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Woodford Reserve Honey Barrel End was completed in honey barrels from Double Barrel Honey in Winchester, Kentucky.
Some folks add to their whisky assortment by monitoring new releases, whereas others scour public sale websites for uncommon bottlings. On September 23, Sotheby’s New York will public sale what it’s calling The Timeless Whisky Assortment, with tons that embody a whole six-bottle set of the Macallan Six Pillars Assortment, and a serious crop of independently bottled scotch whiskies, in addition to different aged expressions from Glenfiddich, Bowmore, and others. Get the small print from our public sale preview, together with the ten most costly tons by estimate.
Amongst this week’s new releases, Dewar’s provides to its Cask Collection line with a calvados cask end, and Woodford Reserve is providing a brand new honey barrel-finished bourbon as a distillery and Kentucky unique, whereas Jefferson’s has an fascinating new Ocean: Aged at Sea bourbon expression made with New York Metropolis water. Learn on for full particulars.
Dewar’s 8 yr outdated French Clean
Type: Mix
Origin: Scotland
Age: 8 yr outdated
ABV: 40%
Value: $25
Launch: October 2022
Availability: Nationwide
Must know:
Dewar’s fifth launch in its cask-finished sequence takes us to France, the place grasp blender Stephanie Macleod serves up a double-aged mix of 40 single malt and grain whiskies completed for six months in calvados casks.
Whisky Advocate says:
Some of the modern ranges in modern blended scotch, this inexpensive sequence of Dewar’s 8 yr olds was created to be loved in cocktails in addition to neat. Thus far, we’ve had Caribbean Clean, Japanese Clean, Portuguese Clean, and Ilegal Clean, the first-ever mezcal cask completed scotch whisky. The success of the sequence has moved Dewar’s to maintain Caribbean and Japanese Clean as everlasting expressions. Grasp blender Stephanie Macleod has seemed to ingesting cultures world wide for every ending challenge within the sequence, selecting rum casks, mizunara oak, or port pipes to imbue every version with new flavors. This fifth iteration, an apple brandy cask end, attracts inspiration from the orchards of Normandy to ship flavors of apple, cinnamon, and citrus. Whisky and apple flavors definitely work nicely collectively. WhistlePig, Sagamore Spirit, The Whistler, and Kilchoman have launched calvados cask finishes, whereas Compass Field combined calvados and blended malts for its Compass Field Affinity expression. If you wish to discover apple brandies in additional depth, learn on right here for our suggestions.
Woodford Reserve Honey Barrel End
Type: Completed bourbon
Origin: Kentucky
Age: Not acknowledged
ABV: 45.2%
Value: $60/375 ml.
Launch: September 2022
Availability: Distillery solely and restricted Kentucky retailers; 6,500 bottles
Must know:
To have a good time Bourbon Heritage month, Woodford Reserve has unveiled its newest distillery unique, a mix of Woodford Reserve whiskey completed for over a yr on common in honey barrels from Double Barrel Honey in Winchester, Kentucky and straight bourbon.
Whisky Advocate says:
Whiskey and honey make nice cocktail companions, however we’re seeing distilleries experiment with honey barrel ending as nicely. Catoctin Creek introduced its Barrel Choose Scorching Honey completed rye in Might, and also you’ll discover a overview of that whiskey within the Fall situation of Whisky Advocate. Nashville-based Nelson’s Inexperienced Brier Distillery in the meantime releases a honey-finished expression underneath its Belle Meade label annually as a distillery unique.
Jefferson’s Ocean: Aged at Sea New York Restricted Version
Type: Straight bourbon
Origin: Undisclosed
Age: Not acknowledged
ABV: 49%
Value: $99
Launch: November 2022
Availability: Restricted
Must know:
Jefferson’s is again with one other Ocean: Aged at Sea bourbon, however this restricted version is particular in that it’s non-chill filtered and minimize with New York Metropolis water. Like all Ocean: Aged at Sea releases, the barrels used right here have been aged on a ship that sailed via tough seas and a variety of climates, with this one touring between the North Sea, the Atlantic Seaboard, and the Panama Canal, earlier than arriving in Manhattan, the place it was proofed down at Our/New York Vodka Distillery.
