SUPPORT OPERATION HOMEFRONT WITH HEAVEN HILL DISTILLERIES

Bourbon Heritage Center to Donate $1 From Every Visitor to Charity

BARDSTOWN, KY—Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., the nation’s largest independent family-owned and operated distilled spirits producer and marketer, announces a special Holiday fundraiser benefiting Operation Homefront at the company’s acclaimed visitor’s center, The Bourbon Heritage Center. The Bourbon Heritage Center sits on the grounds of Heaven Hill in the middle of Bardstown, the “Bourbon Capital of the World®,” and was awarded the worldwide “Visitor Attraction of the Year” title during Whisky Magazine’s Icons of Whiskey presentation in 2009.

The Bourbon Heritage Center will be collecting $1 from all visitors from October 1 through December 25 and will be donating 100% of the proceeds to Operation Homefront. Guests will feel the patriotism with the large red, white and blue decorated Christmas tree and holiday decor that line the Center.

“We are so happy to be able to support Operation Homefront,” said Lynne Grant, Director of Guest Services at the Heaven Hill Bourbon Heritage Center. “Many of our employees and neighbors in Bardstown and Nelson County have family in the military which makes it even more gratifying to contribute to this cause.”

The Bourbon Heritage Center welcomed more than 64,000 visitors last year, making it one of the most visited attractions on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail®. It offers guests interactive exhibits, an orientation film, a large retail store featuring branded and bourbon themed apparel and foods, and a state-of-the-art tasting room.

Bardstown-based Heaven Hill Distilleries, the world’s second largest holder of aging American Whiskey, produces such critically acclaimed brands as Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage Bourbon, Elijah Craig Bourbon, Rittenhouse Rye Whisky, Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey, and the Parker’s Heritage Collection of American Whiskeys, all crafted under the watchful eyes of sixth and seventh generation Master Distillers Parker and Craig Beam.

About Operation Homefront:
Operation Homefront provides emergency and other assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors. As a leading national charity supporting families of service members and wounded warriors, Operation Homefront has grown from a small local charity to a strong national organization with chapters across the country. Since its inception in 2002, it has met more than 400,000 needs of military families and provided more than $128 million dollars of funding to programs benefitting military families. Moreover, it has served more than 4,200 wounded warriors and their families.

About the Bourbon Heritage Center:
* A series of interactive and educational exhibits that demonstrate the Bourbon-making process and Bourbon history, including information on Evan Williams, Kentucky’s first distiller, Elijah Craig – “the father of Bourbon” – and other Bourbon pioneers whose names are immortalized in some of Heaven Hill’s most famous Bourbon brands.

* The Evan Williams Theater shows “A Portrait of Heaven Hill,” a short informative film on the history of Bourbon, the Bourbon-making process, and Heaven Hill Distilleries. The theater, located at one end of the Center, accommodates 75 in traditional theater-style seating.

* A highlight of the Center is the one-of-a-kind barrel-shaped “Parker Beam Tasting Room,” which seats 22. The dramatic space gives legal age visitors a unique environment in which guided samplings of the company’s world-renowned whiskeys are conducted.

* Eye-catching display items such as old advertisements, photographs, and even a sample of the very first “white dog” (new, unaged Bourbon) that was distilled at Heaven Hill in 1934. Interactive exhibits include informative distillery models and a high-tech “smelling station,” where visitors can nose authentic bourbon at various ages.

* One wall re-creating a rickhouse, complete with various Heaven Hill Bourbon – branded barrels stacked up to the ceiling. The company’s replica milestone barrel heads, beginning with the first barrel filled, are also on display on this wall.

* The center’s gift shop features Kentucky crafts, branded merchandise, bourbon-themed foods and gifts, and a special bottling of Evan Williams Master Distillers’ Select Bourbon available for purchase and customized personalization.

Guests can visit the Heaven Hill Bourbon Heritage Center at 1311 Gilkey Run Road in Bardstown, KY. For more information call 502-337-1000 or visit www.bourbonheritagecenter.com .

