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London’s
Bimber Distillery has unveiled the
fourth instalment of their 'The Spirit of
the Underground Collection' - this time
up the Bimber whisky train has made stops at
Covent Garden, Green Park, Leicester
Square and Piccadilly Circus tube stations.
London’s Bimber Distillery has unveiled the fourth instalment of their 'The Spirit of the Underground Collection' which they have produced in conjunction with Transport for London.
Bimber Spirit Of The Underground Collection Release No.4 showcases four new stations taking the total number of stations released to date to 16, the four new stations featured in this batch of releases are: Covent Garden, Green Park, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus – and once again each whisky "tube" and bottle label features iconography presenting unique pieces of London’s history that observes the significance of each station’s location.
In contrast to the fortified wine finishes of Release No.3, the latest editions all focus on full-term maturations. Drawing from the distillery’s finest casks, they present the distinctiveness of Bimber’s spirit alongside an intensity that has been derived from impactfully active maturations within each cask. Each is bottled at natural cask strength and without filtration:
- Covent Garden – fully matured in
oloroso sherry, 59.2% abv, 321
bottles
- Green Park – fully matured in
moscatel sherry, 59.4% abv, 285
bottles
- Leicester Square – fully matured
in virgin American oak, 60.3% abv,
271 bottles
- Piccadilly Circus – fully
matured in Pedro Ximenez sherry,
62.1%, 314 bottles
The Collection, which will eventually
total 44 individual releases, features a
selection of iconic single malt whiskies
that celebrate the heritage and
diversity of the distillery’s home city.
With stunning individual designs, each
bottle presents a different Tube station
on the London Underground network - the
oldest underground passenger railway
service in the world. The Tube opened on
10 January 1863, with services running
on the then named Metropolitan Railway
from Baker Street to Paddington.
Release No.4 of The Spirit of the
Underground Collection will be available
directly from Bimber’s Spirit of the
Underground website from Monday 23rd
January till Friday 27th January via a
ballot, and with an RRP of £125 per
bottle.
Speaking of the launch of the fourth
release of the Collection, Matt McKay
Bimber’s Director of Marketing and
Communications said: "We’re delighted to
unveil the next release in The Spirit of
the Underground Collection. For Release
no.4, we’ve aligned the four single cask
whiskies with four iconic Underground
stations which all sit alongside each
other on London’s Piccadilly line – the
adjacency reflecting the full-term
maturation and shared intensities that
these exceptional casks all showcase."
Ellen Sankey, Brand Licensing Manager at
TfL, said: "We are delighted to once
again see Bimber Distillery use our
unique brand and heritage in such a
creative way, especially as we celebrate
the 160th anniversary of London’s first
Tube service this January.
Collaborations like this show just how
innovatively our designs can be used to
bring new ideas and our history together
for customers across the world."
All the expressions in The Spirit of the
Underground Collection were crafted to
Bimber’s exacting standards. The spirit
was produced from the distillery’s
single farm barley and malted on a
dedicated floor at Warminster Maltings
before being fermented for seven days in
bespoke, on-site constructed American
oak washbacks. Distillation took place
in Bimber’s customised stills which
possess an increased copper surface
area, which results in a rich
fruit-forward, layered spirit.
You will also find the
current Bimber whisky range available from
specialist online whisky retailers such
as
The Whisky Exchange and
Master of
Malt
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