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A Rarity and a Steal: A First-Ever, First-Fill Dalmore Cask

Dalmore 10 Year Old “Hart Brothers Finest Collection” K&L Exclusive Cask Strength First Fill Sherry Butt

Unchillfiltered Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml) (Pre-Arrival) ($69.99)

Among a bevy of recent pre-arrival spirits acquisitions from the inimitable Hart Brothers, this Dalmore 10 Year Old is a stupendous bargain from a brand that usually commands high prices for less expressive sherry casks on the independent market. Here we have a first-fill, K&L exclusive cask for a steal, and what’s more, it takes the beloved Dalmore character and ramps it up to eleven. We were doubly pleased to secure this cask at such an excellent price, which will certainly rise once it hits our inventory this summer. Fans of this outstanding Highlands malt should go big, so they can enjoy this incredible dram time and time again.

Dalmore 10 Year Old “Hart Brothers Finest Collection” K&L Exclusive Cask Strength First Fill Sherry Butt Unchillfiltered Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml) (Pre-Arrival) ($69.99)

*Pre-arrival item expected to be available for shipment or pickup in June 2023.

K&L Notes: Dalmore is one of those malts that will forever be controversial. They’ve made a name for themselves selling old sherry barrels at astronomical prices, but we rarely see the malt bottled as single barrel or at cask strength. When we do come across the odd independent bottling, it’s almost always in second- or third-fill barrels destined otherwise for some big-name blend, and while those can be lovely whiskies, they simply don’t capture the essence of The Dalmore like you might expect. That is, of course, because the brand has become synonymous with sherry aging. Now, for the very first time, we can offer a proper single cask of Dalmore aged entirely in sherry! It’s bottled at full cask strength and is fully non-chillfiltered, nor is there any added coloring. The resulting whisky is exactly what all the whisky geeks hoped for: amazing. When you’re tasting those distillery bottlings, loving the flavors, but ultimately crying out for more character, intensity, and power —this is the barrel for you. If you’re a classic Dalmore lover, you’ll probably want to take one home, even if it falls out of the distillery’s typical soft and round character. That said, with a nice splash of water this gorgeous thing relents easily, reminding us that the Dalmore is really a gentle dram, given the right environment. There’s no question that sherry-aged Scotch lovers of all stripes will appreciate this excellent and well-priced cask.

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KILKERRAN 12 YEARS OLD

Kilkerran 12-Year Old is a distilled scotch whisky from the Campbeltown region of Scotland, aged for 12 years in a combination of bourbon and sherry casks. The resulting taste is light and peeled for a smooth, complex whisky experience.

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Our latest single cask collab!

At Loch Fyne Whiskies we are always keen to provide you with unique and interesting drams and our latest single cask collaboration is a testament to that! This Glen Scotia shines with coconut and clementine mingling with ginger and marzipan. Pick up a bottle whilst you can!

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Glen Scotia 2016 6 Year Old #3161 LFW Exclusive

A special single cask, bottled exclusively for us at Loch Fyne from the lovely folk at Glen Scotia. The Campbeltown legends have matured the liquid for six years in a first-fill bourbon cask, before bottling at a cask strength of 58.7% abv. Free from chill filtration, and decanted into only 218 bottles! A real treat of a single malt.

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KNOB CREEK^® ADDS SEVEN-YEAR AGE STATEMENT TO ITS KENTUCKY STRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY

The addition furthers the brand’s legacy of craftsmanship and its ongoing commitment to producing high-quality rye whiskey

CLERMONT, KY – March 31, 2023 – Knob Creek^®, a pioneer in the Small Batch Bourbon category, is excited to announce the addition of an age statement to its well-loved Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey. This seven-year age statement is a testament to the craftsmanship, patience and care behind its super-premium whiskey and reinforces the brand’s dedication to producing world-class whiskies for its fans.

“My dad Booker Noe created Knob Creek with the intention of crafting a full-flavored whiskey without shortcuts, and Knob Creek has continued to set that standard for more than 30 years,” said Fred Noe, Booker’s son and Seventh Generation Master Distiller. “We are excited to continue his legacy with the addition of an age statement on our Knob Creek Rye Whiskey. I’m excited for whiskey fans to taste it, and I know Dad would be proud.”

This update to the brand’s core rye expression offers fans the same Knob Creek Rye taste profile they know and love, but with the whiskey now guaranteed to be aged for a minimum of seven years. This strengthens the whiskey’s depth of character due to the extra time in the barrel and enhances notes of the American Rye spice, sweet vanilla and oak that is characteristic of Knob Creek Rye.

