Old, Rare, Exclusive and Vintage Spirits

together on a new tasting festival in Leuven.

Saturday June 15th – 14-19h

WHAT IS VINTAGE SPIRITS FESTIVAL?

A spirits festival dedicated to the old, rare, exclusive, special, unique spirits of this world. A gathering of likeminded people who prefer open bottles over closed ones and enjoy sharing drams to remember with friends. A place to create liquid memories.

Vintage Spirits Festival focuses on quality, not quantity, and so we invite a very select group of exhibitors and their bottles to the festival.

The location is the beautiful heritage site of  De Hoorn. It is a former brewery and offers the perfect atmosphere to let your drams taste even better.

Each visitor is welcomed as a friend. With your ticket, you will get a tasting glass and a good starting amount of tokens (40 tokens, value of 50 euro). Sample bottles are available too, if you want to take home some of the gems on offer.

We will limit the number of exhibitors to a maximum of 12, to ensure a relaxed atmosphere. We will also limit the number of tickets sold, for the same reason: we want a nice and relaxed atmosphere among spirits-lovers!

TWO SPECIAL MASTERCLASSES

Each exhibitor offers up one bottle that means something to them, and these bottles will be opened for masterclasses during the festival. These will be held in the special tasting room in the Skybox at the seventh floor, with a fantastic view of Leuven. You can join a masterclass at 13.00h and 16.00h!(Yes, the first masterclass starts 1h before the festival opens, so you will get early access). And yes, you do need a ticket for the festival to be able to participate in a masterclass. Line-ups will be slowly revealed leading up to the festival, you can find them below (click on the bottle for more info from the people who selected it).

Signing up for one of these can be done through the ticketing system. Each masterclass is limited to 30 people max!

MASTERCLASS 1 – 13.00h

Line-up (random order)

1. Laphroaig Cairdeas 2009 12yo  WB8660 (FILM) (JAMES PITHIE)
2. Tomatin DECADES – WB23361 (FILM) (BERT BRUYNEEL)
3. Highland Park The Geert Bero Family Reserve 13.5yo  – WB136010   (FILM) (GEERT BERO)
4. Glenesk 1984 Connoisseur’s Choice – WB4597 – (FILM) – (GEERT DE BOLLE – THE WHISKY HOUSE)
5. Connoisseurs Choice 22yo Tomintoul 22yo – 52.4% –  WB252018 – (Whisky Warehouse)
6. ?

MASTERCLASS 2 – 16.00h

Line-up (random order)

1. Cognac Famille Cabanne Lot 19.10 bottle 33/109 (IVO DRABS)
2. Ben Nevis 13yo (1990-2004) 61.6% – WB1630 – (FILM) – (PHILIPPE GOSMAND Spirit Paradise)
3. Murray McDavid Uitvlught Port Mourant 1992 – 13yo / Laphroaig  + Sauternes Cask (RENE VAN HOVEN)
4. Lagavulin Special Release 2006 – 12yo CS 57.5% – WB875 – (THE GREEN MAN – FILM)
5. Cognac Laurichesse 1975  – #16 Le Roi de L’Automne – 50.4% (Malternative Belgium  x The Whisky Jury) – (MALTERNATIVE BELGIUM – FILM)
6. ?

ONE UNIQUE EXPERIENCE THE DAY BEFORE THE FESTIVAL

For those of you who want to start on Friday already, we have something truly special. In collaboration with Whisky Warehouse (Ellen and Eric Vermeire) we offer a once in a lifetime masterclass of 6 closed distilleries bottlings, hosted by Eric Vermeire and Stephen Rankin, 4th generation family member of Gordon & MacPhail and Director of Prestige at G&M.

The line-up:

Connoisseurs Choice Upper Littlemill 31yo (1991-2023), Connoisseurs Choice Upper Glen Esk 38yo (1984-2023), G&M Private Collection Linlithgow 40yo (1982-2023), G&M Private Collection Caperdonich 43yo (1979-2023), G1M Private Collection Banff 46yo (1976-2023) and G&M Private Collection Port Ellen 42yo (1981-2023). Price for this tasting: 800€.

To join this exclusive masterclass, get in touch with Eric or Ellen at Whiskywarehouse (mail Ellen or mail Eric)