The Glenturret has released a 50-year-old single malt – their oldest whisky ever. The Glenturret 50 Years Old was matured in a refill sherry cask, bottled at cask strength of 40% alcohol by volume [80 proof] and is said to contain notes of apple, dates and honeycomb. Only 150 bottles of The Glenturret 50 Years […]
Actors Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder discovered their friendship and a mutual love of Bourbon on the set of “The Vampire Diaries” television series. Once the show ended, they decided to launch their own Bourbon brand, Brother’s Bond, and it’s become one of the fastest-growing new Bourbon brands on the market over the last 18 months. While Wesley’s acting career now has him portraying the iconic character of James T. Kirk on “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” Somerhalder is practically a full-time whiskey blender. The Bourbon “brothers” join us on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, the Kentucky Bourbon Read More »
Andrew Welford is described as a “truffle hunter” for whisky history, but his best find to date didn’t sell for a penny. In fact, he donated an original John Walker & Sons shares ledger from 1944 that he found on eBay to Diageo’s corporate archive in Scotland. We’ll talk with him and Isabel Graham-Youll of Whisky.Auction, who helped bring together the book with its new home. In the news, the Kentucky Bourbon Benefit auction to help the state’s flooding victims is underway with bidding already exceeding $250,000. We’ll have that story and much more, including a Major League Baseball team Read More »
Scotland’s Isle of Islay is known for its distilleries, and construction will begin soon on the island’s 12th distillery near the shores of Laggan Bay. The Islay Boys, Donald MacKenzie and Mackay Smith, plan to build the new Laggan Bay Distillery across from Islay’s airport on the site of a former RAF World War II barracks. MacKenzie and Smith also own the island’s lone brewery, and plan to make Islay Ales part of the Laggan Bay development. We’ll catch up with Donald MacKenzie on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, Kentucky’s Bourbon community is coming together again to help Read More »
The Bonhams auction house will be offering their inaugural spirits sale at Bonhams Paris location at 4 Rue de la Paix in Paris on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Bonhams’ 189-lot sale will feature several rare whiskies most “notably from Italian collections….such as rare bottles from [Silvano] Samaroli, one of the last Italian whisky trading companies,…including […]
The world’s largest bottle of Scotch whisky – a massive 311 liter-container of a 32-year-old Macallan single malt called The Intrepid – is set to go up for live online auction on May 25, 2022 at Edinburgh-based auction house Lyon & Turnbull. The Intrepid was officially certified by Guinness World Records in September 2021 and […]
UK-based auction house Bonhams is putting a bottle of Yamazaki 50-Year-Old First Release on the block in an upcoming auction. Yamazaki 50-Year-Old First Release was launched in 2005 and only 50 bottles were originally released, of which only a mere 12 bottles are thought to still be intact. One of those 12 bottles will go […]
The original whisky bible – a first edition copy of “The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom” by Alfred Barnard – went under the hammer and was sold for $4,690 by London-based, Pernod-Ricard-owned Whisky.Auction. In the 19th century, Barnard was secretary for Harper’s Weekly Gazette and went on a two-year journey [1885-1887] to originally publish […]
The massive tornado that ripped through Western Kentucky overnight on December 10, 2021 caused tremendous losses. But, as Kentuckians have shown throughout history, we’re resilient, and as distillers and bourbon fans have also shown, we answer the call. In fact, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association…
