In latest weeks, numerous distilleries have introduced main new builds. Blue Run Spirits is ready to break floor on a state-of-the-art facility in Georgetown, Kentucky, whereas Center West Spirits is relocating in Columbus, Ohio for 14 acres of area and a 75,000-square-foot distillery. Now, Wild Turkey has joined the combination, bringing to the desk plans for a further distillery on the Wild Turkey Distillery campus in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. The $161 million facility will probably be able to producing 5 million proof gallons per 12 months, bumping annual manufacturing as much as 14 million proof gallons. Completion is slated for July 2025.
This week’s new whiskies come from Scotland, California, and Kentucky. Campbeltown single malt Glen Scotia provides a 21 12 months outdated to its core lineup, Previous Potrero returns with three single barrel straight ryes, and RD1 Spirits debuts two wooden stave-finished bourbons. Learn on for full particulars.
Glen Scotia 21 12 months outdated
Type: Single malt
Origin: Scotland (Campbeltown)
Age: 21 12 months outdated
ABV: 46%
Value: $360
Launch: 2023
Availability: Restricted; international annual launch of two,500 bottles (360 for the U.S.)
Have to know:
Glen Scotia has added a brand new age assertion single malt into its vary between its 18 12 months outdated and 25 12 months outdated. Restricted portions of this expression will probably be launched annually. The whisky was aged in a mixture of refill bourbon barrels and refill American oak hogsheads earlier than receiving a 6-month end in first-fill oloroso sherry casks.
Whisky Advocate says:
Glen Scotia is a conventional distillery outfitted with a single pair of copper pot stills and is one among three surviving distilleries in Campbeltown. A earlier bourbon cask-matured Glen Scotia 21 12 months outdated expression was launched in 2012, but it surely was discontinued some years again. Releasing a everlasting 21 12 months outdated whisky into a spread takes a critical quantity of planning, and with the distillery mothballed for durations within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, older inventory was a difficulty. Distillery supervisor Iain McAlister can also be Glen Scotia’s grasp blender and has an unparalleled data of his stock and shares, so with this new 2023 launch, that downside will probably be behind them for now.
Previous Potrero 100% Straight Rye Single Barrel (OP6-14 BBL11)
Type: Straight rye
Origin: California
Age: 8 years, 3 months
ABV: 64.95%
Value: $90
Launch: April 2023
Availability: 4,578 bottles; California, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas now; by way of ReserveBar starting in Might
Previous Potrero 100% Straight Rye Sherry Cask Single Barrel (OP8-14 BBL7)
Type: Straight rye
Origin: California
Age: 4 years, 3 months
ABV: 63.23%
Value: $90
Launch: April 2023
Availability: 528 bottles; California, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas now; by way of ReserveBar starting in Might
Previous Potrero 100% Straight Rye Port Cask Single Barrel (OP7-15 BBL8)
Type: Straight rye
Origin: California
Age: 7 years, 3 months
ABV: 65.6%
Value: $90
Launch: April 2023
Availability: 1,098 bottles; California, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas now; by way of ReserveBar starting in Might
Have to Know:
Previous Potrero is distilled on the Hotaling & Co. Distillery on Potrero Hill Farm in San Francisco by grasp distiller Bruce Joseph, who’s been with the distillery since its founding. These three single barrel expressions have a mashbill of 100% malted rye that underwent a four-day fermentation earlier than being double distilled in Previous Potrero’s copper pot stills. They have been aged in toasted and charred extra-fine grain American oak barrels.
Whisky Advocate Says:
San Francisco-based Previous Potrero initially was a part of Anchor Brewing, whose roots date again to Nineteenth-century San Francisco and the Gold Rush. By 1965 the brewery was on its final legs, and was bought by Fritz Maytag, who based Anchor Distilling Co. in 1993 as a spirits offshoot. In 2010 Maytag bought your complete enterprise to 2 former Skyy vodka executives, Tony Foglio and Keith Greggor, who offloaded the brewing aspect to Japanese beer large Sapporo to focus on distilling and importing. Anchor Distilling’s identify was modified to Hotaling & Co. in 2018 according to its core model’s identify, which is a tribute to one among San Francisco’s legendary liquor retailers of the 19th century.
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RD1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Completed with Brazilian Amburana Wooden
Type: Completed bourbon
Origin: Kentucky
Age: 4 12 months outdated
ABV: 55%
Value: $80
Launch: April 2023
Availability: Restricted
Have to know:
This bourbon was completed with amburana wooden staves. Amburana is native to Brazil and historically utilized in South America for important oils, luxurious furnishings, and growing older cachaça, a Brazilian cane spirit. RD1’s associate cooperage makes use of a patented “honeycomb” approach to drill small holes into the amburana staves, enabling extra interplay between wooden and whiskey.
