30th April, 2021 by Owen Bellwood Agricole rum maker Rhum Clément has promoted Julien Thimon to the role of cellar master following the departure of Robert Peronet. Julien Thimon has been promoted to the role of cellar master at Rhum Clément Peronet retired from the position of cellar master in December 2020 after more than
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Rémy Martin has partnered with multi-Grammy Award-winning artist Usher on a new campaign that celebrates the connection between music and Cognac. Award-winning artist Usher narrates Remy Martin’s new campaign Team up for Excellence – The Film was created in partnership with agency Fred and Farid in New York, US, and is narrated by Yeah! singer
Irish Distillers has revealed the second limited edition expression in the Midleton Very Rare Silent Distillery Collection – a 46-year-old whiskey priced at US$45,000. The packaging for Chapter Two pays homage to the role of water The first expression in the range, a 45-year-old single malt, was unveiled in February 2020. Pernod Ricard’s Irish Distillers
Even though Barrell has been busy building an entire new line of whiskeys (more on that in a future review), that hasn’t put even a slight pause in the schedule of periodic bourbon batch releases. The first for 2021 is Batch 28, another blend of straight whiskeys sourced from distilleries in Indiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Raasay Distillery (aka Isle of Raasay Distillery) is the first legal whisky distillery on the Isle of Raasay, which is a tiny island just north of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Operations formally began in 2017, and while the distillery just dropped its first formal bottling, we recently discovered a bottle of While We Wait,