Trail 9.26.07
The Monk and friends are nearing the end of the Ultimate Canadian Whisky Journey
Their search for the ‘Holy Grail’ of Canadian Whisky !
Here after an extensive search is your Top Ten List
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Alberta Springs 10 year
Canadian Club ‘Limited Edition Reserve’ 20 year
Crown Royal ‘Special Reserve’
Forty Creek ‘Barrel Select’
Forty Creek ‘Small Batch Reserve’
Gibson’s Rare Reserve ‘Bourbon Cask’
Gibson’s Rare Reserve ‘New Oak Cask’
Gibson’s ‘Rare’18 year
Pike Creek ‘Double Barrelled’
Wiser’s ‘Very Old’ 18 year
Popularity: 32% [?]
Jameson Irish whiskey has had a record breaking year, according to 2006/2007 annual results released yesterday (September 20).Sales of the whiskey brand, owned by Pernod Ricard, rose to 2.3m cases in the year, the most ever sold in a 12-month period, and an increase of 11% on 2005/2006. The rise beat the company’s 9% rise in overall sales for its 15 strategic brands.
“You could say we took about 200 years to get to our first million cases - from 1790 to 1996 - and just over a decade to beat the two million cases mark,” said Dublin-based Kieran Tobin of Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard.
source just-drinks.com (membership)
Popularity: 34% [?]
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Trail 9.21.07
The Monk and friends are nearing the end of the Ultimate Canadian Whisky Journey
Their search for the ‘Holy Grail’ of Canadian Whisky !
Popularity: 24% [?]
from the Globe and Mail…
The spirit was thrilling but the price is steep.
Very steep. At $30,000 a bottle, 50-year-old The Balvenie Cask 191, two bottles of which arrived under armed Brinks guard at a Toronto liquor store yesterday as part of a publicity stunt, is being billed as the most expensive liquid bought by the LCBO.
To the palpable delight of organizers, about 25 reporters and drinks critics dutifully showed up with uncommon punctuality at the huge Summerhill liquor store on Toronto’s Yonge Street to partake of a tutored tasting of the single malt Scotch, led by kilt-clad Balvenie international brand ambassador David Mair.
But the flavour was clearly upstaged by the product’s stratospheric price, a shrewd marketing gambit on the part of the importers.
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Popularity: 25% [?]
Canadian distiller Kittling Ridge Estates Distillery has been voted the best distiller in this year’s Icons of Whisky Canada, held by Whisky Magazine. The independent company, based in Ontario, faced stiff competition from a shortlist of Canadian distillers.
To celebrate the people and places behind the greatest whiskies in the world, this year’s judging process will also include regional heats in the U.S., Japan, Ireland and Scotland.
Other big winners included John Hall from Kittling Ridge Distillery who became Ambassador of the Year, and Diageo scooped the Innovator of the Year award.
The icons will now go forward to the final world Icons which will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Café Royal, London, 28th Feburary 2008, held to mark the opening of Whisky Live London.
The full list of Icons of Whisky are:
Full list of Icons of Whisky
Popularity: 25% [?]
The Legacy bottlings come from some of the oldest and rarest casks from Bruichladdich’s vaults, that came to light when the distillery was purchased by the current owners in 2001.
This is the sixth and final annual release, each one limited to between 900 and 1700 bottles, selected from exceptional casks dating back to the early seventies and late sixties.
The series features dramatic presentations: evocative oil paintings of Hebridean seascapes by renowned local artist Frances Macdonald. The 6th bottling features the painting “Evening Surf”.
Unusually, this bottling is not quite what it seems: legally a 34 year old whisky, being the youngest age in the bottle, it is actually a cunning mix of six venerable casks from the 1965, 1970, and 1972 vintages.
Popularity: 16% [?]
Source: just-drinks.com editorial team
Pernod Ricard has unveiled an addition to its Wild Turkey Bourbon brand in the US. The company said yesterday (12 September) that the limited edition, 100 proof, 15-Year-Old Bourbon, known asWild Turkey American Spirit, will be bottled at bond proof ”as a mark of quality to show the consumer that the liquid in the bottle had been guaranteed by the distiller”.
Pernod Ricard USA’s vice president of whiskies, Joe Uranga, said: “Wild Turkey American Spirit celebrates our past and serves as our vow to continue making bourbon in the same uncompromising way.”
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Popularity: 16% [?]
Source: just-drinks.com editorial team
Corby Distilleries has posted figures for its 2006-2007 fiscal year. The Canadian company, which is 46%-controlled by Pernod Ricard, said yesterday (30 August) that operating profit in the year to the end of June hit C$153.6m (US$145.3m)
Popularity: 16% [?]
