1st March 2010

Dear Customer,

This month we are offering three (3) new OLD MALT CASK releases, two (2) new PREMIER BARRELS as well as two (2) CLAN DENNY Grains. There is also one (1) new 20 cl ADVANCE SAMPLE on offer this month.

The OLD MALT CASK Tasting Notes follow:

OMC 1811 Clynelish 14 Year Old

Nose: Sweet smoke, burnt caramel + smoked ham & ashes
Palate: Opens sweetly & spiced + liquorice + light smoke character
Finish: Complex with wood & smoke developing to ashes (J)

OMC 1798 Glendronach 14 Year Old for the Passchendaele Pipe Band

Nose: Fresh and gristy sweet - running to vanilla + butter cream
Palate: Round & smooth with sweet, cocoa butter + ripe banana
Finish: Replicates the nose and palate - still fresh and sweet (J)

OMC 1804 Laphroaig 20 Year Old Sherry

Nose: Powerfully peated with distinct dark fruit – definitely tarred.
Palate: Nutty, mouthcoatingly round/sweetly fruited and phenolic.
Finish: Subtly Islay in style, cindery with a long iodine character. (F)

The 20 cl ADVANCE SAMPLES offering is:

SMC 0357 Glen Grant 12 Year Old

The PREMIER BARREL Tasting Notes follow:

PBR 0067 Braeval 10 Year Old Sherry

A blue chip balm! A “bang-on” Braeval! A masterful miscellany of majesterial and meritorious malt mash with coffee connotations – choc-a-bloc with capricious citrus and succulently sensuous, scintillatingly stylish and sympathetically satiating Sherry. (F)

PBR 0069 Royal Lochnagar 11 Year Old

A radiantly rousing rapprochement of robust Royalty – a definitive distillate – devoid (de facto) of deficiency with its fruit, spice, barley sugar and Malt all made manifest multifariously, and munificently – nay, magnificently ! (F)

The CLAN DENNY GRAIN Tasting Notes follows:

DEN 0030 Strathclyde 40 Year Old

The nose opens with vanilla tablet and develops to a sweet and spicy character with macerated raisins, reminiscent of a dessert wine. The palate remains sweet & spicy and carries to a creamy hazelnut praline quality with a chocolate cover. The finish is not so long but interestingly dry with nuts and spices. (J)

DEN 0031 Garnheath 40 Year Old

The nose opens with coconut and chocolate and develops to macaroon and vanilla. The coconut returns on the palate and carries to a spicy, ripe banana style. The finish is short, sweet, still spicy and runs to a cedar wood
character. (J)

Beyond those, BIG PEAT – with his batch #7 available midmonth - remains at your disposal (and now with shelf talkers available), similarly so with our DOUBLE BARREL bottlings.

The CLAN DENNY Grains are being restocked and the Glendronach bottling with all proceeds targeted to the Passchendaele Pipe Band has already struck an emotive chord and commercial interest with many of our customers. We hope to be of our normal service to you, assuring you of our best and personal attention.

Best wishes
Fred Laing

Visit Douglas Laing at http://www.douglaslaingwhisky.com/

Loch Fyne Whiskies has stocked a new item, ‘Fettercairn 1992 18yo CC’

Fettercairn 1992 18yo CC
£31.30 inc vat
£26.64 ex vat

Distilled January 1992

Bottled January 2010

Matured in Refill Sherry Casks

A ‘Connoisseurs Choice’ bottling from renowned bottlers Gordon & MacPhail.
Loch Fyne Whiskies
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“The Irishman 70 Superior Irish Whiskey” on the right and ”The Irishman Single Malt” on the left.

Full details at www.hotirishman.com

Quite frankly the press release announcing these two whiskies is the worst to date with no mention of the qualities of the whiskies or their heritiage other than these two nuggets …

“Did you know……that most Irish Whiskeys are blends of pure potstill and grain whiskeys, or blends of single malt and grain whiskeys, but The Irishman 70 Superior Irish Whiskey is a truly unique blend of pure potstill and single malt whiskeys?

…that every bottle of The Irishman Single Malt is individually numbered?”

W.I. feels that this is not an auspicious introduction and it was almost binned…topped by an evocative URL…one has to hope for a better effort in the future…

We would like to invite you to visit our new website http://www.scotchwhiskyglass.com which was launched on 27 February. 

As we are continuing to trade on eBay, we are expanding our business.  We are offering some new GLENCAIRN glass designs including, but not limited to, PORT CHARLOTTE, ISLAY MALTS, and PORT ELLEN MALTINGS. 

With every purchase of $75.00 or more ( excluding shipping charges ),we will send you a FREE ScotchWhiskyGlass.Com GLENCAIRN glass. 

In the near future we will be offering more distillery etched glassware for you to choose from on our web site.  We currently are offering, 45 different etchings of THE GLENCAIRN GLASS, 26 different etchings of THE GLENCAIRN NOSING COPITA GLASS, and 9 different IONA WATER PITCHERS, as well as the plain face GLENCAIRN GLASS and the GLENCAIRN CUT CRYSTAL GLASS.

