Crown Royal Gives Newest Whisky The Marquis Touch
Crown Royal blended Canadian whisky has released their Marquis blend, which has been finished in Caribbean rum casks and will be available in select states in the USA. Crown Royal Marquis was finished in Caribbean rum casks, bottled at 40% alcohol by volume [80 proof] and is said to produce notes of brown sugar, dates, […]
Amber Lane Debuts Chartreuse Casked Whisky
Australia-based Amber Lane distillery has released a whisky aged in a monk-produced yellow Chartreuse cask – Rue de La Chartreuse – which the distillery claims to be the ‘first of its kind’. Chartreuse is a French herbal liqueur traditionally created by Catholic order of monks called Carthusians and Amber Lane’s rendition has been officially approved […]
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Beam Me Up, Says Scotty Suntory
Japan’s Suntory Distillery just became the third-largest spirits business in the world after their $13.6 billion cash acquisition of iconic American Bourbon producer, Jim Beam this month. Suntory will now import Beam products into worldwide markets as well as take 11% of the American spirits market. Beam’s product list now owned by Suntory include Maker’s Mark and Knob Creek for Bourbon, Teacher’s and Laphroaig for Scotch whiskies, Canadian Club for […]
Sazerac Makes An Appearance On Bob’s Burgers
Sazerac is known for two reasons in America. It is a brand of rye whiskey produced by the Buffalo Trace Distillery and as the oldest cocktail – with its pre-Civil War-era birth in New Orleans – and now it has what is perhaps its first appearance [in name only] in the television animation industry with the debut of Mars Sazerac, a magician [voiced by Andres du Bouchet – a writer […]
Shipwrecked Whisky Resurfaces At Auction
When the SS Politician sank in 1941 near the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, it went down with several bottles of whisky – 28,000 cases to be exact – never making it to its ultimate destination of Jamaica. Some of those bottles were lost forever but many others washed ashore and were subsequently collected by locals who either drank them or hid them […]
Macallan Decanter Going Up On The Block
If you think you may have a fat enough wallet, Macallan is putting up its largest ever crystal decanter up on the auction block next week. Only four six-liter crystal decanters of this size were commissioned by The Macallan – each one named after a Roman emperor – two have been kept by the company, one was bought by a private collector in Asia and the fourth, named Constantine, is […]
Irish Eyes Not Smiling
Most of the world is either confused or disgusted – or both – by Dennis Rodman’s recent trip to North Korea. The former NBA player nicknamed The Worm has been cozying up to brutal dictator Kim Jong-Un and it was disclosed that part of that cozying included a birthday gift from Rodman to the dictator which partially contained a Jameson Irish Whiskey gift set bought by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power […]
UK Schemes Fake Scotch Whisky
It may or may not have been a big problem – the existence of fake Scotch whisky – but the UK is determined to nip any fake stills in the bud with the recent approval of the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme and identification of Scotch whisky as the first spirit to be given protection under the legislation. In the scheme, all Scotch whisky claiming to be Scotch whisky whether they […]
Fordham Takes The Scenic Route 1
It’s officially a new year and Delaware craft brewer, Fordham, has debuted a new beer for the ladies and beer-drinking newbies in 2014 – the Route 1 Session IPA. Route 1 Session IPA has an alcohol content level of only 4.5% [significantly lower than the 7.5% for its Ram’s Head IPA] that is sure to appeal to a broader segment of the worldwide population who likes to drink beer without […]
It’s Linnsanity!
Now that you have your Bushmills Grado wooden headphones purchase all planned, you will probably need something to go along with those wooden phones. Something like, say, an old-school turntable crafted out of the casks used to create Highland Park whisky. Only 40 of the turntables will be made by audio gearmaker Linn which are actually recreations of Linn’s Sondek LP12 turntable…only made of used fancy whisky casks. A single […]
Wooden Whiskey Headphones At 2014 CES
This holiday season you were found either slapping yourself on the back for finding that perfect gift for the whiskey-loving person in your life or fretting uncontrollably about your lack of creativity in finding the perfect gift for that whiskey-loving person in your life. It was one or the other, you can’t have it both ways. But no matter if you were in either camp, you will be happy to […]
The Top 10 New Year’s Eve Cocktails For Ringing In 2014
2014 is right around the corner – only a few more hours now – and that means there is some heavy pressure to ring in the new year correctly when it comes to cocktails. The wrong cocktail on New Year’s Eve can spell doom for the rest of the year. Fortunately, WhiskyCritic is here to steer you in the right direction and help you avoid an unpleasant fate. So without […]
1975 Is Auchentoshan’s Lucky Number
500 lucky people can hop in Auchentoshan’s time machine and travel back to the year 1975 for some triple distilled single malt Scotch whisky from that year – and all without having to wear bell bottoms, wide collared shirts or suede of any kind. That’s because Auchentoshan has released 500 bottles of its 1975 vintage stock for retail. This particular whisky has been aged in American bourbon casks for all […]
Bowmore Hopes You Won The Lotto For Xmas
If you suddenly find yourself flush with cash this holiday season, the folks at Bowmore would like to have a word with you. Seems as though they find themselves with 200 bottles of 50-year-old single malt Scotch whisky from their 1961 release. Distilled in December 1961 in a pair of former bourbon hogshead casks, each bottle of whisky is held in a special hand-blown glass bottle encased in box of […]
Big Mac Attack
If you happen to live in Asia or find yourself visiting the continent any time in the next month or so, consider yourself to be fortunate if you can get your grubby little mitts on The Macallan’s Remix Remixed package. The Macallan produced only 500 bottles of single malt whisky from first fill sherry seasoned oak casks and bottled it at 58.9% alcohol content [118 proof]. The dark colored cask […]
Glenmorangie Visits 1963
1963 was a very good year – and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise – and that’s how Glenmorangie feels about it as well, when they announced the unveiling of 50 bottles of Glenmorangie 1963. Encased in a leather strapped “time capsule” package, the whisky was bottled in 1987 at 23 years of age. Only twenty of the remaining 50 bottles of Glenmorangie 1963 will be made available in the […]
The Sailors Say Brandy, She’s A Fine Girl
Some new brandy just arrived in the world – Armagnac Age de Glace – from the Chateau de Pellehaut estate in the Tenareze Armagnac appellation. The Age de Glace [that’s “Ice Age” to you, Francois] is a blend of young vintages of 100% Folle Blanche grape with a minimum of three years maturing in oak barrels. The unfiltered Age de Glace clocks in at 80 proof [40% alcohol content] and […]
And Now For Something Completely Different…Bulleit In The UK
The name is Bulleit. Bulleit UK. Actually, Bulleit Bourbon had aleady been available in the UK – but only at a reduced 40% [80 proof] alcohol content – that will all change in 2014 when the 45% [90 proof] Bulleit Bourbon becomes available across the pond, to be joined by the Bulleit Rye Bourbon as well [for the first time in the UK and also toting 45% alcohol content]. Bulleit […]
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