New Products

A rather diverse bunch of recent releases, with household names like Bowmore & Macallan rubbing shoulders with the more esoteric delights of Benrinnes, Mannochmore and an incredibly rare Kinclaith. We love the look of the handsomely-presented Antiquary '77 as well, rounding off a very interesting crop of new whiskies. However, an even more exciting development has arrived in the form of our New Products RSS Feed ! Now, the technically unaware members of TWE were always under the impression that 'feed' was something that you gave to farm animals, but it appears that these days the computer bods have reinvented the term - apparently by simply clicking on our New Products Feed icon (that's the orange square at the top of this section above the Archive bit) you can have info on all the products that feature in this news section delivered directly to your computer as soon as we activate them - and save yourself the hassle of having to revisit this page every week and read our rantings. However, don't worry if that all sounds a bit Philip K. Dick - the good old-fashioned News & New Products page will still be here for myself and any other cavemen out there.

Bruichladdich X4+1 Deliverance: (Not) Rocket Fuel More exposure for Bruichladdich - getting themselves on the telly this time! The below was reported on their blog : "TV’s wine expert Oz Clarke and Top Gear’s James May attempted to run a high performance racing car fueled by our single malt whisky. The charismatic presenters were filming for Oz and James’ Great British Adventure a new third series that follows on from their tours in series one and two of French and Californian vineyards, which will be broadcast later this year on BBC2. We managed to get a zappy 150 mph Radical SR4 racing car thanks to Radical Sportscars, the Peterborough-based independent car manufacturer and Le Mans contender. Clearly it was important that the engine was not modified in anyway for the new spirit. In 1881 the young Harvey brothers set out to make the purest spirit in Scotland when they built a state-of-the-art distillery on Islay. The testament to their successful design is that nothing has changed in 127 years. And the spirit is every bit as pure. X4 was inspired by Martin Martin’s fantastic 1695 tasting note of a 4 times distilled spirit he encountered. Translated from the Gaelic as perilous whisky, “it at first taste affects all the members of the body: two spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; and if any man exceed this, it would presently stop his breath, and endanger his life.” Ideal then to run a racing car engine in this über-refined state. Obviously Islay spirit cannot be called whisky until it is matured in oak casks for 3 years, but on the day it was first tasted by wine & spirit expert Oz Clarke for verification as single malt spirit before being filled in to the car’s fuel tank. Then, using an Atlantic shore road closed to traffic by the island’s entire police force - and cleared of sheep and cattle - the car achieved a hair-raising 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. Distillery manager Duncan MacGillivray said “the exhaust smells much better than petrol. With fuel

Coming Soon: Glengoyne 16yo Shiraz Cask Finish The casks, previously used to mature award-winning Shiraz wine from Australia’s Hunter Valley, have come courtesy of Glenguin Winery. Lord Robin Tedder, who is in fact the third Baron of Glenguin – which was the original name of the whisky distillery known today as Glengoyne - established the Glenguin Estate in 1988. It is 100 years ago since Glenguin Distillery’s name change to the more phonetic Glengoyne Distillery and to celebrate this and the Tedder link, 20 empty Shiraz casks were filled with 16-Year-Old Glengoyne in autumn 2007. One of only a few Australians with a Master of Wine, Robin Tedder is hugely knowledgeable and seen as a world authority on the Shiraz (Syrah) grape. Robin ‘lent’ his expert palate to help decide on the timing of the final bottling of this exclusive malt.