Maclean Rows Out 34-Year-Old Whisky
The Maclean Foundation – a charitable foundation – has released a Speyside-based 34-year-old Auchroisk whisky, celebrating the world record-setting row across the Pacific Ocean of Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean. The Maclean brothers began their journey in Lima, Peru, and rowed 9,750 miles before arriving at Cairns, Australia, on August 30, 2025 – completing the […]
Maker’s Mark Jumps Through Hoops
Maker’s Mark has collaborated with Florida-based Unrivaled – the six-team women’s professional three-on-three basketball league founded in 2023 by WNBA players Napheesa Collins and Breanna Stewart – as the league’s first official spirits partner. The multi-year collaboration will provide Unrivaled ticket holders with Maker’s Mark experiences at various Unrivaled league arenas, including access to select […]
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Brown-Forman Wins UK Legal Battle Against Bacardi
In a UK-based legal dispute between spirits distributor giants, Brown-Forman has been awarded a $67.6 million ruling by a UK tribunal as a result of a cost-sharing disagreement. Brown-Forman and Bacardi first collaborated on their UK-based distribution process in 2002 but officially ceased that collaboration in April 2020 and Brown-Forman immediately formed their own UK distribution company. Brown-Forman then asked Bacardi to pay them what they claimed Bacardi owed them […]
Cacti Bites The Dust
Anheuser-Busch has discontinued Cacti Agave Spiked Seltzer – the hard seltzer brand collaboration with American rapper Travis Scott – in the ongoing wake of the deaths of 10 people at Scott’s November 2021 Houston music festival event promoting his latest album, Astroworld. Scott had collaborated with Anheuser-Busch to create Cacti, an agave-infused hard seltzer made in Los Angeles, with the 7% alcohol by volume [14 proof] canned seltzers being released […]
Glen Moray Has Homecoming
Speyside distillery Glen Moray has released a limited edition whisky – dubbed Homecoming – highlighting the completion of Edinburgh Rugby’s first permanent home. Glen Moray has been the official single malt whisky for the Scottish professional rugby team since 2018. Glen Moray 15-year-old Homecoming Edition celebrates the completion of Dam Health Stadium in Edinburgh, which was completed in February. Glen Moray Homecoming Edition was matured in sherry casks, bottled at […]
Jim Beam Cream Liqueur Arrives In Time For Holidays
Jim Beam Bourbon Cream – a bourbon-based cream liqueur – has arrived in time for the holidays. Jim Beam Bourbon Cream combines cream liqueur with Beam’s flagship Kentucky straight Bourbon whiskey, is bottled at 15% alcohol by volume [30 proof] and is recommended as a lively addition to coffee or hot chocolate. Jim Beam Bourbon Cream is being made available in the USA $20 per 750ml bottle. To coincide with […]
Johnnie Walker And Konstantinos Argiros Tout Blue Label
Johnnie Walker has collaborated with Greek musician/singer Konstantinos Argiros to tout JW’s Blue Label blended Scotch whisky.
Six New Single Cask Whiskies Revealed By Wemyss
Wemyss Malts has released six single cask Scotch whiskies – ranging in age from 16 years to 30 years – with the 30-year-old bottling being from Highland distillery, Blair Athol. Each Wemyss Malt has been bestowed with unique names and the 30-year-old Blair Athol is referred to as Jam on Toast and was matured in a sherry hogshead, bottled at 50.6% alcohol by volume [101.2 proof] and only 226 bottles […]
Woodford Reserve Adds Five-Malt Stouted Mash To Master’s Collection
Holiday gift-giving season keeps getting more interesting as Brown-Forman’s Woodford Reserve released their limited edition Five-Malt Stouted Mash – the 17th addition to their Master’s Collection. Woodford Reserve Bourbon Five-Malt Stouted Mash was bottled at 45.2% alcohol by volume [90.4 proof] and is said to contain notes of chocolate, hazelnut and orange zest. Woodford Reserve Five-Malt Stouted Mash is being made available for US$130 per 750ml bottle.
