News Briefs for May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025•Heaven Hill has announced the spring 2025 bottling of the distiller’s Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond decanter series.
This season’s whiskey was distilled in 2016 and is bottled at 50% abv with a 9-year-old age statement. The release, the fifteenth in the Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond decanter series, carries a suggested price of $130 and is rolling out now in limited quantities across the U.S.
•Republic National Distributing Company has expanded its partnership with Vineyard Brands to Illinois. The move, effective from the beginning of May, brings Vineyard Brands labels like Famille Perrin and Marqués de Cáceres into the RNDC fold. In addition to Illinois, RNDC distributes Vineyard Brands wines in Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
•Brown-Forman-owned The Glendronach has released the Master’s Anthology, a new trio of single malt Scotch whiskies, in the U.S. The non-age-statement bottlings were created by master blender Rachel Barrie and show off different aspects of The Glendronach’s malts. The first whisky, Ode to the Valley ($85), is bottled at 46.2% abv and matures in Port and Sherry casks. The second, Ode to the Embers ($91), is a peated whisky matured in Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez casks and bottled at 48.4% abv. The final new release, Ode to the Dark ($98), is bottled at 50.8% abv and matured in Pedro Ximénez casks. All three whiskies are rolling out now across the U.S.
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