Speyside-based Coleburn Distillery has released a trio of blended malt whiskies – Sweet Peat, Sherry Bomb and Big Smoke – as part of their Local Heroes collection as they continue their revival after the original distillery was mothballed in 1985. The revived distillery is currently scheduled to re-open in 2027. Coleburn Sherry Bomb utilizes Oloroso […]
UK-based bottler Gordon & MacPhail will release a 1972 Speyside whisky from Coleburn Distillery – the first of four commemorative whiskies to be released celebrating the bottler’s 125th anniversary. Coleburn Distillery was founded in 1897 and produced whisky until it closed in 1985. The Coleburn 1972 was matured in a re-fill sherry puncheon, bottled at […]
Whisky bottlers Gordon & MacPhail have rescued and released a 1981 single malt Scotch whisky from Coleburn Distillery. Coleburn Distillery was founded in 1897 in Longmorn, Scotland, and was closed in 1985. The 38-year-old single malt was aged in a refill Sherry hogshead, bottled at 55.9% alcohol by volume [111.8 proof] and is said to […]