Just Whisky’s August Auction will end Sunday 17^th (20:00)! 

Registration is quick and easy and costs just £1.00. To check out the auction, head over to Just Whisky here: http://www.just-whisky.co.uk/ 

With approximately 450 lots this month there are plenty to choose from. There were however some very interesting lots to catch our eye, starting off with an ultra rare Kawasaki 33 Year Old bottled as part of the Nonjatta Ghost Series. This being release number 4. Sticking with the Japanese theme, there are a number of bottles from closed distilleries like KaruizawaKaruizawa. Be sure to check them out. 

Back in Scotland brings some real delights, with a 20cl version of what was the World’s oldest Whisky – the Mortlach 70 Year Old and nearly as old – The Glenfarclas 60 Year Old in a beautiful crystal decanter. We can’t remember the last time we saw these two beauty’s at auction but they’ll be sure to draw attention to this growing auction house. 

Away from the super rare bottles there are plenty of more affordable auction lots. Why not log on and check them all out? Bidding ends Sunday at 20:00 UK Time. 

 The auction will end Sunday 17th August, 2014! 

Bids placed in the final 5 minutes of the lot ending will extend that particular lot by 15 minutes, giving everyone the chance to increase their bid should they wish to do so. 

Future Auctions 

Just Whisky makes selling whisky online easy! We always accept entries for our forthcoming auctions and sellers commission is a tiny 5%. Entry for your bottles is absolutely FREE of charge! 

Should you need your bottles collected, we offer an uplift service. Please get in touch and we’ll take care of the rest. To sell contact sales@just-whisky.co.uk

Teeling Whiskey Starts Work on First New Dublin Distillery in over 125 Years   

Reviving the Spirit of Dublin – new distillery to create over 30 new permanent jobs in Dublin’s Liberties 

Monday, 11th August – The Teeling Whiskey Company (TWC) has announced that work has commenced on their new whiskey distillery located in Dublin’s Newmarket in The Liberties, Dublin 8.  Bringing the Teelings home to their ancestral roots, this is the first new distillery in Dublin in over 125 years and will be a modern revival of the family distillery that thrived in the area in the 18^th century.

The Teeling Whiskey distilling equipment is scheduled to arrive in October and commissioning of the distillery will commence before the end of this year. There will be more than 100 people employed during the construction of the distillery with 30 permanent jobs created following its completion.

Jack Teeling, Founder and Managing Director of the Teeling Whiskey Company commented “We are proud to be returning to our ancestral distilling roots which trace back to 1782 in The Liberties. This project brings distilling back to an area of Dublin long associated with world class whiskey which, at one stage, had 37 different operational distilleries and was known as the ‘Golden Triangle’ due to the cluster of Irish whiskey manufacturers in one small area.  Dublin whiskey was at the forefront of the last golden age of Irish whiskey.  We aim to revive the Spirit of Dublin by putting Dublin and Teeling Whiskey firmly back on the map again.”

The Teeling Whiskey brand is already on sale in Ireland and is now in over 25 export markets.  The construction of the new distillery will guarantee future supply for the Teeling Whiskey brands and allow the creation of a range of innovative and authentic Irish whiskeys based on the traditional and unique Dublin style of distillation.

The new pot still distillery will have the capacity to produce 500,000 litres of whiskey on an annual basis and will consist of three traditional copper pot stills reviving the traditional style of the old Dublin distilleries. In addition, the visitor centre will become a true Dublin destination; providing an experiential journey into the history of Teeling Whiskey, the whiskey heritage of the Liberties, the unique Dublin whiskey distilling process and whiskey tasting.

For more on Teeling Whiskey Company and its award winning Irish Whiskeys, visit http://www.teelingwhiskey.com/

NOTES

TEELING WHISKEY HERITAGE AND THE WHISKEY HERITAGE OF THE LIBERTIES

The Teelings have being crafting Irish whiskey since 1782 when Walter Teeling had a distillery on Marrowbone Lane in The Liberties of Dublin. At this time there were over 37 different distilleries in Dublin alone in particular centralised in the industrial engine room of the city: The Liberties; the Coombe, Newmarket and Smithfield.

