Celebrating 240 years

We are fast approaching our 240th Anniversary here at Glenturret Distillery and we want to share it with all of you! This November, help us mark 240 years of making whisky By Hand and By Heart in style here in Crieff. To celebrate, we have a few things going on that we are excited to tell you all about…

Raise a Dram

Glenturret Distillery is inviting members of the public to ‘raise a dram’ on November 5th to mark the 240th anniversary of making whisky By Hand and By Heart in this first ever World Record setting attempt. Read more about this free of charge event here

We’re Opening Our Doors

To celebrate 240 years of making whisky, we are opening the doors to the members of the public on November 7th and 8th free of charge. Come along for a distillery tour on us! Read more here.

Star Awards 2015

Glenturret Distillery has been shortlisted at the Perthshire Chamber of Commerce Business Star Awards 2015. We will now go head to head with other finalists in the Excellence in Food and Drink Produce category for the title.

Wilde Thyme at Glenturret

Wilde Thyme at Glenturret’s Autumn and Festive menus are online and available now. You can book your table online too so plan ahead this year and book your festive meals with us here.

Kilchoman 2008 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whiskey. The oldest Kilchoman whisky released to date – aged 7 Years. Matuerd in fresh American bourbon barrels, bottled August 2015 limited to 10,000 bottles.

Kilchoman 7 Year Old 2008 $83.82

Nose: Lemon, citrus and butterscotch notes are prominent with soft peaty aromas in the background.
Palate: Soft sweetness first with peat smoke and ripe fruit notes following.
Finish: Long, clean and sweet with peat smoke and soft fruits at the end.

Kilchoman

Kilchoman Distillery was established by Anthony Wills in 2005 at Rockside Farm near the centuries old Kilchoman Cross and the old Kilchoman Church on the Isle of Islay. Kilchoman Distillery is a malt whisky distillery which malts barley grown in Rockside fields and bottles Kilchoman single malt whisky at the distillery using local Islay water. Field to bottle. Kilchoman is the newest and most westerly of Islay’s distilleries and with just two small stills it is one of the smallest working distilleries in Scotland.

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1792 SMALL BATCH BOURBON WINS DOUBLE GOLD

AT 2015 NEW YORK WORLD WINE & SPIRITS COMPETITION

1792 Sweet Wheat, Kentucky Tavern, each take gold 

BARDSTOWN, kENTUCKY (Oct. 13, 2015) –Three bourbons from Barton 1792 Distillery received top honors at the 2015 New York World Wine & Spirits Competition, with two receiving gold medals and one receiving double gold. 1792 Small Batch Bourbon was awarded double gold, and 1792 Sweet Wheat and Kentucky Tavern each won gold medals.

“We feel very humbled and pleased by the recognition each of these bourbons received,” Ken Pierce, director of distillation and quality assurance, said. “We face many tough competitors from around the world at the NYWWSC and feel honored to have been judged so highly.”

The New York World Wine & Spirits Competition is one of the largest competitions for the retail beverage industry and has attracted top professional judges from broad spectrum of expertise. Considered the “Triple Crown of Competitions,” along with The San Francisco International Wine Competition and The San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the competition is judged each year in New York City.

Complete results of the 2015 New York World Wine & Spirits Competition are available at http://www.nyworldwineandspiritscompetition.com/.

About Barton 1792 Distillery

Barton 1792 Distillery is part of Barton Brands.  Barton Brands has facilities in Bardstown, Ky., Carson, Calif., and Baltimore, Md. Barton Brands is owned by the Sazerac Company, an American family-owned company based in New Orleans, La. Barton 1792 Distillery was established in 1879 and continues today as the oldest fully-operating Distillery in the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” The Distillery is located on 196 acres and includes 28 warehouses, 22 other buildings, the Morton Spring and the Tom Moore Spring.  Distilling, aging and bottling fine Bourbon whiskey are hallmarks of the historic Barton 1792 Distillery. 1792 Small Batch Bourbon Whiskey is produced at Barton 1792 Distillery. This whiskey is named for the year Kentucky became a state and is the recent gold medal winner at the 2015 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. To learn more visit http://www.1792bourbon.com/.

Compass Box – This is Not a Luxury Whisky

“This particular luxury has been designed to be consumed, not preserved on a shelf. Use it to celebrate life’s little victories – a new job, a chance meeting with a friend, the conclusion of an enjoyable dinner. Above all else, share and enjoy..”

– John Glaser.

This is Not a Luxury Whisky, a 2015 release from The Compass Box Whisky Company.

