A follow up from the 2012 launch of an Unaged Tennessee Rye Jack Daniels has now released “Jack Daniel’s Rested Tennessee Rye” a limited edition at 40 % abv marks the distillery’s first barrel-matured expression in the rye category and is now available in the US. Jeff Arnett the Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller said “We felt it was time for our Jack Daniel’s friends and whisky enthusiasts alike to see for themselves how the new oak barrel has enhanced the rye whiskey over the past two years.” He mentioned how pleased they were with the reception we received from the unaged rye.
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Unusual names for Scotch Tailfire and Sunray are to be launched by The Singleton with thhope of attracting a new demographic to the whisky category.
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The Hammersmith-based distillery, Sipsmith, has announced that it’s growth has meant it has to move. To a larger site in Chiswick.
The small distillery was established in 2009 in a garage and claimed to be the first distillery to open in London in nearly 200 years and has already added a second still. The move will enable a third still to be installed as well as establishing an educational facility. This will cater for the trade and have an experimental laboratory, a “mini-still” for training bar staff and allowing in-house experimentation and gin-making classes for enthusiasts. This will feature as a “Gin School.”
Only five months after it’s launch in the US, the makers of the Paper Bottle , Green Bottle Company, based in Merseyside has gone into administration.
The reasons given for the failure include the majority of the shareholder base decided to discontinue investing so the directors of the company had no option. In last November the world’s first paper wine bottle went on sale in containing a 2012 red blend from Paso Robles in Safeway supermarkets under the “Paper Boy” label. Made from compressed recycled paper and printed with “natural” ink the bottle weighs just 65 grms and seventh of the weight of the average wine bottle. Lined with a plastic bag similar to wine boxes giving a carbon footprint less than a third of the average 750 ml glass bottle.
The Mont Rochelle property in Franschhoek, Cape, South Africa is in the process of being purchased by Sir Richard Branson. The sale is going through Branson’s Virgin Limited Edition Luxury property company for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading