Rarest of the Rare Deluxe Blended 33 Year Old / 43.4% 
 
Now this is an exceptional “wee dram” or not so “Wee” as the case may be!! Have you ever come across a blended Scotch containing “Retro” malts like – KINCLAITH – LADYBURN – GLEN MHOR – GLEN ALBYN & GLEN CRAIG!!!!! Blended with Duncan Taylor’s Multi-award winning CARSEBRIDGE single grain????

Well neither had we. This is stunning stuff, mahogany in colour with sweet fruits, citrusy notes, bags of vanilla, and light oak on the nose. And a palate of wonderful balance of sweetness and spices – really juicy and fruity with an incredibly silky texture, finishing with a powerful build up of citrus fruits complimented by a slight dryness. Simon Cowell eat your heart out – this whisky really has the X factor big-time!!!!!!

Contains whiskies from these distilleries which no longer exist: Kinclaith – Glasgow, Ladyburn – Ayrshire, Glen Mhor – Inverness, Glen Albyn – Inverness, Glencraig – Speyside, Carsedbridge – Fife

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BenRiach Mini Gift Sets

What a great gift from Speyside. Two packs are available this holiday! These little gift packs are very limited, so order soon.

BenRiach The Classic Collection 4 Pack

(50ml each)

$29.99

The Classic of Speyside Malt, festuring the “Heart of Speyside”, 12 year old, 16 year old, and 20 year old expressions. This is the complete collection of the BenRiach classic Speyside range.

BenRiach Classic & Peated Collection 4 Pack

(50ml each)

$29.99

The Classic & Peated Pack offers up the best of both worlds – the 12 year old and 16 year old classic Speyside Malts, and the 10 year old peated Curiositas and 21 year old peated Authenticus.

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Gordon Wright

Springbank 10yo 1995/2006 (46%, The Alchemist, D12/’95 B01/’06)

A limited edition Springbank from Gordon Wright, the Alchemist himself and he is part of the family that owns Springbank distillery. This bottling is a vatting of fresh port pipes and 1st fill bourbon casks.  On the nose there is rich fruit along with the very distinctive aroma of Springbank followed by Christmas cake, apricot, very gentle peat reek and some crème brulèe. What a sensational nose. Everything is working well here and is in harmony. The taste is at first very much Springbank and is also very winey  followed by some malt, dried fruit (from the Christmas cake), the peat reek and some really nice oak which is slightly dry but really well enhanced by the sweetness and fruit. The taste is very, very rich and redolent with loads of rich fruit; quite excellent. The finish is of gentle smoke, more fruit and then quickly becomes dry and malty. The finish is quite long and warming, after a minute or two the fruit makes a reappearance which is very nice. After a number of minutes the malt once again emmerges and is quite excellent all the while in harmony with the very gentle peat reek.

All in all a very good example of Springbank with a richness that reminds one of the Springbanks form the early 1990’s. The web address is a disaster; anybody searching for ‘Alchemist’ on google will not find Gordon and his excellent whiskies. You must search under alc-hem-ist  ……..   www.alc-hem-ist.com

C$80

Score 88 Points

Glenrothes OB John Ramsey 46.7%alc.

‘Prior to his retiral in 2009, John Ramsay was intimately involved in the making of The Glenrothes since the early 1990s. The exceptional bottlings he has created have resulted in numerous awards and trophys.

John’s signature has been on all the labels since 2004.

To commemorate the peerless contribution John has made to The Glenrothes he has been asked to create one more exclusive expression to sign off.

John has identified a parcel of second fill American oak sherry casks from 1973 to1987 which have now been married together and very gradually reduced in strength but not chill-filtered. This limited edition of only 1,400 bottles will stand as John’s legacy to The Glenrothes.

Bottled at 46.7%.

The Glenrothes John Ramsay is redolent of dark chocolates,blood oranges and vanilla. There is a great balance between oak and fruit and the whisky is very mature and extremely rich.

The Glenrothes John Ramsay is released in keeping with the policy of bottling selected casks at their point of optimum maturity and maximum flavour.

This new expression has an engraved copper label.

Each individually numbered bottle has John’s signature etched onto it.

The oak box features a bottle-shaped window and carries a leather booklet with John’s own description of how he has crafted this, his ‘legacy’ selection.’

Price excluding VAT: £546.96
£629.00 Including VAT at 15%

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WIN A BOTTLE OF VINTAGE 1968 HIGHLAND PARK RRP £2,250
ONE OF THE FIRST RELEASES FROM OUR EXCLUSIVE ORCADIAN VINTAGE SERIES

To celebrate their release of our Orcadian Vintage Series, Highland Park is offering one lucky whisky fan the chance to win a bottle of 1968 Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky. The runner up will receive 12 bottles of Highland Park 18 year old single malt Scotch whisky ‘The Best Spirit in the World”.

Visit Highland Park via  http://www.highlandpark.co.uk/competition/ to entert he contest.