Glen Moray Finishes 2008 With Manzanilla
Speyside distillery Glen Moray has released a 2008 single malt whisky finished in ex-manzanilla sherry casks as part of their Warehouse 1 Collection – Glen Moray 2008 Manzanilla Finish is the fourth whisky in the collection. Glen Moray 2008 Manzanilla Finish was bottled at 54.6% alcohol by volume [109.2 proof] and is said to contain notes of green apples, pears and freshly cut grass. Glen Moray Warehouse 1 2008 Manzanilla […]
English Rugby Gets An Official Whisky And It Is Samuel Gulliver
The English Rugby Football Union (RFU) has anointed Samuel Gulliver & Company as the organization’s official whisky of England Rugby. Samuel Gulliver & Co has signed a long-term international licensing agreement with the RFU to release a range of rugby-themed English single malts – the first-ever such arrangement for the RFU. The inaugural bottling in the new collection is England’s No.6, a six-year-old single malt whisky – originating from St. […]
Gael Garcia Bernal Gains Legal Victory Over Diageo/Johnnie Walker
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal was victorious in a legal tussle against Diageo-owned Johnnie Walker after the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that Diageo must compensate García Bernal for the unauthorized use of his image in a 2013 Johnnie Walker campaign that used García Bernal’s image as well as those of his family without consent. According to Bernal, those images appeared at least 22 times. The Mexican high court reached a decision […]
Johnnie Walker Show The Ones Who Keep Walking
Johnnie Walker has released a short film called “The Ones Who Keep Walking” showcasing the stories of Africa-based artists who helped create their “Keep Walking” promotional campaign. Some of the artists featured in Johnnie Walker’s “The Ones Who Keep Walking” include musician CKay, from Nigeria; rapper Sampa the Great, from Zambia; and dancer and artist Kamo Mphela, from South Africa.
The GlenLivet Seizes The Holiday Gift-Giving Season
Speyside whisky producer, The Glenlivet, has launched their 2021 holiday promotional campaign – “Seize The Season. Seize The Glenlivet” – as well as a sweepstakes. The Glenlivet Single Malt Scotch Whisky is offering holiday concierge services via their sweepstakes running through December 14, 2021. In the Glenlivet Holiday Concierge sweepstakes, two grand prize winners will submit their “naughty-or-nice” lists and have those gift lists purchased and delivered [up to $5,000 […]
Johnnie Walker Finishes Off Masters Series
Diageo-owned Johnnie Walker blended whisky has released Master’s of Flavour – the 48-year-aged third and final entry of their Masters series. Johnnie Walker Master’s of Flavour was composed of whiskies from ghost distilleries such as Glyn Albyn, Port Dundas, Brora [recently revived] and Glenury Royal – all of which have been aged for at least 48 years – then bottled at 41.8% alcohol by volume [83.6 proof] and is said […]
Lost Irish Whiskey Found By Casa Lumbre
Lost Irish blended Irish whiskey has been found by Mexican spirits group Casa Lumbre and finished in a whopping seven casks from around the world. Casa Lumbre Lost Irish blended Irish whiskey is a blend of the three styles of Irish whiskey – grain, malt and pot still – which was then finished in seven casks from worldwide sources: South African brandy casks, Japanese mizunara oak, Sherry casks, bourbon casks, […]
Mariah Carey’s Black Irish Banned From The EU
American singer Mariah Carey will not be able to sell her cream liqueur Black Irish under that name in the European Union (EU) after losing a trademark battle to Dublin-based Darker Still Spirits Company, who began work on their Black Irish whiskey-and-stout-spirit drink in 2018, purchased the UK and EU trademark in January 2020 and officially released the product in June 2020. However, although Carey and her company registered the […]
Glasgow Reveals Trio Of 1770 Whiskies
The Glasgow Distillery Company has released a trio of limited edition cask-finished versions of their 1770 Single Malt Scotch Whisky – all individually numbered – and include an unpeated Ruby Port Cask Finish, the triple distilled Tokaji Cask Finish and the peated Sauternes Cask Finish. Only 467 bottles of the Ruby Port Cask Finish – which was bottled at 56.2% alcohol by volume [112.4 proof] and is said to contain […]
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