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Glenlivet 1978 Private Collection

43 Year Old 1978 Private Collection

Cask #9044402

43 Year Old Private Collection from G&M. Matured in a refill sherry hogshead #9044402. Distilled 30th August 1978 and bottled 9th December 2021. 310 hand-blown crystal decanters at 54.3%. Glenlivet 43 Year Old 1978 vintage Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask refill sherry hogshead #9044402 distilled 30th August 1978 and bottled 9th December 2021 by Gordon & MacPhail for the Private Collection series. 310 hand-blown crystal decanters have been produced.

Stewed raisin aromas combine with orange peel and faint notes of beeswax polish. Baked spiced apples give to vanilla pod and soft nutmeg. Cinnamon spice flavours are followed by marmalade and toasted almonds. Roasted coffee beans come to the fore, leading to Morello cherry and hazelnuts.A long finish with sultanas and a sweet sherry influence.

£2,450 | €2,428* | u$2,664* | c$3,402*

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Having out-grown his distillery at Upper Drumin George Smith built a new distillery in 1858 at Minore just short distance upstream of the River Livet and which he opened the following year and named Glenlivet Distillery. During the 1850s the Edinburgh firm of Andrew Usher produced the first vatting of malt whisky from a single distillery using a number of different vintages of Glenlivet whisky. Following expansion in 2010 this distillery is now equipped with fourteen stills making it one of the largest malt whisky distilleries in Scotland. The range includes Glenlivet Founders Reserve and Nadurra.

Wild Turkey “Rare Breed” Small Batch Barrel Proof Kentucky Bourbon (750ml)

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SKU #1037253 90 points Whisky Advocate

 Cotton candy, marshmallows roasting over an open campfire, baked apples, and cornbread batter start a whiskey that then offers hints of caramel apples, pumpkin pie, and roasted pecans. Water opens it up to more nuanced fruit, spice, and sweetness. Without water, brown-sugar butter dominates about mid-palate and leads to a long finish. Dilution makes this a completely different whiskey experience. (FM, fall 2017) 

K&L Notes

Wild Turkey Rare Breed is a high-proof marriage of casks that brings more power and spice than some of the other more mellow WT expressions. It’s woodier with more of the charred oak influence, but it handles that oak quite well. The finish leans more towards the herbaceous, but if you hang on until the end, there’s a lovely toffee and caramel note that sings a late swan song. Very fun whiskey that goes down way too easily.

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Sheep Dog Peanut Butter Whiskey Aims to Raise Lifesaving Funds for Animals in Need as Part of New ASPCA® Partnership

For Every Bottle Sold, $1 will go to the ASPCA to support its work caring for, rescuing, and finding homes for animals in the U.S.           

LOUISVILLE, KY (March 10, 2022) – Sheep Dog Whiskey is lending a helping paw to animals in need. The playful peanut butter whiskey that’s tagline is “Come. Stay. Drink. Play.” has a new command, and that’s for pet and whiskey lovers to fetch a bottle of Sheep Dog to support a great cause!

For every bottle sold from now through September 2022, Sheep Dog Peanut Butter Whiskey will donate $1 to the ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), the longest-standing animal welfare organization in the United States. The proceeds, up to a maximum of $25,000, will go toward supporting the ASPCA’s lifesaving work to help animals nationwide.

The ASPCA assists animals in need through on-the-ground disaster and cruelty interventions, behavioral rehabilitation, animal placement, legal and legislative advocacy, and the advancement of the sheltering and veterinary community through research, training, and resources.

Sheep Dog, which shares a long-term commitment to helping feed and care for homeless pets, is also launching a new dog treat jar filled with 50ml bottles of Sheep Dog Peanut Butter Whiskey. All purchases of the reusable treat jar, which will begin arriving in liquor stores in April, will go toward Sheep Dog’s donation to the ASPCA.

This 70-proof flavored whiskey is made with natural peanut butter flavors and carries notes of vanilla and caramel popcorn with warm whiskey undertones. Sheep Dog can be found in liquor stores across the United States.

“We are grateful for Sheep Dog’s support of our lifesaving work to protect and care for animals across the country,” said Rebecca Frommer, Director, Cause Partnerships & Events, ASPCA. “For every bottle purchased, the ASPCA will receive a vital donation to support our commitment to helping vulnerable animals in need.”

