Old, Rare, Exclusive and Vintage Spirits

for the 2nd time, together at a tasting festival in Leuven.

Saturday March 29th – 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 base ticket, you will get a tasting glass and a good starting amount of tokens (40 tokens, value of 50 euro). There are also tickets at 40€ with fewer tokens included.  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!

SPECIAL SAMPLESETS IN CUSTOM BOXES

(limited availability)

As was the case last year, each exhibitor will offer one bottle to VSF 2025. Instead of masterclasses, we’ll make some cool samplesets out of these, available now. We’ll do this as follows:

* you can book a sampleset of 6 samples (2cl each) below

* A couple weeks before the festival, each person who booked a sample set will get the list of all available bottles and can choose 5 of them. The sixth will be chosen by VSF. We will then make sure your sample sets are ready at the festival for pick up (or we’ll ship them to you afterwards). Of course, samples will be accorded for as long as stock lasts and in order of who first picked their preferences. When a sample runs out, VSF will replace it by a random other one.

* Each Sampleset will be packed in a very cool custom made sturdy SAMPLEBOX (made by MAGENTIS – box value 30€), containing your 6 chosen samples and 2 empty sample bottles you can use at the festival.

* Samplesets are available with or without ticket to the festival included. The samplebox with ticket included will consist of the samplebox + sampleset, entry to the festival, a tasting glass and 40 tokens (value 75€). The samplebox without a ticket included will be the box + sampleset.

Below, we’ll list the bottles you can choose from).

1. Isle Of Jura 1988 – 2011, Moon Import, 46%, WB27420 (offered by Philippe Gosmand)

2. JUVENILES, Compass Box, 46%, WB59122 (offered by James Pithie)

3. Malternative Belgium #35 “La Bonne Cause” (LOT 71) ) Grosperrin/Bertandeau, 52.9% (offered by Malternative Belgium)

4. G&M Connoisseur’s Choice Glenburgie 2000-2024, 58.7%, First Fill Sherry Butt, WB251225 (offered by Whisky Warehouse)

5. Maltbarn Benriach 25yo 1995-2020, 49.1%, sherry cask, WB179465 (offered by DRAM242)

6. CARTA VIEJA Ron anejo 3yo, Reserva Selecta, bottled 1960s (offered by The Rum Punk)

7. Imperial 1995 Signatory vintage Collection / Asta Morris 18yo, bourbon cask, 52.4% WB54575 (offered by Asta Morris)

8. Isle of Jura 1992-2020, Malts of Scotland, 44%, bourbon hogshead, WB164928 (offered by Billy’s Whisky Barrel)

9. Caroni 1998-2017 The Rum Mercenary, 55.1% ABV (offered by Jurgen Vromans)

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