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ANGEL’S ENVY® UNVEILS $8.2 MILLION BRAND HOME EXPANSION AND FIRST VIRTUAL DISTILLERY IN DECENTRALAND – Virtual Whiskey News
June 13th, 2022
ANGEL’S ENVY® UNVEILS $8.2 MILLION BRAND HOME EXPANSION AND FIRST VIRTUAL DISTILLERY IN DECENTRALAND
The $8.2 million Brand Home expansion adds 13,000 square feet and doubles annual guest capacity at ANGEL’S ENVY’s distillery in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
From June 14, National Bourbon Day, through June 20, fans can visit the ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery virtual pop-up for a gamified bourbon-making experience, interactive cocktail quest, POAP token, NFT wearable giveaways, and more
Louisville, Kentucky (June 7, 2022) – ANGEL’S ENVY®, the Kentucky-based craft distiller that produces finished whiskeys, today unveiled its completed $8.2 million Brand Home expansion at 500 E. Main St. in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. The expansion, which adds 13,000 square feet to the facility, will allow ANGEL’S ENVY to welcome an additional 64,000 visitors each year, doubling annual guest capacity. To celebrate, ANGEL’S ENVY, the super-premium whiskey owned by Bacardi Limited, is inviting fans to plan an in-person visit or experience the Brand Home virtually via the ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery, the first-ever distillery experience in Decentraland. The ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery – which includes a gamified and educational distillery production tour and bourbon-making experience, interactive cocktail challenge, Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP) token, non-fungible token (NFT) wearable giveaways, and more – will launch in Decentraland on June 14, National Bourbon Day, and remain open through June 20.
“ANGEL’S ENVY has seen significant growth over the past several years, and that will only be amplified with our Brand Home expansion as we can now better meet the incredible demand from visitors who want to tour our facilities and experience our distillery. We’re proud to be part of such a strong community in Louisville and will continue to invest in our hometown,” said Gigi DaDan, ANGEL’S ENVY General Manager. “We’re thrilled to launch the ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery on National Bourbon Day and look forward to engaging and celebrating bourbon with new audiences from all over the world through the virtual experience.”
The expansion to the ANGEL’S ENVY Brand Home will create approximately 20 new jobs in Louisville and includes new spaces and experiences for guests, such as a larger retail area, five new tasting rooms, an additional bar space, event space, and full catering kitchen and a designated room for ANGEL’S ENVY’s “Bottle Your Own” experience, which will now offer guests the chance to fill their own bottles of a distillery-exclusive Single Barrel offering. ANGEL’S ENVY worked with Joseph & Joseph, Contagious, and Sullivan & Cozart on the design and build for the expansion; construction began in late 2020. Visitors can now learn more about distillery experiences, book tours, and inquire about private events at angelsenvy.com/distillery.
With the launch of the ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery, the super-premium bourbon brand becomes the first in the Bacardi portfolio of brands to create a Brand Home in the metaverse. Users (age 21+) are taken on a series of gamified experiences such as a mash bill challenge, cask personalization in the barreling room, and an ingredient quest to create cocktails. In addition, users have the opportunity to plant virtual white oak trees around the distillery, correlating to trees planted in real life through ANGEL’S ENVY’s “Toast the Trees” initiative – a program created in 2014 to raise awareness about the importance of a healthy white oak tree population to preserve the future of bourbon. ANGEL’S ENVY partnered with Terrazero Technologies Inc., a metaverse products and services technology firm and experience development studio, to create the ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery.
“We are excited to welcome the first distillery in Decentraland with the ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery,” said Adam de Cata, Head of Partnerships for Decentraland Foundation. “As we have seen over the past several months, people want to engage in the metaverse with activities and goods that they can relate to from this reality. The ANGEL’S ENVY Meta Distillery creates a new way for people to engage and celebrate in the metaverse.”
Throughout the experience, which is easily accessible for first-time or established users of Decentraland, users will earn virtual badges, a POAP token, and free customized NFT wearables. Users within the U.S. will be able to purchase physical items from the ANGEL’S ENVY web shop and a metaverse cocktail delivered to their door via Cocktail Courier. They can also enter to win an ANGEL’S ENVY mixology kit. More information about how to access and engage with the experience can be found here.
About ANGEL’S ENVY
ANGEL’S ENVY is a Louisville, Kentucky-based craft distiller that produces finished whiskeys. Co-founded in 2010 by the late Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson and his son Wes Henderson, it began as a passion project that combined their family’s deep-rooted passion for and knowledge of the industry with an innovative outlook on bourbon making and finishing. Today, the ANGEL’S ENVY team continues to produce its award-winning core offerings – a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Finished in Port Wine Barrels and a Rye Whiskey Finished in Caribbean Rum Casks – as well as a variety of innovative, special releases.
