The latest Warehouse 1 release from Glen Moray

The final release in the Warehouse 1’s inaugural year of bottlings – here we have a spirit distilled in 2008, matured in ex-bourbon casks with a finish in Manzanilla sherry barrels and left at cask strength of 54.6% abv. The popular series has shown Glen Moray’s skill in experimenting with less common casks to create exciting and unique expressions. Limited to only 1,240 bottles – don’t miss out!

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Glen Moray 2008 Warehouse 1 Manzanilla Finish Description

Welcome to our first and soon to be annual Festive Festival in a Box!

We have put this exclusive pack together, very much with Christmas in mind – to put a big smile on your face, or that of a loved one!

Within our new gift pack, is everything needed to have the most incredible whisky Xmas ever…

• 23 Amazing whisky and spirit samples, from all over the world
• 1 Glencairn Whisky Tasting glass – the best glass for tasting whisky
• 1 Pre-mixed Old-Fashioned – perfect for de-stressing, post Xmas dinner!
• 1 packet of popcorn and Hawkhead whisky-smoked seasoning – perfect with said Old-Fashioned!

And as if this wasn’t enough, every recipient gets access to over 12 hours of new video content, with exclusive interviews and tastings with the very producers of the whiskies included in the pack!

This should keep even the most dedicated of whisky-lovers happy and busy for the whole Xmas week and beyond!

The whiskies featured are from some of our favourite distillers and have been hand-picked by us. The Festive Festival in a Box gives any whisky-lover the chance to explore whiskies, and even other spirits, from some familiar, and unfamiliar names, from Japan, Ireland, Wales, the USA, Scotland and even England!

Our Black Friday offer to you is a simple one! You can buy 1 or more Festive Festival in a Boxes for 25% less than the full price, using the code below. That’s a saving of nearly £20!

The code you need (when checking out) is:
FFIAB25
Simply click on the button below.

If you want to pass this email and code onto any deserving friends or family, please do!

We are working with a new (to us) fulfilment partner and we are confident these will be delivered to you, or your nominated addressee, well before Xmas day.

Video content will be made available from Xmas day onward!

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The Causeway Collection: 2000 Port Cask

20 Year Old | 70cl | 54.1% ABV | Cask Strength

The 2000 Port Cask is a limited edition, cask strength Irish Single Malt. This expression has spent its entire life in rare first-fill ruby port casks. After maturing for 20 years, the malt is imbued with bold and luscious red fruit flavours. The fortified port wine cask has added waves of sweet, caramelised toffee notes, balanced by a hint of sweet chilli.

UK Exclusive Release With Only 2,322 Bottles Available

£259.95

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WIN OUR BIGGEST-EVER TASTING SET – THE PERFECT MEASURE GIVEAWAY

You may have noticed that Christmas is approaching. While we’ve got loads of great things happening on our website – and you can find them through our Christmas page – we also have lots going on in our London shops, including one of our biggest giveaways ever: three lucky winners will start the new year with hundreds of tasty things things to drink…

The Perfect Measure…to share?

For the whole of December, each of our three London shops will have a big box of bottles for visitors to admire. Each will be filled with samples from The Perfect Measure, our Fine Christmas Malt 2021 and a handful of deliberately deceptively sized boxes and baubles, and your mission is simple: guess how many samples there are in the box. The prize? The contents of the box.

Each shop has its own box, each with a different number of Perfect Measures, and you can make a guess for each one – that’s three chances to win a huge pile of tasty drinks. There’ll be a QR code to scan in-store to take you to the competition sign-up page, and once you’ve popped in your email and made a guess, you’ll be in with a chance of winning.

What’s in the box?

Not only have we grabbed currently available samples from across The Perfect Measure range, but we’ve also dug deep into the archive, and raided my own stash of long sold-out bottles.

We’ve got drams from closed distilleries like Imperial, sought-after favourites including a few 1996 Ben Nevises (Ben Nevii?), and a stack of no-longer-available TWE-exclusive bottlings that I’d been saving for a special occasion. That occasion is this December.

On top of all of that, each box will contain a sample of the recently released (and sold out) Karuizawa 34 Year Old Ruby Geisha. The penultimate entry in the Karuizawa Geisha range, it and its sister bottling were sold by ballot, with the 34yo commanding a price of £18,000. Based on bottle price alone, a 3cl sample is worth more than £771.

Get to the shops!

So, if you want to be in with a chance of winning our biggest-ever tasting set, head down to our London shops this December. You can find out where the shops are, when they’re open and how to drop them a line over on our website:

Covent Garden – Great Portland Street – London Bridge

Good luck and happy counting!

Calumet Farm 15 Year Old “Single Rack Black” Small Batch Unchillfiltered Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $119.99 View

The new Calumet Farm 15 Year is an unusual release from this upstart, Kentucky-based brand. Both the highest proof and highest age for the brand to date, this is great old Kentucky bourbon bottled without chillfiltration. The “Single Rack” is a reference to the source of the batch being from a single rack in the brickhouse, meaning all barrels were aged in the same center part of the warehouse, which lends to longer aging as compared to the top floors. Calumet Farm is the most famous horse farm in Kentucky (having bred and trained two Triple Crown winners and eight Derby winners), and their pedigree has allowed them access that few others have. Distilled and aged in Bardstown entirely in 2006, only 19 barrels were used in the production of this batch. At the time, only one distillery was operating in the area, so we can assume this is good Barton juice. The mash bill is 74% corn, 18% rye, and 8% malted barley.

