INTRIGUING INTENSITY: BUY BOTH TOGETHER FOR £145

134.8 SPICE UP YOUR LIFE & MARMALADE OVERDRIVE

These two whiskies make a powerful pair. Cask No. 134.8 is an Indian whisky, that at only 5 years-old is a beauty to behold. With whisky maturing much faster in hotter climates, the layers and depth of flavour in this bottling are quite something. Fast track over to our Marmalade Overdrive bottling for another unique experience with lashings of crimson marmalade and popcorn in melted butter. You can’t help but be captivated by these characters AND with Cask No. 134.8 usually priced at £145 this is a complete whisky winner.

INTERESTING

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ

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!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

Bimber debuts first peated single malt whisky 

Bimber becomes first 21^st century English distillery to entirely floor malt and kiln its peated spirit onsite

‘Bimber The 1^st Peated’ displays an ‘in-bottle’ PPM in order to kickstart a new dialogue about what’s actually inside a bottle of peated whisky

London’s Bimber Distillery today announced the upcoming release of ‘The 1st Peated’ – the distillery’s inaugural peated single malt whisky. Crafted from a marriage of four heavily peated American oak ex-bourbon casks, The 1^st Peated is entirely composed from the distillery’s earliest fully peated distillation that took place in May 2019.

The release consists of 1,140 bottles at an ABV of 54.1% and possesses an ‘in-bottle’ PPM of 14.4. Bottles are priced at £130 and will be available via a weighted ballot on the Bimber website from Monday 28^th November.

The 1^st Peated began its journey at Bimber’s single farm (Fordham & Allen in Basingstoke) where 100% of the distillery’s barley is grown. Two-row Concerto was transported to London where it was steeped 3 times over 40 hours before being turned every 8 hours over the following 5 days. The barley was then dried using a combination of dry and wet Aberdeenshire peat by the Bimber team in a custom-made kiln.

The pungently smoked grains were than mashed and fermented for seven days in the distillery’s iconic in-house crafted washbacks, before being unhurriedly distilled using two directly-fired alembic pot stills.

The four casks married together to create The 1^st Peated (#463. #464, #470 and #471), were selected to produce the perfect partnership of Bimber’s fruity and textural single malt whisky style with the intensity of fragrant and smouldering Highland peat smoke.

Speaking of the launch, Bimber Founder and Master Distiller Dariusz Plazewski said “The team and I are truly thrilled to be able to share The 1^st Peated with whisky lovers. This release represents a major milestone on the continued journey of Bimber and of our single malt London whisky. Not only is it the culmination of several years of investigation and passion, but being entirely produced by-hand, in-house –  it is also truly embodies our continued dedication to traditional production methods.”

The 1^st Peated is presented with an ‘in-bottle’ PPM, standing in contrast to most other the whiskies which indicate the initial phenolic content of the barley prior to distillation. Distillery spokesperson Matt McKay noted the reasoning behind this decision by stating “For too long the debate about peat levels has been a race to the top. Producers have sought to display the biggest PPM numbers possible without ever trying to contextualise to customers what these numbers mean in terms of the actual peated character of a whisky once it is inside of a bottle.

Barley PPMs ignore the fact that at every stage of the whisky-making process there is a decrease in the volume of phenols present. They also ignore the large variations that distinct production methods across different distilleries have on this inevitable decline. A 50 PPM barley utilised at one distillery will not directly equate to 50 PPM barley used by another. By presenting The 1^st Peated with an in-bottle PPM we’re looking to kickstart a dialogue about PPMs which hopefully leads to a more considered reflection of what’s actually inside a bottle of whisky.”

Bimber The 1^st Peated

A marriage of four heavily peated ex-bourbon barrels (#463. #464, #470 and #471),

Nose:               Pineapple juice and apricot cobbler sit alongside creamy toffee whilst damp, feathery smoke envelopes fallen leaves and touches of salinity.

