Welcome to Inbox, our weekly round-up of whisky news and PR material that has found its way into our WFE email. Inbox features items from around the world of whisky and is published by us each Friday. Here is this week’s whisky news.
Bruichladdich
Bruichladdich has revived one of its iconic bottlings to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Islay distillery’s resurrection. The new whisky is the third iteration of their Yellow Submarine bottling. The Bruichladdich Yellow Submarine III follows Whisky of Mass Distinction: Yellow Submarine (2005) and Yellow Submarine II: The Legend Resurfaces (2018).
Yellow Submarine III is unpeated and distilled from 100% Scottish barley grown on the mainland. The whisky has spent its full 14-year maturation at the Bruichladdich distillery on Islay. The cask recipe is inspired by the original 2005 bottling: 25% first fill ex-bourbon barrels and 75% first- and second-fill ex-French red wine casks.
Bruichladdich Yellow Submarine III is bottled at 54.2% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. Bottles are available in specialist retailers in selected world markets, via bruichladdich.com and at the distillery visitor centre shop. The exact number of bottles in the batch was not revealed in the press release. Each bottle will cost £100.
Isle of Raasay
The Isle of Raasay distillery has launched one of its most ambitious single cask bottlings to date. The Isle of Raasay Rye Cask 3.4 x Distilled showcases the distillery’s progressive production techniques alongside its approach to maturation and flavour development. The single cask (Cask #2019/649) was filled with unpeated spirit that was distilled 3.4 times through a column still in 2019. It was a cask that had previously held rye whiskey from Woodford Reserve.
The Isle of Raasay Rye Cask 3.4 x Distilled is released at 59% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. The cask was selected by Alasdair Day, the co-founder and Master Distiller at Isle of Raasay distillery. It has yielded just 246 bottles. Bottles are available via the Isle of Raasay Distillery website with each costing £95.
London Distillery Co.
The London Distillery Co. has announced a new series that will expand the brand’s offering. New Forms will be a series of single cask single malts that explore the versatility and evolution of the distillery’s original spirit. This is through the use of cask finishes never previously employed by the original distillery. All will be bottled at natural cask strength and have been selected by Matt McKay, Managing Director & Whisky Maker at LDC.
The first trio of whiskies are New Forms: Bourbon Cask, New Forms: Fino Sherry Cask and New Forms: Moscatel Sherry Cask. Bourbon Cask features a 12-month finish in first-fill ex-bourbon cask #11190. It is released at 60.7% ABV and there are just 222 bottles. Fino Sherry Cask is finished for 8 months in first-fill ex-Fino sherry hogshead #9001. It is 61.4% ABV and there are 347 bottles. Moscatel Sherry Cask has an 8-month finish in first-fill ex-Moscatel sherry hogshead #9008. It is released at 61.6% ABV and there are 345 bottles.
The whiskies will be available directly from www.londondistillery.co.uk and through selected specialist retailers from June 12. All are non-chill filtered and of natural colour. The price will be £75 per bottle or £200 for the complete three-bottle launch collection.
Russell’s Reserve
The Kentucky bourbon brand of Russell’s Reserve has released a bottle to commemorate Eddie Russell’s 45th anniversary with Wild Turkey Distilling Co. The Master Distiller began working at the distillery in Lawrenceburg during 1981 and is a Bourbon Hall of Fame inductee. The new whiskey is bottled at 13 years Old and barrel proof of 121.2 Proof (60.6% ABV).
The Russell’s Reserve 13 Years Old is released in limited quantities across the USA and is also available at the distillery’s visitor centre. The exact number of bottles was not revealed in the press release. Each will cost US$200. The whiskey is launched alongside an original short-form documentary, His Own Way: The Eddie Russell Story. This traces his path from a summer warehouse job to Master Distiller.
Sullivans Cove
The Australian whisky distillery of Sullivans Cove have released a new limited edition single malt. The Sullivans Cove Navigator is inspired by the historic waterfront of Hobart, the Tasmanian city where the distillery is located. It has been released at 16 years of age with full maturation in American oak casks. This combines re-fill hogsheads and first-fill ex-bourbon casks.
The casks for Navigator were selected by Heather Tillott, the Distillery Manager at Sullivans Cove. The distillery was recently recognised among the world’s best at the 2026 World Whiskies Awards. Navigator is released at 47.2% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. There are just 1,372 bottles in the release and these are available globally now and via sullivanscove.com. Each bottle will cost £345/ AUS$650.
