The Whiskey Wash

MAY 1, 2024

Meanwhile, while the bourbon was aging, Hard Truth focused on other spirits, including vodka, rum, and, more recently, what is now a popular line of rye whiskeys. ” What’s in the bottle The bourbon highlighted in this review is the Hard Truth Sweet Mash Bourbon. per 750 ml bottle.

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VinePair

APRIL 2, 2024

Since the late ‘90s when he used to lobster claw bottles to speed-pour Long Island Iced Teas at TGI Fridays, he’s been hooked on the rush of delivering liquid happiness. Years of grabbing heavy bottles and shaking mixing tins had severely damaged the nerves in both hands, but like many bartenders, he soldiered through the pain.

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VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dave Arnold and Don Lee then opened Existing Conditions in 2018, and I will eternally be grateful that they saw fit to bring me on as head bartender. We chatted rum styles and tropical drinks and I was immediately a fan — he wore his love for, and knowledge of, drinks and spirits on his sleeve then as he does to this day.

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Old Liquors Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well being that rum does? But that’s another story Originally posted 2018-01-30 09:35:49. Don’t you drink? I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 12, 2024

Hana Makgeolli Since 2017, Alice Jun has been making both traditional and experimental makgeolli (Korean rice wine) and opened the Hana Makgeolli brewery, with business partner John Limb, in late 2018. More than 200 bottles expand the selection further, but don’t worry—they’re here to walk you through it.

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VinePair

MARCH 27, 2024

Designed to emulate the highly sought-after, decades-old bottlings of a now less-than-charismatic blended Scotch, Celestial is the fourth and final member of the producer’s Extinct Blends series, which offers “re-imaginings” of bucket-list spirits that are no longer made. Spirits don’t age in the bottle the same way they do in a barrel.

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VinePair

JUNE 26, 2024

Less time spent fumbling with bottles means more time engaging guests in conversation, noticing an empty glass and replacing it with another drink, running drinks to support a swamped server, or snagging an extra ticket from a weeded service bartender. For bartenders, making drinks quickly and precisely isn’t just a parlor trick.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

On Monday, Mount Gay Rum announced the second installment in its Single Estate Series: 24_02_Vt18d2. While the series’ first installment featured sugar cane harvested in 2016 and 2017, the new expression’s sugar cane was exclusively harvested in Summer 2018. Lucy property.

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Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 13, 2024

Enlisting special guests to help guide the tours, Wayne (Author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and frequent spirits contributor for The Atlantic, Imbibe Magazine, PUNCH, The Daily Beast , and Garden & Gun ) and co. will lead a series of tours, including: Absinthe Tour Bourbon St. &

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Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 13, 2024

Enlisting special guests to help guide the tours, Wayne (Author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and frequent spirits contributor for The Atlantic, Imbibe Magazine, PUNCH, The Daily Beast , and Garden & Gun ) and co. will lead a series of tours, including: Absinthe Tour Bourbon St. &

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 15, 2024

This week on Scotch Legends, we take a (nose)dive into the Springbank 12 Year Old 100 Proof, bottled in the 1980s for Samaroli. The Springbank 12 Year Old 100 Proof was bottled for the legendary Italian independent bottler and importer, Samaroli , in the early 1980s. Almost pungent, after more than 20 years in its bottle.

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Good Spirits News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Basil Hayden 10 Year Bourbon Basil Hayden 10 Year Bourbon is made using the same high-rye mash bill as the standard offering, one of four bottles in the Beam Small Batch Collection. After 10 years of aging in new, charred American oak barrels it’s bottled at 80 proof. It’s bottled at cask strength of 119.3

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VinePair

DECEMBER 29, 2023

They focus exclusively on barrel-aged beer, and this iteration on the classic Rhino Suit imperial milk stout, using toasted coconut and rum barrels direct from Barbados, is a showstopper. After drinking it at a bottle share I completely rethought my approach to aging beers on wine grapes.

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Good Spirits News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The reserve rums in the blend were aged in oak barrels with varying levels of toast. Then the rum was additionally aged in Tawny 10 Port wine barrels for a period of time before bottling. The Dominican sugarcane used for the rum was harvested from Barceló’s own cane fields. Available February 13, 2024 nationally.

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Cocktail Whisperer

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Cannabis was decriminalized there in 2018 for personal use. As often as possible, we ride to the “Wedding Spot,” lay out a blanket next to a spring-fed stream, share a bottle of wine and have a puff, watch the dragonflies and the butterflies, and enjoy the shade of an ancient old oak and a 120-foot pine tree.

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VinePair

JANUARY 7, 2024

Price: $40 / 4-pack 20 oz bottles De Soi Co-founded by Katy Perry in 2022, De Soi is a range of NA sparkling apéritifs available in four flavors. Offered in single-serve cans and batch-friendly bottles, each option is infused with botanicals and natural adaptogens like reishi mushroom, ashwagandha, and lemon balm. Price: $38 / 16.5

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VinePair

APRIL 15, 2024

White’ Campari The first time I saw a bottle of Cordial Campari it was startling. The German bartender served me, having to fresh-crack the tax stamp on what I soon saw was a 1960s bottle. Vintage bottles and vintage drinks are becoming more and more popular among bartenders and spirits collectors,” he says.

