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News Briefs for April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025

•Lucas Bols is introducing Bols Blue 1575, a super-premium Blue Curaçao. The new offering is made with distilled orange peels and a botanical spiced rum base, along with a blend of island-inspired botanicals. Retailing at $35 a 700-ml., Bols Blue 1575 is bottled at 29.5% abv and is rolling out to select on- and off-premise locations across the U.S. In addition to the Bols liqueur brand, the Lucas Bols portfolio includes Passoã liqueur, Galliano, and Partida Tequila among others.

•Rosaluna mezcal has secured investment from Chateau d’Esclans founder Sacha Lichine, with the brand also forming a national partnership with Shaw-Ross International Importers. While the amount of his investment was not disclosed, Lichine will join Rosaluna’s board of directors. The brand, co-founded and chaired by Freddie Martignetti, releases a 40% abv mezcal distilled from Espadín agave. For Shaw-Ross, Rosaluna gives the importer its second Mexican spirit, joining Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri’s Santo Tequila.

•Foley Family Wines & Spirits is introducing Minden Mill American Single Malt Whiskey. Retailing at $60 a 750-ml., the 94-proof whiskey is made from 100% estate-grown barley, malted on site at Minden Mill in Minden, Nevada. The new entry is aged for five years in a barrel regime of Oloroso sherry, ex-Bourbon and American oak casks, along with re-charred wine and sherry butts in climate-controlled rickhouses. Minden Mill’s American Single Malt joins a Nevada Straight Bourbon and a Nevada Straight Rye Whiskey in the brand’s portfolio.

•Compass Box is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a ninth edition of the company’s Flaming Heart whisky. Flaming Heart: 25th Anniversary Edition is bottled at 48.9% abv and blended from malts distilled at Talisker, Laphroaig, and Benrinnes, plus Islay malt whisky bottled under the Williamson label. A portion of the whiskies used were given additional maturation time in custom French oak barrels. Flaming Heart: 25th Anniversary Edition is limited to 9,384 bottles and carries a suggested price of $165.

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