Loch Fyne Whiskies Stocks A New item, ‘McDonald’s Traditional Ben Nevis’

McDonald’s Traditional Ben Nevis
46% abv
£69.90 inc VAT
£58.25 ex VAT

An Ace peaty Ben Nevis, as good as the best. Ben Nevis (McDonald’s Traditional) OB 46%alc.

A peaty Ben Nevis, as good as the best – from anywhere!

My LFW Descriptors Mat tells me this pale straw in colour.

The aroma is oily, fishy (salmon flesh) with pipe shag-smoke. It covers more parts of the flavour spectrum than most, leather and oilskins (from feinty). Woody notes manifest as orange zest and cinnamon. Wine notes are brown sauce, port and white chocolate and esters are represented with bananas and general fruit. There is also marmite-gravy and biro ink. Over all this is a canopy of smoke, all-covering but masking little. It’s a smoky/kippery/lint smoke, lacking Islay brine and just how you imagine a proper West Coast mainland whisky should taste like.

The overall neat aroma note is, in short, “spectacular!”

The packaging is not at all clear. This is a single malt from Ben Nevis made up of present style Ben Nevis mixed with some more heavily peated Ben Nevis. The purpose is to replicate the style of whisky sold in the 1880s, I can’t vouch for the quality of the forgery but it is a brilliant old-fashioned style of whisky. Limited to about 700 individually numbered bottles this is a gem to-be-sure.

Tasted there is instant smoke, it’s peaty-smoke, TCP peaty. With an oily texture, there’s wet burnt wood (rained on ashes) and oily smoky oysters served with Lapsang Souchong tea. With a long coating finish of smoke, this is as good as the best whisky from anywhere.

Water reveals licorice and more of the above but I enjoyed it most just neat.

Best regards,
Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk

Loch Fyne Whiskies stocks  ’Abhainn Dearg 5cl Miniature’

 Abhainn Dearg 5cl Miniature
 46% abv
 £7.90 inc vat
 £6.58 ex vat

 This is the first whisky from new distillery on the Isle of Lewis. Distilled in 2008 and bottled when it reached 3 years old.

Best regards,
Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk

February Previews PLUS Pay-weekend Parcel

Hip, hip hooray…its pay-weekend! And just in time, we’re not only releasing two fine preview bottlings from our February Outturn but there’s also our very limited Pay-weekend Parcel.

26.83 Cosmo with perfume samples
Highland Northern
Exclusive to our preview pair
Milk chocolate and refreshers, something meaty and savoury (biltong?) sharp fruits (kiwi, star-fruit), light smoke and salt

123.7 Unusual and highly enjoyable
Highland Southern
£42.30 inc. free p&p*
Totally magnificent nose – plentiful plum jam, candy floss, toffee crisp, fudge, jammy dodgers and port wine, but with deeper layers of tobacco, liquorice and Eastern spices. (Mmm…Pink whisky)

February Preview Pair: 26.83 & 123
Highland Northern & Southern
Only £79.00 inc. free p&p*

January Pay-weekend Parcel: Only £105 inc. free p&p*
In celebration of this fabulous pay-weekend, we have put together a very limited edition parcel. Only 60 available online (and on a first-come-first-served basis) this mystery parcel contains three 70cl single cask from a mixture of ex-bourbon & ex-sherry casks.

Some examples of the bottlings that may be included in your parcel…

30.64 Sunday high tea (18 years old)
44.44 Continental brunch (15 years old)
5.27 Coconut & vanilla (11 years old)
35.45 Stollen (10 years old)
7.64 School tuck-shop fantasy (7 years old)

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Pay-weekend Parcel offer ends Mon 30 Jan (or when we run out!)

January Outturn & Previews
Browse all bottlings
(60 single casks online)

Society VALENTINE Tastings & Events
Make at least one HOT date this February…
Vaults Valentine Celebration: Love, Songs & Whisky, Tue 14 Feb
Valentine Champagne or Whisky Tasting: Queen Street Tue 14 Feb
Valentine Dinner: The Dining Room, 28 Queen Street, Tue 14 Feb

Dining Room Offer: For those booking an á la carte meal quote ‘Romance’ (0131 220 2044) and we’ll welcome you and your guests with a glass of sparking wine. In the QS Members’ Room, there’s free dessert with two-courses from the bar menu (just bring this email).
From Mon 13–Sat 18 Feb

Click HERE for more Society tastings around the UK

A Valentine Private Soiree: For couples wanting to celebrate their passion for malt whisky and one another, why not try a ‘Love is Blind’ whisky tasting – a romantic, blindfolded whisky tasting experience and sensory adventure; or a SMWS Taster Menu. Call our events team on 0131 555 2266 to discuss you’re heart’s desire

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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ
Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm).

Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.

NEW PRODUCTS FROM MURRAY McDAVID

Independent Specialists in Premium Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Murray McDavid Ltd is an independent bottler. Independent bottlers offer consumers the opportunity to try well known and widely available brands at a different age, a different strength, and possibly even a different type of barrel than the distillery bottled product. The tradition of independent bottling goes back 150 years and until the practice of distilleries bottling their own malts started in the 60′s, it was the only source for many of Scotland’s finest malts. Murray McDavid takes great care in its selection of its malts. They only select for bottling those casks that they feel represent the best the distillery can produce. Murray McDavid provides the drinker with the chance to sample Scotch in its most natural form.

Ardbeg 17 Year Old                  
£121.99 inc VAT               

Ardbeg 18 Year Old       
£129.98 inc VAT

Bowmore 16 Year Old
£52.99 inv VAT

Highland Park 21Year Old         
£70.00 inc VAT             

Linlithgow 25 Year Old              
£89.99 inc VAT     

Macallan 20 Year Old
£85.99 inc VAT

Mortlach 21 Year Old
£70.00 inc VAT

Rosebank 21 Year Old     
£105.00 inc VAT

Single Malts Limited | 36 Gordon Street | Huntly | Aberdeenshire | AB54 8EQ |

The whisky has been inspired by the character of Thor. Being the god of thunder and sky, the god of war and warden of Valhalla, Thor is a powerful, strong and fierce character. Not known for his subtlety, he commands respect.

Like its namesake this whisky has a natural strength, drawing influence from the environment unique to Orkney, to create a truly elemental spirit. Distilled where sea turns to ocean, Highland Park is a meeting point of nature’s forces, resulting in single malt which exudes balance, complexity and character.

The whisky is a 16 year old 52.1% abv strength whisky. It delivers powerful smoky notes reminiscent of Thor’s Hammer smashing against the Orkney’s Mountains of Hoy, carving the great wall of stone. The underlying sweet notes are his inner strength and show that although his exterior warrior façade, there is still the caring, humble god that makes him a much loved legendary character.
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This whisky is not for the faint hearted. Only people brave enough to face the wrath of Thor can ever be rewarded with the experience which is the whisky. Making Highland Park Thor truly a whisky of the gods.

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January Outturn Update: Five Favourites

With January’s Outturn release well under-way, here’s the top five member favourites from the list…

1) 29.110 Wild West cowgirl dressed in leather

2) 23.72 A big, eye-watering slap

3) 71.34 Rabbit, ginger & treacle tart

4) 105.16 Mulled cider & beef goulash

5) 73.46 Cockle-warming citric crush

January’s HEALTHY Offers

Our recommendations from January’s Outturn:

Pick-me up Pair
71.34 & 125.57 for only £89
Speyside Lossie & Highland Northern

Regional Trio: Three times daily
125.57, 1.162 & 23.72 for only £147
Highland, Speyside & Islay

Case Offer: Round ‘Em Up!
125.57, 71.34, 1.162, 23.72, 50.48 & 66.32 only £289
Lowland, Highland, Speyside & Islay

January Outturn
Browse all bottlings
(60 single casks online)

Society Burns Tastings & Events
Celebrate the Bard’s Birthday with our programme of Burns tastings and events. What’s more, join us at our Burns Suppers at The Vaults, London or The Dining Room at 28 Queen Street and save £10 on guest tickets.

Traditional Burns Supper – The Vaults, Wed 25 Jan*
London Burns Night – The Crypt, Wed 25 Jan*
Newcastle Alternative Burns – County Hotel by Thistle, Thu 26 Jan
Glasgow Alternative Burns Tasting – Radisson Blu, Fri 27 Jan

*Member and guest tickets the same price (save £10 on guest tickets)

Society Private Burns Celebrations
Book your own authentic celebration of the written Scottish word, the finest fare and our golden nectar in honour of the Bard.

Private Burns Celebrations

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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ
Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm).

Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.

BENRIACH LAUNCHES NEW 17 YO RICHLY- PEATED SEPTENDECIM

BenRiach’s Septendecim, its newest addition to its celebrated peated range, will be available worldwide later this month, the distillery announced today (19 January 2012).

