Penderyn nine Welsh whisky

Nine was the shirt Rush made famous at Anfield across a senior career that produced 892 appearances and 411 goals for Chester, Liverpool, Juventus, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Sheffield United, Wrexham and Sydney Olympic. At Liverpool alone he remains the club's record goalscorer with 346 goals in 660 appearances, a mark that has stood for more than three decades. For Wales, his 28 goals in 73 caps made him his country's record scorer for 25 years, from 1993 until Gareth Bale surpassed it in 2018. Two unmistakably Welsh names, one number: NINE brings them together.

The whisky itself is a nine-year-old Welsh single malt matured in Tawny port casks, at 43% ABV. Rush was involved from the start, travelling to Penderyn to taste his way through the casks and select the liquid that would carry his name. "I wasn't going to put my name on it unless I'd be happy pouring it for my family and friends," he said.

Where the name is drawn from football, the bottle is not. NINE is presented in a distinctive gold-finished bottle designed by threebrand in Leith, Edinburgh and is a deliberate departure from club or country colours, built instead as a standalone object with the sophistication of cinema and the glamour of a collector's piece