Yesterday we announced the 41st-50th selected wines of the 2023 World's 50 Most Innovative Spirits, and today we announced the 31st-40th selected wines, among which Buchradi rye whisky and Buffalo Footprint peat malt trial bourbon are unique, so let's give you a brief overview of these 10 spirits.
40.Stranger & Sons Sherry Cask Gin
Indian brand Stranger &Sons has launched a sherry cask-aged gin designed to replicate an old-fashioned cocktail. The wine is matured for more than a year in Amodeiado and Oloroso sherry barrels before being infused with cascara and wild honey. The wine seeks to break down the boundaries between the old-fashioned cocktail and the gin world, redefining the consumer drinking experience. It is priced at $42.
39.Silver Circle Bloody Mary
The Welsh-based Silver Circle distillery has launched a ready-to-drink Bloody Mary cocktail in cans. The wine is made with black garlic vodka, tomato juice, apple caramel, white soy sauce, a dash of jalapeño, red pepper hot sauce and a vegan Worcestershire sauce, 7% ABV by volume and 400ml capacity.
38.Maker's Mark Cellar Aged
Maker's Mark, the famous American bourbon brand, broke with convention and launched its first bourbon with a vintage statement, and it is its oldest to date. It is a blend of 87% 12 year old bourbon and 13% 11 year old bourbon with an alcohol content of 5785%abv。Priced at $150. Cellaring refers to the transfer of the wine from the original barrels aged to 6 years in a traditional warehouse, and then transferred to a limestone cellar built in December 2016 for further aging for 5-6 years.
37.Mr Lyan x Whitebox Cocktails
Whitebox Cocktails, a well-known British cocktail brand, has teamed up with renowned bar owner and blender Ryan Chetiyawardana to present three canned cocktails: Beeswax Old Fashioned, Stonewashed Cosmo and Bulletproof espresso martini）。 Among them, beeswax old-fashioned cocktail, alcohol by volume 289% ABV, a blend of Scotch whisky, brown sugar and Douglas fir bitters aged in beeswax. Stone Mill Metropolis is a blend of Mr Lyan Bay Vodka, Cranberry Rosé, Limestone and Champagne Bitters at 184%abv。Bulletproof espresso martini, 18% ABV, made with Mr. Ryan bourbon, cold brew coffee liqueur, salted butter and coffee shell bitters. Each can of 100 ml costs $8.
36.Bruichladdich The Regeneration Project Islay Single Grain
The Scottish Islay distillery Buchradi Distillery presents the distillery and the island's first rye whisky, made from 55% Islay rye and 45% Islay malt, matured in first-filled bourbon casks and first-filled American original casks with 50% ABV. The first batch of 1,800 bottles was produced at a price of £125. As there is no legal definition of rye whisky in Scotland, the liquor can only be classified as a single grain whisky. The wine takes on the colour of golden syrup, and the spices are immediately on the nose, accompanied by notes of liquorice, black pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg. The softness of the palate is offset by the spicinessness of the rye, and the freshly roasted primal oak barrels bring the sweetness of marzipan, vanilla and chocolate, all complemented by the spices of rye and the citrus-green fruit of the barley grown in Islay. The finish is sweet and full-bodied oak, ripe pears and green apples, followed by delicate malt pastries and finally vanilla custard.
35.Burnt Faith Charentais Distilled British Brandy
Burnt Faith, the first dedicated brandy distillery in the British Isles, is located in Walthamstow, north-east London, and officially opened in March 2023. The first release of the distillery's Burning Faith Charente Distilled England Brandy 001 batch, made from four grape varieties: Trebbiano, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Muscat Blanc, is then matured in cherry liqueur casks from Ukraine, Charent-de-Pinay casks from France, brandy casks from Spain and bourbon casks from the United States. ABV by volume 40% ABV for £36.
34.Midleton Very Rare Forêt de Tron AIS
The Irish Distillers' Midleton Very Rare collection presents Midleton Very Rare Forêt de Tron AIS, which uses premium oak casks from the Forêt de Tron AIS in France to mature the whisky. A blend of single-grain whiskies and single-pot distilled whiskies that have been matured in American bourbon casks for decades from the 80s to the early 21st century, and then finished in French Tronse oak barrels for 3 years, the wine elegantly reveals poached pear, caramel apple and honeycomb. ABV 48% ABV and priced at 5,000 euros.
In 2017, Middleton Distillery Master Distiller Kevin O'Gorman (Kevin O'Gorman and his team traveled to France to source oak barrels, and they discovered a very rare and rare T5 oak from the Tronse forest, known for its fine grain and delicate taste. Kevin O'Gorman believes this will add a new dimension to the subtle scents of the Very Rare Collection. The T5 oak sourced from the Tronsey forest is naturally dried for up to five years before being made into barrels.
33.Buffalo Trace Experimental Peated Bourbon
This is the distillery's 26th experimental collection, borrowing from the practice of Scotch peated whisky, where the malt in the raw material mix is replaced with peated malt for a smoky effect. Aged for 10 years in fresh, charred white oak barrels, it has an alcohol content of 45% ABV and sells for $47. Notes of leather, mahogany and cocoa beans are imparted by the "light smoke", brown butter and toffee notes.
32.Clear drop rum
The first rum launched by Dropworks, a British rum distillery, is fermented with molasses, organic sugar cane juice, honey and other raw materials, using the world's first unique yeast strain cultivated by the distillery itself: three-strain symbiotic yeast (three-strain symbiotic yeast), and then distilled in three custom-made stills (one of which is a double-kettle still, the first of its kind in the UK) to produce "unaged, pure, additive-free" white rum. It is said to have a rich flavor of fresh blueberries, vanilla ice cream, and bananas. It is 45% ABV by volume and retails for £35 (43.).$28).
31.Siempre Exclusivo-vivo agave
Independent spirits brand Siempre was created in collaboration with Sergio Cruz, one of Mexico's most famous agave masters, and Adam Fodor, founder of the International Academy of Tequila, who made a limited edition tequila using the "already forgotten" Hispanic-Peruvian distillation method. To create this unique agave, they started distilling the juice extracted from the agave after it was cooked and crushed while the yeast was still alive, and since it was done in the open air, this meant that some of the alcohol was lost through evaporation, but it was easier for local bacteria to enter the tank and compete with the yeast for food and nutrients, this open distillation reduced yield, but also meant that the liquor contained more of the essence of agave, providing unique depth and flavor complexity.
Made from 100% Blue Weber, El Chivo and Arandas Tequila from the Arandas region of Jalisco, it has an alcohol content of 475% ABV, not diluted with water, limited to 9,000 bottles, priced at $130, has a "slight peppery flavor" with notes of fresh fruit, honey and silky butter.
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