Chivas Debuts Quartet Of Whiskies For Travel Retail Venues
Chivas Brothers has released a quartet of whiskies – a trio of new Aberlour single malts and an 18-year-old Chivas Regal blend aged in Pauillac wine casks – all destine for global travel retail venues. The new Aberlour range for global travel retail venues consists of a 13-year-old, and a 16-year-old Double Charred Selection and […]
Glenmorangie Gives Lasanta An Age Promotion
Glenmorangie has given their sherry-finished Lasanta single malt whisky a three-year age promotion, raising its age statement from 12 to 15 years old, after adding three more years to the aging process for the single malt from 2010. Glenmorangie Lasanta 12/15 Years Old was initially matured in a combination of bourbon and sherry casks, bottled […]
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GlenDronach Releases Whisky From Batch 12
GlenDroanch Distillery has released its whisky from its 12th batch of single cask bottlings – in this case, nine whiskies ranging in age from 11 to 43 years – including the highlight of the batch, a 43-year-old whisky with chocolate and nutty notes. The complete contents of GlenDronach’s Batch 12 are as follows… • 1972 cask # 706 / 43-years-old / 51.1% alcohol content . • 1990 cask # 1375 […]
Glenmorangie Offers A Midwinter’s Night’s Dram In The UK
Glenmorangie has released a limited edition Highland single malt Scotch whisky, A Midwinter Night’s Dram. Glenmorangie A Midwinter Night’s Dram is aged in both ex-bourbon American oak casks along with ex-Oloroso sherry casks to produce notes of almond, citrus and vanilla with a spicy finish. Glenmorangie A Midwinter Night’s Dram is bottled at 43% alcohol content [86 proof] and is available for $60 per 700-ml bottle in the UK beginning […]
Rogue Glows In The Dark For Halloween
Newport, Oregon-based Rogue Ales and Spirits is releasing special glow-in-the-dark bottles of their beer and whiskey for the upcoming Halloween holiday. Bottles of Dead Guy Ale and Dead Guy Whiskey will both be the recipients of the glow-in-the-dark process. 22-ounce bottles and 64-ounce growlers of Dead Guy Ale will receive the glow-in-the-dark treatment along with the 750-ml Dead Guy Whiskey bottles.
Johnnie Walker Releases Select Casks – Rye Cask Finish
Johnnie Walker has released Johnnie Walker Select Casks Rye Cask Finish, a blended Scotch whiskey bottled at 46% alcohol content [92 proof]. Johnnie Walker Select Casks Rye Cask Finish is a blend of whiskies aged at least 10 years in first-fill American oak casks and finished in ex-rye whiskey casks to produce notes of vanilla with a spicy finish. Johnnie Walker Select Casks Rye Cask Finish is available for $45 […]
Laphroaig Releases 32-Year-Old Single Malt Whisky
Islay distiller, Laphroaig, has released a 32-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky to celebrate their 200th birthday year. Laphroaig 32-Year-Old was aged in first-fill former Oloroso sherry casks and is said to have notes of chocolate, fruit, nuts and spices. Laphroaig 32-Year-Old will retail for $1140 per bottle beginning in October 2015.
Whiskey Specialists Submit Themselves To Cheap Whiskey
Whiskey specialists Rick Edwards and Kat Aagensen submitted to being tortured by cheap whiskies in agreeing to sit down and work their way through five cheap whiskies in this BuzzFeed video. The cheap whiskies they were tortured with were Wild Turkey, Jim Beam, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, Evan Williams and, of course, Fireball – with mostly predictable results…
Finland’s Teerenpeli Distillery Will Release Single Malt Whisky
Finland’s Teerenpeli Distillery will release a 10-Year-Old single malt whisky – made from local barley, glacial water and Finnish peat – and bottled at 43% alcohol content [86 proof]. Teerenpeli 10-Year-Old Whisky was aged in both ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks. Fittingly, Teerenpeli will launch on the 10th day of the 10th month – October 10, 2015.
Asahi Launches Wild Moose In Australia
Australia, which hasn’t seen a wild moose ever, is about to get their first glimpse at many of them when Asahi launches Wild Moose – their ginger-and-lime flavored canned whiskey drink with 4.8% alcohol content. Wild Moose will be unleashed on Australia beginning in October 2015.
Heineken Leads The Chase
Heineken continues its relationship with the world’s superspy, James Bond, in this latest commercial tying itself to the 007 franchise…
Compass Box Releases This Is Not A Luxury Whisky
Compass Box has released This Is Not A Luxury Whisky – the blended Scotch whisky with the funny name is based on the famous Treachery of Images painting by Rene Magritte entitled “This is not a pipe” – and is a blend of 19-Year-Old Glen Ord malt, 30-Year-Old Caol Ila and 40-Year-Old grain whisky from Girvan and Strathclyde. This Is Not A Luxury Whisky is bottled at 53% alcohol content […]
Motorhead Whisky Revving Up For Launch
Motorhead became the latest musical band to have its name attached to a whisky as they prepare to release their aptly named Motorhead Whisky next week. Motorhead Whisky emerges in a collaboration with Swedish distillery, Mackmyra, and was aged five years in American oak barrels before being finished for six months in Oloroso sherry casks. Motorhead Whisky will initially only be available in Sweden when it launches on October 1, […]
Whyte And Mackay Aren’t Lion About Their Blended Whiskey
Whyte and Mackay has released a new advertising campaign entitled “Surprisingly Smooth” for their blended whiskey that features a lion illustrated to resemble a sophisticated gentleman enjoying a taste of whiskey that is supposed to point out Whyte and Mackay’s triple maturation process. The illustration of the lion was done by Tim Flach.
Jameson Makes Caskmates Of Beer And Whiskey
Irish whiskey iconic brand, Jameson, has collaborated with an Irish distillery and Irish brewery to produce Caskmates – an Irish whiskey which has spent some time in the brewery’s beer barrels. Jameson worked with Midleton Distillery and Franciscan Wells Brewery to produce the 40% alcohol content [80 proof] whisky that had resided in the barrels of Irish stout beer for three months before being finished in whisky barrels. The result […]
Shieldaig Unveils Single Malt And Rocket Cat
A new Speyside single malt Scotch whisky was revealed from Shieldaig as well as a cinnamon-flavored whiskey called Rocket Cat. The single malt Shieldaig [“Loch of the Herring” in Norse] is bottled at 40% alcohol content [80 proof] while the Rocket Cat is bottled at 34% alcohol content [68 proof]. Both Rocket Cat and the Shieldaig single malt will be available in April 2016.
Johnnie Walker Signs Up Jude Law For Whisky Joy
To promote their whisky, Johnnie Walker debuted a new advertisement starring Jude Law to bring the joy…
Snapchat In Cahoots With Jim Beam
Bourbon-maker Jim Beam and online photo sharing service Snapchat have forged an agreement where Jim Beam’s products will be advertised to those who use Snapchat’s services and who are also over the age of 21. Jim Beam’s ads will appear exclusively in the Snapchat Live Stories section of the will usually be a 10-second ad promoting Jim Beam’s new apple-flavored whiskey. Jim Beam’s ads will run on Snapchat through October […]
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