For more information about Sheep Dog Whiskey visit https://sheepdogwhiskey.com/, or check out Sheep Dog on social media on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sheepdogwhiskey/, and Instagram @sheepdogpbwhiskey. More information about the ASPCA can be found at https://www.aspca.org/.

About Sazerac

Sazerac is one of America’s oldest family owned, privately held distillers with operations in the United States in Louisiana, Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Maryland, California, and global operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, India, Australia and Canada. For more information on Sazerac visit https://www.sazerac.com/.   

A Milestone for the American Whiskey Market: 

Sotheby’s Presents the Most Valuable American Whiskey Auction Ever Staged, Featuring Two of the Most Significant Collections to Come to the Market in a

Single Sale, Including ‘The American Muscle Collection’

AUCTION IN NEW YORK ON 19 MARCH

NEW YORK, 15 MARCH 2022 – Advance bidding is now open on Bourbon & Rye Whiskey | The American Muscle Collection + The Three Continents Collection Pt III, the most valuable auction of American whiskey ever staged. With an overall estimate of $825,000 – 1.2 million, and featuring two of the most significant collections to come to the market in a single sale, the 750-lot auction will be presented live from Sotheby’s in New York this Saturday, 19 March at 10am EDT.

Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s Spirits Specialist, said: “American Whiskey stands apart owing to its strength of character, and over the last two years has shown the beginnings of a meteoric rise in the secondary market. Maturing in virgin American oak barrels for years and sometimes decades, the resulting whiskeys are luxuriously rich, complex and unmistakably American. A muscular character can be attributed not only to this wealth of flavors but also to the high proof of the market’s most collectible bottles.” 

The auction is led by the American Muscle Collection, which takes its name not only from its unparalleled range of rich and robust US Bourbons and Rye Whiskeys, but also from the collector who built this significant catalogue of bottles. Rich “RJ” Gottlieb is the owner of one of the most legendary Chevrolets in existence, the 1969 “Big Red” Camaro, referred to by many as “the baddest muscle car ever”. The collection is defined by its extensive selection of Willett Family Estate barrel picks.

The second significant collection is The Three Continents Collection Part III. These whiskeys were part of a 5,000 bottle-strong collection of Scotch and Japanese whisky as well as Bourbon and Rye from the USA that has been allocated across five Sotheby’s auctions in 2021 and 2022. It first hit the market in November 2021 as a single owner sale, doubling its estimate to achieve $2m just for Part I. This auction exclusively contains American whiskeys from this collection.

These two collections are supported by a number of other classic bottles such as Lanell’s Red Hook Rye, Pappy Van Winkle, Four Roses and Old Weller. 

The American Muscle Collection is defined by the depth and breadth of its selection. Not only are there numerous bottlings from the likes of Pappy Van Winkle, Buffalo Trace Antique Collection and Black Maple Hill, but the extent of bottlings from producers such as Willett and Four Roses give an idea of the wealth of knowledge and prescience a collection such as this requires.

Among bourbon and rye whiskey connoisseurs, bottles of Willett Family Estate are as highly sought after as those from Buffalo Trace, Michter’s and Old Rip Van Winkle – if not more. Drawing on their immense stocks of well-aged whiskeys, the Kulsveens, the branch of the Willett family that now owns the distillery, create a variety of whiskeys but save the very best barrels, no more than three percent, for their estate brand, which they began to release in small amounts in the mid-2000s.

Over the last twenty years, Four Roses has developed a reputation as one of the best all-around distilleries in Kentucky, its portfolio ranging from a solid, inexpensive entry-level whiskey to a very limited and highly coveted series of annual releases, some of which critics rank among the best bourbons of the century.

Black Maple Hill is among the most coveted American whiskeys, with a history that connects it with some of the biggest names in Kentucky distilling. Like several other extremely limited-release brands from the early 2000s, Black Maple Hill did not make its own whiskey, or even bottle it. Rather, its owner, a California-based company called CVI Brands, hired Julian Van Winkle III to find high-quality barrels of whiskey and bottle it for them. At the time, Van Winkle was working out of the disused Hoffman Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, where he bottled whiskey for his own brand, Old Rip Van Winkle, as well as for clients such as CVI, all of which have long since achieved legendary status among collectors.