The inspiration for this limited release is René Magritte’s 1929 work “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, a Surrealist painting which challenges peoples’ perceptions of reality… A release, very much about the liquid itself and asking people to consider, what is a luxury whisky?

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Compass Box – Flaming Heart 15th Anniversary

A new limited edition Flaming Heart from the excellent, Compass Box Whisky Company. This, the fifth and also the 15th Anniversary release of Flaming Heart combines Scotch whisky aged in new French oak with peaty, smokey malt from Islay. As ever, the packaging is stupendous!

£99.48

The Whisky Show 2015 – The Show Bottlings

At The Whisky Show, I have either the best or worst job in TWE’s editorial team. Rocky is king of the masterclasses, setting up, breaking down and generally keeping the ship on an even keel; Stu runs around recording, whether looking after our videographer or sitting in on masterclasses and Q&A sessions with a notepad; I stand behind the Show Bottlings stand, talking about whisky for the whole weekend.

I know which I prefer.

Have you seen these men? Evidence of me, Rocky and Stu working

This year’s show bottlings cover a spectrum of flavours and styles. As with previous years, they’re presented with beautiful retro-styled labels, courtesy of our design team and their obsession with the older bottles in TWE director Sukhinder’s impressive whisky collection, and each has been specially selected by us and bottled by our friends at Speciality Drinks Ltd.

First up is a mystery dram – we’ll leave it to you to guess the producer. The label describes it as being ‘From a family-owned distillery in the Speyside-Glenlivet region’ and it’s matured in a sherry cask…

FAMILY-OWNED SPEYSIDE-GLENLIVET 11YO, 57.9% ABV

Nose: Crunchie bars, naked cinder toffee and posh rocky road – chocolate, raisins and a hint of toasted marshmallow sweetness. Vine fruit develops – red grapes, raisins and plump sultanas – with strawberry and raspberry jelly, and almond sponge.

Palate: Big sherry-cask fruit kicks things off, with raisins, fruit cake, marzipan and baked apples joined by butter-icing-covered Victoria sponge. Darker and more savoury notes sit behind the sweetness: singed raisins, toast and pan-roasted spices – nutmeg and cinnamon bark.

Finish: Barrel-char bitterness quickly becomes sweet fruit, slowly fading to a sweet liquorice end.

Comment: A classic sherry-cask-matured dram, with the high strength helping to give even bolder flavours than you’d expect.

Next is the first of a couple of TWE favourites: a whisky from Laphroaig. This is a 16 year old that was originally destined for another project, however when the cask was inspected before bottling we found that the angels had taken a much larger share than we’d originally thought – we had fewer than 100 bottles left. While the small outturn meant that it wouldn’t work for the other project, it was intensely flavoured thanks to the extreme evaporation, and perfect for a show bottling.

LAPHROAIG 16YO, 50.9% ABV

Nose: Very medicinal and coastal up front: TCP, ozone-heavy sea spray, freshly peeled Elastoplast and unwrapped bandages. Once you become acclimatised to the initial flavour onslaught, you find icing-sugar sweetness and fruit – sweet apple and unripe pineapple – and herbal notes – ferns, tarragon, mint and fresh spring leaves.

Palate: Much more approachable than the nose, with an initial burst of charcoal smoke overcome by a mixture of ripe and unripe fruit: apples, pears, pineapple and even a touch of sweet banana. Charcoal and dry peaty notes build with stony minerality, giving a big and austere smokiness.

Finish: Clean peat smoke, anise and fresh mint.

Comment: An intense and slightly strange Laphroaig – even more medicinal than usual, but packed with fruity flavour. This was hailed as one of the top two Laphroaigs at the show, vying for top place with a soon-to-arrive TWE exclusive bottled by Berry Bros. We know how to pick ’em.

Third on the list is another TWE regular and a particular favourite of mine – young Ledaig. While that used to be the name of the distillery on Mull, they changed the name to Tobermory in the late 1970s, and since the 1990s, Ledaig has been used to describe their peated whisky. I’ve been a fan for a while, especially of young sherry-cask-matured releases, which are increasingly becoming popular with indie bottlers. This one is a couple of years older than the sister cask we bottled for the 2013 show, and the extra years have added more depth, while keeping the big and smoky style that indie Ledaigs are becoming known for.

LEDAIG 9YO, 56.5% ABV

Nose: Smoky liquorice and stormy sea shores – ozone, damp rocks and muddy seaside meadows. Sweet leathery notes sit behind, slightly smoky with a little plasticky – like an almost-new car seat on a hot day – with some comparatively gentle medicinal notes.

