Terence Hill - Whisky - Press release
Now it's coming thick and fast
Terence Hill now also at Germany's largest whisky distillery
St. Kilian Distillers enters into a licensing cooperation with the "Terence Hill" brand and launches a mild and a smoky Terence Hill - The Hero - Whisky before Christmas.
Rüdenau, November 2021
Terence Hill became a real hero with his films. Whisky is his drink in the saloon after work. In Italy and many countries around the world he is a celebrated superstar. For the Terence Hill - The Hero - bottling, St. Kilian Distillers blended whisky with ex-rum cask notes from their own stocks with triple-distilled whiskey from the Great Northern Distillery in Dundalk, Ireland, which was matured in American ex-bourbon casks.
Successful licensing cooperation with BSL
Nomination as Newcomer of the Year
Bavaria Sonor Licensing (BSL), a business division of Munich-based Bavaria Media GmbH, has been commissioned by the rights holder Paloma Productions Media und Marketing GmbH to expand the Terence Hill product world throughout Europe with licensing cooperations and corresponding licensed products. BSL has brokered this licensing cooperation for the "Terence Hill" brand to St. Kilian Distillers GmbH.
The successful licensing cooperation between St. Kilian and BSL for the "Bud Spencer" brand, which has now been going on for a year, has not escaped the attention of industry experts. St. Kilian was even recently nominated as Newcomer of the Year 2021 at the Licensing International Germany Awards 2021.
Sales start is 1 December 2021
Both Terence Hill whiskies are bottled in the familiar 0.7-litre bottle with a high-quality, beefy look and a real wooden cork closure.
The retail price for consumers is €39.90 for the mild and €49.90 for the smoky Terence Hill whisky. Both whiskies will be available at selected retailers and online from 01.12.2021.
St. Kilian Online Whisky Tasting,
on 11 December 2021 with the new Terence Hill Whiskies
To welcome Terence Hill properly in the St. Kilian family and to close the year 2021, there will be a big online whisky tasting live from Germany's largest whisky distillery on Saturday, December 11 at 19:00. A total of 7 whisky samples will be tasted together. The on-line Tasting sets are sent to the participants in advance, so that one can enjoy comfortably from at home the in the meantime established format.
The registration is immediately possible. The price is 49,- EUR.
Bud Spencer Alone? For many not imaginable
About a year ago, investment banker and owner of St. Kilian Distillers GmbH, Andreas Thümmler, started a first and very successful licensing cooperation with BSL with the brand "Bud Spencer". The response from whisky lovers and fans alike was fulminant and demand remains high.
On social media and in many emails, countless fans have since celebrated St. Kilian for dedicating its own whisky and liqueur series to Bud Spencer, the film legend of their youth.
At the same time, many fans missed Terence Hill. Bud Spencer alone? Unimaginable for many. Terence Hill and Bud Spencer have been considered two sides of the same coin for decades. Two megastars who achieved world fame together as a congenial duo in their legendary films.
With Terence Hill, what belongs together now comes together at St. Kilian's
At St. Kilian, of course, they saw it the same way as the fans and did everything they could to win Terence Hill over. Philipp Trützler, Managing Director of St. Kilian Distillers GmbH, therefore held talks with Bavaria Sonor Licensing (BSL) for months. The Munich-based licensing agency, which had already brokered the licensing cooperation for the "Bud Spencer" brand, was also able to successfully arrange a corresponding licensing cooperation for St. Kilian Distillers for the "Terence Hill" brand.
"The ink is dry on the contract - now what belongs together is coming together at St. Kilian Distillers," say owner Andreas Thümmler and managing director Philipp Trützler. Both are confident that they can build on the success of Bud Spencer whisky with the "Terence Hill" brand.
A few words about Germany's largest whisky distillery St. Kilian
In recent years, St. Kilian Distillers from the Lower Franconian town of Rüdenau near Miltenberg on the Main has regularly proven that premium whisky does not necessarily have to come from Scotland, Ireland or Japan. In the meantime, St. Kilian has been awarded numerous gold medals at the most renowned whisky competitions around the globe. In addition, awards such as "Distillery of the Year" and "Whisky of the Year" testify to the top international level at which the still young whisky distillery and its whiskies are now operating.
Tasting Notes
Terence Hill - The Hero - Whisky (mild)
Tasting Notes:
| Appearance: | Bright gold |
| Odour: | Fruity sweetness with tropical fruits, pineapple and plantain, wonderfully underpinned by bourbon vanilla and cream caramel. Plus a sweet hint of molasses with warming spicy oak in the background. |
| Taste: | Caribbean flair of sweet bourbon vanilla and caramelised brown sugar, elegantly combined with fruity pineapple and sun-ripened banana, rounded off with pronounced oak spice and a pinch of cocoa. |
| Aftertaste: | Fruity pineapple cream and dark caramel linger pleasantly with subtle dry oak spice and a hint of cocoa. |
Tasting Notes
Terence Hill - The Hero - Whisky (smoky)
| Appearance: | Bright gold |
| Odour: | The ostensible wood smoke combines with sweet molasses, bourbon vanilla and lots of cream toffee, accompanied by a fruity potpourri of vineyard peach and mango and a hint of marzipan in the background. |
| Taste: | Powerful and intense with a mix of peat smoke, sweet molasses, creamy vanilla and cream caramel, underpinned by ripe peach and a hint of mango. A soothing warmth of spicy oak and white pepper perfectly rounds off the multi-layered flavours. |
| Aftertaste: | Creamy toffee and sweet vanilla are replaced by spicy oak and a pinch of cocoa, while subtle smoky notes linger on. |