ANGEL’S ENVY opened the doors to its Brand Home, the first full-production whiskey distillery in downtown Louisville, in 2016. In June 2022, ANGEL’S ENVY completed an $8.2 million expansion to its Brand Home, doubling annual guest capacity. The ANGEL’S ENVY distillery is located at 500 East Main Street.
ANGEL’S ENVY is available in all 50 U.S. states and several international markets, and it is produced by Louisville Distilling Company, a subsidiary of Bacardi Limited.
For more information, please visit us at www.angelsenvy.com, or on:
Facebook: facebook.com/AngelsEnvyBourbon or facebook.com/TourAngelsEnvy
Twitter: @angels_envy
Instagram: @angelsenvy
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Make it a Personalised Whisky Gift! 🥃 – Loch Fyne Whisky News
June 13th, 2022
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The Grand Whisky Auction Ends Soon! – Auction Whisky News
June 13th, 2022
The Grand Whisky Auction ends soon!
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Cotswolds Distillery “Receive a complimentary Glencairn Glass” – English Whisky News
June 13th, 2022
Until midnight on Tuesday 14th June, we’re offering you the chance to receive a complimentary branded Glencairn Glass, worth £6.95, when you purchase one of our single malt whiskies online and in-store.* The perfect addition to your whisky cabinet, it also makes for a beautiful gift to which you can add a personalised gift note.
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Scotch Malt Whisky Society ‘Fresh award WINS’ – Scotch Whisky News
June 13th, 2022
The Society has had another bumper batch of award medals, in the UK and around the world. In the International Spirits Challenge (ISC), the SMWS not only matched but bettered our performance from last year, with four Gold medals as well as an outstanding Double Gold award. In Japan, our team won two Superior Golds and three Golds in the Tokyo Whisky & Spirits Competition.
We had our best-ever result in the Scotch Whisky Masters competition, winning five of its highest-award Master medals and one Gold. In the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, we won three Double Gold and three Gold medals, while in the Ultimate Spirits Challenge we won the Chairman’s Trophy for our small-batch blended malt, Tabanco Time, along with six other awards for our single cask bottlings from across Speyside and Islay.
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Dalmore Sherry Cask Select – 12 Year Old Single Malt Whisky at Hard To Find Whisky – Scotch Whisky News
June 13th, 2022
THE DALMORE – SHERRY CASK SELECT
12 YEAR OLD – WITH FREE GLASS
70cl | 43% ABV
Sherry Cask Select is the newest addition to The Dalmore’s acclaimed Principal Collection of Single Malt Scotch Whiskies. This delicious and decadent Highland Whisky was initially matured in ex-Bourbon casks for a period of 10 years, developing rich flavours of chocolate, citrus, vanilla and spice. The whisky was then finished for two years in Sherry saturated casks from Andalusia, imparting sweet fruits and Autumnal spice.
Nose: Caramelised orange, ginger and sultanas, laced with honey.
Palate: Dark chocolate and crushed almonds with a dusting of cinnamon.
Finish: Sweet mangos, panna cotta and lemon sponge cake.
£74.95
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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 446: Nc’nean Huntress – Scotch Whisky News
June 13th, 2022
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 446: Nc’nean Huntress
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries Nc’nean’s latest release. This time Anabel and her team opted for a slightly different composition than for their regular batches, namely 61% STR Red Wine Casks and 39% Ex-Bourbon casks. It is also bottled at a slightly higher alcohol percentage. This is the spring whisky par excellence of this young, dynamic distillery that now boasts quite a few loyal followers. The special thing about this whisky is that it was produced with three different yeast strains, one of which is normally used for the production of rum!
CHIVAS BROTHERS INVESTS IN SUSTAINABLE FUTURE OF SCOTCH WITH £88 MILLION EXPANSION OF ABERLOUR AND MILTONDUFF DISTILLERIES – Scotch Whisky News
June 12th, 2022
CHIVAS BROTHERS INVESTS IN SUSTAINABLE FUTURE OF SCOTCH WITH £88 MILLION EXPANSION OF ABERLOUR AND MILTONDUFF DISTILLERIES
CHIVAS BROTHERS, THE SCOTCH WHISKY BUSINESS OF PERNOD RICARD, TODAY ANNOUNCED A £88 MILLION INVESTMENT INTO ABERLOUR AND MILTONDUFF, TWO OF ITS STRATEGIC SINGLE MALT DISTILLERIES. THE INVESTMENT WILL GO INTO UPGRADING SUSTAINABLE DISTILLATION TECHNOLOGIES AT THE SPEYSIDE DISTILLERIES ALONG WITH SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION CAPACITY EXPANSIONS TO MEET THE GROWING GLOBAL DEMAND FOR SCOTCH.