Palate: Liquorice and blackcurrant sweets, black bread with cherry jam, sweet leather, smoked ham, mulchy peat and layers of spice: nutmeg, clove and spicy cinnamon. Rich sweetness provides a backbone: ginger biscuits, light fruit cake and milk chocolate.

Finish: An initial burst of smoke softens to berry fruit, ginger cake and lingering sweetness.

Comment: Less of a bruiser on the nose than some releases, but still no shrinking violet. The palate is richer and more developed, with dark fruit and less fire than its bottling strength might suggest.

The last of the whiskies bottled for the show is something quite different to the rest: an Irish single malt. All we known about it is that it’s a 22-year-old single malt from Ireland and we’ve bottled it at cask strength: 51.8% ABV. During the show we had lots of speculation on the stand from visitors, exhibitors and industry people who’ve tried similar whiskies. It might be double distilled rather than triple; it could be made using crystal malt rather than regular distillers’; it is probably – as you can see from my notes below – lightly peated; it could be from Northern Ireland. In the end we don’t know. What we do know is that it’s very good:

FINEST IRISH SINGLE MALT WHISKEY 22 YEAR OLD, 51.8% ABV

Nose: Big fruity Gummi Bears and wine gums to start – like opening a new bag and inhaling deeply, or ‘like smashing your face into a bag’, as I put it during the show weekend. With that are some sharper citrus notes: lemon and grapefruit zest, and pink-grapefruit flesh. Sitting behind everything is a whisp of charcoal and fruity peat smoke.

Palate: Creamy citrus – lemon posset? – starts things, with hints of the fruity sweets from the nose coming in close behind. The smoke is more noticeable on the palate, with charcoal and peat fires joined by rich and fruity dark chocolate, and black bread. Sweetness is still dominant, with rich, dark and lightly singed fruit cake sitting behind everything.

Finish: Fragrant smoke – fruit wood burning in a fireplace – turning fruity and zesty over time.

Comment: This was the most requested dram on the Show Bottlings stand throughout the show – once word got out, it was the first thing that everyone asked for, and the number of repeat customers was impressive. There are a few whiskies of similar age (and probably provenance) out there at the moment, but this one is the biggest fruit monster of them all – if you like your Irish whiskies dialled up to 11, then this is for you.

Many thanks to all of you who came to the stand during the show – especially the guy who walked over just to say hello after last pour on Saturday, having read my last blog post – it was a great weekend and lots of excellent whisky was drunk. On which note, keep an eye on the blog over the coming weeks, as Stu will be discharging his show duties and recounting tales of the incredible masterclasses that took place over the weekend.

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Diageo Special Releases 2015 – first look

Each year, Diageo launches a small number of limited-edition whiskies from its distilleries under the Special Releases banner. None have ever been seen before, so unsurprisingly, interest (and demand) is high when they hit the market.

There are nine single malts in the 2015 Diageo Special Releases line-up
I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of this year’s Special Releases that we’ll be stocking over the next few weeks. The whiskies are a mixture of ages (and price brackets), from both closed and operating distilleries, and this year, there are nine new whiskies to taste. They are:

Brora 37 Year Old, 50.4% ABV, 2,976 bottles (RRP £1,300)
Caol Ila 17 Year Old, 55.9%, ‘limited availability’ (£90)
The Cally 40 Year Old, 53.3%, 5,060 bottles (£750)
Clynelish Select Reserve, 56.1%, 2,946 bottles (£550)
Dailuaine 34 Year Old, 50.9%, 2,952 bottles (£380)
Dalwhinnie 25 Year Old, 48.8%, 5,916 bottles (£325)
Lagavulin 12 Year Old, 56.8%, ‘limited quantities available’ (£80)
Pittyvaich 25 Year Old, 49.9%, 5,922 bottles (£250)
Port Ellen 32 Year Old, 53.9%, 2,964 bottles (£2,400)

I’ll talk about the whiskies in the order they were presented on the night, with expert comments from Diageo master blender Maureen Robinson.

