Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake will supply followers a ryed they don’t wish to miss, because it launches a limited-edition, wind tunnel-tested rye whiskey with WhistlePig Whiskey. The leaders in impartial craft whiskey, a workforce associate since 2022, have unveiled the most recent providing of their WhistlePig PiggyBack Legends Series, a excessive Rye Whiskey chosen by drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu, with barrels trialled within the workforce’s wind tunnel in Hinwil, Switzerland – to make sure an exhilarating style in each sip.
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The Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake Barrel whiskey is bottled at 96.77 proof, a nod to Valtteri’s racing quantity, 77, and the precision of racing. Zhou’s Chinese roots are mirrored by the whiskey’s end with lychee and oolong tea: the natural and floral notes of the oolong complement the herbaceous tone of WhistlePig’s signature PiggyBack 100% Rye, rounded up with a juicy tropical fruit end and a contact of spice.
Like the workforce’s C43 racing vehicles, trial barrels had been examined within the workforce’s wind tunnel in Hinwil earlier than hitting the monitor. Select barrels then endured various ranges of G-forces on the WhistlePig farm and distillery in Vermont for the of entirety, accelerating the interplay between the whiskey and the wooden staying true to the bodily nature of motorsport.
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The limited-edition Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake Barrel might be out there on-line from September thirteenth and bought in choose shops throughout the United States. It’s a well-rounded, thrilling expertise to be loved responsibly.
Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake driver:
Partnering with WhistlePig has been an exhilarating expertise. Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake is devoted to being the perfect on the monitor, and the crew at WhistlePig is fearless of their pursuit to create the perfect whiskey on the market – one thing I skilled after I visited them at their farm and distillery final 12 months. We’re wanting ahead to followers tasting our customized Rye Whiskey and elevating a glass to our workforce and the exhilarating sport of Formula One.
Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake driver:
I’m honoured that the Team and WhistlePig have joined forces to launch a Single Barrel Rye Whiskey made with substances impressed by my tradition. Formula One brings collectively fearless, thrill-seeking motorsports professionals and WhistlePig has a shared ardour for boundary-pushing innovation. Together, they’ve created one thing for followers to take pleasure in this season when the vehicles should not on monitor.
Meghan Ireland, WhistlePig Head Blender:
We’re taking our third Legends Series launch on a ryed like by no means earlier than. Our experiments with dynamic ageing went full throttle throughout ending trials on the Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake wind tunnel, inspiring new methods to reveal barrels to G-forces again on the WhistlePig Farm. The natural and floral notes of the lychee and tea barrel chosen with the workforce create a brand new, podium-topping expertise for PiggyBack Rye.
