American Oak ex-Tawny TD0309

Tomorrow we release an American oak ex-Tawny, TD0309.

TD0309 is a testament to the ultra high standards we set ourselves at Sullivans Cove.

In March of 2021, TD0309 scored very highly with the Sullivans Cove tasting panel, so we began watching it closely. It was then assessed on 9 different occasions between April 9 2021 and February 8 2022. Each of these 9 times, the panel was blown away by the flavour and texture of this rich American oak ex-Tawny, but it hadn’t quite reached its full potential.

Until now.

16 months since that first high score, and the scales have finally balanced for TD0309. We are generous with our time at Sullivans Cove, and we track our casks extremely closely because we want to catch them when they reach their absolute peak.

Until the panel is unanimous, we will not decant.

American Oak ex-Tawny: TD0309

Storm clouds of Dutch cocoa powder loom over an engine oil ocean – this is a whisky with serious backbone and a broad, rich flavour profile.

Sullivans Cove spirit, brought to you in the wrappings of toasty Australian Tawny, and 13.5 years of careful maturation. Both of these fighters refuse to go down, and the bell just keeps tolling.

13.5 years old, matured in a 300L first-fill American oak ex-Tawny cask, TD0309 yielded just 439 bottles.

Read the full tasting notes here

This whisky will be released via ballot.The ballot will open for 24 hours from 10am Hobart time on Tuesday 26th of July. Further details will be sent prior to the ballot opening.

A note on our ballot system. 

Our policy is one entry per person, per household, per ballot. Our fraud detection algorithm detects multiple entries and removes them to ensure our whisky lands in the hands of our genuine supporters, so to ensure your entry counts, please enter each ballot once only. If you have any questions around our ballot process, you can email us at info@sullivanscove.com Successful entries will be notified shortly after the ballot closes.

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Linkwood 25 Years Old Distillery Label 70cl 46%

NOSE: Hints of baked apple, stewed raisin, and cinnamon enhance rich Sherry influences. Sweet liquorice aromas develop enhanced by light floral nuances. A polished oak edge remains.

PALATE: Sweet and spicy; date, prune, and raisin flavours complement warming pepper. Hints of cinnamon and clove add spice. Tangy blackcurrant notes mixed with sweet cherry jam and candied citrus fruit.

FINISH: A nutty edge balances the lingering oak notes.

£195.00

Mortlach 25 Years Old Distillery Label 70cl 46%

NOSE:  Rich and full; Sherry and orange marmalade notes combine with stewed dates and prunes. Underlying herbal aromas surface and transform into brown sugar with gentle toffee highlights.

PALATE: Pronounced Sherry influences join crème brûlée, orange marmalade, sultana, and raisin flavours. Hints of mature oak appear whilst an aniseed edge underscores dark chocolate notes.

FINISH: Medium with lingering charred oak and cocoa powder.

£195.00

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Cities Of The Future is a global, Limited Edition series featuring some of the world’s most iconic cities. The stunning illustrations by Luke Halls, the renowned digital artist, offer a utopian vision of famous future cityscapes in the year 2220, including London, Seoul, Sydney and Singapore. These highly collectable whiskies are only available in limited quantities, and are exclusive to the country that is featured on the bottle.

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Clonakilty Distillery has announced future sustainability commitments

The distillery has outlined a number of pledges in an attempt to increase awareness of sustainability and will focus on reducing overall energy usage with the aim of eliminating the use of single-use plastic from their whiskey packaging by the end of the year.

The purpose behind these commitments is to increase biodiversity in Clonakilty by working with the local community to provide food and habitat for native birds, bees, and insects. The Distillery has outlined a number of commitments, including planting over 100 mature trees and 400 natural hedgerows and shrubs by 2023, as well as establishing a permanent wildflower meadow.

Michael Scully, Managing Director at Clonakilty Distillery said, “We take our environmental responsibilities seriously, prioritising sustainable actions where possible”.

He added that “We work closely with our colleagues and the local community in Clonakilty while constantly seeking improvements to implement best practice so that we at Clonakilty Distillery can make our own difference in helping to shape a better world”.

The distillery has already made a direct and significant impact on the economic and social well-being of the community by taking over a former bank building in a prime waterfront location in Clonakilty town.

Other sustainability commitments are as follows:

• By the end of 2022 the distillery will reduce average glass weight by 15%.
• By 2025, a minimum of 40% recycled glass will be included in the standard bottles, with the intention of increasing this even further as technology allows.
• By 2025, 100% of packaging materials will be reusable, recyclable and/or compostable.
• The Distillery has promised to continue assisting local charities and groups on a yearly basis, as well as creating and cultivating relationships with local sustainability community groups.  By 2023, 100 percent of production will take place in the local area and community. This will involve processes such as blending, bottling, and packaging.

