Dear customer

We have nine (9) new DOUGLAS (of Drumlanrig) Single Malt bottlings this month. Their tasting notes follow:

DOD 0177 Allt-a-Bhainne 14 Year Old Sherry
Style: Sweetly spiced & honey’d + toffee & leather + liquorice (J)

DOD 0174 Glentauchers 11Year Old
Style: Sweet & buttery – spicy & fruity + mellow & smoked (J)

DOD 0176 Highland Park 13 Year Old
Style: Burnt toast & honey – toffee & smoke – long & spicy (J)

DOD 0178 Aultmore 10 Year Old Sherry
Style: Fresh & clean – fruity & malty + lime zest (F&J)

DOD 0179 Glen Grant 12 Year Old
Style: Fresh & vanilla’d – peaches & spices – sweet + dark chocolate

DOD 0180 Mortlach 14 Year Old
Style: Ffresh & malty – peach & mango – sweet toffee’d & spicy (J)

DOD 0175 Glen Ord 14 Year Old
Style: Fresh & sweetly fruited – poached pears & vanilla + orange zest

DOD 0181 Laphroaig 21 Year Old
Nose: Smooth / round – run to a salty/earthy style + sweet grist
Palate: Softly peated– mouth coatingly spiced + burnt embers
Finish: Iodine & phenols + a cough drop style + sweet vanilla (F)

DOD 0183 Bowmore 21 Year Old
Nose: Opens barley sugared – runs to sweet tar + cough drops
Palate: Distinctly peated – warmingly spiced + camphor & tar
Finish: Long – oily & smoky character with a liquorice style (F)

As you can see, the latest 2 bottlings show longer tasting notes since we have introduced a bigger lower label. That gives us more space for a bigger Distillery name print and for longer tasting notes.

We hope this selection is interesting to you.

All best wishes

Fred Laing

The story of the  Douglas ~ of Drumlanrig ~ Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Distilled those many years ago, our selected malt whiskies have matured in a cold, dark, Scottish warehouse until sampling has ensured their specific selection. Our subsidiary Langside Distillers has worked closely with the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry on his ever increasing range of preferred cask bottling
 
The common interest shared by Langside Distillers and His Grace in the finest products Scotland can offer, has led to the development of the DOUGLAS ~ of Drumlanrig ~ Single Malt Whiskies. “As with our other Malts DOUGLAS is offered un-coloured and in the old fashioned manner of not being chill filtered.
 
More recently, the whole packaging has undergone a restyle to make the whisky as appealing to the eye as it is to the taste. The symbolic winged heart crest of the Douglas family commemorates the courage of Sir James Douglas “The Good”, killed in action conveying the heart of King Robert The Bruce on a crusade to the Holy Land. The Duke’s Drumlanrig Castle, which is depicted on the label, has welcomed many distinguished visitors from Mary Queen of Scots to the first moon astronaut Neil Armstrong, except for one – “Bonnie Prince Charlie”, retreating in his ill-faited 1745 rebellion invaded the castle with 2000 followers two days before Christmas, eating them out of house and home!
 
The all important information on the Malt – it’s age, bottling date, cask style, number of bottles filled etc, appears on the paper label below the “branding” label. It’s gift box carries the same Malt information which appears on the bottle – all designed to appeal to the novice and the connoisseur alike.

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