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Fuji Reveals 50th Anniversary Single Malt

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Japanese whisky distillery Fuji revealed a limited edition whisky celebrating the 50th anniversary of Fuji Gotemba Distillery by using distillate from its inaugural production run in 1973. Fuji 50th Anniversary Single Malt includes whiskies ranging in age from 12 to 50 years old, was aged in a combination of barrels including bourbon, beer, Oloroso sherry, […]

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Johnnie Walker Unveils 52-Year-Old Blend

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Johnnie Walker has released a limited edition 52-year-old blended whisky – Johnnie Walker Aged 52 Years – containing liquid from closed distilleries. Johnnie Walker Aged 52 Years blends six single malt Highland whiskies [from Blair Athol, Brora, Dalwhinnie, Glen Albyn, Glenlochy and Glenury Royal distilleries] and two Lowland grain whiskies [from Cambus and Carsebridge distilleries], […]

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Teeling Offers Christmas Bottlings

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Irish whiskey brand Teeling has created and released a first-ever limited edition Christmas bottling – Teeling Whiskey Christmas Batch – albeit, exclusively for Dublin and Cork Airport travel retail venues. Teeling Whiskey Christmas Batch underwent a dual fermentation with both white wine yeast and distiller’s yeast, and is a triple-distilled blend, containing malt and grain […]

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Bushmills Expands Prestige Collection With 26-Year-Old

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Irish whiskey icon Bushmills has added a 26-year-old single malt – Bushmills 26 Year Old Crystal Malt – to their luxury Prestige Single Malt Collection. The 26-year-old joins three other Irish whiskies [25-, 30- and 31-year-old] in Bushmills Prestige Collection. Bushmills 26 Year Old Crystal Malt was created using crystal malt barley [barley in which […]

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Johnnie Walker Preps For The Lunar New Year With Blue Label Edition

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Blended Scotch whisky icon, Johnnie Walker has released a limited edition label design for their Lunar New Year Blue Label whisky celebrating 2025 as the Year of the Snake. The label was designed by Asian American artist James Jean and is said to symbolize an ‘auspicious ambition for constant progression and self-reinvention’, while featuring three […]

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Michter’s Hauls Out 20-Year-Old Bourbon

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Louisville, Kentucky-based Michter’s Distillery is releasing Michter’s 20 Year – a re-release of their 20-year-old bourbon.
The 2024 release of Michter’s 20 Year is bottled at 57.1% alcohol by volume [114.8 proof].
The 2024 release of Micht…

The Dalmore Debuts Vintage Collection For 2024

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The Dalmore has released The Vintage Collection 2024 – consisting of The Dalmore Vintage 2006 and The Dalmore Vintage 2009 – both single malts matured in a unique combination of wine casks. The Dalmore Vintage 2009 was aged in American white oak ex-bourbon barrels, followed by finishes in both Matusalem sherry casks from González Byass […]

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Glasgow 1770 Unveils Cask Strength Whiskies

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The Glasgow Distillery has released Glasgow 1770 Cask Strength Batch 02 – their second batch of annual cask strength single malt whiskies, comprised of casks featuring the distillery’s unpeated and peated single malt production. Glasgow 1770 The Original Cask Strength Batch 02 is made with the distillery’s unpeated double-distilled spirits, bottled at 59.5% alcohol by […]

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Bruichladdich Adds Some Peat To Octomore 15 Series

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Islay distillery, Bruichladdich, has added a super-heavily peated single malt whisky to their Octomore 15 Series. Bruichladdich Octomore Series 15 Ten Aged Years has been distilled from 100% Scottish Concerto barley and malted to 107 PPM, bottled at 52.2% alcohol by volume [104.4 proof] and is said to offer notes of cinnamon, coffee and, of […]

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Four Roses Goes Single Barrel

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Kentucky-based bourbon distiller Four Roses is adding four single barrel bottlings – OBSV, OBSF, OESK and OESO – to their Single Barrel Collection as their way of celebrating the 20th anniversary of their single barrel production. whiskey by expanding the range with three new recipes. Alongside the flagship expression, OBSV, Four Roses will feature three […]

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