To keep up to date with all things Clonakilty Distillery, check out Clonakilty Distillery on Twitter @clondistillery, on Facebook @clonakiltydistillery and on Instagram @clonakiltydistillery. For more information visit https://clonakiltydistillery.ie/

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Kentucky Distillers’ Association Promotes Staff Members to Further Advance the Commonwealth’s Signature Bourbon and Spirits Industry

The Kentucky Distillers’ Association staff, from front left: Sara Barnes, Eric Gregory and Annie Franklin. In the back row from left: Allison Delande, Marielle McElmurray, Adam Johnson, Mandy Ryan, Colleen Thomas and Jack Mazurak.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Distillers’ Association today announced several staff promotions to further position the historic non-profit trade group as the leading voice for Bourbon, America’s only native spirit and a thriving economic engine for the Bluegrass State.

“With more members than ever before, the KDA continues to expand and position its staff to lead our signature industry into the future, address core issues and challenges, and increase value to our distilleries and partners,” KDA President Eric Gregory said.

“We are fortunate and thankful to have a visionary Board of Directors and growing membership that works together and invests in the association as the industry flourishes,” Gregory said. “That spirit of camaraderie and collaboration is at the hallmark of everything we do.”

Staff changes include:

– Adam Johnson, 47, is the KDA’s first-ever Vice President of State Relations. He has led the KDA’s Kentucky Bourbon Trail® experiences since 2012. In his new role, Johnson will cultivate and strengthen the KDA’s relationships with other state distilling guilds and national groups like DISCUS, the American Craft Spirits Association, and similar organizations.

– Colleen Thomas, 47, is the KDA’s first-ever Vice President of Operations. She has been with the KDA since 2016 in a variety of roles, most recently as Senior Director of Marketing and Member Services. Thomas will now oversee KDA member services and support, responsibility and sustainability programs, research, workforce development, marketing, and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® tourism program.

– Mandy Ryan, 33, will oversee KDA’s tourism initiatives as the Director of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® experiences. She joined the KDA full-time in 2013 as Executive Assistant and has spent the last two years leading promotional efforts as Director of Marketing, successfully growing the organization’s online presence and building the new Kentucky Bourbon campaign.

– Marielle McElmurray, 29, has been named Operations Manager and Executive Assistant. She joined the KDA as Special Projects Manager in 2021. She will continue to assist KDA staff in several areas, including governmental affairs, research and agricultural policy, while coordinating daily KDA operations at its headquarters in Frankfort. McElmurry also is Assistant Secretary-Treasurer to the KDA Board of Directors.

Other KDA staff include Sara Barnes, Director of Industry Responsibility & Sustainability; Jack Mazurak, Director of Governmental & Regulatory Affairs; Annie Franklin, Director of Member Services; and Allison Delande, Director of Special Projects.

Founded in 1880, the KDA is the voice for Bourbon and spirits issues. Its diverse membership produces the overwhelming majority of the world’s Bourbon, from legendary, global brands to emerging micro distilleries that are building the next generation of America’s only native spirit.

Bourbon is one of Kentucky’s most treasured industries, a booming $9 billion economic and tourism engine sustaining more than 22,500 jobs with an annual payroll topping $1.23 billion each year, over $285 million in local and state taxes and $1.8 billion in federal alcohol taxes.

A key export, the iconic industry is currently in the middle of a $5.2 billion building boom, from innovative new tourism experiences to expanded production facilities, bottling centers and aging warehouses, all to meet the growing global thirst for Kentucky Bourbon.

Bourbon production has skyrocketed more than 435% since the turn of the century.

Kentucky now boasts more than 10.3 million barrels of Bourbon aging in warehouses across the Bluegrass, the most in its revered distilling history. Distillers filled more than 2.4 million barrels in 2020 alone, the third year in a row that production topped the two million mark.

Attendance at the KDA’s Kentucky Bourbon Trail® and Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour® experiences continue their rapid rebound from COVID and closures, up 160% in total attendance from last year and just down slightly from the pre-pandemic record in 2019.

Visit www.kybourbon.com and www.kybourbontrail.com to learn more.