SOME OF OUR SPECIAL OFFERS FOR YOU

Aberlour 16 YO Double Cask Matured SPECIAL OFFER: Save £10.00
Ardmore Traditional Cask SPECIAL OFFER: Save £5.00
Balvenie 12 Year Old Doublewood SPECIAL OFFER: Save £6.00
Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Save £5.00
Glenlivet 12 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Save £4.50
 Isle of Jura 10 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Save £6.00
Glendronach 15 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Save £4.00
Glendronach 18 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Save £4.00
Glen Moray Classic SPECIAL OFFER: Save £6.00
Macallan 10 Year Old Original SPECIAL OFFER: Save £5.00
Scapa 16 year old  SPECIAL OFFER: Save £5.00
Strathisla 12 year old SPECIAL OFFER: Save £4.00
Tobermory 10 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Save £4.50

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…….Finally a little reminder that the Ardbeg Beastie Mobile will be just outside the shop by the Anchor pub this Saturday, 5th December, for those peat-heads out there. Hopefully they will be showing it with the aged Parmesan that made it so popular at the Whisky Show.

http://www.ardbegbeastiemobile.co.uk/

Have a wonderful December. Hopefully we’ll see you before the holidays start proper,

Best wishes,

The Team.

The Whisky Exchange

Vinopolis

1 Bank End

Southwark

London

SE1 9BU

Tel:-  +44 (0) 207 403 8688

Fax:- +44 (0) 207 403 8788

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PLECTRUMS AT THE READY? BECAUSE THIS IS SPINAL TAP
– Jameson Cult Film Club pays tribute to the Gods of rock in Clapham –
Are you ready to “Put it up to 11”? You’d better be because the legends of mock-rock are back and partying harder than ever as Jameson Cult Film Club presents This is Spinal Tap at a one off free screening at Clapham Grand. On Thursday 3rd December all movie and music fans are invited to pick up their air guitars, turn amps up to 11, and rock-out Spinal Tap-style with an interactive night of entertainment in honour of the long-haired, lycra-clad mock musical documentary.

Guests arriving from 6.30pm will be greeted by an interactive hard-rock extravaganza to immediately transport them into the wild world of heavy metal madness. With the band waiting in the wings and the groupies growing by the minute guests can enjoy a plethora of pre-screening entertainment before the film begins. With complimentary Jameson Irish Whiskey cocktails, this promises to be an evening of hardcore ‘rockumentary’ fun with a possible viewing of the infamous Stonehenge prop thrown in for good measure. Additional surprises appearing throughout the night will be sure to have guests rocking out before the evening ends.

This is all part of Jameson’s adventure with film across the capital. For further information about the Cult Film Club, the Spinal Tap screening, and to apply for tickets, visit the new blog at www.jamesoncultfilmclub.com. As well as information on all forthcoming screenings, competitions and prizes, film fans can discuss and debate favourite cult films on the blog, as well as sign up to join in the conversations on Facebook and Twitter.

A good reason to celebrate!

We have scooped the top prize in the annual Malt Maniacs Awards 2009.

This international competition, Pinnacle of The Worlds Spirits Awards, gave Duncan Taylor’s Glen Grant 36yo the overall top whisky – a massive achievement for a small Aberdeenshire-based whisky merchant.

Malt Maniacs are an International group of whisky lovers that represent thousands of whisky clubs throughout the world. The judging panel from over 10 major whisky drinking markets of the world represent the elite of spirit connoisseurs. Thousands of whiskies were blind tasted by eleven experts over the course of the awards, but it was Duncan Taylor that came out tops on the night. *(Please see the note below)

In addition to the overall award, we were also awarded a gold medal again for the Glen Grant 36yo – attracting an unheard of 91 points from the judges and a further three silver medals and two bronze medals were awarded to Duncan Taylor Whiskies. We are all honoured at Duncan Taylor to have won this award from ‘people who know their whiskies’.

Duncan Taylor & Co Ltd
Whisky Merchants and Brokers,
4 Upperkirkgate, Huntly,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland AB54 8JU
  website: www.duncantaylor.com
email: info@duncantaylor.com
Phone: +44 (0) 1466 794055
Fax: +44 (0) 1466 794618

Purveyors of the worlds most exclusive range of Scotch Whiskies

* The Malt Maniacs are indeed an international group of whisky lovers, but they are very much independent and do not represent whisky clubs or anyone other than themselves.  This year’s entries numbered just over 200, similar to the numbers received in past years.  Given that competitors are restricted to a limited number of entries, the quality of the competition is very high so Duncan Taylor have every right to be proud of their very strong showing.

A single cask bottled especially for British Columbia; single cask Arran’s are always of interest and this one is of no exception. The undiluted nose is very fruity and spicy along with some pepper and loads of malt and unsurprisingly some prickle on the nose from the alcohol. The fruit after a few minutes is very deep and thick and is very good; this is an exceptional nose and is very pleasant. After a few minutes in the glass the fruit opens up and is more distinct; oranges and lemons. With the addition of water the malt is the prominent characteristic along strong wood notes and more fruit, even some gentle hints of leather. The undiluted taste is both strong, and chocolaty along with fruit, leather, sweetness and dry cedar wood notes, very, very nice. The mouth feel is quite syrupy and reminiscent of cream soda; quite different from many other sherry casks. With water it is much more docile and sweet; mild cedar/tobacco and sweetness all very well balanced and a much better way to enjoy this dram over the course of an evening. The finish is malty, and strong with the afore mentioned fruit and leather along with some slight hints of raw cured tobacco and then a tremendous crash of the malt which comes rolling back in crystal clear and backed by some really good bitter chocolate.

What an enjoyable dram; well done Isle of Arran Distillery. If you want to be slapped around the mouth try it neat, you won’t regret it.

C$110

Score 89 Points

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