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Resilient 16 Year Old “Barrel #122” Single Barrel Cask Strength Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $129.99 View

Resilient 16 Year Old “Barrel #203” Single Barrel Cask Strength Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $129.99 View

Obtainium 27 Year Old Canadian Whiskey (750ml) $199.99 View

This is a classic Canadian blend of mostly light whisky, with 3% traditional rye and 2% traditional corn. The three whiskies were distilled at what is now known as the Black Velvet Distillery (formerly the Palliser Distillery) in Southern Alberta before being blended and aged in oak barrels for 27 years before being cut from 156 proof to a slightly more managable 141. Rich and complex, the light whiskies don’t have the bodied or complexity of a straight bourbon or rye until they start to get serious age. This is the oldest we’ve ever seen. It’s somewhere akin to a single grain whisky being aged in active refill bourbon barrels for many many years. It’s a wild expression unlike any other on the market today, but this is one experiment that’s worth the risk.

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W.L. Weller Antique 107 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Wins Best of Class, Double Gold Medal at 2021 New York World Wine & Spirits Competition

 24 Total Spirits produced by Buffalo Trace Distillery Honored 

FRANKFORT, Franklin County, Ky (Nov. 2, 2021) Buffalo Trace Distillery’s W. L. Weller Antique 107 Kentucky Straight Bourbon was named Best of Class: Straight Bourbon and awarded a Double Gold medal at the 2021 New York World Wine & Spirits Competition (NYWSC). Also earning a Double Gold medal were Blanton’s Straight From the Barrel Bourbon and W. L. Weller Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon. In addition to these, 21 other spirits produced by Buffalo Trace Distillery received recognition in this year’s competition.

Gold medals went to

• Blanton’s Original Single Barrel Bourbon
• Blanton’s Gold Edition Bourbon
• W. L. Weller Full Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Silver medals went to

• Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Eagle Rare 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Barrel Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey
• Stagg Jr. Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• W. L. Weller Special Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• W. L. Weller 12 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon
•  W. L. Weller CYPB Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Benchmark Top Floor Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Benchmark Bonded Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream Liqueur

Bronze medals went to

• Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Benchmark Old No. 8 Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Benchmark Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon
• Benchmark Full Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon

The NYWSC is committed to three principles: legacy, integrity and experience. Predicated on these principles, the spirits are judged by the industry’s most trusted authorities. Results from the 2021 NYWSC can be viewed at https://www.nywscomp.com/results.

For more information on Buffalo Trace Distillery’s award-winning portfolio of brands, visit https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com.

About Buffalo Trace Distillery

Buffalo Trace Distillery is an American family-owned company based in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. The Distillery’s rich tradition dates back to 1775 and includes such legends as E.H. Taylor, Jr., George T. Stagg, Albert B. Blanton, Orville Schupp, and Elmer T. Lee.  Buffalo Trace Distillery is a fully operational Distillery producing bourbon, rye and vodka on site and is a National Historic Landmark as well as is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Distillery has won 35 distillery titles since 2000 from such notable publications as Whisky Magazine, Whisky Advocate Magazine and Wine Enthusiast Magazine. Its Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr. Four Grain Bourbon was named World Whiskey of the Year for 2018 and its William Larue Weller and Thomas H. Handy Sazerac were named 2^nd and 3^rd finest whiskeys in the world for 2020.  Buffalo Trace Distillery has also garnered more than 1,000 awards for its wide range of premium whiskies. To learn more about Buffalo Trace Distillery visit www.buffalotracedistillery.com

TWO THOMAS S. MOORE BOURBONS RECEIVED MASTER MEDALS AT THE SPIRITS BUSINESS LUXURY MASTERS 2021

Seven Barton 1792 Bourbons Awarded Gold Medals

BARDSTOWN, KY (Oct. 28, 2021) – Barton 1792 Distillery bourbons received 10 medals at the 2021 Spirits Business Luxury Masters. Two of those medals were Master medals, awarded to Thomas S. Moore Cabernet Sauvignon Finished Bourbon and Thomas S. Moore Chardonnay Finished Bourbon, both limited extended cask finished bourbons released at the end of 2020. Distillery bourbons also received seven Gold medals and one Silver medal.

Master medals went to

• Thomas S. Moore Cabernet Sauvignon Finished Bourbon
• Thomas S. Moore Chardonnay Finished Bourbon

Gold medals went to

• 1792 Small Batch
• 1792 Single Barrel
• 1792 Full Proof
• 1792 Aged 12 Years
• 1792 Bottled In Bond
• Thomas S. Moore Port Finished Bourbon
• Early Times Bottled In Bond

Silver medal went to

• Early Times

The Luxury Masters competition, chaired by The Spirits Business and judged by a panel of leading spirits specialists via blind tasting, aims to find and reward the finest luxury spirits brands. A full list of results for the 2021 Luxury Masters can be found at https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2021/09/luxury-masters-2021/

For more information about Barton 1792 brands, please visit https://www.1792distillery.com/

About Barton 1792 Distillery

Barton 1792 Distillery is part of Barton Brands.  Barton Brands has facilities in Bardstown, Ky., Carson, Calif., and Baltimore, Md. Barton Brands is owned by the Sazerac Company, an American family-owned company based in New Orleans, La. Barton 1792 Distillery was established in 1879 and continues today as the oldest fully-operating Distillery in the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” The Distillery is located on 196 acres and includes 28 warehouses, 22 other buildings, the Morton Spring and the Tom Moore Spring.  Distilling, aging and bottling fine Bourbon whiskey are hallmarks of the historic Barton 1792 Distillery. 1792 Small Batch Bourbon Whiskey is produced at Barton 1792 Distillery, and is named for the year Kentucky became a state. The Distillery has garnered a number of prestigious awards for its whiskies, including its 1792 Full Proof, which was named the World Whiskey of the Year for 2020.  To learn more visit www.1792bourbon.com

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