The industry in pictures
Manchester United players recently welcomed their new global spirits sponsor, Aperol.
It was announced that the Italian liqueur brand, owned by Gruppo Campari, had entered into a three-year sponsorship deal with the football team, a move the brand described as “a successful step”.
Diageo announced this week that new stills were currently being delivered and installed at its Glen Ord distillery, part of a £25 million expansion plan for the vicinity.
The news comes just one day after the drinks group’s revelation that it had submitted plans to embark on a £30 million expansion of its Clynelish Distillery.
Hawksmoor bartender and friend of The Spirits Business Alistair Reynolds (left) shows Holly Willoughby and Dermot O’Leary a thing or two about cocktails.
John Ross, master distiller at Girvan Distillery, demonstrates the complicated art of grain distillation to our managing editor Becky Paskin, and whisky expert Charles Maclean.
Our managing editor Becky Paskin was given a rare tasting of two not-for-release Girvan single grain, single cask vintages on a visit to the distillery.
The first was a 1988 single cask, bottled at 69.3% abv that had strong, woody flavours of vanilla with some earthy, raw spirit character. The second was a 1968 bottling of a 63.7% abv Sherry cask-matured single grain whisky, that had rich sultana and spice flavours.
Brit pair Mike Burton and Tom Salt row to victory in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge – the “world’s toughest” rowing race – in a total of 41 days, two hours and 38 minutes.
The race, launched on 4 December, saw of rowers from Australia, Sweden and the UK travel 3,000 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean, from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, to Antigua in the Caribbean.
Team sb headed over to the glorious Mestizo bar for our Tequila Masters 2014 blind tasting competition.
With an abundance of tantalising Tequilas on display, the venue played perfect host to our excited judges.
One of The Tequila Masters’ judges, top bartender and spirits consultant Emilie Compesato, diligently samples one of the entries.
Bacardi Global Travel Retail has brought a flavour of the East to Auckland Airport by offering consumers a free rickshaw ride to their gate courtesy of Bombay Sapphire East.
Anyone purchasing two bottles of Bombay Sapphire East will be offered the opportunity to sit back and relax in the rickshaw as it transports them through the airport.
Andy Loudon from London’s 69 Colebrooke Row was this week named the UK finalist of Havana Club International Cocktail Grand Prix competition.
