Bushmills Expands Prestige Collection With 26-Year-Old
Irish whiskey icon Bushmills has added a 26-year-old single malt – Bushmills 26 Year Old Crystal Malt – to their luxury Prestige Single Malt Collection. The 26-year-old joins three other Irish whiskies [25-, 30- and 31-year-old] in Bushmills Prestige Collection. Bushmills 26 Year Old Crystal Malt was created using crystal malt barley [barley in which […]
Johnnie Walker Preps For The Lunar New Year With Blue Label Edition
Blended Scotch whisky icon, Johnnie Walker has released a limited edition label design for their Lunar New Year Blue Label whisky celebrating 2025 as the Year of the Snake. The label was designed by Asian American artist James Jean and is said to symbolize an ‘auspicious ambition for constant progression and self-reinvention’, while featuring three […]
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WC Test Drive: Johnnie Walker Blue
Word of advice for those planning an evening of whisky drinking and are not enamored of any particular disposition toward said whisky – choose as wisely as you feel you possibly can when it comes to whisky selections – and in this department, WC will provide some assistance. Never follow up a tasting of Glenmorangie 18-Year-Old Extremely Rare single malt Scotch whisky with Johnnie Walker Blue blended Scotch whisky. There […]
Curiouser And Curiouser: Summer Shandy Beer Arrives
While it is true that spring has just sprung, that is no reason not to jump the gun and begin to get excited for the imminent arrival of summer – and one of the ways in which to do that is to do backflips over the announced arrival of summer shandy beer. In this case, Curious Traveler Shandy Beer, which will be making its USA debut in 2015. Unlike most […]
The Last Drop Unveils 592 bottles Of 1965 Whisky
Blended Scotch whisky from 1965 can be hard to come by and that is why it is such a big deal that there are now a few more bottles of the stuff being made available by The Last Drop Distillery. Specifically, 592 bottles of TLD’s 1965 blended Scotch whisky are being made available – although not all the grains and malts used are from that year – the original blend […]
WC Test Drive: Glenmorangie 18-Year Extremely Rare
WC recently had the opportunity to take the Glenmorangie 18-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky for a test drive and we were not disappointed. As one might expect from a whisky declaring itself to be extremely rare, the whisky is orbited by several dozen superlatives and platitudes and one of the typical responses WC has to showboatery of this nature is an almost immediate and visceral skepticism. One school of thought […]
Tamdhu Rolls Out Batch Strength Whisky
In a new foray for the distillery, Tamdhu has revealed a Batch Strength version of its Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. The Tamdhu Batch Strength whisky was aged in sherry oak casks before being bottled at 58.8% alcohol content [117.6 proof]. Tamdhu whiskies use water from the Tamdhu spring and are known for their highly peated barley.
Kavalan Named World’s Best Whisky
Kavalan – or by its full name, Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique – whisky was named as the world’s best single malt Scotch whisky at the World Whisky Awards this week. What makes it unique is not so much its distinctly non-Scottish name but rather its dinstinctly non-Scottish distillery location – in Taiwan. This Taiwanese-produced single malt Scotch whisky was praised by the judging panel with having notes of fruitcake, clove, […]
The Tipperary Cocktail For St. Patrick’s Day
Courtesy of Distinguished Spirits – the recipe for the “Tipperary” cocktail, an ideal cocktail for St. Patrick’s Day…
Jameson Goes All 3D On Us For St. Patrick’s Day
Today is St. Patrick’s Day and Jameson is going to sell plenty of Irish whiskey worldwide today – but just in case they might have missed somebody who doesn’t know about their popular brand – they have released a 3D advertisement on their Instagram page [see link below] that features a disembodied hand sliding a shot of presumably Jameson Irish whiskey down the bar for another waiting disembodied hand to […]
2 Gingers Founder Shares St. Patrick’s Day Recipe
Kieran Folliard, founder of 2 Gingers Irish whiskey and native Irish person, shares a St. Patrick’s Day cocktail recipe using, of course, 2 Gingers Irish whiskey…
Grand MacNish Gives You The Best Of Scotland
There are six touted whisky regions in Scotland and each has its own distinct identity which is usually confined to one bottle at a time – but what if you could get the best qualities of each of the regions in a single bottle? That is the reasoning behind Grand MacNish Six Cask Edition, a Scotch whisky blend composed of whiskies from each of Scotland’s signature whisky-producing regions – Campbeltown, […]
Macallan 50-Year-Old Sells At Auction
A bottle of Macallan 50-Year-Old sold for $31,875 at the Bonhams auction in Edinburgh, Scotland today. The Macallan 50-Year-Old was stored in a custom Lalique crystal decanter.
Isle Of Arran Releases 18-Year Old
Isle of Arran Distillery has officially released their 18-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky – the third of a single malt trilogy, following releases of 16-and 17-Year Old single malts. Isle of Arran 18-Year-Old was aged in ex-sherry Hogshead casks and bottled at 46% alcohol content [92 proof]. Only 9000 bottles of Isle of Arran 18-Year-Old single malt Scotch whisky will be released beginning on March 16, 2015.
A New Restorative Beverage For Invalids And Convalescents
Independent Scottish brewery, BrewDog, has announced their new Restorative Beverage for Invalids and Convalescents. The Restorative Beverage for Invalids and Convalescents is an old-school India Pale Ale based on IPA’s brewed in the mid-1800s and uses Amarillo, Centennial and Citra hops – hops known for their bitterness – in producing an 8.7% alcohol content IPA. The catchy name is based on an entry from pharmacologist Jonathan Pereira in a medical […]
Bastille 1789 Takes You On A Strange Adventure
There’s a new French whisky in town, see? It’s called Bastille 1789, see? So you want to know something about it, see? Then you may find that difficult after watching “A Strange Adventure”, see?
A St. Patrick’s Day Option – Midleton Dair Ghaelach Irish Whiskey – If You’re In Ireland
The Irish whiskies will be coming out of woodwork the next seven days – but that is a good thing – and the latest arrival for your drinking consideration on St. Patrick’s Day next week is single pot still Irish whiskey Midleton Dair Ghaelach. This particular Irish whiskey was finished in virgin Irish oak Hogshead casks after first having been matured for between 15 and 22 years in traditional ex-Bourbon […]
Mullets And Musical Beers
Chris Hemsworth and Hugh Jackman donned mullets and joined host Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” for a game of musical beers….
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