We the Merchants of Single Malts & Blended Whiskies will release to you the people some amazing products in all ages colours flavours and styles.

This is the lead up to the mad season when the political class will promise to do this cut that build this demolish that! So we think you the people will need a bit of good old fashioned quality to get through the endless drivel.

April 2015 sees a number of new products as I have told you about before plus a few others, mind you we do have one topical release due next week that some in Scotland will have seen on the media so I had to grab a few cases naturally.

Before we head into the new releases I can now give a lot more detail on the London special edition Caol Ila.

We have been looking into the future quite a lot in these newsletters however this one is keeping very quiet on the future products so as not to give any spoilers for the 100’s of subscribers who will be heading to Campbeltown for the Springbank open day May 21 and the Campbeltown Malts festival running from May 20th to May 22nd

If you are heading to Campbeltown I hope you enjoy the event you lucky people. – Stephen at Cadenhead’s

Caol Ila 31 year old 54.3%

The London special edition of Caol Ila will be heading into the bottling hall on May 5th 2015 Distilled in 1984 and matured in a fresh fill bourbon cask we expect the final outturn to be 168 bottles in the world Below is the London Tasting Panels notes.

Nose: Salted Caramel, Honey with sweet smoke, fruity with some coastal notes trying to break through, summer at the seaside. Palate: First sip gives you a superb richness of caramel & salted popcorn, the next wave of taste delivers a superb sweet smoke that grows in perfect balance with the salted caramel found on the nose. As this dram opens the flavours flow across the palate with some rich fruity notes that interweave around the peaty richness of this vintage cask. Finish: Long rich smoke and peat with even more of the middle palate, shortbread and toffee apple, more of that sweet smoke that makes this a really rich complex vintage Islay.

Whisky Festival 2015

May 20th – May 22nd Springbank open day 21st May.

Scotland’s Oldest Independent distillery. family owned and run. Established 1828

AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK

SPRINGBANK 12 Y/O Port Cask Well I can now give you the estimated release date of Thursday 23rd of April 12:30PM

During several days of pre release tasting in London the feedback was amazing with 100% of those who tried wanting to buy it! They loved the rich red fruits that came from the first sip, a rich complexity throughout with layer up on layer of flavour. This is a very limited edition single cask offering from Springbank.

Also available from next week: Spirit of Freedom 45% makes a return with 18 bottles of the original blend that will sit along side a NEW Sprit Of Freedom 45+ If you live in Scotland I think you might have seen something about this on the news this week!

Stephen

Cadenhead’s Whisky Shop & Tasting Room

26 Chiltern Street London

W1U 7QF

Tel: 020 7935 6999