VinePair

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Distillers just getting started needed ready cash flow, and the unaged neutral spirit — America’s top-selling category — gave them something to offer consumers while their whiskey matured. But, Little says, the vodka was “an afterthought”; whiskey was always the focus. Once ubiquitous, craft vodka soon gave way to whiskey.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Ahead of Japan hosting its first Summer Games since 1964, Mars partnered with the Chichibu Distillery in 2015 to produce a whisky to commemorate the event. Five years before the games were set to kick off, both brands traded new-make whiskey from their distilleries and left them to age in the other’s maturation warehouse.

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The Whiskey Wash

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Its reach and popularity is demonstrated by the vast collection available on The Whiskey Wash Shop. Additionally, we’ll examine the opening of The Cairn Distillery and a dedicated gin distillery. Some of the Connoisseurs Choice whiskies available on The Whiskey Wash Shop.

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 19, 2024

Innovations included a new bottling line, an updated wood quality policy, and gin distillation. Shop Bruichladdich Included in the wide range of Bruichladdich available on the Whiskey Wash Shop is this Bruichladdich 37 Year Old Legacy Series. With limited funds but a lot of passion, Bruichladdich was resurrected.

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Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 6, 2024

This feeling peaked for us at our event in partnership with Kikori Rice Whiskey at Oakland’s Viridian Bar. And, it really felt like it as BlackPink, Onra and Night Tempo blared on the speakers, baijiu and rice whiskey shots were being poured, and we all drank boozy boba and toddies with sweet dumplings in them.

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The Whiskey Wash

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This 21 Year Old expression was distilled in 1999 and initially matured in refill casks before being transferred to Oloroso sherry casks for finishing in 2015. At the heart of this spirited island community, the Tobermory distillery produces a range of finely crafted spirits, including Tobermory Whisky, Ledaig Single Malts, and Tobermory Gin.

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Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 6, 2024

This feeling peaked for us at our event in partnership with Kikori Rice Whiskey at Oakland’s Viridian Bar. And, it really felt like it as BlackPink, Onra and Night Tempo blared on the speakers, baijiu and rice whiskey shots were being poured, and we all drank boozy boba and toddies with sweet dumplings in them.

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Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

THE CABINET BARREL PROOF AMERICAN WHISKEY (2023 RELEASE) The Cabinet is a blend of straight rye and bourbon whiskeys from Proof & Wood Ventures. Each whiskey in the blend was distilled in Indiana and then aged, blended, and bottled in Kentucky. Also included are two straight bourbon whiskeys distilled in 2016 and 2017.

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The Whiskey Wash

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It is renowned for its smooth and honeyed Irish whiskey. 117 Cooley (Unpeated) Ireland Cooley, established in 1987, produces a light and fruity Irish whiskey. 118 Cooley / Connemara (Peated) Ireland Cooley, known for its Connemara brand, produces a peated Irish whiskey. B8 Woodinville Whiskey Co.

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The Whiskey Wash

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The distillery began as an endeavor full of promise back in 2015, with a foundational aim of providing sustainable employment on an island that has slowly seen its population decline in numbers as young people left to find work and seek their fortunes far from our shores.

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The Whiskey Wash

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Isle of Harris distillery makes both whisky and gin, which may explain the surprising popularity of this remote island distillery. The distillery opened in 2015 and released its first single malt scotch in 2023, the Hearach.

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Drinkhacker

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For more top gift ideas check out the archives and read our 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , and 2008 holiday guides. As always, watch this space for our top whiskeys of the year list in mid-December, which will offer even more solid picks.

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Good Spirits News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Since 2015, they have been releasing award-winning spirits that evoke the magic of the Inland Northwest. We’ve had some gins made with distilled honey, but never a vodka. It still tastes like a vodka versus a young whiskey, so there is no comparison there.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Credit: Bucket Listers Sam Gauthier was a member of the opening team at the original Sippin Santa pop-up at The Boilermaker, Maces sister bar, in New York in 2015. But this year as with Mariah Careys Black Irish Holiday Bar, which opened two weeks before Thanksgiving the party started in mid-November. Great Jones Distillery Co.,

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Maybe 20 percent of them will order the Defying Gravi-Tea, an Elphaba -hued green tea cocktail with Irish whiskey , ginger syrup, lemon and mint; or Witch’s Brew, a Malibu rum-spiked soy milk horchata with orgeat and cinnamon served in a tulip glass. At a given theater, some 150 to 330 people will be seated and served all in one go.

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The Whiskey Wash

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Glenmorangie PLC sold the SMWS to a consortium of private investors, including the HotHouse Club and a group of financial investment managers in 2015. SMWS Today The SMWS now bottles around 500 casks a year, diversifying its spirit range to also include single grain, world whiskies, rum, gin, cognac, and other spirits.

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