Starting in the mid-2000s, Michter’s was arguably the first American whiskey to join Old Rip Van Winkle as a truly world-class luxury brand. The Michter’s name originated in the decades after World War II, when a Pennsylvania businessman named Lou Forman named a distillery after his sons, Michael and Peter. But the Pennsylvania whiskey industry was in a steady and terminal decline, and the distillery shut its doors in 1990.

The Van Winkle line of whiskeys needs no introduction: praised by celebrities, the subject of a bestselling book, it is by far the best recognized and most widely coveted.

HIGHLIGHTS

LeNell Red Hook Rye 23 Year Old Barrel #3 68.8 abv NV, est. $20,000-30,000

Pappy Van Winkle Double Vertical 2020 & 2021, est, $16,000-24,000

Willett Family Estate Single Barrel Bourbon 21 Year Old “The Wheated Patriot” 141.6 proof 1993, est, $8,000-12,000

Michter’s Single Barrel Rye 25 Year Old 117.3 proof NV, est. $5,000-6,000

Colonel E.H. Taylor Warehouse C Tornado Surviving 100 proof NV, est. $4,500-6,000

Black Maple Hill Single Barrel Rye 15 Year Old 98.2 proof NV, est. $4,000-7,000

Heaven Hill William Heavenhill Signature Anniversary 127.6 aproof NV, est. $4,000-4,800

Four Roses Single Barrel 17 Year Old 2012 Release 55.3 abv NV, est. $3,000-5,000

The American Muscle Collection: lots 1 – 534 (est. $580,350 – 825,150)

The Three Continents Collection Part III: lots 586 – 750 (est. $112,850 – 177,950)

Fisherman’s Retreat launches its latest edition

The Fisherman’s Retreat has released its highly anticipated Edition 9 Scottish single malt whisky

This  is their latest release since their success at the recent World whisky awards at which they were awarded category first places for both their Edition 8 (Arran 7yr old) and Edition 6.1 (Bruichladdich 14 yr old) Scottish single malt whiskies.

The latest release is

Fisherman’s Retreat Edition 9

Bruichladdich, Rhinns – Yalumba Viognier Cask

10 years old

It has been bottled at both 50.0% & 64.8%

James Magnall owner of The Fisherman’s Retreat said “this is the first ever and only expression of its style for this fantastic distillation from Bruichladdich. This 10 year old Rhinns has been exclusively matured in a hand selected Viognier white wine barrel direct from the Yalumba winery in the Barossa Valley, South Australia.

Edition 9 is now on pre-sale and goes on general sale on Monday 21st March through their website HERE

A GREAT NEW SEA OF GREEN
NEW WHISKY TODAY!

We could all do with some cheer, so for some mid-month escapism we’ve hand-picked a selection of TWENTY-THREE NEW limited edition whiskies for our members to taste and explore. This is an exceptional list. It’s available to buy TODAY, 9am on Friday 18 March, only in our online shop. Explore the new bottles now, so you know what you want.

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Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm). Visit the Society at here for membership information

This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

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Shop an exciting selection of new arrivals just in time for Spring. See what’s new now!

Three Chord K&L Exclusive Barrel Indiana Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml)

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This new brand from musician Neal Giraldo offers a wide variety of blended bourbons and ryes. Named for the Three Cord progression at the root of the blues genre, the links between bourbon and blues go way back. The goal of Three Cord bourbon is offer unique expressions devoted to three main principles: “Truth, heart, and integrity.” We can’t think of anything more truthful than a cask strength single barrel of bourbon. This lovely cask was distilled at MGP in February 2017 and bottled at the end of 2021 at full cask strength without any chillfiltration or dilution of any kind. From the famous “high rye” recipe, it’s mashbill is 60% corn, 36% rye and 4% malted barley. Expect dense powerful flavors and plenty of spice with surprising depth for the age. If every thing they strum at Three Cords sounds like this, we’ll be listening for many years to come.

Doc Swinson’s “L’Esprit” Exploratory Cask Series Cognac Finished Nonchillfiltered Small Batch Cask Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml)

$69.99

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