During the 19th century Dublin whiskey became globally recognised as the premier whiskey in the world and some of the largest distilleries of the time emerged from these smaller operations in Dublin’s Liberties. The remains of many of these can still be seen to this day however in 1976 the last Dublin distillery shut down with production moved to Midleton, Cork.

ABOUT THE TEELING WHISKEY COMPANY

The Teeling Whiskey Company was founded by Jack Teeling in 2012 to bring back an independent voice to the Irish whiskey category. His brother Stephen Teeling joined him in 2013 as Sales & Marketing Director and is a co-owner in the business. The Teeling Whiskey Company aims to be

Ireland’s leading independent Irish whiskey producer driving category choice and innovation through a selection of unique handcrafted small batch Irish whiskeys.

ABOUT JACK & STEPHEN TEELING

Jack Teeling is the Founder and Managing Director of the Teeling Whiskey Company. Jack has over 10 years experience in the Irish whiskey industry having previously held the roles of Commercial Manager, Sales and Marketing Director and latterly Managing Director with Cooley Distillery. During his time as Cooley’s Managing Director the company experienced sales growth of over 85%. Cooley Distillery was sold to Beam in January 2012 of $95m. Jack holds an MSc in International Business (TCD), a MBS in Finance (Smurfit Business School) and a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from UCD.

Stephen Teeling is the Sales and Marketing Director of the Teeling Whiskey Company. He was previously a Commercial Manager in Cooley Distillery and was appointed Senior Global Marketing Manager for Irish whiskey in Beam in February 2012. After 16 month managing Cooley brands integration into Beam, he left to join TWC in May 2013. Stephen holds a MBS in International Business (Smurfit Business School) and Bachelors in Business and Economics from Trinity College Dublin.

THE WHISKEY INDUSTRY IN BRIEF

• 62 million litres/6.75million cases of Irish whiskey were consumed in 2013, up from 4 million in 2008
•  Whiskey exports have risen by 220 per cent since 2003 and are now valued at €50 million
•  The Whiskey category is ranked as the fastest-growing spirit in the world every year for the past 23 by the International Wine and Spirits Report with Irish whiskey being the fastest growing segment of category.

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Port Ellen 31 year old Platinum Selection Old and Rare

This Port Ellen Expression is one of the rarest of its kind.

Distilled in September 1982 and bottled in July 2014 at a natural cask strength of 45.9% volume. This 31 year old Port Ellen is one of only 29 bottles filled from a Refill Hogshead.

Each bottling of Old & Rare has been matured to perfection, so due to the angels’ share there are comparatively few examples to emerge from each cask. Presented in a highly distinctive squat bottle, each expression comes beautifully packaged in a specially crafted wooden box.  The personal tasting notes of our expert “nose” are included to complement the views of each individual taster. It goes without saying that each expression remains without chill-filtration or colouring.

£1200 – click here to buy

Coppersea Distilling is first “100% New York” bourbon and rye using New York State barrels

Coppersea Distilling, the Heritage-Methods craft distillery in West Park, New York, has filled the first whisky barrels made from New York State-grown white oak since prohibition; built by a New York cooperage, U.S. Barrel Company. These two inaugural barrels were filled with bourbon and rye whisky.
The bourbon is the first to be matured in New York State oak since the U.S. recognized that spirit as a “distinctive product of the United States” in 1964.

