New Expert Spirit Reviews - January 24, 2024 - Renegade Rum All-Island Cuvée: Nova, 2023 Diageo Special Releases, Heaven's Door The Bootleg Series Vol. V and More!
Check out the latest spirits reviewed by our Tasting Table experts! Photo Credit: Renegade Rum
Jan 24, 2024
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12Renegade Rum is a terroir-driven rum project from Grenada. The distillery harvests, mills & distills fresh sugarcane from individual farms, one field at a time. All-Island Cuvée: Nova is an assemblage of multiple single farm origins in Grenada using different cane varieties (lacalome red, yellow lady, lodger, cain, and clean ester), distillation methods (pot + column), and wood types (first-fill bourbon, virgin, charred American oak, French oak ex-Bordeaux wine, Andean virgin oak). Aged for 1.8 years, it's bottled at 46% ABV. Available beginning December 2023, this is one of four flagship rums launching in the US. (SRP $59.99)
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11Renegade Rum is a terroir-driven rum project from Grenada. The distillery harvests, mills & distills fresh sugarcane from individual farms, one field at a time. MicrOrigin: Hope is a rum from a single field of cane grown on Hope Farm. Cane variety: lodger. Distillation method: pot + retort. Wood types: first-fill bourbon, virgin charred American oak, and French oak ex-Bordeaux wine. Aged for 1.5 years, it's bottled at 55% ABV. Available beginning December 2023, this is one of four flagship rums launching in the US. (SRP $79.99)
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10Renegade Rum is a terroir-driven rum project from Grenada. The distillery harvests, mills & distills fresh sugarcane from individual farms, one field at a time. Pre-Cask: Cuvée Aura is an assemblage of unaged rums from single farm origins made with using the following production methods: Cane variety: lacalome red; Distillation method: pot + column. Like all bottlings from the brand, there is no coloring, no sugar added, and no chill-filtration. It's bottled at 46% ABV. Available beginning December 2023, this is one of four flagship rums launching in the US. (SRP $49.99)
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9The fifth volume in Heaven's Door The Bootleg Series, an annual collection of rare whiskeys and special blends, features an 18 year-old straight bourbon. It's finished in Spanish vermouth rouge barrels and bottled at 114 proof. Like previous releases, this Bootleg Series bottling is packaged in a handmade ceramic bottle featuring an oil painting by Bob Dylan. Here, "No Vacancies" (2019) is featured. Each bottle is encased in a bespoke leather journal. Available at select retailers nationwide beginning November 2023. (SRP $599)
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8Talisker The Wild Explorador is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was finished in a combination of white, tawny, and ruby port wine casks. Bottled at 59.7% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $135)
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7Singleton of Glendullan The Silken Gown is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was finished in white Burgundy (Chardonnay) French oak wine casks. Bottled at 55% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $135)
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6Mortlach The Katana's Edge is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was finished in ex-Kanosuke Japanese whisky and pinot noir wine casks. Bottled at 58% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $280)
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5Glenkinchie The Floral Treasure is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was matured in refill American and European oak barrels & butts for 27 years. Bottled at 58.3% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $400)
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4Lagavulin The Ink of Legends is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was finished in a combination of Don Julio Añejo Tequila casks. Bottled at 56.4% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $170)
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3Oban The Soul of Calypso is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was finished in Caribbean pot still rum casks. Bottled at 58% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $140)
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2Roseisle The Origami Kite is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. This release marks the first inclusion for Roseisle in the collection. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was finished in first-fill ex-bourbon and refill casks. Bottled at 56.5% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $150)
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1Clynelish The Jazz Crescendo is one of eight bottlings for DIAGEO'S 2023 Special Releases collection which has a theme of "Spirited Xchange"— celebrating the journey of Scotch, countries and cultures around the world. Selected by Master Blender Dr. Stuart Morrison, the whisky here was aged exclusively in ex-bourbon American oak casks. Bottled at 57.5% ABV, it's available in limited quantities in the US beginning October 2023. (SRP $200)