News Briefs for February 8, 2024
February 8, 2024•Riboli Family Wines has rebranded and relaunched its Opaque Wines label with the release of Opaque’s Earth Elements series. The brand’s new labels pay homage to the attributes of terroir that are crucial to their production, according to the company. Rolling out nationally, the revamped Opaque wines include Darkness Red Blend, a new Tannat offering, Petit Verdot, Zinfandel, and Malbec, all priced at $40 a 750-ml.
•Brown-Forman has announced the 2024 edition of Woodford Reserve’s Batch Proof bottling. This year’s release comes in at 60.6% abv and is blended from more than 100 barrels of various ages pulled from a variety of Woodford’s warehouses. Woodford Reserve Batch Proof is now available in select markets across the U.S., as well as in limited quantities at Woodford’s distillery for a suggested price of $150 a bottle. Woodford Reserve depleted 1.42 million cases in the U.S. last year, according to Impact Databank.
•Tennessee-based Sugarlands Distilling is debuting Birthday Cake Sippin Cream as its latest extension. The 40-proof, rum-based cream liqueur coincides with a repackaging for all 10 Sugarlands Sippin Cream offerings. Meanwhile, the company has named football’s Golic family as brand ambassadors, including patriarch and former NFL star Mike, his wife Chris, Mike Jr., Jake, his wife Jenny, and Sydney and her husband, Ben Braunecker. Sugarlands has a longstanding relationship with the Golics, sponsoring the Golic Family Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic for the last two years.
•Rémy Cointreau-owned Bruichladdich Distillery has launched The Bruichladdich Eighteen and The Bruichladdich Thirty as part of the Islay single malt Scotch whisky’s new Luxury Redefined range. The newcomers mark the first of the brand’s permanent high-age-statement whiskies. The Thirty was bottled at 43.2% abv, while the Eighteen was bottled at 50% abv, with the older whisky aged exclusively in ex-Bourbon casks and the younger aged mostly in Bourbon casks with some wine-cask matured whiskies included. The Bruichladdich Eighteen and Thirty are available at specialty whisky retailers and are priced at $180 and $2,000 respectively per 750-ml. bottle.
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