ireland. The $34 million distillery is partially funded by Illva Saronno [the company responsible for Disaronno and Tia Maria liqueurs] will produce all four types – pot still, single, grain and blended – of Irish whiskey. The Walsh Whiskey Distillery is expected to be operational in 2016.
The Famous Grouse Travels Back To 1986
1986 was the year Microsoft held their IPO and created all those Microsoft millionaires, Argentina and West Germany played in the World Cup final [only this time, Argentina won], Matt Groening officially created “The Simpsons” and, unfortunately, both the Chernobyl nuclear reactor and the Challenger space shuttle disasters. But it was also the year that The Famous Grouse stashed away some single malt whisky in some oak casks and in […]
WhiskyCritic Review: Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
In 2012, Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey won double gold status at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and has received a 93 rating from Jim Murray, the creator of the “Whisky Bible”. That’s the good news. Some more news – and whether it is actually good or not depends entirely on how you interpret it – is that Buffalo Trace, in their marketing materials, claims that they have […]
Glenrothes Sherry Cask Reserve Released
Speyside distillery Glenrothes has released their Sherry Cask Reserve single malt Scotch whisky. Glenrothes imported European oak sherry casks from Jerez, Spain, to mature their whisky – the first-ever whisky using first-fill sherry casks for Glenrothes. The whisky has taste notes of ginger and orange peel. Glenrothes Sherry Cask Reserve has a 40% alcohol content [80 proof] and will sell for $95 per bottle.
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