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Kavalan Reveals 2025 Gift Sets

Taiwan-based whisky producer, Kavalan, has announced the release of their 2025 limited edition gift sets. The 2025 Kavalan gift sets collection features three of the distillery’s single malts – the Kavalan Triple Sherry Cask, Solist Vinho Barrique Single Cask Strength and Concertmaster Vinho Barrique Cask Finish – with each set’s packaging inspired by the theme […]

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Woodford Reserve Unveils Batch Proof Bourbon

Woodford Reserve has released their annual limited-edition, high-proof bourbon – Woodford Reserve Batch Proof. Woodford Reserve Batch Proof is the result of batching together more than 100 different Woodford Reserve barrels together, with those barrels being drawn from many dates of production and matured in various warehouses and different floors within those warehouses. Woodford Reserve […]

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Old Forester Brings Out Warehouse 1

Old Forester has released a new, limited-edition expression – Warehouse I – as the latest addition to their 117 series, featuring bourbons with experimental characteristics. Old Forester Warehouse 1 features an 11-year-old bourbon aged in barrels emerging from Old Forester’s Warehouse I, which were heat-cycled since 2013. Old Forester Warehouse I was bottled at 47.5% […]

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Hidden Barn Does A Slow Fade

Hidden Barn Bourbon has released Slow Fade – the 10th and latest offering in their Series One lineup – with Slow Fade being so named for its claimed sweet, slow fade on the finish. Hidden Barn originates from the Neeley Family Distillery and Slow Fade is a blend of five-to-six-year-old barrels from the distillery, features […]

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October London Debuts Bourbon

Jared Erskine – aka October London – has collaborated with Kentucky-based brand Mr & Mrs Bourbon to become the latest musical artist to create a limited edition spirit. The partnership with two-time Bet Award nominee and four-time Soul Train Music Awards nominee, known professionally as October London, has produced a wheated bourbon called October London […]

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ColdSnap Offers Bourbon Based Ice Cream

ColdSnap, a Boston-based food technology company, launched their ice cream and frozen confection machines in 2024 for commercial markets and, in their first year of availability, secured a roster of customers for their machines which included Best Buy, Holiday Inn, LinkedIn, Marriott Hotels, Mastercard, NBC Sports and three universities – Ohio State, South Carolina and […]

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WhistlePig Collabs With Alice Cooper

Vermont-based WhistlePig has collaborated with rock and roll icon Alice Cooper and released an alcohol-free pre-mixed Old Fashioned cocktail infused with adaptogens called Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Old Fashioned. Adaptogens are described as ‘non-psychoactive ingredients’. The limited edition Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry old Fashioned ready-to-pour cocktail has been crafted with WhistlePig’s non-alcoholic 100% […]

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Glenfiddich Reveals Lunar New Year Whisky

Glenfiddich has collaborated with ink artist Zhang Yu on limited edition whisky releases celebrating the Lunar New Year 2025 – the Year of the Snake – though Yu’s design skips the snake and instead features an encounter between the Glenfiddich stag and a mythical deer king. Glenfiddich will showcase Yu’s work on the Glenfiddich 21-year-old […]

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Van Winkle Collection Supplemented

Buffalo Trace has released their annual Van Winkle Collection which will include additional bottles of both the 20- and 23-year-old sought-after bourbons as well as a 13-year-old rye whiskey. The 2024 Van Winkle Collection consists of Old Rip Van Winkle Handmade Bourbon 10-year-old [bottled at 53.5% alcohol by volume – 107 proof] and is priced […]

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Jameson Sponsors MLS League

Irish whiskey brand Jameson is crossing the pond to support American football/soccer, announcing a multiyear partnership with Major League Soccer (MLS) to be the organization’s official Irish whiskey sponsor. The partnership means Jameson brand will have a significant presence at the matches with in-stadium promotions and on-site experiential events as well as promotions via national […]

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