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Christmas is fast approaching and our little whisky elves are frantically packing bottles for despatch around the world. If you’re anything like me and haven’t started your Christmas shopping then fear not, we can take care of it for you. Here are just a few of our fantastic offers.  

SOME SPECIAL OFFERS FOR YOU

Aberlour A’Bunadh SPECIAL OFFER: Now £36.99 Save £3.00
An Cnoc 12yo & FREE Glass SPECIAL OFFER: Now £24.99 Save £4.00
Ardmore Traditional SPECIAL OFFER: Now £21.98 Save £10.00
Balvenie 12yo Doublewood SPECIAL OFFER: Now £26.99 Save £6.00
Dalmore 12yo SPECIAL OFFER: Now £32.99 Save £5.99
Glenlivet 12 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Now £24.99 Save £5.99
Glenmorangie 10yo SPECIAL OFFER: Now £24.99 Save £5.99
Isle of Jura 10 Year Old SPECIAL OFFER: Now £19.99 Save £10.00
Macallan 10 Year Old Original SPECIAL OFFER: Now £22.98 Save £5.01
Miltonduff 10yo SPECIAL OFFER: Now £17.99 Save £5.01
Strathisla 12yo SPECIAL OFFER: Now £24.99 Save £3.00
 
BEST DEAL

GLENLIVET 1970 40 Year Old

 Was £279.99 Now £129.99 SAVE £150.00

Tasting Notes:

Colour: Warm gold

Nose: Initially Sweet with hints of chocolate truffles. More creamy fruity notes emerge, kiwis and bananas with a touch of caramel.

Taste: Quite grassy and herbal, fennel?  Then green apple skins and freshly made bread

Finish: Tingly apple notes with a hint of lime

Comment: A fresh and lively – fruity dram

Visit Single Malts Direct at www.singlemaltsdirect.com

Glenfiddich – Snow Phoenix

Abbey Whisky has just taken stock of Glenfiddich Snow Phoenix!

We have not even advertised this bottle yet, and would like to exclusively offer Abbey Whisky Subscribers the first chance to buy this amzazing release by Glenfiddich…. This bottle sold out very quickly upon release…

£90.00, free postage… Only 2 bottles in stock…

The story behind the bottle…

On the evening of January 7th, after weeks of heavy snow and low temperatures, four feet of compacted snow covered the Glenfiddich distillery roofs, which housed hundreds of casks of fine aged whisky.

A number of warehouse roofs collapsed under the weight, leaving the oak casks exposed to the winter sky. In temperatures of -19°C, distillery staff worked to clear the snow.

Snow Phoenix was created by marrying together whiskies from the damaged warehouses, natural strength and non-chill filtered casks of different ages and finishes, including American oak and Oloroso sherry.

Given the name Snow Phoenix, this cask strength limited edition release will only be bottled in 2010.

If you are interested in this bottle, please email enquiries@abbeywhisky.com

Slainte

Mike & Peter

Abbey Whisky

www.abbeywhisky.com

enquiries@abbeywhisky.com

Specialist supplier of rare, collectable and exclusive malts.

Abbey Whisky Subscribers…

We love the cold wintery weather at Abbey Whisky!

Conjures up thoughts of sitting by a log fire, having fun with the family….oh and drinking some special malts! The severely cold weather up in Scotland and extreme temperatures of -15c, has given us an idea… For one week only, we bring you the…‘Abbey Whisky, Winter, Whisky Festival 2010’ (try and say that after a few!). Today we would like to exclusively offer Abbey Whisky Subscribers the chance to get these great festival releases at a wintery good price…

Bottles are in very limited numbers..

Remember !

We offer free postage to UK mainland!

£16.00 to most of Europe!

Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2004 Feis Ile 2010

£75.00

Kilchoman Single Cask 113/07 Feis Ile 2010

£325.00

Auchentoshan, Distillery Exclusive Festival 2009

£80.00

Caol Ila Single Cask Bottling Feis Ile 2010

£95.00

Offers are available to Abbey Whisky Subscribers only, and  available at these prices for 3 days… Please note that we have been experiencing severe weather conditions up here in Scotland over the last few weeks and this is resulting in delays to parcels reaching their destinations as promptly as we would like. Unfortunately this situation is beyond our control…

We are trying our very best to get your whisky delivered, we will keep you notified daily of the progress of your parcel, and more importantly, we will do our upmost in getting your precious malts delivered safely, and in perfect condition…
 
If you are interested in any of these bottles, please email enquiries@abbeywhisky.com

Slainte

Mike & Peter

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Knockdhu in Snow

Scottish malt whisky distillers at Knockdhu, Balblair and Pulteney keep calm and carry on. Some sleep over at work!

Snowy conditions are often referred to as ‘whisky weather’ in Scotland. A dram of your favourite Scotch in a hot toddy, with a mug of hot chocolate or just on its own is sure to keep you warm during those long December nights. But harsh weather may affect production and maturation of whisky in Scotland as experienced last winter season by Knockdhu Distillery in Knock near Huntley, Aberdeenshire. The producer of award-winning anCnoc single malt suffered from parts of roofs on 2 out of its 5 on-site warehouses falling in under the sheer weight of snow, forcing the distiller to move some of the precious stock to another location.