Whisky Advocate says:
There’s some perception that New York pizza and bagels are so good due to the water that’s used to make them. Now, Jefferson’s is utilizing that water for bourbon. It would make for side-by-side comparability ought to you will have different batches of Ocean: Aged at Sea at house. As for whisky manufacturers celebrating the town of New York, this launch comes a number of months after Macallan introduced its Distil Your World New York single malt.
Milam & Greene Unabridged Quantity 1
Type: Mix of straight bourbons
Origin: Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas
Age: Not acknowledged
ABV: 59%
Value: $90
Launch: September 2022
Availability: Restricted; 6,966 bottles
Must know:
Milam & Greene grasp blender Heather Greene labored with authors Noah Rothbaum and David Wondrich to create this new, literary-inspired mix of straight bourbons. The ultimate product comes from a complete of 38 barrels:
- 6 of 14 yr outdated Tennessee bourbon
- 8 of 6 yr outdated Tennessee bourbon
- 4 of 4 yr outdated Tennessee bourbon
- 5 of 4 yr outdated Kentucky bourbon
- 2 of three ½ yr outdated Texas bourbon made with malted rye
- 13 of two ¾ yr outdated Kentucky bourbon made with malted rye
Whisky Advocate says:
It has been a well-liked follow amongst manufacturers that supply whiskey to mix collectively shares from a number of states, with Milam & Greene utilizing a number of barrels of its personal Texas-made whiskey on this launch. We are able to definitely get behind any celebration of the written phrase, and this bourbon comes just some months after Compass Field launched Vellichor, a blended whiskey meant to evoke the nostalgia of outdated books. As tasters, we typically decide up notes of leather-based bindings or dusty library cabinets, and you’ll hone your individual palate to detect bookish notes utilizing our tasting information.
Kings County Blended Bourbon
Type: Blended bourbon
Origin: New York
Age: 2 yr outdated
ABV: 43%
Value: $55
Launch: September 14, 2022
Availability: Roughly 3,000 bottles at the moment obtainable in New York, forward of a nationwide launch.
Must know:
Kings County’s blended bourbon brings collectively all kinds of whiskeys from the Brooklyn distillery, with the ultimate mix made up of 53.6% 2 yr outdated bourbon, 26.1% 2 yr outdated corn whiskey, 12.5% bourbon aged 3 to 4 years, 4.2% rye aged 3 to 4 years, and three.6% 2 yr outdated malt whiskey. Kings sees this new launch as a strategy to make their aged whiskeys extra broadly obtainable, because the proportions inside every batch could be adjusted based mostly on taste and the obtainable shares.
Whisky Advocate says:
Blended bourbon, whereas not the most typical designation amongst American whiskeys, presents distilleries flexibility. Not less than 51% of a blended bourbon should be bourbon by rule, and in Kings County’s case, the remaining 49% is made up of different sorts of whiskeys. A inventive transfer from Kings County, this whiskey comes with a brand new blue label to tell apart it from previous releases, and creates a simple, lower-priced entry level into the distillery’s whiskeys.
Redwood Empire Bottled in Bond Rocket Prime (Batch 2)
Type: Straight rye
Origin: California
Age: 5 yr outdated
ABV: 50%
Value: $90
Launch: September 2022
Availability: Restricted
Redwood Empire Bottled in Bond Grizzly Beast (Batch 2)
Type: Straight bourbon
Origin: California
Age: 5 yr outdated
ABV: 50%
Value: $90
Launch: September 2022
Availability: Restricted
Must know:
These whiskeys, barreled within the spring of 2017, are the second batches for each labels, following the inaugural launch in October of final yr. The bourbon was drawn from 70 barrels and the rye from 55. Rocket Prime rye is distilled from a mash of 87% rye, 5% wheat, 5% malted barley, and three% corn; whereas Grizzly Beast bourbon was created from a mash of 66% corn, 23% rye, 7% wheat, and 4% barley. Each whiskeys matured in 53-gallon barrels toasted and charred to degree three.
