Category: year

Salvaged Rosebank 31-Year Coming To The USA

31-Year-Old single malt whisky from Lowlands distillery, Rosebank, will be available in the USA after initially being available in August 2022 in the UK. The Lowlands distillery was closed in 1993, then purchased by Ian Macleod Distillers in 2017 and is currently scheduled to be re-opened in 2024. Rosebank 31-year-old single malt whisky was saved […]

The post Salvaged Rosebank 31-Year Coming To The USA first appeared on Whisky Critic – Whisky Reviews & Articles – Style. Attitude. Whisky..

31-Year-Old single malt whisky from Lowlands distillery, Rosebank, will be available in the USA after initially being available in August 2022 in the UK. The Lowlands distillery was closed in 1993, then purchased by Ian Macleod Distillers in 2017 and is currently scheduled to be re-opened in 2024.

Rosebank 31-year-old single malt whisky was saved from casks prior to the distillery’s closing [representing the last of the “old Rosebank” before the distillery re-opens] is bottled at 48.1% alcohol by volume [96.2 proof] and is said to offer both floral and fruit notes.

Rosebank 31-Year-Old is being made available for $3,300 per 700 ml bottle.

The post Salvaged Rosebank 31-Year Coming To The USA first appeared on Whisky Critic - Whisky Reviews & Articles - Style. Attitude. Whisky..

Benriach Unveils A Pair Of 40’s

Speyside distillery Benriach has released a pair of 40-year-old single malts – The Forty and Forty Octave Cask Matured. Benriach The Forty was matured in peated casks, bottled at 43.5% alcohol by volume (87 proof) is said to offer notes of dark chocolate, grapefruit, orange, peach, plum and red apple. Benriach The Forty Octave Cask […]

The post Benriach Unveils A Pair Of 40’s first appeared on Whisky Critic – Whisky Reviews & Articles – Style. Attitude. Whisky..

Speyside distillery Benriach has released a pair of 40-year-old single malts – The Forty and Forty Octave Cask Matured.

Benriach The Forty was matured in peated casks, bottled at 43.5% alcohol by volume (87 proof) is said to offer notes of dark chocolate, grapefruit, orange, peach, plum and red apple.

Benriach The Forty Octave Cask Matured was matured in small octave casks [an eighth of the size of a regular cask], bottled at 51.5% alcohol by volume [103 proof] and is said to offer notes of cedar, cherry, pear, plum and red apple.

Benriach The Forty is being made available for $4085 per bottle while only 135 bottles of Benriach The Forty Octave Cask Matured are being made available exclusively in global travel retail venues for $4850 per bottle.

The post Benriach Unveils A Pair Of 40’s first appeared on Whisky Critic - Whisky Reviews & Articles - Style. Attitude. Whisky..

Yamazaki 50 Goes On The Block

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 […]

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 under the hammer at the Bonhams Fine and Rare Wine and Whisky Sale in Hong Kong on May 20, 2022 and is expected to generate a selling price between $445,000-$575,000.

Yamazaki distillery was founded in 1923 – Japan’s first commercial whisky distillery – and there are three editions of 50-year-old Yamazaki, bottled in 2005, 2007 and 2011.

Yamazaki’s 55-year-old bottling, will also be auctioned in May and is expected to bring an auction price between $510,000-$640,000.