Palate:             A weighty arrival delivers immediate peat influence – smouldering logs, leaf mulch and smoked vanilla fudge. The development unleashes a wave of bright, vibrant fruitiness together with wood spice.

Finish:             Mentholated oak with lingering vivid fruit sugars.

70cl

14.4 PPM (in-bottle)

54.1% ABV

RRP £130

Available via weighted ballot from 28^th November 

About Bimber 

Bimber Distillery produces world-class single malt whisky, handcrafted with passion in West London. As a leading distiller of English whisky, we combine generations of rich distilling heritage with the finest quality ingredients to create the ultimate craft whisky experience.

www.bimberdistillery.co.uk

Benriach The Sixteen

For fans of The Ten, this has the same cask make-up yet is elevated in richness and complexity by age

£77.00
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Benriach The Sixteen Description

MORTLACH DISTILLERY 14 Year Old 2007 First Editions Cask #19732

2007 vintage single sherry butt bottled by Hunter Liang & Co. for the First Editions series. Just 181 bottles. Expect apples, blackcurrants, and raisins with a rich palate of of berries, dark chocolate, light smoke, and sultanas. A nose of apples, blackcurrants, and raisins. The palate is rich with notes of berries, dark chocolate, light smoke, and sultanas. The finish is long, with lingering fruit.

Buy – Mortlach 14 Year Old – £95 / $94* / €91*

Mortlach Distillery was established in 1823 on the banks of the River Dullan in the Speyside whisky region. Mortlach is equipped with wooden worm tubs, six stills of assorted shapes and sizes and three spirit safes in order to run a unique two and a half times or partial triple distillation process. Official bottling of Mortlach single malt are few, however, independent bottlers recognise the great quality of Mortlach whisky particularly following long maturation in sherry casks. Gordon & MacPahil released a stunning bottling of 70 year old Mortlach single cask malt whisky distilled in 1938 and matured in a single sherry hogshead until bottling in 2009.

November 2022 Auction  // 25 November – 5 December 2022

Now Live: November Auction

A warm welcome to our November Auction. Featuring over 10,000 rare whiskies, this is a unique opportunity to bid on some of the world’s most sought-after bottles.

This month we feature the Dalmore Decades No.5 Collection for the first time – one of just 15 presentation sets ever produced, wonderful old and rare selections from Bowmore and The Macallan, old-vintage expressions from the likes of Rosebank and Balblair, alongside incredible rare bottlings of Pappy Van Winkle.

Read our exclusive article where we explore the Dalmore Decades Collection.

View a small selection of auction highlights below.

Browse our live auction

A Whisky Auctioneer First – Rosebank 1967 R.W. Duthie for Europvin

“A Masterpiece of Time” – Dalmore Decades Collection

An Islay Icon – Bowmore 1967 Largiemeanoch 12 Year Old

The Macallan Old & Rare Highlights

Islay’s Lost Jewel – Port Ellen 12 Year Old James MacArthur

Whisky Lounge Festive Festival
offers are here!

It’s been full throttle here at Whisky Lounge HQ as we get ready for our last festival of the year – York – before we start prepping for next year…

And talking of 2023, that’s what a good deal of this email is about – looking forward with hope for a better year for all. Although I am sure we all said this same at the end of 2021…

We are delighted to offer you, our loyal Whisky Loungers, first sight of our early-bird ticket offers for 2023 Festivals.

Newcastle Whisky Festival is selling fast. Don’t miss out!

Our first festival of the year is Newcastle on 25th March 2023.
We still have a very limited number of full session tickets available through our website, and we hope you’ll join us at the Civic Centre on the 25th March for what’s sure to be the North East’s biggest and best Whisky Festival of 2023.

Get NEWCASTLE FESTIVAL Tickets Now

FESTIVE FESTIVAL IN A BOX IS BACK!