Founded in 1934, Bardstown, KY-based Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. (www.heavenhill.com) is the nation’s largest independent, family-owned and operated spirits producer and marketer and the world’s second-largest holder of Kentucky Bourbon. Heaven Hill’s diversified portfolio of brands includes Evan Williams Bourbon; Burnett’s Vodkas and Gin; HPNOTIQ and HPNOTIQ Harmonie Liqueurs; Admiral Nelson’s and Blackheart Rums; The Christian Brothers Brandies; PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur; Lunazul Tequila and Rittenhouse Rye Whisky.

Heaven Hill reminds you to “Think Wisely. Drink Wisely.”

Maker’s Mark Bourbon Offers Recipes to Gobble Up This Thanksgiving

Autumn has arrived and with it, the brilliant colors of changing leaves, the bounty of the season’s harvest and the beginning of the holiday season. A Thanksgiving feast just wouldn’t be complete without ingredients like apples, chestnuts and sweet potatoes, but we at Maker’s Mark say take them to the next level by adding in splash or two of our premium bourbon.

Made from soft red winter wheat, barley and corn and aged in American oak barrels, Maker’s Mark is a smooth tasting premium bourbon with caramel, vanilla and spice notes. These flavors are even bolder and more complex in new Maker’s 46, which undergoes an additional aging process with seared French oak staves.

Our historic Kentucky distillery would like to share with you some great recipes from our friends which incorporate our bourbon and will be easy for your readers to make at home. Acclaimed chef and TV personality Amanda Freitag recommends this delicious bourbon-infused sweet potato side dish and Chef Elizabeth Karmel of New York City’s Hill Country Barbecue has whipped up a pecan pie recipe that will have everyone asking for a second slice. Pair these with an Apple Manhattan or Pomegranate Smash cocktail and you’ve got yourself one heck of a Thanksgiving meal!

Please also check out the new recipe section of our website at visit www.makersmark.com.

Apple Manhattan

RECIPE:

2 parts Maker’s Mark®
1 part Berentzen® Apple Liqueur

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a granny smith apple wheel.

Pomegranate Smash

RECIPE:

2 parts Maker’s 46™
1 part POM Wonderful® Pomegranate Juice
½ part honey
½ part fresh squeezed lemon juice
Garnish with pomegranate seeds

Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Pour over ice into a rocks glass.

Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Maker’s Mark®, Chestnuts and Sage

Recipe by Amanda Freitag, Executive Chef and TV Personality

Prep Time: 15 minutes. Cook Time: 30 minutes. Level: Easy.
Serves 6-8

Ingredients
4-5 large sweet potatoes, peeled & large dice
¼ cup Maker’s Mark®
½ cup + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
½ cup celery, small dice
1½ cups whole peeled chestnuts, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 tablespoon fresh sage, chiffonade
Salt and Black Pepper to taste

1. Place diced sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with cold water. Add salt to the sweet potatoes and bring to a boil. Simmer the potatoes for approximately 25 minutes or until just tender, not too soft.
2. Drain the potatoes until dry and place them back into the pot. Stir in the ½ cup of butter and the Maker’s Mark® while the potatoes are still hot. As you stir the potatoes they will naturally mash and still hold some of their shape. Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste. Transfer to a ceramic serving dish and hold.
3. Prepare the chestnuts by first melting the 2 tablespoons of butter into a sauté pan and sauté the celery on a medium heat. After 2 minutes add the chopped chestnuts and the maple syrup to the celery and cook together until incorporated. Finish the chestnuts with the sage and season with salt and pepper. Spoon the chestnut mixture over the sweet potatoes and serve.

Maker’s Mark® Double-Nut Pecan Pie

Recipe by Elizabeth Karmel, Executive Chef, Hill Country Barbecue Market

Prep Time: 2 hours. Cook Time: 1 hour. Level: Easy.

Serves 8-10

Ingredients

1 cup whole pecans
¾ cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
½ cup granulated white sugar
½ cup dark corn syrup
¼ cup light corn syrup
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoons Maker’s Mark®
1 pre-baked 9-inch pie shell*

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Put chopped nuts into the bottom of the prebaked pie shell and set aside.
2. Combine melted butter, granulated sugar, the dark and light corn syrups, eggs, vanilla extract and bourbon.
3. Pour this mixture on top of chopped nuts. Place a decorative row of whole pecans on the top. Bake about 50-60 minutes on the center rack of the oven or until cooked through. The pie will spring back on top but still giggle a little until it cools. If the top is getting too dark before the center is done, tent with aluminum foil.
4. Cool for a minimum of three hours. The pie is best made the day before.

