Limited-edition whisky is all the rage these days, and South African drinks company Distell has just announced it’s releasing six from Bunnahabhain, Tobermory, Ledaig and Deanston. The new whiskies involve a real panoply of different cask finishes: Bunnahabhain 2008 Mòine Bordeaux Red Wine Cask Matured, £75/70cl Bunnahabhain Palo Cortado Cask Finish, £275/70cl Deanston 2008 Brandy [...]
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Imbibe rounds up the latest whiskies to hit the UK market Uncle Nearest Distillery, Nathan Green 1870 Tennessee whiskey brand Uncle Nearest has enjoyed a warm welcome in the UK since its launch earlier this year, and chose to unveil its first ever single barrel whiskey on our shores before anywhere else. The distillery, which takes its [...]
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Need help navigating the gazillion new spirits launched this year? Fear not. Imbibe has caught up with some of the industry’s key movers and (cocktail) shakers to find out their top products released in 2018 Chelsie Bailey, The Filthy 13 Hendrick’s Orbium and Chivas Regal Mizunara With so many gins coming out with the gin craze, [...]
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Whisky producer Glenmorangie has introduced a new single malt, Allta, made using wild yeast to ferment its own barley – a first for the distillery. To create the expression, Dr Bill Lumsden, Glenmorangie’s director of distilling harnessed his background in yeast physiology, collecting samples of saccharomyces diaemath – a strain of yeast that was previously unidentified – from [...]
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Bermondsey-based The London Distillery Company (TLDC) has launched a whisky called 109 Cask Edition, which it says is the first single malt to be distilled in London in a century. The launch follows TLDC’s release of its Rye Whiskey LV-1767 last year, which it claimed as the first whiskey distilled in the capital in 100 years. Most of Cask [...]
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Glengoyne Distillery is set to unveil the Legacy Series, a range of annual whisky releases inspired by the producer’s history and its people. Glengoyne told Imbibe that the series will contain three or four expressions. The first, dubbed Chapter One, will be launched globally on Monday 18 February, while Chapter Two is due to be released this time [...]
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With more rye whiskey on the market than ever – and not just from across the Pond – the Manhattan is up for review. Clinton Cawood joins a panel of bartenders as they set about pimping a classic As the essential whiskey for a number of classics, not least the Manhattan, rye has a place [...]
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Speyside distillery Benromach is launching two new single-cask whiskies from 1977 and 1972 under its Heritage label. There are 122 bottles of Benromach Heritage 1977 up for sale, with the liquid bottled at 49.6% abv from cask number 1269 on 8 October. It’s retailing at £1,250. Benromach Heritage 1972 is even more exclusive, with 75 [...]
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Here’s what €28m could get you: A Coca-Cola production plant in Ghent. Valderrama golf resort near Gibraltar. Alternatively, it could get you a shiny new whiskey distillery in the Liberties area of Dublin. That’s a lot of money, even for a distillery project. Although when you find out that this distillery has access to its [...]
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Blended Scotch whisky brand Dewar’s has launched Double Double, a range that it is describing as its ‘first big innovation for five years’. The small-batch whiskies are made using a four-step ageing process, whereby the single grain whiskies and single malt whiskies are aged in bourbon barrels; then the grain whiskies are blended and aged [...]
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