Please take a look and while in our web site, visit the ABOUT US page and enjoy a slide show of Scotland.

Slainte Mhath,

Kenneth & Barbara
 
Each Glass is Individually Gift Boxed FREE of Charge Explaining “The 5 Steps to Appreciating Scotch Whisky…”

Individual glassware gift boxes are ALWAYS FREE of CHARGE at ScotchWhiskyGlass.Com!

1st March 2010

Dear Customer,

We have three (3) new PROVENANCE bottlings this month, which we hope will be attractive to you.

The PROVENANCE Tasting Notes follow:

PRV 0609 Dailuaine 10 Year Old Sherry
Initially toffee’d on the nose it has an attractively spicy character and carries to a soft leather style plus some barley sugar. The palate is mouthcoatingly rich and carries to a spicy, dried fruit style with dark muscovado sugar. The finish is long , still spicy and sweet plus more leather. (J)

PRV 0601 Benriach 11 Year Old

Opens sweetly on the nose with pear drops, caramelized banana and peaches in syrup. Still sweet on the palate, now more spicy with almonds and coconut combined with macerated dried fruit. The finish is medium long, fresh and replicates the palate’s spicy sweet character. (J)

PRV 0603 Ardmore 12 Year Old

The nose is interestingly round & sweet, reminiscent of cookie dough. The palate is more powerful with a rich chewy and smokey character, carrying to dry ashes and sweet liquorice. The finish is long and replicates the palate with a tarry, ashy quality running to spicy smoke. (J)

We anticipate within the next few weeks that all PROVENANCE bottlings will be in the new livery and we believe that these whiskies have now become even more appealing. We look forward in seeing you soon on one of the festivals we are attending and send you our best regards.

Yours faithfully
Fred Laing

Visit Douglas Laing at http://www.douglaslaingwhisky.com/

A. Dewar Rattray have introduced a new line of single cask Scotch whiskies bottled at 46% rather than at cask strength.

Visit A. Dewar Rattray at http://www.adrattray.co.uk/

Loch Fyne Whiskies has stocked a new item, ‘Glen Keith 1993 CC’

Glen Keith 1993 16yo CC
46% abv
£33.90 inc vat
£28.85 ex vat

Distilled: September 1993

Bottled: December 2009

Cask: Refill Sherry & Bourbon

A ‘Connoisseurs Choice’ bottling from renowned bottlers Gordon & MacPhail.

Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk

Single Malts Direct

Highland Queen Majesty 30 Year Old  Single Highland Scotch Whisky

Highland Queen has been produced in Scotland for over 100 years. It takes the name from Mary Queen of Scots, who reigned from 1545 to1567 and was executed in 1587 on the order of Elisabeth 1st, Queen of England.
 
Majesty 30 years old is the oldest and rarest expression of Highland Queen, with only 2000 bottles produced. It has exceptional elegance and softness on the nose, with the sweetness golden syrup, butterscotch and creamy toffee. Long and elegant tothe end the finish has amazing finese with gentle nut notes, hints of dates, citrus notes and the softness of vanilla creams.

SPECIAL OFFER: Save £15.00 (was £99.99)
£84.99 inc. VAT £72.33 ex. VAT

http://www.singlemaltsdirect.com/shop.php?action=full&id=2173

Press Release

Amrut Distilleries Ltd 27th February 2010 Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Amrut Distillery is pleased to announce the release of Amrut Single Malt Whisky ‘Double Cask’ Bottling. These are the oldest casks that are ever bottled at Amrut Distilleries. The two casks in question are aged little over seven years in the tropics. It is against all the odds. Maturing for these long in Bangalore, India is rather a one off affair. we are not sure if we would be able to do this again without compromising the balance. These casks are intact without losing the balance.

As usual the ‘Angels of Bangalore’ were the real beneficiary. The total maturation loss or angel’s share was a whopping 201 liters between the two casks. The total fill volume was 180 liters each. We are left with a paltry 159 liters in total for both the casks combined. In a percentage terms the total maturation loss was 59%! The alcohol strength on these casks went up from 62.5% to 69.8%. It is one of those special bottling from our distillery.

Nothing has been done against the nature. This is neither chi filtered nor coloured. Combining these two casks provided an ultimate balance and texture.

The key characters of this whisky are honey and vanilla custard combined with pepper and spicy oak on the nose with a hint of floral edge. On the palate it got a velvety texture, lots of citrus (orange) combined with natural caramel and spicy with pretty long finish.

To appreciate the texture and balance the casks are bottled at 46% abv and the total bottling is 306 bottles. This will go on to sale in Europe and Western Canada. The actual sale in Europe will commence in April 2010 and in Canada (Alberta and British Columbia) in June 2010. For Further Information Contact:

info@amrutdistilleries.com, Tel-+44-191 2336316

Loch Fyne Whiskies News has stocked a new item, ‘Springbank CV’

Springbank CV
46% abv
£28.49 inc vat
£24.25 ex vat

Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk