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The First Ever Auction Of Compass Box Scotch Whiskies Is Underway The First Ever Auction Of Compass Box Scotch Whiskies Is Underway A collection of whiskies from Compass Box, the independent Scotch whisky bottler founded in 2000 by former Johnnie Walker marketing director John Glaser, has been put up for auction this week. The 130 expressions up for bid on Whisky Auctioneer have been assembled over the years by an anonymous whisky fan known simply as Pat, and it includes 70 limited edition rele...

Shibui Brings Its Spin On Japanese Whisky To American Consumers Shibui Brings Its Spin On Japanese Whisky To American Consumers Lauren & Rachel Simmons, the sisters behind the recently launched IND Beverages, have joined forces with The Whiskey Dog CEO Nicholas M. Pollacchi to bring Japanese whisky to American consumers with the importing of the brand Shibui. Sourcing whisky from four separate Japanese distilleries, Shibui unveiled their first expressions—nine whiskies that includes a 30 year...

Boann Distillery Recently Debuted The Whistler Single Malt Series For U.S. Markets Boann Distillery Recently Debuted The Whistler Single Malt Series For U.S. Markets Boann Distillery, the family-run distillery located in Ireland’s Boyne Valley, continues to make inroads into the U.S. whiskey market with the recent announcement of The Whistler Irish Whiskey’s Single Malt Series for American retailers. Working with their longtime partners Prestige Beverage Group, Boann launched this exclusive...

Crater Lake Spirits Releases New 5-Year American Whiskey Collaboration With Deschutes Brewery Crater Lake Spirits Releases New 5-Year American Whiskey Collaboration With Deschutes Brewery Bendistillery’s Crater Lake Spirits out of Oregon recently announced a new release of their limited Black Butte Whiskey, a 5-year American whiskey made in collaboration with Deschutes Brewery. The Bend-based businesses first teamed up in 2016 for the release of a 3-year version of this aged whiskey, and retu...

Fresh on the heels of their final bottling of 2020, Kentucky’s Barrell Craft Spirits, best known for its Barrell Bourbon releases, has also been looking ahead with the release of their New Year 2021 Bourbon. These New Year whiskeys have become one of their most anticipated releases from Barrell, with the distillers beginning the process in autumn to have a special batch made, according to the official release statement, “as a celebration of success and to use as a toast to the year to come....

History was made late last year as Brough Brothers Distillery, the first and so far only Black-owned whiskey distillery in the state of Kentucky, produced its first bottles. The creation of Louisville natives and brothers Victor, Bryson, and Christian Yarbrough, the distillery was established in the city’s West End, a historically Black neighborhood that was also home to the first library in the U.S. available to Black citizens and where boxer Muhammad Ali grew up. The Yarbroughs are hoping t...

Hillrock Distillery Partners With Hard Rockers Motörhead For Limited Release Bourbon Hillrock Distillery Partners With Hard Rockers Motörhead For Limited Release Bourbon Hot on the heels of a massive boxed set released in 2019 to honor the 40th anniversary of Ace of Spades, the fourth album by heavy rockers Motörhead, Hillrock Estate Distillery are continuing the celebration with the recent release of a limited batch of cask strength Solera Aged Bourbon Whiskey decorated with the band’s o...

Tobermory Distillery Recently Released A Historically Inspired Rioja Cask Finish Whisky Tobermory Distillery Recently Released A Historically Inspired Rioja Cask Finish Whisky Tobermory Distillery, one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland and the only whisky distillery on the Isle of Mull, is paying homage to its own storied history—and that of its island location—with the recent release of new entry into its Ledaig range: the Sinclair Series Rioja Cask Finish. The distiller’s first-eve...

Heaven Hill Distillery, producers of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey since 1935, recently announced that they had filled their nine millionth bourbon barrel. The Bardstown, Kentucky company, which produces Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey, Rittenhouse Rye, and Evan Williams Bourbon, among many other brands, became the only independent, family-owned and operated distillery to reach this milestone. Heaven Hill Distillery’s 9 millionth barrel (image via Heaven Hill) “In a year defined by team...

Five years after founding, England’s Bimber Distillery shows little signs of slowing down. The London based distillers recently added two new releases to their Small Batch collection: Ex-Bourbon Oak Casks Small Batch 002 and Oloroso Oak Casks Small Batch 003. Both limited releases reveal their history in their names. Batch 002 is a single malt whisky aged in American Oak ex-bourbon casks that were laid down during Bimber’s first year of production in 2016. Batch 003 was first vatted in ex-b...