Speyburn Bolsters Travel Retail
Speyside distillery Speyburn is bolstering their travel retail venue presence in airports both near home and across Europe, including Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports in Scotland as well as Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Speyburn will highlight the distillery’s travel retail-exclusive range, which includes Kentucky Bourbon Cask, Bordeaux Red Wine […]
Bushmills Brings 12-Year-Old To The UK Party
Bushmills has brought their 12-year-old Irish single malt whiskey to the UK, where it will replace their 10-year-old whiskey in the Bushmills lineup. Bushmills debuted their 12-year-old single malt whiskey in 2022 but only previously made it available in markets across America and Asia. Bushmills 12-year-old single malt Irish whiskey is triple-distilled, matured in both […]
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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 […]
WhistlePig Collabs With Alice Cooper
Vermont-based WhistlePig has collaborated with rock and roll icon Alice Cooper and released an alcohol-free pre-mixed Old Fashioned cocktail infused with adaptogens called Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Old Fashioned. Adaptogens are described as ‘non-psychoactive ingredients’. The limited edition Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry old Fashioned ready-to-pour cocktail has been crafted with WhistlePig’s non-alcoholic 100% Rye ‘Non-Whiskey’, barrel-aged maple syrup, adaptogenic cordycep mushrooms and schisandra berry, and the so-called aphrodisiac […]
Glenfiddich Reveals Lunar New Year Whisky
Glenfiddich has collaborated with ink artist Zhang Yu on limited edition whisky releases celebrating the Lunar New Year 2025 – the Year of the Snake – though Yu’s design skips the snake and instead features an encounter between the Glenfiddich stag and a mythical deer king. Glenfiddich will showcase Yu’s work on the Glenfiddich 21-year-old Gran Reserva box and two global travel retail (GTR) exclusive offerings from Glenfiddich’s Perpetual range, […]
Van Winkle Collection Supplemented
Buffalo Trace has released their annual Van Winkle Collection which will include additional bottles of both the 20- and 23-year-old sought-after bourbons as well as a 13-year-old rye whiskey. The 2024 Van Winkle Collection consists of Old Rip Van Winkle Handmade Bourbon 10-year-old [bottled at 53.5% alcohol by volume – 107 proof] and is priced at $130 per bottle; 12-year-old Special Reserve Bourbon [45.2% alcohol by volume – 90.4 proof] […]
Jameson Sponsors MLS League
Irish whiskey brand Jameson is crossing the pond to support American football/soccer, announcing a multiyear partnership with Major League Soccer (MLS) to be the organization’s official Irish whiskey sponsor. The partnership means Jameson brand will have a significant presence at the matches with in-stadium promotions and on-site experiential events as well as promotions via national broadcast entities such as MLS Season Pass and Fox. Additionally, through Pernod Ricard North America, […]
Fuji Reveals 50th Anniversary Single Malt
Japanese whisky distillery Fuji revealed a limited edition whisky celebrating the 50th anniversary of Fuji Gotemba Distillery by using distillate from its inaugural production run in 1973. Fuji 50th Anniversary Single Malt includes whiskies ranging in age from 12 to 50 years old, was aged in a combination of barrels including bourbon, beer, Oloroso sherry, and French oak red wine, bottled at 52% alcohol by volume [104 proof] and is […]
Johnnie Walker Unveils 52-Year-Old Blend
Johnnie Walker has released a limited edition 52-year-old blended whisky – Johnnie Walker Aged 52 Years – containing liquid from closed distilleries. Johnnie Walker Aged 52 Years blends six single malt Highland whiskies [from Blair Athol, Brora, Dalwhinnie, Glen Albyn, Glenlochy and Glenury Royal distilleries] and two Lowland grain whiskies [from Cambus and Carsebridge distilleries], is bottled at 41.2% alcohol by volume [82.4 proof] and is said to offer notes […]
Teeling Offers Christmas Bottlings
Irish whiskey brand Teeling has created and released a first-ever limited edition Christmas bottling – Teeling Whiskey Christmas Batch – albeit, exclusively for Dublin and Cork Airport travel retail venues. Teeling Whiskey Christmas Batch underwent a dual fermentation with both white wine yeast and distiller’s yeast, and is a triple-distilled blend, containing malt and grain whiskies that was finished in a trio of wine casks: port, red wine, and sherry. […]
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