The new 17 year-old has been matured only in ex-bourbon casks and continues BenRiach’s quirky trend of using Latin names – such as Authenticus, Curiositas and Heredotus Fumosus – for its richly-peated expressions.

The tasting notes confirm Septendecim – Latin for “seventeen” – is a magnificent, multi-layered malt with fantastic length.

The colour is rich summer gold with a freshly harvested barley impression.

On the nose, it’s full of energy and vibrancy – a complex mix of fresh peaty aromas constructed around a central core of apples and toasted nuts dowsed in wild mountain honey.

And on the palate, it gives sweet concentrated peat flavours which dominate from the start. Bold and intense, the peaty heart is united with honey-infused raisins, roasted nuts and a luxurious leather impression.

Sales Director Alistair Walker said: “Septendecim is a real robust heavyweight, full-bodied and beautifully balanced with enormous impact. It’s another fine example of our distillery going back to its nineteenth-century roots – a time when, unlike today, the majority of Speyside distilleries were producing peated whiskies.”

Peated malt whisky production only represents approximately six weeks’ worth of the annual production at BenRiach, but the peated whiskies have become an important part of the distillery’s product portfolio as they offer something unexpected from the Speyside region.

Septendecim is non chill-filtered and bottled at natural colour, with a strength of 46% vol. Unlike the recently-launched BenRiach Solstice, the Septendecim is not a limited release and should be continually available for years to come.

Picture shows Septendecim and its packaging.

For more information – info@benriachdistillery.co.uk

TheWhiskyBarrel.com Exclusive 21 Year Old Robert Burns Islay Cask

On 25th January Scots and expats and scotch aficionados celebrate the birthday of Scotland’s national poet and Haggis the world over come out of hibernation for their celebratory supper. What better way to join in than by raising a dram!

To mark the occasion www.TheWhiskyBarrel.com as released a special bottling of the Islay favourite Bunnahabhain, matured in a single fresh sherry cask aged 21 years and bottled at natural cask strength.

Limited to 120 bottles now available to order exclusively from The Whisky Barrel online whisky shop.

Bunnahabhain 21 Years Old Burns Malt / Sherry Cask / 54.8%

£49.99 GBP ($77 USD)

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NEW PRODUCTS FROM DUNCAN TAYLOR SCOTCH WHISKY LTD

The Dimensions collection is an outstanding range of single malt and single grain Scotch whiskies encompassing the full breadth of the Duncan Taylor portfolio. Containing whiskies aged for up to 39 years, the Dimensions collection showcases the multi dimensional levels of character and flavour available from individual distilleries and casks. The Dimensions collection features single cask, cask strength releases and exclusively numbered small batches at 46% abv. Neither chill filtered nor coloured, only the finest whiskies are selected for inclusion in the range, ensuring that every bottle delivers the Duncan Taylor Scotch Whisky ethos: Whisky Without Compromise.

Aberlour 18yo 54.3% £71.00 inc VAT

Glenlivet 30yo 44.3% £110.00 inc VAT

Bunnahabhain 23yo 53.5% £87.00 inv VAT

Auchentoshan 11yo 46% £43.00 inc VAT 

Glen Moray 17yo 46% £47.00 inc VAT         

Linkwood 15yo 46% £51.00 inc VAT

Single Malts Limited | 36 Gordon Street | Huntly | Aberdeenshire | AB54 8EQ |

Springbank 10 Year Old

Rundlets & Kilderkins

Tasting Notes

Colour: Russet
Nose: Honey, vanilla, chocolate, nougat, and toffee inabundance followed by hints of wholesome freshly ground nutmeg.
Palate: Creamy and rich as expected from the nose, with notes of chocolate covered honey comb mixed with pistachio and crushed almonds. Rich and oily from its maturation in small casks, it gives an impression of being older than its ten years.
Finish: The ground nutmeg is still evident on the finish but the creaminess outstays the spices to a long smooth and sweet finish. With water this dram develops an even sweeterfinish, fruity and sugar candy, it becomes even smoother.

Springbank Distillery is one of the last surviving producers of Campbeltown Single Malts. The distillery, located on the southern Kintyre peninsula of Scotland

For the most part of the 17th and the 18th centuries Campbeltown was a smuggling centre, an occupation that was supported by the area’s geography, topography…. and the local gentry. One famous story tells of an old woman living in the town who was up before the Sheriff for smuggling. She had been found guilty and before passing sentence the Sheriff told her:

£47.99 inc VAT

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**Despatch date mid February**