Welcome to Inbox, our weekly round up of whisky news and PR material that has found its way in to our WFE email. Inbox features items from around the world of whisky and is published by us each Friday.
This week has again seen our inbox full of news about new releases. Therefore we have kept the slightly altered format to accommodate the many new bottlings that have been announced. Here we go …
Cutty Sark
The popular blended Scotch whisky brand of Cutty Sark is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and has released a commemorative whisky – the Cutty Sark Centenary Edition. The whisky is bottled at 23 years of age and features a pocket of stock matured in ex-Port casks. It is bottled at 52.2% ABV and there are just 1,435 bottles that will be available worldwide. The packaging is inspired by the brand’s maritime past and its association with the famous tea clipper ship Cutty Sark. A bottle will cost £800.
Old Pulteney
The north Highland distillery of Old Pulteney has launched the second whisky in its Coastal Series range – the Old Pulteney Port.
This features Old Pulteney malt matured initially in ex-bourbon barrels before a further maturation period in ex-Ruby Port barriques and pipes. It is bottled at 46% ABV and is both of natural colour and non chill-filtered. A bottle will cost £75. There are two further releases in the series, which are scheduled for 2024 and 2025.
Eden Mill
The Fife distillery of Eden Mill has announced the latest release in its annual Art of St. Andrews series. The Eden Mill Art of St. Andrews 2023 Edition is a lightly peated single malt created by head distiller Scott Ferguson. It also sees the brand collaborate with renowned Scottish illustrator Jill Calder who has created the striking packaging, which is inspired by local flora and fauna. The whisky has been matured in a combination of ex-bourbon, ex-Oloroso and ex-Pedro Ximénez sherry casks, and finished in ex-Grande Champagne Cognac casks. It is bottled at 46.5% ABV and will cost £150 per bottle.
Glenallachie
The Speyside distillery of Glenallachie has launched a new peated single malt brand named Meikle Tòir, which translates from Gaelic as ‘big pursuit’. The range features whisky produced at Glenallachie since master Blender Billy Walker took over in 2017.
There are four editions in the 2023 batch, each aged five years – The Original: matured in ex-bourbon, ex-rye and American virgin oak casks, The Sherry One: aged in American oak, followed by ex-Pedro Ximenez and ex-Oloroso sherry puncheons, The Chinquapin One: initial maturation in American oak, before Chinquapin virgin oak barrels, and The Turbo 2023 Edition: small-batch annual release capturing ‘the heart of the heart’: the spirit cut with the highest phenol content. It was aged in American virgin oak and Sherry casks. Prices start from £50.
Glenmorangie
The north Highland distillery of Glenmorangie have launched the fourth bottling in their annual Tales series – the Glenmorangie A Tale of Tokyo. This has seen Dr. Bill Lumsden, the Director of Whisky Creation at Glenmorangie, using rare Japanese mizunara oak for the first time. The whisky from these casks has been married with traditional American oak ex-bourbon cask and ex-sherry cask stock. The packaging features a collaboration with Japanese artist Yamaguchi Akira. It is bottled at 46% ABV and will retail worldwide for £76 per bottle.
