Hirsch bourbon, which is the last formal bottling of bourbon from the old Michter’s Distillery in Schaefferstown, PA, is going out with a bang. Henry Preiss of Preiss Imports (the owner and distributor of the last remaining bottles) told me this yesterday:
I am taking the last 900 plus bottles of export package A.H. Hirsch 16 […]
In an attempt to “make malt whisky more accessible,” the Wemyss Vintage Malts company just introduced two new whiskies to the U.S.
In the same vein as the Jon, Mark and Robbo (JMR) label several years back, Wemyss Vintage Malt marries a blend of malts and gives them names that describe what the whisky tastes like.
The […]
When I was at the distillery in December, we tasted our way through many whiskey samples. Two samples that I tasted were pretty bad whiskeys. That’s because they weren’t whiskeys. They were rum samples.
According to Mark Brown, Buffalo Trace’s President and CEO, they have created a meritage of the two casks and plan to release the […]
I was speaking with my friend who imports Burn Stewart whiskies into the U.S., and he told me about two new expressions slated for later this year.
The first one is a Tobermory 15 year old, bottled at 92.6 proof. It’s expected release date in the U.S. is July and will retail for about $120. It […]
Being promoted as “A new whisky for a new generation”, Skyy Spirits, the U.S. importer for Cutty Sark, just announced the release of an new Cutty Sark blended malt Scotch whisky. (A blended malt, for those who are confused, contains no grain whisky like most traditional blended Scotch Whisky. It’s only a blend of different […]
Two posts in one morning! My contact at Cooley let me know about this a few days ago, but I waited to post it up until I got specific details on when it would be available in the U.S.
The Cooley distillery has just introduced the Ireland’s old grain whisky under the Greenore label. Many of you […]
Balvenie just introduced a new whisky, called Signature. It’s a 12 year old to celebrate Master Distiller David Stewart’s 45 years in the whisky business. That’s the good new. The bad news (for my U.S. readers) is that it will not be sold in the U.S in 2008. You will have to cross the pond […]
The world’s smokiest whisky has just been bottled. (Thanks to Islayblog.com for letting me know.) Bruichladdich’s Octomore, a whisky clocking in at 80 ppm phenol, was bottled for those individuals wise enough to purchase Octomore futures back in 2002.
That’s great for the futures owners (I am not one), but what about the rest of us poor […]
In addition to the annual release of the Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, this fall the folks at Brown-Forman will be releasing an entirely new whiskey called Old Forester Repeal Bourbon. Here’s the information I just received on it:
Old Forester Repeal Bourbon celebrates the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition. The bottle will come in […]
I was just informed by Tullamore Dew’s PR company that a new 10 year old blend will be arriving in the U.S. in the September/October time frame. According to my PR contact:
The Tullamore Dew 10-Year-Old is simply a new addition to the Tullamore Dew family; they are only allocating for 900 cases in 2008 giving […]