THE CALLY 40 YEAR OLD, 53.3%, 5,060 BOTTLES

A single grain whisky from Caledonian distillery, and a Special Releases newcomer. Big aromas of toffee popcorn on the nose, with grilled pineapple, rice pudding, cream and honeycomb, but fresh, not heavy. Toasty and oaky on the palate freshened up with melon and lime-zest notes.
Maureen Robinson: ‘Caledonian grain is renowned for being very sweet and buttery’

DALWHINNIE 25 YEAR OLD, 48.8%, 5,916 BOTTLES

Dalwhinnie is sometimes regarded as a beginner’s whisky, or one to convert non-whisky drinkers. This particular bottling would definitely convert the doubters, with its swathe of honeyed fruit on the nose – plum, greengage, strawberries and melon – along with vanilla, toast and egg custard. Rather punchier on the palate, with black pepper, green-apple skin and a touch of liquorice.
MR: ‘Adding water really emphasises the citrus and oaky notes’

CLYNELISH SELECT RESERVE, 56.1%, 2,946 BOTTLES

Eyebrows were raised when a NAS version of Clynelish made an appearance last year – until people tasted it. It was one of the big hits, and the 2015 bottling is equal to it. This Clynelish is a blend of four different ages, with the youngest being 15 years old. On the nose, there’s fresh citrus in the form of lemon and grapefruit, then the trademark waxiness kicks in along with toffee notes. The palate delivers soft citrus fruit, orange oil, wax jackets, green apple and a creamy mouthfeel. Absolutely delicious.
MR: ‘We’ve really dialled up the waxiness with this one’

PITTYVAICH 25 YEAR OLD, 49.9%, 5,922 BOTTLES

Pittyvaich distillery closed in 1993. Maureen informed us that while it was running, fermentation times were shorter than other sites, and the stills were run a little harder, giving a ‘more flavoursome’ spirit. This 25-year-old bottling has a delicious nose of nutty cereal and almonds, mango and lemon tart, with a fruit-salad palate of lemon and orange with nut praline and toffee. Not a big-flavoured malt, but very moreish.
MR: ‘My usual description is nutty, like a malt spirit character, and cake mix, when you’re baking a cake and you open the oven door halfway through’

DAILUAINE 34 YEAR OLD, 50.9%, 2,952 BOTTLES

Dailuaine is one of the lesser-known Diageo distilleries, with precious little of its output bottled as a single malt, but the ones I’ve tried (albeit just a handful) have all impressed. This SR bottling is a full-flavoured dram – dense, with cured meat, dark gingerbread, rich dried fruit on the nose, then a big-hearted palate of chocolate orange, citrus-tinged ham, leather and tobacco. Alluring and classy.
MR: ‘With water, it goes from fruity to meaty’

CAOL ILA 17 YEAR OLD, 55.9%, ‘LIMITED AVAILABILITY’

Unpeated versions of Caol Ila have appeared regularly in SR tastings, although many have had a smokier edge than expected. This bottling starts off with beautiful aromas of wispy smoke, along with gingerbread, asphalt and a touch of sweet-cured meat. Then I get smoked fish, lemon oil and tarry rope, with a rich fruitiness in the background. One for trivia fans: Diageo were keen to label this whisky ‘Highland Style’, but the Scotch Whisky Association wouldn’t allow it.
MR: ‘This is what I term as “my fresh air”. I get sweetness and the dying embers of a fire’

BRORA 37 YEAR OLD, 50.4% ABV, 2,976 BOTTLES

This year’s Brora release is its oldest to date. Very characterful nose of leather books, bonfires, cured meat, forest floor and a touch of coffee and mocha. Fruitier than expected on the palate, then the smoke begins to build, with a little wax and black pepper. Clean and precise, with some lemon freshness running through its core, helping to balance this rather sturdy dram nicely.

 MR: ‘When I nosed this, I got “old leather”’

LAGAVULIN 12 YEAR OLD, 56.8%, ‘LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE’

The 12 Year Old Lagavulin is a familiar SR release, and is always popular. This year’s bottling starts off all fruity and meaty, but the smoke isn’t far behind. Juicy and savoury, this a big, uncompromising whisky. Adding a little water is a good idea, bringing out the fruitiness, something akin to pork terrine with apricots. A lovely dry, smoky finish, with some fruit to soften the mouthfeel.
MR: ‘I normally find Lagavulin 12 has a bit of nose prickle, but this one is quite mellow. One of my descriptions for it used to be “gravy and mashed potatoes”!’

PORT ELLEN 32 YEAR OLD, 53.9%, 2,964 BOTTLES

The final whisky of the tasting was from one of Diageo’s most celebrated distilleries – and certainly its most lamented: Port Ellen. Big, spicy, smoky rich nose – wow! Plenty of cinnamon, juicy fruit, leather, oranges and bonfires. Fuller on the palate, with spicy fruit, Seville oranges, cloves, even a touch a meaty. Big, rich and generous. Adding water softens and sweetens, but also takes the edge off this big-boned dram. I don’t think it needs it.

MR: ‘This one is from 1983 – the year the distillery closed’

In all, a fascinating collection of whiskies, covering all manner of styles. The big names will attract plenty of attention, but for me, the two most interesting whiskies were the Dalwhinnie and the Dailuaine; the former a fruit-filled beauty; the latter a broad-shouldered beast that rewards long contemplation. Keep a look out for all the 2015 Special Releases on The Whisky Exchange website.

