PGA of America Announces Elijah Craig as Official Bourbon and Rye Whiskey 

New partnership will elevate the championship experience

FRISCO, Texas (March 28, 2023) ー The PGA of America and Elijah Craig Bourbon announced today a multi-year partnership that makes Elijah Craig the “Official Bourbon” and whiskey supplier of the PGA of America, PGA Championship, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, and an official partner of the PGA National Club Championship.

“We are proud to welcome Elijah Craig as the official bourbon and whiskey supplier of the PGA of America,” said PGA of America Senior Director, Partnership Strategy & Management Luke Reissman. “The combination of championship golf and Elijah Craig’s distinct flavor profile is a perfect match. With its unparalleled taste and quality, Elijah Craig undoubtedly enhances the spectator experience at our championships.”

The Elijah Craig Bourbon Speakeasy will provide spectators at the PGA Championship at Oak Hill with a spectacular setting to savor hand-crafted cocktails, including the distinctive warm spice and smooth flavor of Elijah Craig Small Batch, while also enjoying an interactive signature wall and stunning views of the golf course’s 12th hole.

Spectators will be able to enjoy Elijah Craig’s signature cocktail, the “Oak Hill Old Fashioned,” which features an oak-forward twist to the classic old fashioned. Elijah Craig’s award-winning bourbon and rye whiskey will also be available at concessions and hospitality areas across the PGA Championship.

“When you see a great golf swing or sip an expertly crafted Bourbon, you can appreciate the years of patience and perseverance required to arrive at that moment. Elijah Craig is thrilled to partner with an organization of such unmatched reputation and membership,” said Max Stefka, Elijah Craig Group Product Director. “Together, Elijah Craig and the PGA of America look forward to celebrating wins big and small with golf supporters everywhere over a glass of Elijah Craig Bourbon.”

Team Elijah Craig continues to leave its mark on the golf world as “The Official Bourbon” of PGA Tour Professional Golfer Max Homa and sports broadcaster Amanda Balionis Renner. Now spectators will experience Elijah Craig through a prominent digital media presence across the PGA of America’s social and digital channels including custom content, run-of-site media and authentic integration on the Championship’s social platforms, which will allow the brand to engage with new supporters in meaningful ways.

The 2023 PGA Championship returns to the iconic Oak Hill Country Club, East Course, in Rochester, New York for the 105th edition, May 15-21.

The 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship will be held June 21-25 on the Lower Course at historic Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey for the 69th edition.

The 2023 PGA National Club Championship features amateur club champions from across the country and will be hosted at Troon North Golf Club and The Westin Kierland Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, this December.

About PGA of America

The PGA of America is one of the world’s largest sports organizations, composed of nearly 28,000 PGA Professionals who work daily to grow interest and inclusion in the game of golf. For more information about the PGA of America, visit PGA.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

About Elijah Craig Bourbon

Known as “The Father of Bourbon,” Elijah Craig is credited with being the first distiller to age his wares in charred oak barrels to make Bourbon. The clear, unaged corn whiskey became transformed into a bold amber liquid with a distinctively smooth flavor that makes Bourbon what it is. Today, Elijah Craig’s community impact continues through Elijah Craig Old Fashioned Week, providing total donations of up to $300,000 to date to organizations supporting the hospitality industry. Produced by Heaven Hill Distillery, the nation’s largest independent, family-owned and led distillery and the world’s second-largest holder of Kentucky Bourbon, the Elijah Craig lineup includes: Elijah Craig Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Elijah Craig Straight Rye Whiskey, Elijah Craig Toasted Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, and Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Elijah Craig’s accolades have included Whisky Advocate’s Whisky of the Year, Best Small Batch Bourbon and Double Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and World’s Best Small Batch Bourbon and Best Kentucky Small Batch Bourbon at Whisky Magazine’s 2023 World Whiskies Awards. For more information, please visit www.elijahcraig.com. Heaven Hill reminds you to “Think Wisely. Drink Wisely.”

Special Cask
French Oak ex-Muscat
TD0314

Tomorrow we release Special Cask TD0314. With notes of orange blossom, tangerine, mango and lychee, it is easy to think we’re talking about our spirit, but we’re actually referring to flavours found in Muscat wine.

While the shared bright and fruity components of Sullivans Cove spirit and Muscat wine compliment and elevate one another, French oak brings the necessary structure, depth and intricate spice to complete the picture perfectly.

TD0314 is the ultimate example of parts coming together to create something extraordinary. Balance and bliss.

French oak ex-Muscat TD0314

An incredibly expressive and delicious example of the far-reaches of French oak, Muscat and Sullivans Cove spirit. It has it all; intricate spice, incredible alluring depth that perseveres until the very end of the finish, sweet citrus to provide a bright edge, and fully developed, decadent texture and body. Each component serving as an agent to highlight the other. TD0314 was decanted at 14 years old from a 225L French oak ex-Muscat barrel, yielding just 287 bottles of Sullivans Cove Special Cask.

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 Wednesday 12th of April. Further details will be sent via email 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.

