Speyburn Bolsters Travel Retail
Speyside distillery Speyburn is bolstering their travel retail venue presence in airports both near home and across Europe, including Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports in Scotland as well as Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Speyburn will highlight the distillery’s travel retail-exclusive range, which includes Kentucky Bourbon Cask, Bordeaux Red Wine […]
Bushmills Brings 12-Year-Old To The UK Party
Bushmills has brought their 12-year-old Irish single malt whiskey to the UK, where it will replace their 10-year-old whiskey in the Bushmills lineup. Bushmills debuted their 12-year-old single malt whiskey in 2022 but only previously made it available in markets across America and Asia. Bushmills 12-year-old single malt Irish whiskey is triple-distilled, matured in both […]
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White Peak Debuts Wire Works Whisky Single Malt
White Peak Distillery – a six-year-old distillery located in the Peak District in the Midlands of England – has debuted their inaugural single malt called Wire Works Whisky. White Peak Distillery Wire Works Whisky was matured in several first-fill oak casks [including ex-bourbon barrels], bottled at 50.3% alcohol by volume [100.6 proof] and is said to contain notes of butterscotch, chocolate, orange peel, peat, raisins, sandalwood and vanilla. Only 5,016 […]
Uncle Nearest Reveals Two New Rye Whiskies For 2022
Tennessee-based Uncle Nearest – which was founded by Fawn Weaver in 2017, and celebrates Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, a formerly enslaved man who was the first-known African-American master distiller – has released a pair of rye whiskies for 2022. Uncle Nearest Rye and Uncle Nearest Single Barrel Rye are the two new rye straight Tennessee whiskies. Additionally, Uncle Nearest has made a slight design change to the labels – replacing the […]
Cu Bocan Adds Duo To Their Creation Series
Cù Bòcan has released two limited edition Highland single malt whiskies as part of their Creation series – appropriately dubbed Creation #3 and Creation #4 – both of which were distilled at the Tomatin Distillery. Cù Bòcan Creation #3 was matured in Moroccan Cabernet Sauvignon as well as North American rye casks, bottled at 46% alcohol by volume [92 proof] and is said to contain notes of black fig, citrus, […]
Aberfeldy And Dewar’s Offer Burns Night Kits
Aberfeldy and Dewar’s have both jumped into Burns Night – January 25, 2022 – celebrations with cocktail kit offerings to help those in the UK with their annual whisky-infused celebrations of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns. Aberfeldy has collaborated with at-home drinks platform Canvas to create a Burns Night package complete with cocktails from some of the UK’s top bartenders – Stephen Mutty, Danny McManus and Kaitlin Wilkes-Back – who […]
Johnnie Walker Claws Out Year Of The Tiger Whisky For Chinese New Year
Diageo-owned Johnnie Walker has released a limited edition Johnnie Walker Blue Label bottle for Chinese New Year. Johnnie Walker collaborated with Chinese artist Shan Jiang to commemorate the Year of the Tiger – which begins on February 1, 2022. Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a small batch whisky created with a blend of whiskies sourced from distilleries – some of them so-called “ghost” distilleries – across Scotland. In addition to […]
Ardbeg Produces 13-Year-Old Fermutation
Islay distillery Ardbeg has released Fermutation – a 13-year-old whisky fermented for three weeks due to an unplanned boiler malfunction – making it the longest fermentation in Ardbeg’s history [most Ardbeg whisky is fermented for only 72 hours]. The limited edition bottling will launch on 1 February, and has been fermented for three weeks due to an ‘unplanned experiment’. Ardbeg Fermutation is said to contain floral notes along with malt, […]
The GlenDronach Distillery Reveals 50-Year-Old
Highland-based The GlenDronach Distillery has released a 50-year-old single malt whisky – their oldest to date. The GlenDronach Aged 50 Years was matured in Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry casks from Spain’s Jerez bodegas in Andalucía, then combined and placed into a single Pedro Ximénez cask before being bottled at 43% alcohol by volume [86 proof] and is said to contain notes of black cherry, dark chocolate, espresso and plum. […]
Glenfarclas Reveals Drinks Drop Cocktail Kits
