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By Richard Thomas Rating: B Last year Laphroaig made single malt lovers swoon by reintroducing its 25 Year Old expression. This year the distillery caught most observers off guard with the launch of a 27 Year Old, something few if any were expecting. One might wonder how much of a difference just two years of extra aging might make in ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: B- Basil Hayden, with its reputation as the lightest of Beam Suntory’s Small Batch Collection (also including Knob Creek, Booker’s and Baker’s), is named after Meredith Basil Hayden, Sr. Her recipe for a high-rye whiskey in the late 1700s is said to have inspired the current Basil Hayden mashbill, although Basil Hayden originated as an 8 ...

The Tipperary Boutique Distillery project has secured €5m in funding from a partnership deal with Steelworks Investments. The company is currently a bottler, relying on sourced Irish Whiskey, but has had plans to build its own distillery on the grounds of the Dundrum House Hotel Golf & Leisure Resort. They are now able to pursue those plans, which would bring ...

It’s been several months since Bulleit cut the ribbon on their $115 million Shelbyville, Kentucky plant, located between Louisville and Lexington. However, access to the new facility has been limited. Whereas most new distilleries are built with tourism in mind, and sometimes open to visitors even before going operational, Bulleit remains closed to the general public. Even for journalists, access ...

Famed wine and spirits merchants Berry Brothers & Rudd are releasing the whisky made by one of Scotland’s newest and smallest producers, Daftmill. Francis and Ian Cuthbert founded the distillery on the family farm near Fife in 2005, and is an early example of the growing “single estate” distillery. “Single Estates” are a throwback to the model that was prevalent ...