Welcome to Inbox - our weekly round up of whisky news and PR material that has found its way in to the WFE email. We started Inbox several years ago 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 a round-up of this week's whisky news.
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The American whiskey brand of Elijah Craig has announced the launch of a new rye expression in to the UK - the Elijah Craig Straight Rye. The spirits has a mash bill of 51% rye, 35% corn and 14% malted barley. This heavy reliance on corn as the secondary grain makes the spirit highly suited to long maturation, which has enabled this rye whiskey to reach eight years of age. It is said to be perfect for such classic American whiskey cocktails as the Manhattan and Old Fashioned. The Elijah Craig Straight Rye is bottled at 47% ABV (94 Proof) and is now available from selected specialist retailers in the UK. A bottle will cost £45.
The Loch Lomond distillery has released one of its oldest whiskies to date - the Loch Lomond 50 years old single malt. The spirit was distilled in 1973 using unpeated malted barley and distilled through Loch Lomond's unique straight-necked pot stills. This small pocket of stock has been matured initially in re-fill American oak casks, then transferred to first-fill ex-bourbon casks in 2011 and finally ex-Oloroso sherry hogsheads in 2017. The final yield is just 100 bottles and has been overseen by Michael Henry, the Master Blender for Loch Lomond.
The new bottling joins the distillery's premium whisky collection and is presented in a lead crystal decanter designed by Glencairn Crystal and a natural oak wooden casket. It is released at the natural cask strangth of 42.6% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. The Loch Lomond 50 years old is available now at www.lochlomondwhiskies.com and through selected specialist whisky retailers world wide. A bottle will cost £25,000.
The Speyside distillery of Glenallachie have announced the latest addition to their peated Meikle Tòir range - the Meikle Tòir Turbo 2024 Edition. The whisky is made using spirit made using peat from the Scottish mainland to smoke the barley to a level of 70ppm (phenol parts per million). This has then undergone a 160-hour fermentation, which is three times longer than regular Glenallachie. It is bottled at five years of age and this batch consists of just five American virgin oak casks and four ex-Oloroso sherry hogsheads.
The Meikle Tòir range has been created by Billy Walker, the Master Whisky Maker for Glenallachie. Three expressions form the core range - The Original, The Sherry One and The Chinquapin One - with the Turbo joining as an annual release. The Turbo 2024 Edition is bottled at 50% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. It will be available in specialist whisky retailers worldwide and will cost £56 per bottle.
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