Highland-based single malt Scotch whisky producer Glenfarclas has collaborated with delivery platform The Drinks Drop to announce a pair of pre-mixed cocktails to celebrate Burns Night – the annual celebration of the Scottish poet – on January 25, 2022. The two Glenfarclas cocktail creations are: Coffee & Cacao Bobby Burns and Strawberry & Balsamic Rob Roy – both of which are pre-mixed serves using Glenfarclas 105 whisky [60% alcohol by […]
It’s Good To Be The King – Budweiser Offers $1 Million
Budweiser – aka, the “King of Beers” – is offering a cool million American dollars to a lucky sweepstakes-winning person so that person may “Live Like a King.” Budweiser’s “Live Like a King” sweepstakes runs through February 20, 2022 and can be entered by first locating one of 10,000 specially labeled gold Budweiser cans hidden away in 24-pack cartons [or print a version of the label from the web] and […]
Bruichladdich Prepares For Chinese New Year Celebrations
Islay-based distillery Bruichladdich is preparing for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations [beginning on February 1, 2022] with the twin release of the Bruichladdich Black Art 09.1 and Octomore 12 Series. This year, the Chinese New Year celebrates the year of the tiger. Bruichladdich Black Art 09.1 were matured in mystery casks [Bruichladdich would not reveal their identity – perhaps they are tiger-themed?], then bottled at 44.1% alcohol by volume […]
Bart’s Debuts Initial Blended Irish Whiskey
Lough Ree Distillery – based in Lanesborough in County Longford in Ireland – has released their initial blended Irish whiskey called Bart’s Blended Irish Whiskey, named in honor of the distillery founder’s father. Bart’s Blended Irish Whiskey is composed of five whiskies – a classic grain whiskey, a pot still whiskey, a pair of malts with Oloroso sherry and rye cask finishes and finally, some peated whiskey – before being […]
Buffalo Trace Donates 2,022 Bottles To 501 Charities
Kentucky-based Buffalo Trace Distillery has announced they are donating $2 million to charities through the sale of 2,022 bottles of bourbon. Buffalo Trace will designate 501 charities worldwide to be the recipients of the bourbon [which they can then use for fundraising for their charity] and is encouraging non-profit organizations to register for a chance to win one of the bottles. Five of the 2,022 donations will be six-litre bottles […]
Black Irish Now Available In Finland
Fresh off their victory over Mariah Carey, Dublin-based Darker Still Spirits’ Black Irish whiskey-and-stout drink is being made available in Finland. Black Irish triple-distilled Irish whiskey has been matured in deep-charred American ex-bourbon casks and derives from a blend of strong stout and barrel-aged stout, with this blend then used to cut the cask strength whiskey to a bottling strength of 40% alcohol by volume [80 proof] and said to […]
Rare Alfred Barnard Whisky Distillery Book Auctioned Off
The original whisky bible – a first edition copy of “The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom” by Alfred Barnard – went under the hammer and was sold for $4,690 by London-based, Pernod-Ricard-owned Whisky.Auction. In the 19th century, Barnard was secretary for Harper’s Weekly Gazette and went on a two-year journey [1885-1887] to originally publish features on each of them in the Gazette, however, after visiting 162 distilleries in Scotland, […]
Yellowstone Bourbon Launches Landmark Edition Series
Kentucky-based Limestone Branch Distillery has released their Yellowstone Select Landmark Edition Series – consisting of six new bottle designs for Yellowstone Select Bourbon to mark their 150th anniversary. Yellowstone Select Bourbon was created in 1872, the same year as their namesake – Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho – was named as the nation’s first designated national park as well as claimed to be the first national park […]
Royal Lochnagar Receives Royal Treatment
Royal Lochnagar Distillery has finally been recognized for the royalty in their name after officially being awarded a Royal Warrant – a Royal Warrant is given to a company as recognition of being a regular supplier to the Royal Household – and means that Royal Lochnagar is permitted to display the monarch symbol of the Royal Arms on its casks and bottles at its distillery in Scotland [located a mere […]
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