24x 25ml Drams
12x hours of whisky experts and makers talking about the stuff to view at you leisure
1x Glencairn Whisky Tasting Glass
1x Handmade box of chocolates

Taste some amazing drams, and actually hear from the people who know their whisky best. All from the comfort of your own home, without the hustle and bustle of the festival.
An ideal present for yourself or the Whisky lover in your life.

Just to be absolutely transparent with you, this is the same selection of drams as last Xmas’ version, which was a cracker, so this is a second opportunity if you missed out. However, the chocolates are new!

For a limited time only we have 25% off this beautiful box which is normally £95. That is less than £2.75 a dram. Just use TWL25 at check out.

Festive Festival in a Box – Buy Now!

2023 WHISKY FESTIVAL OFFERS

We have early-bird tickets offers on all our 2023 festivals, which you can print and give to a loved one – or yourself!

Don’t miss out on our best early bird ticket offers yet! These have been designed on the basis that everyone is having tighten their belts right now, and we want everyone to still be able to afford to come along.

The prices start at 2 tickets for £40, then go to 2 for £50, then 2 for £60, 2 for £70 and finally to full price. There will also be £35 single tickets available, once the 2 for £60 tickets are sold out.
There are a limited number of all of these, so be quick!

Just click on the banner of the festival you’d like to attend below!

Get Your FESTIVAL TICKETS Now

GATEHEAD WHISKY NEWS

Why not check out news on the whisky world’s latest and greatest, from our very own Gateshead correspondent, Connas? He’s been doing his usual research into the good stuff, so you don’t have to! Follow the link below for this week’s edition.

READ HERE

What’s been your favourite whisky moment of 2022?

We couldn’t conclude an email without offering you the chance to win a little something on us! We’ve got a 70cl bottle of the deliciously peated Salty Sea-Dog up for grabs. Simply head to our TWL Facebook page, give it a like and drop your answer in the comments for a chance to win. It could be a new whisky you’ve tried that you can’t stop raving about? It could be a moment with friends when the whisky has transcended and brought you closer together. You choose! The winner will be chosen and announced on #whiskywednesday, the **th of **month**.

Good luck and Sláinte!

Here’s to a dram good weekend!

Slàinte!

The Whisky Lounge Team

MANGO & MARMALADE DUO: BUY BOTH TOGETHER FOR £290

38.35 HIBISCUS TEA BENEATH A MANGO TREE & MARMALADE OVERDRIVE

What a combination of flavours and at a very special price. Both bottlings bring different taste experiences to the party and showcase the unique diversity of the Society’s whisky. Being able to sample a Closed Distillery bottling next to a new generation of Society experimental blended malt whiskies is something quite unique. If you do the maths, Cask No. 38.35 is priced at £280 so this is an exceptional offer.

MANGO FOR ME

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ

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!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

Three GREAT Peated whiskies for 2023

Raise a glass to another rise in results: Whiskey & Wealth Club celebrates record-breaking quarterly results as it moves into its fifth year

With financial markets once again in turmoil, Whiskey & Wealth Club has bucked the trend yet again by recording exceptional results that demonstrate the demand for this alternative asset investment.

The multiple award-winning Whiskey & Wealth Club has reported record results for Q2 and Q3 of 2022, building on its extraordinary growth since being founded in 2018 by Jay Bradley and Scott Sciberras. Despite huge inflation and a drop in investor confidence in the traditional financial markets, Whiskey & Wealth Club has achieved turnover of just under £15,000,000 in Q2 and Q3, an increase of 148% from £5,965,279 in 2021.

While other markets have seen dramatic losses, Whiskey & Wealth Club has gone from strength to strength in challenging conditions. As an alternative asset class, casked whiskey has proven popular with investors looking to put their money into a tangible commodity, with its value tied to its age, quality, scarcity and the reputation of the brand rather than the more volatile performance of the market and the whims of politicians and traders. Along with an extensive knowledge of whiskey, Whiskey & Wealth Club can attribute much of its success to only dealing in casks of whiskey from award-winning and established brands with proven records, including Bladnoch, Bunnahabhain, and Boann.