IT’S TIME TO RAISE A DRAM
TO THREE UNMISTAKABLE DRAMS

We are thrilled to announce Glengoyne has been awarded three golds at this year’s world-renowned International Wine and Spirit Competition. Glengoyne’s favourite after-dinner dram 21 Year Old, and our distinguished 25 Year Old picked up Gold. Also scooping Gold was travel exclusive Glengoyne 15 Year Old PX Cask Edition from our  Spirit of Time range. It’s proof that sometimes the long way is the right way.

Here’s what the judges had to say about our three award-winning drams.

SHERRY, SPICE AND FRUIT

The 21 Year Old’s “lovely sherry notes, spicy cloves, candied orange, with a nutty character bringing additional texture with a liquorice and raisin fruit length” proved to be a winner with the expert panel.

21 YEAR OLD

RICH, COMPLEX and BALANCED

Glengoyne 25 Year Old, was sure to impress with the panel noting its “rich, complex and mature style showing sweet cooked apple, milk chocolate, soft spices, tobacco leaves, plenty of oak characteristics in the aroma and flavour on the nose and palate. Full-bodied style with a well-balanced finish lingering between sweet and dry notes.”

25 YEAR OLD

RICH, FRUITy and
A LINGERING SHERRY CASK FINISH

“Rich aroma characteristics of sherry, prunes and cloves combining on the palate with nuttiness, raisins, dark chocolate and classic ex-sherry-cask flavour characteristics. A long complex finish where the influence of the sherry-cask wood keeps on lingering until the end.”

Glengoyne 15 Year Old PX Cask Edition travel exclusive is available at World Duty Free stores across UK airports.

15 YEAR OLD PX CASK EDITION

2012 Dailuaine 10 Year Old “Firkin Whisky K&L Exclusive” Oloroso & Amontillado Single Cask Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

(700ml) (Pre-Arrival) $79.99 View

DAILUAINE DISTILLERY SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY

*This cask is currently being offered on a pre-arrival basis. We are expecting orders to be fulfilled by the end of May 2023.* The Firkin Whisky Company is offering some of the most exceptional casks in all of Scotland. Founded by Mike and Deborah Collings, the magic they impart is in the careful build and preparation of their finishing casks. The casks are custom built and prepared by Firkin, and are a unique combination of ex-bourbon barrel and charred French oak staves. They are built into “zebra” casks of alternating stave types, then the cask is seasoned with a custom sherry blend made specifically for the whisky that will be going into the cask. In the case of this spectacular 2012 Dailuaine, the custom cask was filled with a 50/50 blend of Oloroso and Amontillado for its seasoning period. It is the perfect match for the Dailuaine, which spent years finishing in this amazing barrel. The full spectrum of flavor imparted here is unlike any other single cask of whisky we have ever bottled. Dailuaine is one of the more interesting workhorse distilleries in the Diageo stable and beloved by “K&L Exclusive” cask fans for over a decade. We bottle at least one or two casks a year from this distillery, but none have seen a finishing like this. The heavy spirit style married the sweet candied fruit of the Oloroso with the savory oxidative and nutty characteristics of the Amontillado in perfect harmony. While Firkin typically bottles at 48.9%, we kept this one at proof: 57%.

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Whisky Magazine issue #190We’re excited to announce that our latest issue is out now, so make sure you don’t miss out!

This issue is our Awards Special Edition, with the cover featuring a number of whiskies which have been declared the World’s Best in the World Whiskies Awards. The global winners of the Icons of Whisky are also showcased in this issue, as well as five of the deserving Whisky Magazine Hall of Fame inductees for 2023.

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Indulge your sweet tooth this Easter with a magical malt saving. Enjoy a 15% saving on our selection of Sweet, Fruity & Mellow and Spicy & Sweet bottlings. Expect Totally tropical tastes, Fascinating fusions and Praline dreams.

Simply apply promo code SWEETSAVING to your online basket, you discount will be applied automatically. Selected bottles only, offer ends Wednesday, 12 April. Click over to our website NOW to browse the bottlings OR keep on scrolling for some of our favourites.

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Sotheby’s Unveils Ultra-Rare 1990s Prototypes for the World’s First Collectible Whiskey Series From Famed Closed American Distilleries

Set of Five Tells a Crucial Element of the Story of Rare American Whiskey History That Has Until Now Gone Untold

LIVE AUCTION: 14 APRIL 2023

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‘COURTESY SOTHEBY’S’

LONDON, APRIL 2023 – Today, Sotheby’s unveils The Rare American Whiskey Selection 1976-1982, an extraordinary and unique set of five prototype bottles created in the mid-1990s, representing the rarest American whiskey to ever be offered at auction. These bottles were originally produced as the prototypes for the world’s first collectable ultra-premium U.S. whiskey series to exclusively feature closed distilleries in America.

The project was the initiative of The Classic Kentucky Bourbon Company, a subsidiary of United Distillers (UD) in 1997. At the time, UD owned the Bernheim Distillery and Stitzel-Weller. On the point of The Rare American Whiskey Selection project receiving approval for launch, UD merged with another company, International Distillers & Vinters to create United Distillers & Vintners, forming the spirits division of Diageo. At this point the project was shelved, never to be revived.

