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Barrell Bourbon Announces Final Bottling of 2020: Batch 027 Barrell Bourbon Announces Final Bottling of 2020: Batch 027 Barrel Craft Spirits, the independent distillers based in Louisville, Kentucky, recently announced their final bottling of 2020: Barrell Bourbon Batch 027. This new release is a blend of straight bourbon whiskeys distilled and aged using American white oak barrels. According to the prepared statement announcing these new releases, the batch began with a blend of six-year-old w...

Israel’s first-ever single malt whisky distillers, M&H Distillery, is following the lead of many global creators of fine spirits with the recent launch of their Cask Ownership Program. This venture allows collectors and whisky lovers a chance to have their own personalized cask—a choice of either Ex-Islay, Bourbon, or STR—set aside in M&H’s warehouse, where it will be overseen by the company’s head distiller Tomer Goren. M&H’s Cask Ownership Program (image via M&H Distillery) “The...

Glen Scotia Has Introduced A Rare 30 Year Old Single Malt Release Glen Scotia Has Introduced A Rare 30 Year Old Single Malt Release On the same day that they recently announced the release of their limited-edition Sherry Double Cask Finish Scotch whisky, Glen Scotia Distillery introduced an even rarer bottle: a 30-year-old Single Malt, available in a short run of just 500 bottles. This 50.8% ABV addition to their range of single malts was created using a single distillation from 1989 that has b...

Scottish Researchers Using Blockchain Tech To Combat Fake Rare Whisky Scottish Researchers Using Blockchain Tech To Combat Fake Rare Whisky The University of Glasgow’s Scottish Universities Environment Research Centre (SUERC) and Everledger, a London-based startup that seeks to help companies track their assets using blockchain technology, have joined forces to combat fraud within the Scottish whisky industry. SUERC has been working with whisky dealers and collectors for the past few years to...

New Mad River Distillers Rye Whiskey Finished in Silver Oak Red Wine Barrels New Mad River Distillers Rye Whiskey Finished in Silver Oak Red Wine Barrels Vermont’s Mad River Distillers recently announced a collaboration with CaskForce, a Boston-based retailer that curates cask- finished whiskey, to create a new limited release rye whiskey that has been finished in red wine barrels. The team up began two years ago when Caskforce founder Nick O’Connell hit upon the idea of filling toasted A...

Penelope Bourbon Recently Released A New Barrel-Strength Bourbon Batch Penelope Bourbon Recently Released A New Barrel-Strength Bourbon Batch Penelope Bourbon’s second year of operation has been a big one. The Kentucky whiskey brand recently had their Barrel Strength bourbon named one of the best spirits of 2020 by Wine Enthusiast, and they earned a Double Gold Medal in the Straight Bourbon Whiskey category at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. And they are finishing up 2020 on anot...

Johnnie Walker Has Two Limited Whisky Releases For Chinese New Year Johnnie Walker Has Two Limited Whisky Releases For Chinese New Year Johnnie Walker recently announced two very limited edition releases to help celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year: a fresh batch of their Blue Label Scotch whisky and a first-of-its-kind John Walker & Sons King George V. The former continues the distillery’s long-running history of Chinese New Year release, with a new bottle design and packaging meant to refle...

The Kentucky Distillers’ Association, the nonprofit trade organization that looks to promote and protect the Bluegrass State’s bourbon industry, recently announced the advancement of three distillers to their Heritage level membership, and another to Proof level. Joining the ranks of such globally recognized brands as Wild Turkey and Beam Suntory, distillers of Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark, as Heritage members are Rabbit Hole Distillery, Wilderness Trail Distillery, and Willett Distillery. A...

GlenDronach Distillery Announces 18th Batch Of Limited Release Cask Bottlings GlenDronach Distillery Announces 18th Batch Of Limited Release Cask Bottlings The Glendronach, the well loved, sherry cask-focused single malt distillery from Scotland’s East Highland Hills, recently announced the release of the 18th batch of their Cask Bottling collection. These rare items were chosen by Dr. Rachel Barrie, GlenDornach’s Master Blender, and feature single malt Scotch whisky that is as old as 30 ye...

Four Roses Reveals Plans For Massive Expansion of Distillery Visitor Center Four Roses Reveals Plans For Massive Expansion of Distillery Visitor Center Four Roses, the Kentucky-based distillery that has been providing the world with quality bourbon since 1888, recently announced a major expansion to their current home in Lawrenceburg. Plans include an expanded visitor center with tasting rooms that will allow them to double the number of visitors they can usually serve. The planned 14,446-squar...