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The Hacienda Santa Teresa, the oldest family-owned rum company in Venezuela, was founded in the Aragua Valleys in 1796 and is still there today, operated by the fifth generation of the Vollmer family with a story 229 years in the making. Known for their single estate rum, this core expression is crafted using their solera…
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Brooklyn-based Widow Jane continues to prove that blending is serious business, and its devotion to experimentation isn’t going to stop even under its newish ownership of Heaven Hill. “The Vaults” releases have arrived annually since 2019, each of them well-aged bourbons with often unusual finishing. The fifth Vaults release, from late 2024, is probably its…
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Orion gin is a new gin expression from the Pegasus Distillerie in France. Per the brand; “Maxime Girardin, third generation wine-maker, founded the Pegasus Distillerie in 2021 in the village of Meursault, at the heart of Burgundy, world renowned for its wines. This new venture took up the challenge of producing innovative top-quality spirits reflecting…
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Per the producer of Edmond’s Honor: “Off the coast of Madagascar, on a small island of Bourbon (known today as Reunion) began the extraordinary tale of Edmond Albius, an untrained prodigy, who centuries ago, unlocked the secret to manually pollinating vanilla. At only twelve years old his natural curiosity transformed vanilla into a coveted world…
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Manojo Mezcal is a 100% espadin mezcal founded by celebrated Mexican chef Enrique Olvera. The name Manojo is a play on words combining the Spanish words “mano,” meaning hand, and “ojo,” meaning eye, as portrayed within the brand identity. The name directly translates in English to “a bunch,” which the team interprets to mean abundance,…
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Tucked away in a corner of Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood is Widow Jane, a distillery likely best known for its bottlings of blended Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana bourbon. (They also run their own distillate, including a mashbill with proprietary heirloom corn dubbed Baby Jane.) Now under the ownership of Heaven Hill, the operation has previously…
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Beam’s Booker’s brand is getting its first new innovation since 2019 with the launch of The Reserves, the first of a new, annually released series that elevate the Booker’s experience even further. The twist? These aren’t the result of a single day’s production but rather a blend of barrels pulled from the “center cut” of…
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Founded in 1894, Longmorn is a Speyside Scotch producer that only recently made its entrance into the American market. In early 2024, Longmorn launched 18 and 22 year-old expressions stateside. Both are non-chill filtered and bottled at cask strength without added coloring. The two expressions will form the core of Longmorn’s American lineup, and the…
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Finally catching up with the final Booker’s Bourbon release for 2023, complete with a new and increasingly “we’re out of names” moniker: “Mighty Fine Batch.” This batch is named in honor of Booker Noe’s signature phrase he’d use to compliment anything he approved of – from his namesake bourbon to his country ham. If you knew…
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There are tasting invites, and then there are tasting invites that get you running to the nearest mode of transportation. A chance to taste Highland Park’s 54 year old expression — the line’s oldest to date, with 225 bottles released and valued at a cool $54,000 — is one of the latter. Recently, the brand…
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