A great year has come to an end. I would like to relive the following points:
- Distilleries I visited
- bottlings that we have released
- Special events
Here is also a brief overview of what we have planned for 2025 at Wagemut.
---
Distilleries I visited:
- Sababay Winery & Distillery, Bali (brandy)
- Graham's, Porto – Portugal (port wine)
- Cockburn's, Porto – Portugal (port wine)
- Scoundrels Distilling Co, Porto – Portugal (Rum & Gin)
- Eversbusch, Haagen (gin/double juniper)
- Esperence, Armagnac
- Château Lassalle Baqué, Armagnac
- Domaine d'Aurensan, Armagnac
- Pébérère, Armagnac
- Hontambere, Armagnac
- Domaine Boingnères, Armagnac
- Ladevèze, Armagnac
- Rounagle, Armagnac
- Alma Distillery, Sicily (rum)
- Farthofer, Austria (fruit brandies)
- Farthofer, Austria (whiskey)
- Hiebl, Austria (fruit brandies)
- Piekfeine Brände, Bremen (fruit brandies & whiskey)
Very few distilleries by my standards. The number will definitely increase significantly again in 2025!
---
Bottlings we have released:
- The Spirit Traveler 01 (Jamaica rum)
- The Spirit Traveler 02 (Séailles Armagnac)
- Wagemut Special Edition 2024
- Wagemut Aficionado Collection
What makes me particularly happy is that all of our limited editions were sold out within one day of release! For me, that's the best compliment!
---
Special events:
- Won several gold medals
- Awarded as best cocktail bar in Austria
- Bar concept Hotel Löwen, Schruns
- I fell in love with Sicily!
- Armagnac Festival in Stuttgart – best trade fair ever!
- Reached 1 million views on YouTube (now 6.4 million!)
- For the second time Wagemut Summer Festival (Love goes out!)
- Opening of the Wagemut Rooftop Bar
- Cocktail course released
- Birth of my son Leon
- German Rumfestival Berlin – the most successful trade fair ever for us
- Announcement of my participation at Armagnac.de
- Wedding of my brother Florian in Greece
- Released own cigar
Overall, 2024 was the year with the highest revenue in the history of Wagemut. Our community has grown strongly again and I am pleased to see how many new registrations we have received for the Wagemut Members Club!
Opening of Rooftop Bar Wagemut
Wagemut Summer Festival 2024
Wagemut Christmas party in Porto
Son Leon for the first time in the production facility
Wagemut Gang - Takeover of the old Bar Wagemut in Berlin after the Rumfest
We have a lot planned for 2025!
- In October we're moving into our new production facility. It will be more than twice as big and will also include a Wagemut bar! Super cool! I'm really looking forward to it!
- My travel quota to visit distilleries is being significantly increased again! Among other things, my wife and I are planning a road trip through the whole of France (Calvados, Cognac, Armagnac - but also specific small regions and producers). I also really want to go to Mauritius and combine that with Île de la Réunion. Of course, to visit all the distilleries there! Madeira is also on the list again. We have also fallen in love with this island. Maybe I will open a rum distillery there at some point...
- The most exciting thing, however, is our own distillery: We are currently in the process of buying a distillery - but I don't want to say which one yet. It is located in Germany.
- Our own rum production has already begun and the molasses is fermenting. We are currently renting space from a friendly distillery.
---
You can meet me personally at the following locations:
- Nuremberg, February 15 & 16: Pueblo del Ron (The Village)
- Munich, February 21st: Finest Spirits (I'll be giving a lecture there)
- Hude, 14.03.: Rum dinner for Tabacstore
- Stuttgart, May 24th: Armagnac Festival
- Quickborn, 21.06.: Wagemut Summer Festival
- Berlin, August 30th & 31st: German Rum Festival
- Rittergut Positz, 28 & 29 November: Rum & cigar tasting
These are just the main points - there are lots of little things happening and I'm also working on great bottlings. But that would go beyond the scope here. However, I have decided not to release any more consistent bottlings. The range will remain the same but will not be expanded. There is simply too much piling up for our small company. We will of course continue to bottle exciting things - but in reduced quantities so that we have as little stock as possible lying around.
To make sure that you get something from our releases, you should definitely sign up for our newsletter - you'll always be the first to know when something new comes out:
To the newsletter
---
That's it from me. I hope you had a great 2024 too, and I'm looking forward to everything that lies ahead. I have a really good feeling about 2025 and am highly motivated!
Your Nicolas
By the way: At the end of January, our Wagemut Members Club will enter the next round! If you are already a member, you don't need to do anything else - your subscription will be renewed automatically. If you want to become part of our community, be the first to get our new bottlings, have access to exclusive bottlings, take part in the Wagemut summer festival and simply be part of a cool group, then sign up now - the bottles will be shipped on February 3rd.