*Note: Pre-bake the pie shell according to package directions at least two hours beforehand to allow time to cool.

Note from Chef Karmel: “The classic pecan pie made better with the addition of both chopped and whole pecans and a splash of both vanilla and Bourbon. Serve with Maker’s Mark® spiked whipped cream for a double treat!”

Hello Fellow Scotch Lovers –

This weeks’ Whisky Wednesday offering is an exceptionally rare whisky, created over 40 years ago by one of Scotland’s great distilleries, and perhaps most beautiful.

Opportunities like this don’t come along every day. For the first time in its 175 year history, Glengoyne Distillery has released its oldest, most valuable and finest Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky: the Glengoyne 40 Years Old.

Unlike most other distilleries, Glengoyne has been preserving the essence of its whisky’s flavor for decades by using air-dried barley rather than barley dried using harsh peat smoke. The result is a more subtle, complex whisky in which all of the delicate flavors are freely allowed to express themselves.

This natural strength Limited Edition Single Malt was distilled in November 1968 and bottled in 2009. It is displayed in an elegant Glencairn crystal decanter, housed in a solid oak presentation box. The lacquered, piano finished, solid oak presentation box features gold plates on the front and a hand-stitched cream leather interior. An outer leather carry case and cloth bag further protect your investment.

Individually numbered, the elegant hand blown decanter is produced by independent, Scottish, family business Glencairn Crystal and features an engraving of the award winning Glengoyne Distillery.

Together, the Glengoyne Limited Edition 40 Years Old Highland Single Malt and elegant crystal decanter come in a magnificent presentation box and traditionally bound book, signed by the Distillery Manager Robbie Hughes.

There are exactly 250 available worldwide.

We are fortunate to have wonderful relationships within the world of whisky, and so are able to offer a lucky few subscribers the opportunity to own one of these bottles. If you are interested in adding this truly exceptional whisky to your collection, make haste!

Glengoyne Limited Edition Forty Years Old Single Malt Whisky – $5,400/ Bottle

Until next Wednesday….

Doug Stone
Founder
www.ForScotchLovers.com 

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GLENGOYNE LIMITED EDITION FORTY YEARS OLD SINGLE MALT WHISKY

TASTING NOTES – Courtesy of Glengoyne Distilery

Friday, October 28th 7:30 PM
Bruichladdich Masterclass with Master Distiller Jim McEwan
at the Omni Parker House Hotel
60 School St.

Join us at the Omni Parker House for an unmissable scotch whisky experience. The modest (alright, slightly pricey) cost of the event includes a signed bottle of the brand new Bruichladdich 10 Year Old. The boat transporting the first batch of this whisky should be pulling into port as you read this and we are bending the laws of time and space to get it into your hands in time. This bottling contains some of the first whisky distilled since the reopening of this distillery by Jim McEwan and his amazing team. We have only fifteen seats left for this masterclass event. Novice and Connoisseur alike will be blown away by the passion and knowledge of Mr. McEwan as well as the whiskies on offer. Really, this would be a bargain even without the included bottle of 10 Year Old.

Many scotch lovers will never get the chance to see Jim and this is a rare opportunity meet one of the best distillers in the business.

To be poured at the event:

The Organic 2003

10 Y.O. New!

20 Y.O. 3rd. Ed.

21 Y.O.

Black Art 2nd. Edition

Port Charlotte 6

Octomore 2 / 2.2 Orpheus

1973 31 Y.O.

Cost for Master Class is $110.00 (New 10 Y.O. will be available to be picked at the store. Bottles can not be picked up the night of the event. Sorry!!!)

If you do not enjoy peaty scotch talk to Joe, we may be able to do some substitutions.

This year we were honored to be awarded Retailer of The Year for the U.S.A. from Whisky Magazine. This is a great privledge and an honor. It is really about you, our customers, and this Masterclass is for you to have a little time to enjoy.