Founded in 2011, Coppersea Distilling is one of the few distilleries in the world capable of bringing nearly the entire whisky-making process in-house. This New York farm distillery produces ultra-premium whiskies and eaux de vies from Hudson Valley-sourced corn, rye, barley and fruits using Heritage-Methods distilling traditions: open wooden fermenters, direct-fired copper-pot stills, sour-mashing and floor-malting. Read more.

www.ralfy.com shows how time and water give two malts from one bottle with Whisky Review 479 – Bowmore 16yo @ (Signatory)

Kininvie – a long-overdue solo appearance

There was much excitement when William Grant launched Batch One from Kininvie to the Taiwanese market in the autumn of 2013, the first-ever release from this off-the-radar distillery. But now, UK whisky drinkers have something to get excited about: Batch Two, a 23-year-old Kininvie, is about to be launched in this country. Since it began distilling in 1990, virtually all of Kininvie’s output went into Grant’s blends and the tri-distillery blend Monkey Shoulder, but Kininvie itself stopped operating in late 2010, with William Grant seemingly reluctant to throw its weight behind a third single malt – understandable given that Glenfiddich and The Balvenie were doing very nicely, thanks very much.

So far, the only Kininvie we’ve seen here at TWE has been two bottlings, released under the Hazelwood banner (we still have some here), but William Grant is now ready to unveil Kininvie to a thirsty UK market – and the results are well worth it. TWE was invited to try three cask samples in addition to the two finished whiskies to get a good grounding of the whisky’s style:

1. 2006 (bourbon barrel): bags of sweet fruit and vanilla, with refreshing green-apple notes
2. 1990 (American oak hogshead): briney, cured-meat notes, lots of spice, tight and lean
3. 1990 (sherry butt): big, big flavours of Christmas cake and rancio, but not overblown

The first ‘complete’ whisky I tried was the 17 Year Old. Sadly, at the moment it’s limited to travel retail, but for the record, it offered clean, fresh aromas of apple and pear, with a sweet, creamy, mouth-filling palate delivering spicy cinnamon and clove notes. Thankfully, the best of the bunch was the one that is going to be available in the UK: the 23 Year Old.

Kininvie 23 Year Old, 42.6% abv. RRP £96.95 (35cl)

Nose: Rich and complex with stone fruit and notes of Seville orange. Very seductive and moreish. Spices start to come through over time.
Palate: This is 20:80 sherry cask/bourbon cask, but the sherry influence certainly makes its presence felt, with a big whack of dried fruit (raisins), along with Christmas spices. Some honeyed notes in there, too.
Finish: Superb. Lovely balance, as the fruit and spices gently dissipate.
Comment: This was the pick of the five by some distance. A very classy product indeed.

Like its Batch One counterpart, Batch Two will be sold in 35cl bottles – very dinky but rather charming, with 1,286 available in the UK. William Grant’s global marketing manager Kevin Abrook says: ‘Good things come in small packages, and we think we’ve got a super whisky here. We went for 35cl because we wanted to convey the sense of something precious.’

Originally published on The Whisky Exchange Blog – Kininvie – a long-overdue solo appearance

Hands-on Whiskey Distilling Workshop for
Start-up Distillers
September 7 – 12

What better way to learn basic distillery operations than at this fun and informative, 5-day workshop at Michigan’s New Holland Brewing & Distilling. You will learn the fundamentals of grain-to-bottle whiskey production and business concerns in starting a distilled spirits plant. You’ll also learn all about licensing, still design, record keeping, package design, formula and label approval, and marketing spirits. Click here to register.

This week Joe Ellis and special guest Matt Bowdler review the hugely sought after Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch 5! 

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New Body launched to represent all craft distillers in Scotland

Bringing together new or emerging Scottish distilleries and Scottish academics, the Scottish Craft Distillers Association (SCDA) is hoping to emulate the success that the craft distilling industry has had over the past few years around the world, and promote the new products and processes that are being developed by its members.

The formation of the SCDA came about after members of Interface Food & Drink’s Craft Distillers Common Interest Group (CIG) felt they required a Body to represent their collective needs and, as a result, Interface Food & Drink (IFD), in association with Strathearn Distilleries and the International Centre for Brewing & Distilling, formed the Association.

The SCDA currently boasts more than 30 members, three of which are already producing spirits, and it is hoped that each month a different member of the group will start producing. Read more.