Whisky Advocate says:
Redwood Empire sources its grains from throughout the U.S., together with from the heartland and domestically, and names every of its whiskeys for a redwood tree. Its whiskeys have been nicely acquired by our tasting panel, with the primary editions of Rocket Prime and Grizzly Beast scoring 90 and 89 factors, respectively, within the Spring 2022 Shopping for Information.
Penderyn 8 yr outdated Tawny Port Single Cask (PT307)
Type: Single malt
Origin: Wales
Age: 8 yr outdated
ABV: 58.8%
Value: $104
Launch: August 2022
Availability: 304 bottles; U.S. unique
Penderyn 6 yr outdated Rye Single Cask (685/2016)
Type: Single malt
Origin: Wales
Age: 6 yr outdated
ABV: 60.7%
Value: $120
Launch: August 2022
Availability: 219 bottles; U.S. unique
Must know:
ImpEx Drinks, Penderyn’s U.S. importer, has chosen two high-strength single cask single malts distilled utilizing Penderyn’s Faraday nonetheless. The 8 yr outdated was crammed right into a bourbon cask in November 2013, then transferred to a port cask in March 2017 till bottling in June 2022. The 6 yr outdated was matured totally in a rye cask since being crammed in 2016.
Whisky Advocate says:
Penderyn has used its Faraday nonetheless since 2000 to provide a lightweight, fruity spirit that comes off the stills at a a lot larger energy than the liquid from a traditional copper pot nonetheless. It’s an uncommon distillation set-up for a single malt whisky distillery. Single cask releases allow whisky drinkers to expertise a special facet to the distillery than its core choices, and based mostly on earlier critiques, these two U.S. exclusives seem to ship the whole lot Welsh single malt followers want: cask energy, pure coloration, age statements, and intriguing cask kinds. The U.S. is certainly one of Penderyn’s most vital markets, and there shall be a lot of different Penderyn single cask barrel picks in specialist shops this fall.
Axe Man American Malt
Type: American
Origin: Iowa
Age: Not acknowledged
ABV: 48%
Value: $60
Launch: September 17, 2022
Availability: Restricted; 6,000 bottles
Must know:
Iowa’s Foundry Distilling has introduced the most recent launch in its Brewer-Distiller Alliance (BDA) initiative, a malt whiskey made in collaboration with Surly Brewing Co. from Minneapolis. The whiskey was impressed by Surly’s in style Axe Man IPA and created from the beer’s mash. As soon as distilled, it was aged for 28 months in new 30-gallon American oak barrels. To have a good time the discharge, Foundry is internet hosting a celebration at its distillery this weekend—on Saturday, September seventeenth, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The distillery and brewery have collaborated earlier than, in July 2021, when Foundry launched Livid American Malt whiskey, created from Surly’s Livid IPA.
Whisky Advocate says:
We took a take a look at the pattern of craft distillers distilling whiskey from beer in our Fall 2021 situation, which included Livid American Malt (88 factors). And final month, we reported on Stranahan’s The Osopher a single malt made in tandem with Maryland’s Flying Canine Brewery, wherein the beer was aged in whiskey barrels that have been then emptied and returned to the distillery to be refilled with whiskey.
Creek Water Typically Y
Type: Rye
Origin: North Carolina
Age: 18 yr outdated
ABV: 48.95%
Value: $400
Launch: September 2022
Availability: 600 bottles obtainable for pre-order at creekwater.com for supply in October
Must know:
Typically Y is distilled utilizing a mashbill of 53% rye and 47% corn at an undisclosed distillery in North Carolina the place it’s aged earlier than being transported additional south within the state to endure ending in quite a lot of virgin oak barrels. This restricted launch is a celebration of Creek Water accomplice and rapper Yelawolf’s and singer/songwriter Shooter Jennings’s “Typically Y” album. Yelawolf designed the packaging which features a customized wooden field embellished with silver serpent emblems and leather-based accents. The proof of 97.9 is a nod to 1979, Yelawolf’s beginning yr.
Whisky Advocate says:
Creek Water is a label owned by Raleigh-based Subsequent Century Spirits, based in 2018, with the purpose to enhance the expertise of spirits manufacturing, making a patented course of that’s mentioned to optimize post-distillation filtering and ending. Subsequent Century Spirits additionally produces Bear Struggle whiskey and ready-to-drink vodka cocktails.
