This week’s new spirits launches - 5-9 February 2024

Rémy Cointreau’s The Bruichladdich Eighteen, The Bruichladdich Thirty single malts

Scotch whisky, single malts, Islay. Eighteen and 30 years old, respectively. Both matured in ex-bourbon casks, with ABVs of 50% and 43.2%
Released to the US off-premise this month through specialist spirits outlets
SRPs of US$179.99 (The Eighteen) and $1,999.99 (The Thirty) per 75cl bottles

Pernod Ricard’s The Glenlivet Rum & Bourbon Fusion Cask single malt

Scotch whisky, single malt, Speyside. No age statement, “selectively” finished in hybrid “fusion” casks comprising the ends of and staves of first-fill ex-rum casks and -bourbon barrels, 40% ABV
Debuting in the US this month
SRP of $99.99 per 75cl bottle

Angus Dundee Distillers’ Glencadam 15- and 17-Year-Old cask finish single malts

Scotch whiskies, single malts, Highland. 15-year-old Reserva de Madeira and 17-year-old Reserva PX, both 46% ABV
On sale now in the UK of-premise through “independent and specialist retailers
SRPs of GBP110 for the 15-year-old, GBP150 for the 17-year-old, limited to 5,826 and 4,188 numbered units, respectively

Diageo’s Bulleit American Single Malt

American whiskey, single malt, no age statement. Matured in first-fill, charred American white oak barrels, 45% ABV
Rolling out across the US from this week
SRP of $59.99 per 75cl bottle

Emyla Añejo Tequila

Tequila, añejo, aged for just over a year in ex-bourbon barrels, 40% ABV
On sale in the US, exclusively in California through selected off-premise operators and online, from this month
SRP of $129.99 per 75cl bottle, limited to 10,200 units

Pernod Ricard’s Absolut Cocktails additions

Diageo’s Port Ellen Gemini single malts

Scotch whisky, single malts, Islay. Gemini Original spent 44 years in three European oak casks, while Gemini Remnant has been finished in the cask that was “used to measure excess spirit from a filling run” at the distillery prior to its closure in 1983
Release timed to coincide with the reopening of Port Ellen distillery in March, available globally “through Diageo’s private client team”
SRP of GBP45,000 (US$56,580) per set of 2x70cl crystal decanters, limited to 274 units

Brown-Forman’s Jack Daniel’s Aged Series additions

American whiskies, Tennessee. Batch 2 of the 12-Year-Old, Batch 3 of the 10-Year-Old. Both matured in American white oak barrels, 53.5% and 48.5% ABVs
On sale in the US from this month in limited – albeit unspecified – quantities
SRPs of $94.99 for the 12-year-old and $84.99 for the ten-year-old