Source: REUTERS/Hannah McKay
[Saba Sports News] Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas has collaborated with Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber and WhistlePig Whiskey to launch a limited edition whiskey. The official name of this whiskey is “WhistlePig PiggyBack Rye: Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber Single Barrel,” priced at $59.99. This whiskey features traditional whiskey notes of vanilla, caramel, and spices, perfectly blended with “crisp apple” and “gentle pine” flavors from gin barrels, offering a taste that is both herbal and floral with hints of “juicy tropical fruit.” It is reported that Bottas and the Stake F1 team personally selected this whiskey, which contains many personal details about Bottas: it was aged for six years in new American oak barrels and finished in barrels from Bottas’s OΛTH Gin brand. The final whiskey has an alcohol content of 100.77, paying tribute to Bottas’s racing number 77. From Bottas’s iconic mullet hairstyle to his nude calendar, he is known for his colorful personality off the track. Regarding this cross-industry collaboration with whiskey, Bottas expressed his happiness in partnering with WhistlePig to launch such a unique product, noting that the WhistlePig team does not take themselves too seriously and truly enjoys this unconventional atmosphere.