What about this year? We asked Gordon Bruce, Knockdhu Distillery Manager.

‘Not the best possible whisky making weather’ – he jokes. ‘It’s -19C here today and we have about 2 ½ ft of snow. It is a wee bit difficult getting raw materials in and ready product out but we’re managing. One of the boys slept in the still room on Monday night to make it to work on Tuesday, that’s dedication for you!’

And what about the warehouses? ‘When I have my collapsed warehouses rebuilt they will be very strong and we won’t have to worry. My remaining warehouses have slightly different roof types to ones damaged last year and they don’t seem to be affected by the weight of snow.’

Gordon seems to be able to see positives in this situation: ‘Lots of snow means we won’t have any problems with water supply next year. It’s good news.’

At Balblair Distillery in Edderton near Tain the morale is equally high. Distillery Manager John MacDonald, when asked about the effects of recent heavy snowfall on his operations, comments with confidence: ‘We’ve survived. Made of strong stuff up here. We are in full production, we have enough malt, yeast and oil to keep us going.’ Earlier John wrote on his Twitter (@balblairwhisky): ‘Snow clearing 2day, all hands on deck. Keeping going with production… Phones very quiet, not a bad thing.’

When asked about collapsing warehouse roofs John gets more serious: We never had this problem here so touch wood!

Further north, in Wick, Caithness, Malcolm Waring – Pulteney Distillery Manager – has more reasons to worry but shows remarkable composure: ‘It’s pretty tight here but we’ve kept going. Roads are just passable and north of Brora it’s quite bad. But we managed to get malt delivered from Inverness and luckily we have a good stock of dried yeast. The biggest problem is getting heavy spirit tankers out. Also, production water is freezing in some places. But we are managing, everybody is working hard to make it happen.’

Malcolm calmly dismisses suggestions that snow may be putting too much pressure on his roofs. ‘Not here. Not a problem’ – he says.

Balblair in Snow

A whisky that shines above all others.

The Northern Lights is a shimmering, kaleidoscope of colours often seen from the Dalmore distillery and the inspiration for the Dalmore Aurora, a sublime 45 year old single malt that is both rare and magical.

Set to cask on 29th April 1964 this brilliant malt has been left in slumbering contentment in the finest oak woods, selected by our Master Distiller.

At first, enchanting nuances of honeyed pear, banana and passion fruit stimulate the senses. Then bright, evocative bursts of blood oranges, figs, fleshy peaches and roasted Colombian coffee are followed by Black Forest fruits, crushed apples and spicy cinnamon.

Only 200 decanters of this dazzling malt have now been released worldwide, making The Dalmore Aurora a spectacular addition to any collection.

For further enlightenment, please visit www.thedalmore.com/aurora or email aurora@thedalmore.com.

Happy Holidays from The Virginia Distillery Company
 
Hello from Lovingston, VA!

Check out the amazing progress we’ve made: http://vadistillery.tumblr.com/

It’s been an incredible year for us here at the Virginia Distillery Company. We broke ground in March (after waiting for about four feet of hard-packed snow to melt) and now we actually have a roof and walls! After officially introducing the Second Edition of our Eades Double Malt whiskies in May, we took our act on the road. We met wonderful people such as yourselves at Celtic festivals, ABC store tastings, WhiskeyFest, and other events throughout Virginia and up the Eastern Seaboard.

Now, as 2011 draws near, we’re getting closer to turning on our stills and filling used bourbon casks with our Virginia Single Malt whisky. Well, technically it’s Virginia New Make Spirit before it’s matured…which might also find it’s way into bottles and onto the shelves of an ABC store near you…stay tuned…

Thank you for your support this year, and for making our Eades Double Malt whiskies so successful. We’d be nowhere if it weren’t for our dedicated fans (you), and we can’t wait to show how much we truly appreciate you when we open our doors next year and invite you all to see our beautiful distillery in Lovingston.

For now, keep enjoying the Second Edition Eades Double Malts before they go away forever. What you see in the store is all we have left! Don’t worry, though, we’re hard at work creating our next edition. Whether it’s our deliciously warm Highland, our feisty Speyside, or our smokey, peaty Islay, Eades Double Malt whiskies make great holiday gifts for the single malt drinker on your list.

Have a safe and festive Holiday Season, a Happy New Year, and please enjoy our whiskies responsibly! They’re too good not to.