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Cheers

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Crafted by Master Blender Trudiann Branker, this second release expands the terroir-driven range, with a blend of rums produced from the 2018 Mount Gay Estate sugar cane, making this liquid the first vintage in this limited-edition series. Each bottle has a QR code, providing consumers with more info on the rum-making process.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Seagrass , arguably its most successful blend, calls to mind the oceanside with its rye finished in rum, Madeira, and apricot brandy barrels. The sweetness of the rum and the smokiness of the Islay casks mingle together with the underlying bourbon that continues the Tale of Two Islands. More rum than bourbon, then.

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Cheers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Crafted by Master Blender Trudiann Branker, this second release expands the terroir-driven range, with a blend of rums produced from the 2018 Mount Gay Estate sugar cane, making this liquid the first vintage in this limited-edition series. Each bottle has a QR code, providing consumers with more info on the rum-making process.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 16, 2024

India became as the UK’s largest market for Scotch whisky by volume in 2022, importing 219 million bottles according to figures published by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA). A commemorative bottling, Paul John ‘Mars Orbiter’ was released in 2018, in celebration of India’s successful space mission launching a probe to Mars.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 23, 2024

India became the UK’s largest market for Scotch whisky by volume in 2022, importing 219 million bottles according to figures published by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA). The Camikara cane juice rum brand was launched in 2022. 2018 A third Piccadily distillery is established at Bawal, Haryana.

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Good Spirits News

MARCH 15, 2024

The finishing period was around 6 months before bottling. Campari Cask Tales is being sold as a 3-pack 1L set with this Bourbon Finish, a Tequila Finish, and a Rum Finish via ReserveBar.com. Here, Campari is finished in selected rum barrels from Appleton Estate Rum. It is bottled at 110 proof.

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 11, 2024

Introduced in the 1960s, McDowell’s is amongst the largest umbrella spirits brands in the world, marketing varieties of whisky, brandy, and rum. Whisky was no doubt amongst the products imported – but it would be almost another 150 years before whisky bottles were produced bearing the Scotsman’s name. McDowell’s No.1

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VinePair

JUNE 28, 2024

As such, larger-format, ready-to-serve libations were not included in the tasting (though there are several worth checking out, from bottled Martinis to Old Fashioneds ). This one boasts strong baking spice notes from its rum base, along with bright pineapple and lime juices and a welcome bitterness on the finish.

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Good Spirits News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Angel’s Envy Triple Oak Triple Oak joins the brand’s Signature Series which also includes the Port Wine Barrel finished bourbon released in 2011 and Caribbean Rum Cask finished rye released in 2013. It’s bottled at 112 proof (56% ABV). This limited edition release is available nationwide beginning September 2024.

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Bar Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Mount Gay, the world’s oldest running rum distillery with a legacy spanning over 320 years, introduces the second release of its ground-breaking Single Estate Series, the 24_02_Vt18d2. Each bottle features a QR code, inviting consumers to delve into the rum-making journey from start to finish.

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Drinkhacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Mount Gay launched its Single Estate Series rum last year to great acclaim, the end-product of an eight-year journey that began with acquiring its own 324-acre sugar cane estate in 2015 and using that cane to make its own molasses, ferment its own juice, distill rum from that juice, and age it in barrels — all on site.

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Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This 2024 bottling is made from the largest selection of states and bourbons for a single release from the brand this year. Bottled at a cask strength of 113 proof, it’s available at select retailers beginning November 2023. Bottled at a cask strength of 117.2 It’s bottled at 58.3%

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Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

BARRELL BOURBON CASK FINISH SERIES: TALE OF TWO ISLANDS (RELEASE 001) This bottling from Barrell Craft Spirits is one of two releases in the brand’s new Cask Finish Series featuring blends of straight bourbons with unique finishes. It was bottled at cask strength. Available fall 2023.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 24, 2023

While you’re preparing for the big reveal, feel free to indulge in some of our previous top 10 whiskey lists: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , and 2017. Ultimately, the rum barrel-finished Voyage pulled ahead thanks to its incredible depth and fruit-laden sweetness that is unlike any other Wild Turkey whiskey we’ve ever reviewed.

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The Whiskey Wash

APRIL 12, 2024

Read on to find out which American whiskeys and bourbons won medals at the DISC 2024, the history of the bottles, tasting notes, and where you can get your hands on these award-winning spirits. The 2023 William Larue Weller release was aged for 12 years and 6 months before being bottled at 133.6

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The Whiskey Wash

APRIL 6, 2024

The majority of India’s distilled spirits labelled and sold in the domestic market as ‘whisky’ are closer in consistency to rum due to being distilled from molasses, falling within a category of alcohol termed as Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL).

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 3, 2024

It is then matured for seven years in virgin American charred white oak and bottled at cask strength. Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller, Chris Fletcher, kept a careful eye on these barrels as they matured before the whiskey was bottled at 107 proof. MannCave Distillery is located in West Virginia and was founded in 2018.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 18, 2024

The distillery is located on a vast estate next to the Kentucky River and is home to numerous warehouses, a still room, a mash house, a bottling facility, and (of course) Buffalo Trace’s famous water tower. Following several collaborations with big-name brands such as Plantation Rum and The Prisoner Wine Co.,

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 23, 2023

While you’re preparing for the big reveal, feel free to indulge in some of our previous top 10 whiskey lists: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , and 2017. As always, we’re revealing one whiskey each day over the next 10 days until we hit #1 on Christmas Eve. Agree, disagree?

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The Whisky Exchange

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This range of bottlings pops up once year to showcase different takes on whiskies from Diageo’s various Scottish distilleries. Stuart Morrison – the malt master behind the range – was on hand at the event to answer everyone’s questions, and give us an insight into how he created these remarkable bottlings.

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