There have been fairly a number of fascinating releases within the whisky world this week, notably a new 12 12 months outdated Eagle Uncommon and Diageo’s resurrection of the Stitzel Weller title with a new 24 12 months outdated. The remainder of the week is rounded out by two high-profile annual releases—the brand new Dewar’s Champion’s Version 19 12 months outdated to mark the U.S. Open golf event, and Garrison Brothers’ annual launch of the tawny port-finished Guadalupe, which at all times attracts a crowd on the distillery in Texas. There’s additionally a brand new version of Rieger Monogram, this one with a little bit of 15 12 months outdated sherry added as a tribute to blenders previous, and a Widow Jane bourbon mix, which is a New York unique. Buzzard’s Roost has its most loyal followers decide the barrels for its newest whiskey, and 4 Branches commemorates our navy with a 9 12 months outdated bourbon.
Dewar’s The Champion’s Version 19 12 months outdated (2025 Launch) Blended Scotch
ABV: 43%
SRP: $80
Availability: Annual restricted version; ReserveBar, specialist retailers, and Dewar’s web site
Every year, simply earlier than the beginning of the U.S. Open golf event, Dewar’s releases its 19 12 months outdated Champion’s Version to mark the event. This 12 months’s expression is completed in calvados casks from Normandy, France—the apple brandy end meant as a tribute to Pennsylvania’s heritage in apple brandy making. The period of the end will not be disclosed. Dewar’s launched its youthful calvados cask completed expression, Dewar’s 8 12 months outdated French Easy, as a everlasting core launch in 2022. Earlier expressions of The Champion’s Version have been completed in rye casks in 2024, Napa Valley purple wine casks in 2023, American oak and rye casks in 2022, and first-fill bourbon casks in 2021. The U.S. Open is being performed this weekend and concludes Sunday.
Garrison Brothers Guadalupe Completed Bourbon (2025 Version)
ABV: 53.5%
SRP: $150
Availability: 8,600 bottles; 1,000 on the distillery launch get together set for Saturday, July 12, and nationwide after
Every year since 2021, Hye, Texas-based Garrison Brothers has debuted a brand new version of Guadalupe, a 6 12 months outdated bourbon that’s matured for 4 years in new American oak after which completed in tawny port barrels for two years. The whiskey will get its title from Texas’ Guadalupe River. The primary 1,000 bottles of Guadalupe might be obtainable on the distillery on July twelfth in the course of the Guadalupe launch get together; as a part of the occasion, Garrison Brothers will even, for the primary time, launch 1,000 bottles of a cask-strength single barrel iteration of the whiskey, priced at $220. For each bottle of Guadalupe Cask Energy offered, Garrison Brothers will donate $50 to Gulf Belief, a conservation group that helps coastal Texas.
Grasp distiller Donnis Todd’s inspiration for Guadalupe got here in 2015, when the distillery sourced port casks from a neighborhood vineyard to complete its 4 12 months outdated bourbon. Enticed by the outcomes he noticed from that first experiment, which was dubbed Estacado, Todd started sourcing extra port casks straight from Portugal, culminating within the inaugural 2021 launch of Guadalupe.
Widow Jane Borough Mix of Straight Bourbons
ABV: 45.5%
SRP: $75
Availability: 2,400 bottles; NY unique
In making its latest whiskey, Widow Jane invited seven New York Metropolis bartenders to its Brooklyn distillery and had them style by way of a variety of bourbon blends with head distiller Sienna Jevremov. Collectively, they chose the mix that, of their collective thoughts, finest represented the town: a wedding of 5 straight bourbon barrels in a nod to New York Metropolis’s 5 boroughs, every aged for no less than 10 years.
The brand new bottle pays homage to New York in apparent and delicate methods. Its label, designed in-house by artwork director Michele Clark, options parts of the town’s well-known skyline, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge and Empire State Constructing, each of which have been made with cement sourced from the Widow Jane mine in Rosendale, New York—the very place the place Widow Jane sources its water. The bottle’s topper, in the meantime, has an inset steel token designed within the type of historic subway tokens used from 1986 to 1995.
Buzzard’s Roost Ambuzzadors Choose Single Barrel Double Oak Rye
ABV: 57.5%
SRP: $85
Availability: Restricted; Whiskey Row and on-line solely
Since its Whiskey Row location opened two years in the past, Buzzard’s Roost has been inviting its most ardent followers there—its “Ambuzzadors”—to do barrel picks a few instances a 12 months. Their choices are bottled, and whereas Ambuzzadors have precedence on the bottles, finally the remaining ones are made obtainable to all. This 12 months’s first Ambuzzadors choice is a 5 12 months outdated barrel energy rye that was double-oaked in evenly charred, custom-toasted barrels for 18 months. The brand new rye might be obtainable to the general public beginning June 14th.
The Ambuzzadors Membership is free to hitch, and except for single barrel choices, additionally affords its members early alerts on new releases, comfortable hours, and tastings each in-person and digital, and a loyalty card that permits for a complimentary distillery tour, amongst different perks.
4 Branches The Continental Bourbon
ABV: 51%
SRP: $119
Availability: On-line and in choose markets
This 12 months, the US Military, Navy, and Marine Corps are celebrating their 250th anniversaries. To commemorate that milestone, veteran-owned 4 Branches Bourbon is releasing a restricted version bourbon known as The Continental—named after the U.S.’s first preventing power, which was based in 1775. The bourbon has a mashbill of 75% corn, 13% rye, and 12% malted barley, and it was aged for 9 years.
4 Branches was based by 4 navy veterans—Mike Trott (USAF), Alfred “Rick” Franco (USMC), Robert “RJ” Casey (U.S. Military), and Harold Underdown (U.S. Navy)—who’ve a ardour for whiskey. The inaugural launch, which got here in July 2023, was made below the steering of Bardstown Bourbon Co. grasp distiller Steve Nally. In April, 4 Branches introduced that trade veteran Gregg Snyder was becoming a member of the model in an advisory place. Snyder joined the group after a years-long tenure as grasp distiller for Hen Cock, a place that he left earlier this 12 months.
J. Rieger Monogram mix (2025 Launch)
ABV: 50%
SRP: $130
Availability: Restricted, with a concentrate on Missouri and Kansas
Kansas Metropolis, Missouri-based J. Rieger has launched a brand new batch of its annual Monogram whiskey. This 12 months’s version contains a mix of solera-aged straight bourbon, straight rye, and lightweight whiskey, all of which have been aged at the least 4 years and individually completed in 500-liter oloroso botas sourced from Jerez, Spain. The mix additionally comprises a tiny little bit of 15 12 months outdated oloroso sherry—accounting for round 2% of the general quantity—which the model says is a throwback to the pre-Prohibition practices of some rectifiers.
