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Bushmills Irish Whiskey, from the world’s oldest licensed whiskey distillery, proudly introduces Bushmills 28 Year Old Single Malt Cognac Cask Whiskey, a rare innovation for connoisseurs across the United States. The limited-time offering and debut release in Bushmills’ new annual series, “The Rare Casks,” Bushmills 28 Year Old Single Malt Cognac Cask is meticulously blended to achieve one of the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ The latest arrival to the double new oak aging party is Elijah Craig. This growing class of whiskey involves a special and particularly American type of maturation. The whiskey begins with a normal cycle of aging in charred, new oak barrels, and then receives a finish in a second set of new oak barrels. Only ...

By Andrew Graham Grade: B+ Let’s start off by getting technical. Scotch-makers must use 100% malted barley in their mash bill. U.S. regulations, by contrast, permit a spirit that’s just 51% malted barley to be labeled as malt whiskey. So this American malt might taste more like a bourbon, that American malt might taste more like a rye, and it ...

Orkney based distillery, Highland Park, has introduced a cask strength edition to its award-winning single malt Scotch whisky range. Highland Park Cask Strength Release No.1 will be available globally from September 2020. The ‘straight from the cask’ whisky, is whisky in its purest form, with no water added after maturation which gives the whisky a robust and intense flavor with ...

Located in the Monts d’Arrée, in the heart of the Armorique Natural Park, the Yeun Elez is a swamp considered in Breton legends as the Gateway to Hell. It is now also the namesake for a new peated whisky from France. According to the legend reported by Anatole le Braz, it is the place where the evil souls who haunted ...