The distillery expansions will grow Chivas Brothers’ total production by 14 million litres of alcohol per annum. The investment is further confirmation of Chivas Brothers’ commitment to Scotland and a testament to the growing global demand for Scotch whisky which has seen exports increase across all regions, with market gains in Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Asia. In its Half Year results in February, Chivas Brothers announced a net sales increase of +23%, confirming the company’s recovery to beyond pre-Covid levels.
The distillery expansions will also serve to accelerate Chivas Brothers’ ambitious goal of reaching carbon neutral distillation by 2026 with the installation of new bio plants and high-efficiency Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) fan technology for pot still distillation across both sites. This mechanism enables a major energy recovery by compressing the vapor which then rises in temperature and is sent back to heat the stills during the distillation process. Last year, the company announced plans to roll out MVR technology across all viable sites in its distillery portfolio by 2026 following a groundbreaking pilot study at its Glentauchers distillery which resulted in energy reductions of 90% on a single pot still there.
Jean-Etienne Gourgues, Chairman and CEO of Chivas Brothers said:
“Scotch has demonstrated its resilience as a category over the past few challenging years and in the process has opened new avenues for growth. This expansion will allow us to increase our volume to capitalise on the increased demand and interest in Scotch, but also supports our drive to reduce emissions in line with our sustainability ambitions. We’re once again betting big on the future of Scotch so we can bring in new consumers to the category and continue to shape a sustainable future of whisky.”
The Aberlour distillery, which has been producing whisky since 1879 will see its production capacity double to 7.8 million litres of alcohol per annum. This additional capacity will support the accelerating global demand for the cult favourite Scotch which continues to be the best-selling single malt whisky in France and has made significant gains across Asia. The distillery will also undergo a significant facelift with an upgraded visitor centre which will draw more whisky fans to the area and boost local tourism. A new still house will be equipped with large windows providing visitors with views into the nearby woods and the River Spey; the water source for the spirit.
Miltonduff’s expansion will consist of a brand new state-of-the-art sustainable distillery built next to the existing facility. The distillery, which will include a bio plant and evaporator, will add 10 million litres of alcohol per annum to the total production capacity. Miltonduff single malt is one of the foundations of Ballantine’s blends and is a key component of other blended whiskies in the Chivas Brothers portfolio. This increased capacity will further accelerate Ballantine’s pace of growth which in HY22 results saw global sales rise by +29%, fuelled by a range of new expressions.
Secretary of State for International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, said:
“Scotch Whisky is a UK exporting success story and this excellent news will see some of the best products made in Scotland, sold to the World – supporting jobs and economic growth and helping us to level up the country.
“It’s great to see Chivas Brothers adopt new ground-breaking energy efficient technology, helping deliver the Government’s Net Zero strategy, and maximising export opportunities through green UK innovation.”
Both sites are expected to be operating at full production capacity by mid-2025.
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Smoke Point is Here! – Canadian Whisky News
June 12th, 2022
Exclusive Access to Smoke Point
Get early access to one of our most anticipated releases of the year!
One of the most anticipated releases of the year is here!
Winner of Double Gold at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the oldest and largest spirits competition in the world, Smoke Point has made it through the final “sweeps” rounds and is now one of two whiskies contending for Best of Class Canadian Whisky!
About Smoke Point.
Smoke Point single malt whisky is a proprietary vatting of whisky that has been aged in barrels smoked with driftwood from our shore and native woods found around the distillery. The rich smoky flavours carry a salty tang and hint of iodine from the seaweed and salt on the driftwood that balances perfectly with the sweet creamy mouthfeel of this award-winning whisky. Experience campfire, cigar smoke and oak on the nose. Chocolate, fruit, and toffee on the palette, finishing in a delicious combination of creme brulée and salty graham cracker. In Smoke Point we have created a whisky for you to enjoy that captures the spirit of the island campfire and brings the best of Vancouver Island to the canon of smoky, peaty whiskies.
For a limited time, in celebration of Father’s Day we’re offering 10% off all bottles available through our online store. Simply apply promo code DAD2022 at check out (offer is valid now until June 19th).
