CADENHEADS CLUB

Cadenheads Club for Whisky Enthusiasts and those who would like to start on the whisky journey with Scotland’s oldest independent whisky merchants.

As you know Cadenhead’s buy casks from various distilleries and bottle them at cask strength under the Cadenheads name. All ‘Cadenhead Club’ members will receive a folder containing tasting notes for a range of Cadenheads whiskies, a membership record card and a leather wallet with the club logo embossed on it. Each time you buy a 70 cl bottle of Cadenhead’s Whisky from one of our shops your card will be stamped. Each card has 6 spaces so when your card is filled this is exchanged for a new card. There is no limit to the number of cards you can fill. You can fill the card as quickly as you like, or take a whole year to do this.

In November of each year a special bottling will be done and a free bottle will be sent out, to the shop of your choice, for each card that you have completed. The bottles will be exclusive to club members and will be specially labelled and numbered. The type of whisky will be chosen by Cadenhead’s staff. Newsletters will be emailed to members along with tasting notes for each new bottling for you to print and add to your folder.

The cost for membership is £50 for the first year and £30 to renew your membership each year.

If you would like to join email: shop@wmcadenhead.com

Distillery Profile No 3 – Mannochmore

I would like to draw to your attention is a rather well known distillery but not by it’s actual name Mannochmore Established 1971.

In 1997 a rather strange malt entered the whisky market, Loch Dhu. This was a 10 year old malt whisky that looked almost black! It was so dark and to be honest rather sweet one would almost think it was liquid candy floss with chocolate chips (Yeah weird but it’s the flavour I can remember anyway).

Loch Dhu whisky was made at Mannochmore a newish distillery established 1971 on the same site as a more famous distillery Glenlossie (1876) Both distilleries are located just off the A941 close to Elgin & Rothes.

The Timeline:

• Established 1971
• Mothballed in 1985 like so many during the dark economic period 79-94
• 1997 Loch Dhu emerges to an astonished whisky world (Well I was and thats all that matters)
• 2011 someone tries to sell me a bottle of Loch Dhu for £450 funny given I have a bottle that cost me £26.50!Mannochmore 17 is currently in stock joined by a much older sibling aged 32 years old, this is quite an incredible little dram thats has been matured in a Port cask since 2005 after being aged in a refill bourbon cask. The tasting room clients described this dram as fruity sweet smooth and refreshingly elegant, we have a few and when I say a few it really is a few bottles left.
• On a personal note I like the malts from this distillery because they are a rather rich smooth dram that I can enjoy with a meal, something you should try yourself, a good all round whisky can really make a meal try whisky and Tapas or a tasting menu of indian or Thai food.

Next Newsletter will have a few details of our single cask & green label rums, while I might have a lot of the info in my head it’s no good keeping it to myself now is it.

Stephen

Cadenhead’s Whisky Shop & Tasting Room
26 Chiltern Street
London
W1U 7QF

Tel: 020 7935 6999