Friday, December 12, 2014

New Whiskey Labels: New Jack Daniel's, Old Glenrothes and More


This week's most interesting new labels from the federal TTB database:

Brown Forman cleared Jack Daniel's Sinatra Century, a 100 proof JD to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ol' Blue Eyes (proof on label approvals is often just a placeholder but I assume the 100 proof here is a tie in to the 100th birthday).  The label states that the whiskey was "matured with grooved oak barrels for boldness and depth."

A few months ago I wrote about a series of new Ardbeg labels celebrating the 200th anniversary of the distillery: Continuum, Bicentennial, Atmosphere and Anniversary.  They are now joined by another, Perpetuum, which has the same tasting notes as the other four.

A label cleared for a distillery bottling of a 1968 single cask Glenrothes that was bottled in 2013.

WhistlePig released a label for a single barrel version of their 10 year old Canadian rye which appears to be for retailers or other private parties and may be cask strength.

Note:  The fact that a label appears on the TTB database does not necessarily mean it will be produced.  In addition, some details on the label, such as proof, can change in the final product.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Perpetuum this one has lesser ABV than the other 4.

Andy said...

Hi Sku, I was trolling the COLA page for Oregon products and noticed this

https://www.ttbonline.gov/colasonline/viewColaDetails.do?action=publicFormDisplay&ttbid=%2014301001000091

You probably have more experience reading COLAS than me, but it seems like it's classed as VODKA and the label says 100% Grain Neutral Spirits, but it says Whiskey on the front. How can that be?

sku said...

Andy, welcome to the TTB.

Andy said...

That is sort of what I figured...