Please pass this on to any friends who are Scotch enthusiasts!

Joe Howell
Federal Wine & Spirits

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Email: joe@federalwine.com
Phone: (617) 367-8605
Web: http://www.federalwine.com/

BenRiach 1995 16yo Cask 7164 58.3%alc.

695 bottles from a Pedro Ximinez puncheon.

Bottled exclusively for the UK.

Official tasting note:

‘Nose: Bananas and citrus fruits combined with fresh mountain herbs with oregano in abundance.

Colour: Bright amber with a late autumnal glow.

Taste: Juicy fruits of melons, bananas and lychee. Clean toasted oak attributes and distinctive cinnamon flavours.’

BenRiach 1995 16yo Cask 7164

Price excluding VAT: £44.58
£53.50 Including VAT at 20%

Best regards,
Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk

November Outturn Previews: 4 new casks & pair offer

Drool over our spookily good November Preview Bottlings…released early and just in time for Halloween

76.87 Kissing a lady vampire’s neck
Speyside Spey
£39.80 inc free p&p
A ‘classy wee number’ – lightly floral (elderflower or meadowsweet after rain) and fruity (kumquat, physalis, cherry) with understated notes of old pine, coffee grinds and ginger

26.75 Scented candles in a sauna
Highland Northern
£90.75 inc free p&p
At first we noted ‘foamed banana’, then muesli (perhaps Sugar-Puffs) with dried banana and desiccated coconut. Then came ‘ginestra candle’, eucalyptus and sauna scents, which resolved into minerals

G5.4 Sweet Treats
Single Cask Grain
£51.60 inc. free p&p
sweet bourbon-like treats – banana toffee, golden syrup, barley sugar, pecan pie, maple syrup on pancakes, rum and raisin, sugar on cornflakes; vague hints of coconut, balsa wood, vanilla and felt-tip pens

Compare with…?
G5.3 Extraordinary taste intensity
Single Cask Grain
£51.60 inc. free p&p
We found a fabulous, unusual nose – polished oak, coconut and
perfumed smoke; curry spices, toasted sesame seeds and aniseed

Nov Preview Pair Offer: 76.87 & *29.106 for only £83.50

29.106 Old lace & lavender hand cream
Islay
*Exclusive to this pair offer
Big and smoky to taste with white pepper, barbecued prawns,
heather, chalky violets, sweet oysters and charcoal

*October Outturn SAVINGS:
Oct Naughty Pair: 64.32 & 93.46
Electric Six: 64.32, 26.82, 37.49, 93.46, 4.155 & 53.154
*Very last few bottles, 4.155 sold-out completely except within the Electric Six

Super, natural spirits…
We’ve found some lurking in our cupboards, get your hands on some before they vanish forever

Somerset Cider Apple Brandy
Cask 2. Toffee apples and scented cedar
£39.80 inc. free p&p
22 bottles available online

116.4 Cinnamon & garden mint
Japanese single cask
13YO, Date distilled: Nov 1988
Available by the dram at 28 Queen Street (very limited)

Oct Outturn Browse all bottlings (50 single casks online)

SMWS Tastings & Events (39 events online)
All About Sherry – Queen Street, Wed 26 Oct
Oxford Preview Tasting – Oxford Castle, Fri 28 Oct
Sheffield Preview Tasting – Leopold Hold, Fri 28 Oct
Chester-le-Street Preview Tasting – Cricket Club, Fri 28 Oct
Nov Preview Tasting with Cheese – Queen Street, Tue 1 Nov
Nov Preview Tasting for the Meat-Lover – Queen Street, Wed 2 Nov
Nov Outturn Open Tasting – London, Sat 5 Nov
Nov Outturn Tasting & Carvery – The Vaults, Sun 6 Nov

More Society tastings

Society Hogmanay Celebrations: Sat 31 Dec
The Vaults Hogmanay
Hogmanay Gala Dinner: The Dining Room
Hogmanay Member’s Room Event: 28 Queen Street

Whisky Magazine’s 2012 Independent Bottler of the Year
www.whiskymag.com/awards/ibc/2011/

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ
Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm).

Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.

Tasting some Glendronach at TWE Vinopolis

Despite the Whisky Show taking up much of our time at TWE over the last few months, we still found time to organise our regular tastings down at our Vinopolis shop. One of the perks of my position is blagging my way into these and September was a busy one, with three tastings. There’ll be […please click on the link below to read the remainder of the article…]

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THE WAIT IS OVER – A WORLD OF WONDERFUL WHISKIES AWAITS!

How do I get them? you ask. Join The Society now, we reply!

The Canadian branch of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is open for business. For details on how to join visit www.smws.ca. But for more instant gratification, here’s a quick overview.

Initial membership is $230. Upon joining you will receive the exquisitely-designed Membership Pack (pictured above) which includes the coveted membership card personalized with your name and membership number; a handsome lapel pin; a Society handbook; a tasting note book; and best of all – four 100ml bottles of The Society’s extraordinary single cask, single malt whiskies to tantalize your tastebuds!

But more than the Membership Pack, joining The Society puts you in the enviable position of being able to purchase our rare and unique whiskies, not available to non-members. The Society only bottles single cask whisky which means quantities are limited. Once an expression is sold out, it’s gone forever, never to be replicated. But don’t let that deter you! If you miss the chance to buy one, there’s always another fantastic choice on offer.

Members will receive a monthly bottling list called Outturn which outlines each month’s new bottlings. Quirky yet informative tasting notes written by our Tasting Panel of industry experts and enthusiasts accompany each bottle description making it easy for you to find the perfect dram. The month’s Outturn is available on www.smws.ca.

Membership also entitles you to receive our quarterly award-winning magazine Unfiltered – a glossy, colourful, sometimes whimsical look at the whisky industry.

Don’t delay – there’s a space on your shelf for a great new whisky (or two, or…). www.smws.ca

Here’s just one great example of the whiskies now available:

7.70 Naughty Nectar 19 year old Speyside

The nose conveyed elegance and maturity – perfumed honey, dried coconut and exotic fruits. These impressions carried through to the palate, with vanilla giving overall impressions of tutti frutti or Neopolitan ice cream – ‘Nectar!’ ‘Absolutely fabulous!’ and ‘Decadent and naughty!’ were some of our responses. The reduced nose, still sweetly enticing , also had intimations of worn leather, canvas, cigarette packets and celery salt. The reduced palate seemed like a heavenly garden – beehives, flowers, washing on the line and canvas chairs in the sun, with sherbet fountains! From the distillery next-door to Benriach.

Macphails 30yo Puccini Decanter 40%alc.

One of our trade’s best kept secrets, a light and very pleasing single malt from an unidentified Speyside distillery. Stylishly presented in a fine decanter and first-class presentation box, lined with tartan.

If you’re looking for an example of a floral whisky here it is, soft, warm floral aroma, leafy and fragrant with soap and leather annotations when water is added.

On the palette it reflects the floral personality with slight matchwood smoke and a medicinal – surgical spirits – swallow.

Square A2 on the Flavour Map; that’s as Light & Delicate as they come, excellent.

Price excluding VAT: £104.17
£125.00 Including VAT at 20%

https://www.lfw.co.uk/blog/2011/10/18/macphails-30yo-puccini-decanter/

Best regards,
Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk

I’m sure you’re well aware that Jura is an island wrapped in superstition. The crofters build their haystacks in a clockwise direction, we never cut peat before the month of May and we also believe that good fortune comes by knocking on wood before drinking a dram. These are just a few of the many superstitions that make our island so wonderfully unique!

To celebrate our superstitious ways, we’d like to invite you to try your luck with us…

All you need to do is click here and find the 13 superstitions hidden on our special Superstition page. If you’re keen-eyed and spot them all you might just win a luxury trip to Jura! Then you can come and experience all the island’s superstitions for yourself. There are other prizes available too so, log on, as they say and fingers crossed!

Slainte

Willie Cochrane
Jura Distillery Manager

P.S. If you have friends or family who also share your passion for jura whisky and might like to become Diurachs, send them to www.isleofjura.com where they’ll discover more about our mystical isle.