Welcome to Inbox, our weekly round up of whisky news and PR material that has found its way in to our WFE email. It was created as we cannot write full articles or do justice to every piece received. It features items from around the world of whisky and is published by us each Friday. Within Inbox we aim to write a few lines detailing each press release/piece of news/PR event that we have received and provide links, where possible, for you to find out further information.
Here is the round-up of the news from this last week ...
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Bladnoch
The Lowland distillery of Bladnoch has announced the latest addition to its Classic Collection core range - the Bladnoch Alinta. It is the first known peated expression in the distillery's history. The spirit was distilled from peated malt and is produced for just a short period each year. This was matured in first-fill ex-bourbon barrels and first-fill ex-Pedro Ximenez casks. The casks were hand selected and married together by Dr. Nick Savage, the Master Distiller at Bladnoch. The word 'alinta' translates as 'fire' or 'smoke' from indigenous languages found in southeast Australia and references David Prior, Blanoch's Australian owner.
Bladnoch Alinta is bottled at 47% ABV and is both non chill-filtered and of natural colour. It will initially be available on at the distillery shop in Wigtown and www.bladnoch.com. Distribution to selected world markets will follow later in 2022. A bottle will cost £80/ $105 US.
Glenallachie
The Speyside distillery of Glenallachie has announced three new whiskies that will form part of their expanded Virgin Oak Series. Each of the three bottlings has undergone a finishing period in a different style of oak and the series is designed to explore how different oak species from around the world influence the single malt. The three bottlings are the Glenallachie 10 years old Chinquapin Virgin Oak Finish, 10 years old French Virgin Oak Finish and 15 years old Scottish Oak Finish.
In each case the whisky has initially been matured in American oak ex-bourbon barrels before being transferred to its finishing cask - these have been hand selected by Billy Walker, Master Distiller at Glenallachie. The 10 years old Chinquapin Virgin Oak Finish features casks made from chinquapin oak, a sub species of American oak found in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. The 10 years old French Virgin Oak Finish uses oak from the Haute-Garonne region of France, close to the Pyrenees.
The 15 years old Scottish Virgin Oak Finish uses Sessile oak sourced from the west coast of Scotland. It is rarely used for whisky barrels due its slow growing nature and tendency to produce knots in the wood. This is one of the first ever releases by any distillery to feature Scottish oak. All three new whiskies are bottled at 48% ABV and are non chill-filtered and of natural colour. The two 10 year olds will retail for £62/ $82 US each, and the 15 years old will cost £175/ $230 US.
The premium American bourbon brand of Kentucky Owl has launched The Wiseman expression into the UK for the first time. The whiskey has been created by John Rhea, the Master Blender of Kentucky Owl. It is a blend of four Kentucky-sourced bourbons - two four year olds (one with high wheat content and one with high rye), a 5.5 year old and an 8.5 year old. The Wiseman forms part of a larger range that is currently available in the USA. It is bottled at 45.4% ABV and will be available in selected spirits retailers and via Amazon in the UK. A bottle will cost £60. Plans for the Kentucky Owl distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky are also being drawn up.
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