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RD1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Double Completed in Oak and Maple Barrels
Type: Straight bourbon
Origin: Kentucky
Age: 4 12 months outdated
ABV: 49.95%
Value: $80
Launch: April 2023
Availability: Restricted
Have to know:
RD1 used French oak staves steeped in maple syrup to complete this bourbon.
Whisky Advocate says:
RD1 Spirits launched in 2020. Its identify pays tribute to Lexington, Kentucky’s first federally registered distillery, which was given the excellence of RD#1 again in 1865. The whiskeys are made by grasp distiller Jacob Name, an Eighth-generation distiller, who beforehand headed up Inexperienced River Distilling; final 12 months, he left the corporate for a brand new enterprise, Western Kentucky Distilling Co., which broke floor on a $30 million distillery in November. Along with these completed whiskeys, RD1 makes a 98 proof straight bourbon and a 101 proof straight bourbon completed in French oak.
Glenglassaugh 46 12 months outdated
Type: Single malt
Origin: Scotland (Highlands)
Age: 46 12 months outdated
ABV: 41.7%
Value: $4,800
Launch: April 2023
Availability: Restricted; U.S. unique
Have to know:
This 46 12 months outdated single malt aged in a bourbon cask hand-selected by grasp blender Rachel Barrie. Given the age, it’s simple to see why that is an especially restricted launch.
Whisky Advocate says:
Glenglassaugh Distillery is on Scotland’s northeast coast, perched excessive atop a cliffside. The distillery was based in 1875, and manufacturing halted in 1986 when then-owners Highland Distillers (Edrington) didn’t discover it economically workable within the midst of a whisky downturn. Previous to the 1986 closure, Glenglassaugh’s whisky was used primarily in blends for different Edrington manufacturers together with Cutty Sark and The Well-known Grouse. The distillery reopened in 2008, and Edrington bought it to BenRiach Distillery Co. in 2013. Brown-Forman then acquired BenRiach Distillery Co. in 2016, and has maintained possession since then.
Royal Salute Coronation of King Charles III Version
Type: Mix
Origin: Scotland
Age: Not said
ABV: 52.3%
Value: $25,000
Launch: April 2023
Availability: International launch of 500 bottles (56 for the U.S.)
Have to know:
Royal Salute has launched a limited-edition expression in honor of the coronation of King Charles III, in addition to its personal origin story. For this launch, grasp blender Sandy Hyslop blended 53 uncommon malt and grain whiskies to replicate 1953, when the primary Royal Salute whisky was created 70 years in the past to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The whisky is housed in a sapphire blue Dartington crystal decanter to replicate the colour of stones set within the state crown, and is introduced in a wood field impressed by Westminster Abbey, the long-lasting setting for the coronation of the British monarchy since 1066.
Whisky Advocate says:
Royal Salute has maintained ties with the British Royal household since its inception, marking vital moments such because the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 with uncommon whisky releases. That is unlikely to be the one whisky collector’s piece launched to mark the coronation of King Charles III, as numerous English distilleries and scotch whisky producers with royal warrants have beforehand launched expressions marking royal marriages, births, and Jubilees.
The Singleton 40 12 months outdated
Type: Single malt
Origin: Scotland (Highlands)
Age: 40 years outdated
ABV: 45.9%
Value: $3,755
Launch: April 2023
Availability: Restricted international launch of 1,716 bottles
Have to know:
This Singleton expression was distilled at Glen Ord Distillery and underwent a secondary maturation of 28 years in bourbon, rum, and PX/oloroso seasoned sherry casks earlier than being completed in solera casks of Zacapa XO and Royal Rum in a collaboration with Lorena Vasquez, grasp blender of Ron Zacapa.
Whisky Advocate says:
That is the third and ultimate launch within the Epicurean Odyssey sequence following within the footsteps of The Singleton 38 12 months outdated (90 factors) and The Singleton 39 12 months outdated (94 factors). The creation of this whisky was underneath the steerage of veteran grasp blender Maureen Robinson, who retired in the summertime of 2022 after a 45-year profession within the whisky business. Robinson’s experiments at Diageo with lengthy durations of secondary maturation got here to the fore with the sooner releases within the Epicurean Odyssey sequence and when she curated the second launch of Diageo’s Prima & Ultima assortment in 2021.