Cotswolds Goes High With Highgrove Evergreen
England-based Cotswolds Distillery has released Highgrove Evergreen – a single malt using Plumage Archer barley sourced from King Charles III’s Highgrove Estate. Cotswolds Distillery Highgrove Evergreen was matured in a combination of ex-bourbon casks and STR (shaved, toasted, re-charred) red wine casks, bottled at 46% alcohol by volume [92 proof] and is said to exude […]
Buffalo Trace Sends Antiques Across The Pond
Buffalo Trace Distillery has sent their 2025 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection (BTAC) across the pond to the UK market as Buffalo Trace celebrates the 25th anniversary of the BTAC’s birth in 2000. To commemorate the occasion, Buffalo Trace will host an exclusive consumer tasting at Buffalo Trace Distillery in London’s Covent Garden this month where […]
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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. […]
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 the sugars within the grain of the whiskey are crystallized], was bottled at 46% alcohol […]
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 snakes surrounded by blooming flowers and depicted shedding their skins to ‘embrace the next chapter […]
Michter’s Hauls Out 20-Year-Old Bourbon
Louisville, Kentucky-based Michter’s Distillery is releasing Michter’s 20 Year – a re-release of their 20-year-old bourbon. The 2024 release of Michter’s 20 Year is bottled at 57.1% alcohol by volume [114.8 proof]. The 2024 release of Michter’s 20 Year is being made available for $1,200 per bottle.
The Dalmore Debuts Vintage Collection For 2024
The Dalmore has released The Vintage Collection 2024 – consisting of The Dalmore Vintage 2006 and The Dalmore Vintage 2009 – both single malts matured in a unique combination of wine casks. The Dalmore Vintage 2009 was aged in American white oak ex-bourbon barrels, followed by finishes in both Matusalem sherry casks from González Byass and 10-year-old tawny Port pipes from Graham’s [the distillery has an exclusive partnership with the […]
Johnson Reserve Whisky Holds new World Record for Flavor
Guinness World Records has named Johnson Reserve, a whiskey manufacturer and maturation expert, The Greatest Variety of Flavours in a Whisky. A single cask of matured single malt traveled through a series of 33 distinct casks, giving the Scotch a “nuanced complexity,” according to the award, which recognizes the whisky’s “intricate” maturation and finishing procedure. Alexander Johnson, the proprietor of The Spirits Business, who has devoted over ten years of […]
Michter’s Crowned The 2024 World’s Most Admired Whiskey
Legendary distillers from Scotland, Japan, Ireland, and other countries are featured on Drinks International’s recently released 2024 list of the World’s Most Admired Whiskies. The Louisville-based company Michter’s, which produces American whiskey, rye, and bourbon, has topped the top 50 list for the second year in a row. The rankings reflect the highest level of success in the whisky trade. Voting is done by an Academy of consumers, journalists, bartenders, […]
House of Delamain Celebrates 200 Years with New Whisky
The House of Delamain presents L’Edition Rare du Bicentenaire as part of its celebrations for its 200th anniversary. The mix is made up of five great cognacs from the Grande Champagne region. The 10-liter dame-Jeanne bottle that this drop comes in shows 200 years of skill. Founded in 1824, the family’s quest for the best cognac has been influenced by explorations of the natural world. This has led the House […]
Diageo Halts Construction of Crown Royal Whisky Distillery in Canada
Crown Royal Whisky has put a halt to the development of a $245 million (US $175.7 million) distillery in Canada’s St. Clair Township, according to a report released by Just Drinks on Wednesday. The facility’s plans were initially revealed in 2022 as a component of Diageo’s sustainability plan, “Spirit of Progress.” On 400 acres of industrially zoned land, the project was supposed to include carbon-neutral distilling, blending, and warehousing facilities. […]
Pendleton Whisky Rolls Out Pendleton 1910 Bourbon
To reach a wider range of whiskey consumers nationwide, Pendleton Whisky announced today that it has expanded its line with the launch of Pendleton 1910 Bourbon. A premium 90-proof pure American bourbon, Pendleton 1910 Bourbon is matured in char White American Oak barrels for ten years. Made with a combination of high and low rye bourbons, it is proofed using glacier-fed spring water from Mount Hood in Oregon. This 10-year-old […]
Glasgow 1770 Unveils Cask Strength Whiskies
The Glasgow Distillery has released Glasgow 1770 Cask Strength Batch 02 – their second batch of annual cask strength single malt whiskies, comprised of casks featuring the distillery’s unpeated and peated single malt production. Glasgow 1770 The Original Cask Strength Batch 02 is made with the distillery’s unpeated double-distilled spirits, bottled at 59.5% alcohol by volume [119 proof] and is said to offer notes of apple, apricot, orange, pear, pineapple […]
Ballantine’s Releases First Single Grain Whisky
Scotch whisky brand Ballantine’s has unveiled its first single grain expression, finished in two types of casks. Master blender Sandy Hyslop blended grain whiskies from Strathclyde Distillery to create the expression, which was named Ballantine’s Single Distillery. For many years, the Glasgow-based grain distillery has been a major component in Ballantine’s blends. The new single grain offering is supposed to have sweet and flowery flavors like white peach, burnt pineapple, […]
Ardgowan Appoints Distillery Manager
The recent and newly built Ardgowan Distillery is set to commence whisky production and open its doors next spring. Distil has invested millions of pounds into the construction of Ardgowan. Laura Davies comes to Ardgowan as the distillery manager after over a decade at The Welsh Whisky Company (Penderyn). Impressively, she played a crucial role in increasing the company’s turnover from £10 million to £23 million in just seven years. […]
Women Invade Whisky Industry in India’s Newest Culture Shift
There is a growing invasion in the once all-male whisky industry especially in countries like India, the United States, and Great Britain. Women are taking over both in consumption and production of beer, wine, and whisky. This article delves into an uptick in trends related to India’s spirit culture. When asked if there are stereotypes about women and whiskey in India, whiskey lover Garima Singh laughed as she recounted an […]
Bruichladdich Adds Some Peat To Octomore 15 Series
Islay distillery, Bruichladdich, has added a super-heavily peated single malt whisky to their Octomore 15 Series. Bruichladdich Octomore Series 15 Ten Aged Years has been distilled from 100% Scottish Concerto barley and malted to 107 PPM, bottled at 52.2% alcohol by volume [104.4 proof] and is said to offer notes of cinnamon, coffee and, of course, Octomore’s signature peat smoke. Bruichladdich Octomore Series 15 Ten Aged Years is being made […]

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