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Heaven Hill Brings Back Critically Acclaimed Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel Bourbon After Three Year Hiatus

Famed Distiller Also Continues Releasing Elijah Craig 23-Year-Old Single Barrel

BARDSTOWN, KY—To the delight of scores of Bourbon fans who have lamented its absence, Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel Bourbon is back. Heaven Hill Brands, the nation’s largest independent family owned and operated distilled spirits supplier, is once again offering the highly sought after and critically acclaimed American Whiskey after a three year hiatus due to inventory shortages. A past winner of the “Best Bourbon” award at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel was first introduced by Heaven Hill in 1994, and quickly gained legendary status at a time when super-premium Bourbon offerings were few and far between. As demand for the rare whiskey grew, along with growing demand for Heaven Hill’s other super-premium Bourbons, there were simply not enough 18-year-old barrels that met the Master Distiller’s strict quality standards, so the bottling was discontinued in 2012. Since then, stocks have come back into line, allowing Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel to again be offered on a limited national basis at a suggested retail price of $120 for the 750ml bottle. Heaven Hill also announced it is re-releasing a limited number of barrels of Elijah Craig 23-Year-Old Single Barrel, which has been bottled, also in limited quantities, since 2013 and carries a suggested retail price of $199.

Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel quickly gained a cult following upon its release as the oldest single barrel Bourbon on the market, and one that garnered multiple medals and awards throughout the nation and the world. It captured Double Gold/Best Bourbon at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and was named one of the top 50 spirits by Wine Enthusiast Magazine. Arguably a victim of its own success, the brand was furloughed just as the high-end Bourbon market exploded, and since then connoisseurs have consistently inquired about when it might return.

Heaven Hill will be releasing only about 15,000 750ml bottles of Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel this fall, packed in a three bottle case, and it will be available in most major metro markets nationwide on an allocated basis. The face label has been slightly altered since its last appearance in 2012, with the logotype now echoing the same Elijah Craig typographic treatment as the Elijah Craig Small Batch, Elijah Craig Barrel Proof, and the Elijah Craig 23-Year-Old Single Barrel. The new Elijah Craig 18-Year-Old Single Barrel now presents a consistent family look with the 23-Year-Old Single Barrel, with the former using a blue and copper colored face label and the latter a green and copper color palette.

The selection process for the Elijah Craig Single Barrel is one of the most stringent at Heaven Hill. From an aging inventory of 1.1 million barrels, the second largest American Whiskey holdings in the world, Master Distillers Craig Beam and Denny Potter select only barrels that have rested at low storage, and then further choose only those that meet their strict nosing and taste criteria. While taste nuances will vary slightly from one barrel to the other, as they should in a single barrel offering, in general they have selected for complex, multi-layered taste profiles that balance the 18 years in new charred oak with sweet and spicy grain notes. As befits a Bourbon that has seen 72 variable Kentucky seasons, the finish is long and warm.

The Elijah Craig 23-Year-Old Single Barrel is even more limited in quantity than the 18-Year-Old. The additional five years of maturation gives the 23-Year-Old a honeyed, dry oakiness, while still retaining the spicy and long finish.

“We at Heaven Hill have been offering aged Bourbons and single barrel bottlings as old as 18, 23, or even 27 years, for longer than anyone else,” noted Susan Wahl, Senior Brand Manager for Whiskeys at Heaven Hill Brands. “Our experience in this arena, along with our renowned quality standards and inventory of over one million aging barrels, means we can select and bottle extra-aged Bourbons that are unlike any others in the world, and provide a unique tasting experience for the true aficionado. This is really showcased in the Elijah Craig 18 and 23-Year-Old Single Barrel bottlings.”

Founded in 1935, Bardstown, KY-based Heaven Hill Brands (www.heavenhill.com) is the nation’s largest independent, family-owned and operated spirits producer and marketer and the world’s second-largest holder of Kentucky Bourbon. Heaven Hill’s diversified portfolio of brands includes Evan Williams Bourbon; Larceny, Elijah Craig and Henry McKenna Bourbons; Deep Eddy Vodka; Burnett’s Vodkas and Gin; Admiral Nelson’s and Blackheart Rums; Hpnotiq Liqueur; The Christian Brothers Brandies; PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur; Domaine de Canton Ginger Liqueur; Lunazul Tequila; Cinerator Hot Cinnamon Flavored Whiskey and Rittenhouse Rye Whisky.