VDC

Whisky An’ A’ That VIII

Ayr’s famous Whisky Festival

Saturday 4th June 2011

1pm-6pm

Ayr Town Hall

Tickets now on sale

PLEASE NOTE, THAT WHEN ORDERING YOUR TICKET(S) CLICK ON WHISKY FESTIVAL TICKET IN THE COUNTRY DROP DOWN MENU.  YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED FOR POSTAGE

TICKET HOTLINE NUMBER: 01292 284279

info@robbiesdrams.com

Order yours today, as tickets are limited.

www.robbiesdrams.com

Miner’s Delight Inn Second Saturday Scotch Sipping at Six December 11th, 2010 – Scotch Whisky News

Saturday, December 11, 2010
Miner’s Delight Inn Bed & Breakfast, Atlantic City, WY
Second Saturday Scotch Sipping at Six – “New Beginnings”

The tasting will include three young, limited release whiskies from privately held distilleries: One’s a new distillery (Kilchoman Summer 2010 Release *), one’s a newly reopened distillery that sat silent for more than a century (Kilkerran 2009 Work in Progress), and  one’s a reopened distillery that had been mothballed for the better part of a decade (Bruichladdich 2001 “The Resurrection Dram”)

Please contact Bob at 307-332-0248
www.minersdelightinn.com

Amrut named Young World Whisky Distillery by Malt Maniacs

Amrut Distilleries has been given a specially created award by a prestigious group of malt whisky lovers. It also picked up four Silver Medals and two Bronze Medals in the annual awards announced on 1 December, 2010. The Indian malt whisky distiller was given the Young World Whisky Distillery Award in the Malt Maniacs Awards 2010. This special award was created to recognise Amrut’s impressive performance this year. Johannes van den Heuvel, one of the awards’ founders and Editor of Malt Madness/Malt Maniacs notes that although the Amrut distillery has not been active long enough to have built up sufficient old stocks to compete with the Scots and Japanese in the ultra premium bracket, its younger releases were among the big winners this year. “As far as I’m concerned the biggest surprises were young whiskies from Taiwan and India,” he said.

The Malt Maniacs are an international on-line collective of malt whisky lovers which have been spreading the gospel of single malt whisky since 1997. Each year members form a jury to sample – completely blind – hundreds of whiskies, in what is probably the only consumer-driven whisky competition. This year they evaluated 262 samples.

Amrut’s 2010 Silver Medals:

87 Amrut 2004/2009 (52%, OB for Huis Crombé Kortrijk, Bourbon C#2930, 221 Bts.)
86 Amrut ‘Special Reserve’ (63%, OB for TWE 10th Anniversary,Bottled +/- 2010)
86 Amrut ‘Port Morant Rum Finish’ (62.3%, Blackadder, BA 9/2010, Bottled 6/2010, 278 Bts.)
85 Amrut ‘Intermediate Sherry Matured’ Batch #1 (57.1%, OB, Bottled June 2010)

Amrut’s 2010 Bronze Medals:

84 Amrut ‘Kadhambam’ Batch #1 (50%, OB, Bottled June 2010)
84 Amrut NAS ‘Bowmore Finish’ (62%, Blackadder SC, BA 10/2010, Bottled 6/2010, 288 Bts.)

Ashok Chokalingam, Amrut’s International sales manager, said: “We are delighted that such passionate whisky enthusiasts recognise our efforts. This year we have launched some really innovative limited editions and it is great to see the Malt Maniacs give one of our most recent releases, Intermediate Sherry Matured, a silver medal.”T his year’s success for follows Amrut’s impressive showing in the 2009 awards. Amrut Fusion Single Malt Whisky was named the Malt Maniacs’ Best Natural Cask whisky in the Daily Drams Category. It also picked up the award for the best whisky matured exclusively in “untreated”, regular cask(s) in the category for whiskies with an average price of up to 50 euros. It was awarded a Silver medal. Fusion gets its name from the fact that it uses two barleys: Indian and Scottish – with the latter being peated. Leading whisky expert, Jim Murray also named it as the third best malt in the world in his Whisky Bible 2010.

Amrut Distilleries Ltd, The Grainger Suite, Dobson House, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 3PF, UK. Tel + 44 (0) 7838 229914 or + 44 (0) 191 233 6316. Email ashok@amrutdistilleries.com

Kilchoman NAS (61.9%, OB for Kensington Calgary, Bourbon, C#119/07, 264 Bts., D’30/5/07, B’ 21/7/10)

A single cask bottling for Kensington Wine Mart Calgary and bottled at a slightly shocking 61.9% but without chill filtration or the addition of color.

The nose (undiluted) has some shades of the newest Ardbeg (Renaissance) and is quite strong along with some fragrance in the form of heather and grapefruit rind. It’s extraordinary aggressive on the nose. Things change significantly with the addition of water; deep, deep coal smoke and something burnt to a crisp lurking in the back ground. The taste undiluted is an open blast furnace of peat smoke and the fragrant notes with the malt in the back ground. After a moment or two the coal smoke takes over. A sample for peat heads for sure. With water the sweetness is a welcome embrace after being beat about the taste buds by the freaking undiluted temp tom macou of Islay. Ah, some REALLY good honeyed notes and really good chocolate malt and peat smoke. Perfection in the glass and hints of oiliness. Earthy. Like damp dunnage floors. Freshly cracked black pepper. The finish is strong, very vibrant, clean and head filling. The grapefruit rinds and malt are all tumbled together. It’s a really big finish and very, very long. It’ll be time for bed before this is over. Thank God for the addition of water other wise the peat would have sucked every ounce of moisture from the poor examiners fragile earthly vessel.

Big. Aggressive. Angry. Very Good.

$115

Score 87 points

The bottle looks much like this one....the box too.