In the north of Sweden, BOX opens a distillery in Ã…dalens Art Center.
Local entrepreneurs has done a market research to evaluate the possibilities of starting a whisky-distillery by the shores of Ångermanälven.
In the old energy plant, recently used as a art exhibition, they will now build their distillery.
Swedish whisky-consultant Anders Jonasson guided the group of entrepreneurs through Scotland. During that journey the group visited several Scottish distilleries.
John McDougall
(experience from Springbank, Balvenie and Laphroigh among others) has after that been consulted to lead the northern distillery’s pursuit for the golden liquid.
BOX intend to produce Swedish single malt whisky in line with Scottish traditions and methods. Inside the old power plant, a complete distillery will be built up during the winter of 2008 and be in full production spring 2009.. The traditional copper bins will produce about 90000 liter of alcohol a year.
For those of you out there that thinks this sounds exciting we should let you know that BOX are looking for investors. If you want to find out more, mail: info@boxdestilleri.se or visit the BOX homepage (In swedish)
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Highland Park, announces two new releases from its reserved collection of single casks — giving connoisseurs throughout Texas a reason to celebrate.
Highland Park Single Cask No. 10132 is a 15-year old Scotch Whisky bottled exclusively for Grape Vine Market in Austin. Originally distilled in 1990, Highland Park Single Cask No. 10132 yielded only 564 bottles.
The Republic Beverage Company has purchased and bottled Highland Park Single Cask No. 2310 in honor of Texas as “The Lone Star” Cask. Yielding only 576 bottles, the Highland Park Single Cask No. 2310 was distilled in 1991.
Picked up from a local news paper in Texas. SE.com
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Have you been thinking about starting your very own Whisky brand?
Why not import one from….Taiwan. Yes, you heard us right. Taiwan!
While browsing the Internet for something to write about (I’ll write an article about this later, damn all you whisky brands you are the worst in keeping your site updated) I ended up on Alibaba.com, a site that operates the world’s largest online marketplaces for both international and domestic China trade. A quick search on Whisky suggested a lot of different leads, but my eyes landed on Ikusa.
Nice bottle, apperantly has a Special taste for Chinese food…they say.
Well, it aint a Scotch, and I have no idea how it tastes, but it’s from Taiwain, and I never had a glass of Whisky from that area of the world. If someone has tried it, comment and let us know.
Feel like importing Ikusa, follow this link.
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The new Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky from Ian Macleod Distillers has been awarded the Design of the Year Trophy at the Wine & Spirit Design Awards 2007 (W&SDA).
Following last month’s announcement of Smokehead as a Gold Medal winner in the Spirit category of the W&SDA, Smokehead has now won the overall Design of the Year trophy.
Chosen by a prestigious judging panel of top journalists, design professionals and buyers from both retail and on-trade, Smokehead fought off the strongest competition ever from other Gold Medal winners such as WM Grant & Sons Monkey Shoulder and Diageo’s J&B -6°C. Smokehead was judged to have the best overall ‘stand-out’ impact and clearest fulfilment of the design brief.
Created by London-based design group Navyblue, the strong upbeat design and packaging of Smokehead celebrates the explosively smoky and peaty flavours of this powerful Islay Single Malt.Â
Iain Weir, Marketing Director for Ian Macleod Distillers, commented; “We are delighted that Smokehead has won this fantastic award. We are very proud of Smokehead’s bold, contemporary and exciting style, which commands attention and appeals directly to the ‘modern drinker’.â€Â
Source: Smokehead
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