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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Glenallachie
The Speyside distillery of Glenallachie has announced the third bottling of its award-winning 21 years old cask strength expression. It sits at the top of the current core range. The Glenallachie 21 years old Cask Strength Batch 3 has been created by Billy Walker, the Master Blender at Glenallachie. The release is limited to just 2,400 bottles and has been constructed from three single ex-Pedro Ximenez sherry casks. It has been released at the natural cask strength of 51.5% ABV and is both non chill-filtered and of natural colour. The Glenallachie 21 years old Cask Strength Batch 3 will be available shortly via specialist whisky retailers worldwide. A bottle will cost £275/ $325 US.
Lambay
The Irish whiskey company of Lambay have revealed details of their first age statement bottling - the Lambay 20 years old Castle Prestige Edition. The whiskey is a triple distilled Irish single malt that has been sourced from a leading Irish distillery. It has been matured in ex-bourbon barrels for 18 years and then finished for the final two years in ex-Cognac casks from the House of Camus. These were selected by Yonael Bernard, the Master Blender for Lambay. The release is limited to 8,000 bottles. They are available via the Lambay website and will cost €560 each.
TOAD
The Oxford Artisan Distillery (or TOAD for short) has announced the release of its ninth batch of Oxford Rye - The Tawny Pipe. The whisky represents the oldest release to date and the first single cask bottling. It features heritage grains harvested and distilled in late 2017. The mashbill consisted of 90% maslin (a mixed crop of rye and wheat) and 10% malted barley. It has been matured for one and a half years in virgin American oak before being transferred to a 30-year old ex-Tawny Port pipe for a two years and nine months. The Tawny Pipe is bottled at 56% ABV and restricted to just 587 bottles. These are available exclusively from Master of Malt. Each will cost £95.
"Through a long standing relationship with Portuguese coopers and winemakers, I was very lucky to be able to obtain a cask of this age and quality. Tawny pipes are the oldest casks being used in Port, so the wine has had decades to soak deep into the wood and leave its character."Francisco Rosa / Master Distiller at TOAD.
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