This is the status of the nominees in the four categories for the final voting after one month with 2 months to go. Category 1 – Bottle, less than €250 1 – Glenmorangie Signet Highland Single Malt (29%, 16 Votes) … Continue reading
This is the status of the nominees in the four categories at the kickoff for the final voting on September 1st, 2012 that runs until 30 November 2012. Category 1 – Bottle, less than €250 1 – Bruichladdich Octomore range … Continue reading
Spot on in Ireland. Pernod Ricard’s Yellow Spot Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey has announced a return of Yellow Spot 12 year old just in time to become our last all-time Design Award nomination in 2012. Mitchell’s brand was Green … Continue reading
Glenglassaugh 26 year old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a marriage of the finest casks which were filled in 1983 from the distillery. It is bottled at 46% alcohol by volume and the result is a complex yet light … Continue reading
Old Forester, Louisville, Ky. releases its vintage-dated Birthday Bourbon in honour of George Garvin Brown, the founder of Louisville-based Brown-Forman and Old Forester, America’s First Bottled Bourbon. Launched in 2002 to commemorate Brown’s Birthday on September 2, Old Forester Birthday … Continue reading
The Arran is a relatively new company, founded in 1995, but it has established itself as one of the dynamic new forces in the world of Scotch whiskies, and one of the ways they have done so is by experimenting … Continue reading
Rebecca Creek Fine Texas Whiskey is whiskey distilled in San Antonio Texas and is a whiskey that can be enjoyed straight or mixed. First released in August of 2011 and produced from a proprietary blend of domestic malted barley and … Continue reading
The Edrington Group has recently launched a new addition to The Famous Grouse’s range of blended Scotch whiskies, The Naked Grouse, in an elegant and beautifully crafted white flint bottle manufactured by Allied Glass Containers in 70cl and comes at … Continue reading
This is the Peated Arran Malt, distilled each year since 2004 using malted barley lightly peated to a level of 14PPM. The release is a limited series (only 9000 bottles in 2004), bottled at 46%. The Machrie Moor is Arran’s … Continue reading
As Tomintoul distillery was founded in 1964 it is one of the more recent distilleries in Scotland. In July 1965 the first drops of spirit dripped out of the still. The bottle design is relatively old as I remember it … Continue reading
Nikka (Vatted Malt) Pure Malt Japanese Whisky at 45% in a 50cl bottle. The series consist of three pure malts marketed by Nikka under one word colour titles: Red, Black and White. The “Red” is mainly based on whisky from … Continue reading
Writers Tears comes from the previously unknown Writers Tears Whiskey Company. It turns out that this whiskey did not spring fully-formed from the void but can trace its pedigree to The Irishman whiskey line-up. The Irishman whiskeys are the inspired … Continue reading
Blackwood Distillers had entered the market with a blended malt whisky, the brainchild of Caroline Whitfield and the team, matured on the island of Unst and named for the most northerly piece of Britain, Muckle Flugga in the Shetlands. A … Continue reading
Dewar’s was founded in 1846 by John Dewar and in time, his sons John Alexander and Tommy inherited the firm. Today, still in independent family ownership, Dewar’s brands are found around the world. Whisky from the Aberfeldy distillery, built by … Continue reading
This is the line of bottles for the single malt produced at the newly-constructed Aberfeldy distillery in the Highlands, near Perthshire. Dewar’s built the distillery to ensure a steady supply of malt for blending. Aberfeldy core range exists of a … Continue reading
