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 week.
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The popular Scotch blend of Chivas Regal has expanded their Ultis range with the introduction of Chivas Regal Ultis XX. The original expression of Ultis honours five generations of Chivas Master Blenders and includes five single malts as a result - Allt A’bhainne, Braeval, Longmorn, Strathisla and Tormore. Ultis XX follows the same path but the five whiskies have this time been aged for a minimum of 20 years. There is also an additional whisky added - Strathclyde 20 years single grain. Chivas Regal Ultis XX is bottled at 40% ABV and will be available globally. A bottle will cost £135/ $US180.
"Ultis XX is the ultimate tribute to the five generations of the Master Blenders who preceded me in dedicating their life’s work to mastering Chivas’ iconic style. Each of the single malts used within this blend brings their own complexity to the whisky, just like each Master Blender brought their own unique style to the Chivas blend."Sandy Hyslop / Master Blender of Chivas Regal.
Lum Reek
MacNair's Boutique House of Spirits has announced the second batch of their Lum Reek 10 years old. The blended malt range is curated by acclaimed blender Billy Walker. This second batch features only single malts from the Islay and Speyside regions. Cask types featured include virgin American oak, ex-sherry and ex-red wine. The Lum Reek 10 years old Batch #2 has been bottled at the natural cask strength of 55.8% ABV and is both non chill-filtered and of natural colour. It will be available via selected specialist retailers in selected world markets. A bottle will cost £63.
Port of Leith
The Port of Leith distillery has announced a new blended Scotch called Perpetuity. The blend will be an ongoing release to be released in batches. The whiskies will be taken from the blending team's 'perpetual vat'. This vat sees surplus whisky from previous bottlings married together and will be ever evolving. The first batch contains differing percentages of two single malts (Glentauchers 6 years old from first-fill ex-Oloroso sherry hogheads and Deanston 9 years old from ex-bourbon barrels) and two single grains (North British 7 years old from virgin American oak barrels and North British 13 years old from ex-bourbon barrels).
The Perpetuity Batch #1 will consist of just 1,430 bottles and is released at 45.7% ABV. Each bottle will cost £40 and are available now via the Perpetuity Whisky website until sold out.
White Peak
The English distillery of White Peak has announced their first bottling of 2023 with the Wire Works Double Oak Port. Fir this release they have used their lightly peated single malt, which is made using local peat from the Peak District, which has been initially matured in first-fill ex-bourbon barrels. This has then undergone a secondary maturation in ex-Port barriques from Portugal. The Wire Works Double Oak Port has been bottled at 52.2% ABV and is both non chill-filtered and of natural colour. There are just 1,321 bottles and these are only available via www.whitepeakdistillery.co.uk. A bottle will cost £65.
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