This extraordinary success was on show at the recent BITA Gala evening where a bourbon cask of single malt from the multiple award-winning The Craft Irish Whiskey Co. sold at auction for an incredible £20,000. Bidders clearly recognised the future value of a cask of single malt from the company responsible for crafting a whiskey judged to be the world’s Best Irish Single Malt at the World Whiskies Awards 2022, and the competition for this cask was fierce.

Award wins help bolster the value of casked whiskey – another reason why Whiskey & Wealth Club works exclusively with Irish whiskey and Scotch whisky brands with award-winning prowess. This auction price also demonstrates the value placed on innovatively well-crafted, premium whiskey, with casks typically enjoying annualised returns of around 8-18% based on historical data.

Whiskey & Wealth Club Founder, Jay Bradley said “In the current climate we’re seeing increased interest from clients looking to purchase cask whiskey as a way of spreading their risk and diversifying their portfolio. At Whiskey & Wealth Club we’re seeing demand for the best quality whiskeys soar and we expect this to continue even when the financial markets settle down.”

CEO & Founder Scott Sciberras agreed, “Despite the challenges of the last few years, Whiskey & Wealth Club has surpassed all expectations and demonstrated that our groundbreaking model is increasingly attractive for investors. While financial markets across the world are in turmoil, the growing value of whiskey as it matures is seen as a more reliable asset and brings our clients confidence.”

Whiskey & Wealth Club offers the opportunity to purchase cask whiskey at wholesale prices, with insurance and storage included in the purchase price. After a number of years, the owner can decide on a number of exit strategies, including bottling for their own use, extending the storage period to mature the whiskey further, selling on to another investor or collector, or to an existing brand or new distillery.

This is a fast-expanding market, with Irish whiskey sales in 2021 reaching 14 million cases and the global market size projected to reach $11 billion by 2030. Equally, Scotch whisky is the single most traded spirit in the world, accounting for 75% of Scotland’s entire food and drink export revenue with exports worth over £4 billion annually. Whiskey & Wealth Club is in the process of opening an office in Sydney, Australia to meet the growing demand from emerging markets such as Asia, allowing it to offer the enjoyment and opportunity of cask whiskey ownership to a global audience. With a younger demographic of drinkers turning to whiskey, savvy investors have seen the long term potential in an asset that matures in both taste and value in the cask.

For more information on Whiskey & Wealth Club visit www.whiskeywealthclub.com

About Whiskey & Wealth Club

Whiskey & Wealth Club offers investors, consumers and collectors the opportunity to buy cask whiskey at wholesale prices. The casks are then stored in a secure bonded warehouse to mature for five, ten or even fifteen years, before selling for a profit or bottling. The company was founded on a simple idea: to share the enjoyment and potential rewards of wholesale cask Irish whiskey or Scotch whisky ownership with clients around the world.

Our November Auction ENDS SOON!

Place your bids until Sunday 27^th November.

www.whiskyhammer.com

Every month, we present an incredible selection of whiskies and other fine spirits to our members right across the globe. You will find everything here from limited edition releases and vintage bottles to whole casks of rare whisky. There is certainly something for everyone – whether you are looking to collect, invest or enjoy!

Bowmore – 35 Year Old (1964) Oddbins & 38 Year Old (1964)

Ardbeg – 1965

Karuizawa – 2000 (Single Cask Flower & Bird Series)

Macallan – Private Eye (Gold)

Hanyu – Eight of Diamonds (1991) & Ace of Spades (1985)

Selling whisky? Why not arrange the pick-up of your bottles using our global courier service? If you’re based in Scotland, you might want to arrange the personal collection of your bottles. Wherever you’re based in the world, we will make getting your bottles into our monthly auction as simple as possible. Get in touch with the Whisky Hammer team now by dropping them a message at sales@whiskyhammer.co.uk.