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 Lowland distillery of Bladnoch, the most southernly in Scotland, has announced the line-up for their annual Peated Collection. The Bladnoch Peated Collection 2024 Edition features four whiskies using peated malt during production and has been created by Dr. Nick Savage, the Master Distiller at Bladnoch. This includes the annually released Alinta Reserve, plus three single cask expressions - these are all selected from a rare peated malt production run that happened in 2009.
The 2024 release of Alinta Reserve features only ex-Pedro Ximenez sherry cask matured spirit and is bottled at 46.7% ABV. The three single casks are the Peated Single Cask 2024/01 matured in ex-Tokaji dessert wine casks from Hungary and bottled at 51.7% ABV, Peated Single Cask 2024/02 matured in ex-bourbon barrels and bottled at 55% ABV, and Peated Single Cask 2024/03 matured in ex-rum barrels and released at 54.2% ABV.
All bottlings are non-chill filtered and of natural colour. The Alinta Reserve will cost £120 per bottle and the Peated Single Casks £200 each. They will be available in limited numbers in selected world markets and via the Bladnoch website.
In a similar move to Bladnoch, The Glasgow Distillery Co. have released three limited edition peated single malts into their Glasgow 1770 Small Batch Series. The Glasgow 1770 Islay Cask Finish (57.3% ABV/ 303 bottles) and Madeira Cask Finish (58% ABV/ 298 bottles) have both seen initial maturation in virgin American oak casks before respective finishing periods in ex-peated whisky casks from Islay and ex-Madeira casks from the island of Madeira.
The Glasgow 1770 Marsala Cask Finish (60.2% ABV/ 860 bottles) has undergone a full seven-year maturation in ex-Marsala casks from Sicily. All are non-chill filtered and of natural colour. All three bottlings will be available from The Glasgow Distillery Co. website and selected specialist retailers in the UK. Each will cost £59.
Mossburn, the independent distillers and blenders, have announced the second bottling in their Cask Collaboration Series - the Mossburn 12 years old Domaine Dupont Calvados Cask Finish. This follows the inaugural release that saw collaboration with Foursquare rum. The blended malt features only single malts from the Speyside region of Scotland aged 12 years and above. These were aged in ex-bourbon barrels before marrying and placement in French oak ex-Calvados casks from the renowned Domaine Dupont in Normandy, one of France's finest producers of apple brandy.
The new bottling is released at the natural cask strength of 57.2% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. There are just 7,500 bottles and these will be available in selected global markets, plus the UK and USA. A bottle will cost £65/ €80/ US$90.
The Isle of Raasay distillery has launched the second bottling in its Dùn Cana single malt series. The Dùn Cana Sherry Quarter Cask Release: Second Edition features both peated and unpeated spirit in a ratio of 53% to 47% respectively. These have been matured separately in ex-American Rye casks before undergoing a second maturation in Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry quarter casks (125 litre capacity) for six months. It is bottled at 52% ABV and is both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. There are 15,000 bottles in the release and each will cost £85.
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