Tasmanian distillery Sullivan’s Cove has been named the world’s best single malt whisky at the World Whiskies Award held on Thursday night in London. Sullivan’s Cove’s French Oak Cask variety was judged the global winner, as well as Australia’s best, from a high-quality pool of single malt entries. They included Scotland’s Bunnahabain, Aberfeldy, Glenkinchie and …
Old Hobart Distillery & Lark Distillery Join Forces As of Friday 17 January 2014 Lark Distillery Pty Ltd will acquire Old Hobart Distillery and the Overeem brand. Both companies will remain as separate brands and entities, with Old Hobart Distillery/Overeem’s new legal entity becoming Overeem Whisky Pty Ltd (trading as Old Hobart Distillery). Overeem is …
Distillers Douglas Laing & Co has released a core single malt, single cask Scotch whisky range called Old Particular. Each bottling in the range is selected from a single cask at one of several distilleries in Laing’s portfolio Each non-chill filtered bottling is selected from one of several barrels at distilleries including Bowmore, Caperdonich and …
Diageo has announced the release of Talisker Dark Storm, the smokiest whisky produced by the Skye distillery to date. Created exclusively for travel retail, Talisker Dark Storm is a 45.8%abv Single malt Scotch matured in heavily charred oak casks for flavours of “blackcurrant, liquorice and powerful smoke”. The release follows that of Talisker Storm, which …
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The famed peat bogs of the Hebridean island of Islay are set to be celebrated after it was announced Ardbeg, the Ultimate Islay Malt, has named its new whisky… Ardbog. Ardbog follows the highly acclaimed 2012 Limited Edition Ardbeg Galileo, which scooped the ‘World’s Best Single Malt’ at the World Whisky Awards 2013. Ardbeg – …
Tasmanian whisky brand Sullivans Cove has been named “Best Australian Single Malt” at the World Whiskies Awards in London last week. This prestigious award comes on the back of scoring 90 points out of 100 at the Ultimate Spirits Challenge held in March in the USA. Sullivans Cove is Tasmania’s top selling and most decorated …
Glenfiddich has revealed that the third release in its Age of Discovery series is a red wine cask finish. The third release of Glenfiddich’s Age of Discovery series is a red wine cask finish.The 19-year-old single malt whisky, a homage to the expeditions of Charles Darwin, has been finished in 200-litre casks previously used to …
Redlands Estate, the historic farm that will be home to Tasmania’s ninth malt whisky distillery, will be opened to the public by premier Lara Giddings on Wednesday. Tasmanian whisky pioneer Bill Lark and wife Lyn are setting up the new distillery together with the Hope family, the owners of the estate. They were awarded a …
Bunnahabhain has announced that it will release a one-off rare single malt that has lain undiscovered for four decades at the Islay distillery. Bunnahabhain distillery, which is located on the north-east of the isle, will release only 750 bottles, which will be individually numbered and hand signed. Hidden for 40 years, the whisky quietly matured …
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