The Kentucky Distillers’ Association is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association that passionately unites, promotes, protects and elevates the Commonwealth’s signature Bourbon and distilled spirits industry. The KDA maintains an open membership policy, champions a strong commitment to the responsible and moderate consumption of spirits, and fights to curb underage drinking and drunk driving.

KENTUCKY BOURBON TRAIL®, KENTUCKY BOURBON TRAIL CRAFT TOUR®,, KENTUCKY BOURBON AFFAIR™, KBT®,, BOURBON TRAIL™, KENTUCKY BOURBON HALL OF FAME®,, ORDER OF THE WRIT®,, KENTUCKY BOURBON TALES®,, KENTUCKY BOURBON TRAIL WELCOME CENTER®,, URBAN BOURBON TRAIL® and THE PROOF IS HERE®are trademarks/service marks of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.

Please enjoy Bourbon like a true Kentuckian – Responsibly.

Our July Auction Ends Soon!

Place your bids until Sunday 24^th July.

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Every month, we present an incredible selection of whiskies and other fine spirits to our members right across the globe. You will find everything here from limited edition releases and vintage bottles to whole casks of rare whisky. There is certainly something for everyone – whether you are looking to collect, investor enjoy!

Macallan – Exceptional Single Cask (1988)

Karuizawa – 33 Year Old (1981) ‘Koraku-en’  

Highland Park – The Dragon (1968)

Springbank – 32 Year Old

Glenfiddich – 1974 (Playboy)

Tomatin – 1966

Selling whisky? Why not arrange the pick-up of your bottles using our global courier service? If you’re based in Scotland, you might want to arrange the personal collection of your bottles. Wherever you’re based in the world, we will make getting your bottles into our monthly auction as simple as possible. Get in touch with the Whisky Hammer team now by dropping them a message at sales@whiskyhammer.co.uk.

This current season at Sotheby’s has seen some exceptional results for our sales of whisky and spirits, so we wanted to provide you with a brief overview and also a look at the sales happening this July.

In June in New York, we sold a bottle of The Yamazaki 55 for $600,000, against an estimate of $400,000-500,000, and two ultra-rare casks of whisky from the fabled Brora and Port Ellen distilleries for a combined total of £1.75 million ($2.1 million).

The month of May saw our largest ever spirits offering with a sale of over 1,000 bottles of Scotch whisky, which achieved a total of $2.5 million (est. $1.5-2.1m) with 95% of lots sold. Two days later, our first dedicated Moutai auction in London, consigned from the descendants of a Chinese restaurant owner in Brazil, brought £1 million.

We have three more sales to go until the close of the summer season, two out of Hong Kong, and one out of New York.

Distilled | Whisky is a 247-lot sale celebrating the finest and rarest Scotch, Japanese whisky and Moutai, led by the highly precious and collectible Macallan Tales of The Macallan Volume I 71 Year Old (est. HK$750,000-1,000,000), followed by the iconic Macallan Red Collection 78 Year Old (est. HK$700,000-1,000,000).  A selection of rare Japanese whiskies from renowned distilleries features the highly sought-after Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Card Series (a great opportunity for collectors looking to complete a full set of the series), Karuizawa 31 Year Old #4961 Shinanoya Private Cask 5th Anniversary 1981, and Hibiki 35 Year Old Arita Ceramic Collection.

On the same day at 2pm HKT, we will present a dedicated single-lot sale of The Dalmore Constellation Collection (est. HK$3,500,000-5,000,000) – the full 21 bottle set of vintages spanning 1964 all the way through to 1992, first released in 2012, which has never been seen at auction in its entirety until now. Bottled at cask strength and natural colour, this was the first time the Dalmore created a vintage series such as this.

Last, but not least, on 29 July in New York, Whisky & Whiskey | The Three Continents Collection Part V – The Final Chapter. This sale sees the finale of the biggest whisky collection Sotheby’s has sold from a single owner featuring over 3,000 bottles of rare whisky. The auction is supported by various other collections including a Yamazaki 55 Year Old, and three 50 Year Old Black Bowmores including vintages from 1961, 1964 and 1966.

That will bring the total number of spirits sale held so far this year to 12 – with plenty more upcoming in the calendar.

Looking ahead, on 23 September in New York, Sotheby’s will auction The Timeless Whisky Collection. This is a single owner sale of nearly 600 bottles estimated to achieve $2million. The sale is led by The Macallan in Lalique Six Pillars Collection that is offered alongside an experience donated by Lalique themselves as well as personalised glassware and a bespoke display platform hand crafted from Highland Scottish Burr Elm by Anselm Fraser Design on which the bottles can be lovingly showcased by the lucky bidder.