Traveller Whiskey Will Debut Super Bowl Spot
Traveller Whiskey – a blended whiskey created by Buffalo Trace and country music artist Chris Stapleton – will receive their first-ever Super Bowl commercial this weekend for Super Bowl LX. Traveller Whiskey’s 30-second Super Bowl features Stapleton – who performed the national anthem for the 2024 Super Bowl – and will air just before kickoff […]
Johnnie Walker Creates Go Go Highball With Sabrina Carpenter
Johnnie Walker has continued their collaboration with popular musical artist Sabrina Carpenter to create the Go Go Highball for last weekend’s 68th Grammy Awards where Carpenter was nominated for six awards – including “Manchild” the single from her album “Man’s Best Friend.” Carpenter had previously agreed to a multi-year partnership with Johnnie Walker on a […]
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Resurrecting the Rosebank Whisky
Rosebank whisky is alive again. After 30 years of shelf absences, the distillery rolled out its first cask. The famous whisky brand was founded in 1798 in Camelon on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow. However, in 1993, the owners, United Distillers, decided to close the distillery. The problem laid with the optimization requirements for an upgrade of the distillery based on Europen-compliant laws. […]
Johnnie Walker Talks Women’s World Cup
Diageo-owned Johnnie Walker has employed actress Hannah Waddingham [‘Ted Lasso’] to promote the upcoming 2023 Women’s World Cup and encourage people to watch women’s sports this summer. Waddingham stars in a promotional video for Johnnie Walker ahead of the Women’s World Cup, which begins tomorrow in Australia and New Zealand and runs through August 20, 2023.
Kavalan Taiwanese Whisky Is 2023 Top Shaker
It has been a year of novelty in the whisky industry with several top shakers and movers ruffling the worldwide whisky rankings as we know them. One of those upsetters is Kavalan, a single malt whisky distilled in Taiwan. The whisky has received over 770 golden awards including several this year. Tokyo Whisky and Spirits Competition At this year’s competition of the TWSC, Kavalan was awarded the “Best of the Best […]
NBA MVP Dunks Own Whisky Brand
Two-time NBA MVP and ACC golf champion has launched his own whisky brand. Stephen Curry, a Golden State Warrior superstar, has become the most recent American to launch a private whisky. That may be the easier part of the story. In May, Curry broadcasted the launch of Gentleman’s Cut Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, a fine-aged bourbon, and has been seen promoting it at every chance that pops up. This includes […]
2023 International Whisky Competition Winners
The 2023 International Whisky Competition was held in Bardstown, KY. The competition selected the top 15 best whiskies in the world. Here are the data of the winner and the top four runners-up. The Gordon and McPhail Distillery had two victories, first and third place respectively. On the other hand, the Taiwanese distillery Lavalan landed both second and fourth place. A competition dominated by Scotland and Taiwan. #1 and Winner […]
Is $655,000 too Much for a Bottle of Whisky?
If you had money, would you purchase a bottle of Scotch whisky for $655,000? If yes, you will have the opportunity to do so at the upcoming ‘One of One’ rare whisky auction. The function is being sponsored by the Distiller’s Charity, Sotheby’s Auction House, and the Earl of Hopetoun. The auction is set to raise funds for the Youth Action Fund, an organization with an emphasis on aiding less […]
Mafia-Themed Scotch Whisky Banned in the UK
Not everyone has seen a Tommy Gun, a popular mafia-thematic sub-machine gun. The weapon, classified as the Thompson submachine gun, has become the spotlight of news media after the UK alcohol governing body, The Portman Group, ordered retailers to remove a Polish whisky brand from their shelves. The regulatory body has ordered stores to stop placing orders for the Sicilian mafia-themed whisky, known as ‘Cosa Nostra’. The whisky is produced […]
Milk and Honey Puts Israel on Whisky Map
This is not Scotland and surely not Speyside. This is Tel-Aviv, one of the Middle Eastern nations, known for war and not whisky. Yet, this tiny nation does have a few whisky distilleries. One of them, Milk and Honey, won the award for the Best Single Malt Whisky in the World, by The World Drinks Awards. In April 2023, one of Milk and Honey’s whiskies, Element Sherry Cask, was selected from […]
Redbreast Supplements Dream Cask Series With 27-Year-Old
Redbreast has supplemented their Dream Cask Series with Port to Port Edition – a 27-year-old single pot still Irish whiskey produced at Midleton Distillery in Cork. Redbreast Dream Cask Port to Port Edition combines a pair of whiskies aged separately in bourbon and ruby Port casks for 27 and 28 years respectively, before being joined in whiskey matrimony for a three-month maturation period in two tawny Port casks, bottled at […]
The Magic of Speyside Whiskies
Speyside is much more than a riverside village of the River Spey in Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey, in northeastern Scotland. The region is renowned for its spirits and tastes and produces the best whiskies worldwide. It has become synonymous with single malt Scotch whiskies. Speyside is also home to the world’s two best-selling single malt whiskies, The Glenlivet and Glenfiddich. The Glenlivet distillery is a distillery near Ballindalloch in […]
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