The original premise of the Rare American Whiskey Selection project was to create an annual release of five very different barrel proof, high age statement whiskies. The project got as far as bottling 2 examples of each of the selected whiskeys, with prototype labels, but filled with the actual liquid to show the finished product as it would be sold. The whiskeys were tasted not just within UD, but also by respected industry critics at the time (see tasting notes by Dave Broom below from 1997).

The 2 sets of liquid were split up and, ironically, one set was sent to the Stitzel-Weller distillery for safekeeping, while the other set remained at the company HQ in the UK for the European market (hence the 70cl bottle size). It is believed that the set at the SW distillery were destroyed in the distillery fire, making this set the only one that still remains in existence.

This series of whiskeys, initially to be released in a limited run of 6,000 bottles per release, would have been a landmark in the history of premium American Whiskey. The project would have preceded the Buffalo Trance Antique Collection by a number of years, and seen the footprint of U.S. Whiskeys in whisk(e)y collector circles change dramatically. These bottles represent not only ultra-rare liquid from now closed distilleries, but a crucial element of the story of rare American Whiskey’s history that has until now gone untold.

The 5 prototype bottles which comprise the set:

1. Old Quaker Indiana Corn Whiskey 21 Year Old Limited Edition Barrel Proof 65.0 abv 1976
   Original Tasting Notes by Dave Broom in 1997
2. Stitzel-Weller Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Limited Edition 17 Year Old Barrel Proof 53.5 abv 1980
3. Taylor-Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Limited Edition 17 Year Old Barrel Proof 56.0 abv 1980
4. George T Stagg Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey Limited Edition 16 Year Old Barrel Proof 57.0 abv 1981
5. Buffalo Springs Kentucky Rye Mash Whiskey Limited Edition 15 Year Old Barrel Proof 62.5 abv 1982

“Unearthing rare whiskeys like this is what makes auctions at Sotheby’s so special. This set represents not only the rarest bottles of premium American Whiskey ever to have existed, but a piece of storytelling that has never been shared. This chapter has been missing from the history books and I’m delighted that we can bring it to life”

Jonny Fowle, Head of Sotheby’s Whiskey & Spirits

March 2023 Auction // 31.03.23 – 10.04.23

ENDS SOON: March Auction

Our March Auction ends soon!. Featuring over 8,500 rare whiskies

Highlights this month include a number of incredibly well-aged single malts from the 1920s-40s, including 50 Year Olds from Balvenie, Macallan and Dalmore. For Bourbon fans, a brilliant selection of Very Olde St. Nick is featured, from the sought-after Kentucky Bourbon Distillers era. Incredible independent bottles feature including Intertrade bottles signed by Nadi Fiori, early Gordon & MacPhail cask strength bottlings and two exceptional Hart Brothers Bowmore releases.

We are extremely excited to partner with Norwegian whisky distillery Aurora Spirit once again, as our March auction sees the release of the unique Fram whisky, commemorating Norwegian explorer and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen. You can read more about the Fram whisky in our latest article.

Discover some of our curated highlights below and bid now.

John Jameson & Son Irish Whisky 1920s-1930s

📖 Read: The recent fortune and luck of Irish whiskey

Red Hook 23 Year Old Single Barrel Kentucky Rye #2 / LeNell’s

Sensationally Aged 50+ Year Old Malts

1960 & 1965 Signatory Vintage Rosebank

📖 Read: An Independent Approach: Signatory Vintage

Glen Garioch 1958 46 Year Old

Exclusive to Whisky Auctioneer: Fram Whisky Charity Auction

Interested in selling in our next auction? Fill out our Seller Form today.

Our April collection schedule has now been finalised. This month we will be including a trip to Orkney.

Please click HERE for the list of dates, locations and to register your interest in this service. The deadline for collection requests is 12noon on Monday 10th April 2023.

Home collections are available for those customers sending 10+ bottles or bottles to the value of £1000. Unfortunately this service is not available in London or to those customer who live within 10 miles of a collection point.

Collections are limited and offered on a first come first served basis.

It is essential that a submission sheet is completed, you can do so under the selling section on your ‘My SWA’ page.

It would be appreciated if bottles could be packed for uplift with your name clearly marked on the front of the box.

A winner in our auction? We are now offering a delivery (to collection point) service to customers who are dropping bottles off for a future auction. This service is charged at £12 (inc VAT), optional loss and breakage cover is available.

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Suntory AO World Whisky (700ml) $64.99 View

“Ireland. Scotland. America. Canada. Japan. The world’s most prestigious whisky regions, each with its unique history and climate, reveal their personality traits through our remarkable Ao world blended whisky. A blend that after nearly a century of challenges and triumphs, you can taste today. 

Unlike our other blends that find harmony by unifying individual whisky personalities, Suntory World Whisky Ao achieves harmony at its base while layering and highlighting a multitude of characteristics. The result offers aromas and flavors that change and evolve, depending on when and how you drink it. However you choose to enjoy Ao Whisky, we invite you to experience it today.” – Suntory

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