Knob Creek 7 Year Old Straight Rye Whiskey is bottled with the following characteristics:

• Proof: 100
• Color: Amber brown
• Aroma: Sweet caramel and vanilla mixed with deep round rye spice accompanied by apple and floral notes with a hint of leather
• Taste: Full body with balanced black pepper, sweet vanilla, and caramel finished with lingering oak and rich spice
• Finish: Warm and smooth with spice throughout

Knob Creek 7 Year Old Straight Rye Whiskey is now available nationwide with a suggested retail price of $36.99 for a 750mL bottle. For more information about Knob Creek 7 Year Old Straight Rye Whiskey and Knob Creek’s award-winning* bourbon and rye portfolios, please visit www.KnobCreek.com or visit us on Instagram @KnobCreek.

About Knob Creek® Bourbon

Knob Creek has set the standard for super-premium whiskey for three decades by crafting extraordinary full- flavored bourbon with a rich taste. Knob Creek bourbons and ryes are patiently aged to perfection in new, maximum charred American Oak barrels to impart the biggest and fullest flavor on our whiskey. No matter the expression, Knob Creek is crafted without shortcuts and embodies the pre-Prohibition style that founding distiller Booker Noe created in 1992. Since then, Knob Creek has lived up to such standards with the introduction of Knob Creek Straight Rye Whiskey in 2012, and later on, Knob Creek Single Barrel Select Rye Whiskey. In recent years, Knob Creek announced the permanent addition of Knob Creek 12 Year Old Bourbon to its portfolio, and launched two limited releases, Knob Creek 15 Year Old Bourbon and Knob Creek 18 Year Old Bourbon.

About Beam Suntory

As a world leader in premium spirits, Beam Suntory inspires the brilliance of life by delivering great consumer experiences through its world-class portfolio of brands.  Known for its craftsmanship of premium whiskies, including Jim Beam®, Maker’s Mark®, Basil Hayden® and Knob Creek® bourbons; Japanese whiskies, including Yamazaki®, Hakushu®, Hibiki® and Toki™; and leading Scotch brands including Teacher’s, Laphroaig® and Bowmore®, Beam Suntory also produces leading brands such as Courvoisier® cognac, Tres Generaciones®, El Tesoro® and Hornitos® tequila, Roku™ and Sipsmith® gin, Canadian Club® whisky, and is a world leader in ready-to-drink cocktails, with brands like -196 and On The Rocks™ Premium Cocktails.

A global company with approximately 6,000 employees in more than 30 countries, one of Beam Suntory’s core values is Growing for Good and through its Proof Positive sustainability strategy, the company has committed to ambitious goals and investments to promote environmental sustainability in its operations, ensure the company has a positive impact on the communities where employees live and work, and programs to educate and inform consumers to make the right personal choices about drinking. Headquartered in New York City, Beam Suntory is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited of Japan. For more information on Beam Suntory, its brands, and its commitment to social responsibility, please visit www.beamsuntory.com and www.drinksmart.com.

We’re on the hunt for new flavour experiences, so follow your nose and explore our latest releases! The April Outturn is now available at all five of our retail partner stores.

With SMWS Canada’s first appearance from a successful artisanal distillery in Texas (Cask No. 140.12) and a super-cool addition to the Society’s ‘heresy’ range of experimental blended malts (Frazzle Dazzle), this Outturn is sure to have something for everyone.

Happy hunting and Happy Easter!

OH BEHAVE!

CASK NO. 63.91

REGION:  Speyside

CASK TYPE:  1st fill ex-bourbon barrel

AGE:  19 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Sweet, fruity & mellow

BOTTLE NOTE:  “Luscious, direct and unashamedly delicious malt whisky captured at a perfect age. One for large measures, fun times and gay abandon.”

FRAZZLE DAZZLE

SMALL BATCH SINGLE MALT

REGION:  Speyside

CASK TYPE:  1st fill smoked barley wine hogsheads

AGE:  13 years

For this experimental batch, we teamed up with Tempest Brewery in the Scottish Borders. We commissioned Speyside Cooperage to create some new American oak hogsheads with a heavy toast and a medium char. These hogsheads were then sent to Tempest, where they were filled with an off-the-wall smoked barley wine (think 12.5% ABV smoked stout!). After five months, the beer was bottled and the casks were filled with selected un-peated Speyside malts. These whiskies underwent a period of additional maturation for just under 3 years, before being blended together to create this unique whisky.

A REWARD FOR PATIENCE

DISTILLERY 36 RARE RELEASE

REGION:  Speyside

CASK TYPES:  1st fill oloroso quarter casks & 2nd fill bourbon barrels

AGE:  10 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Deep, rich & dried fruits

From Euan Campbell, SMWS spirits manager: There’s a beautiful balance to this, which was first matured in bourbon hogsheads before we transferred it to 125-litre Oloroso quarter casks that were supplied to us by our partners in Jerez, José y Miguel Martin. After that, we put it back into 2nd fill bourbon barrels that we’d recently emptied, giving it time to relax and marry before bottling. The result is a superb dram with the big, dark and intense flavours you would associate with Oloroso sherry maturation, but with the lush tropical notes from the bourbon casks as well.

SPEYSIDE BALSAMIC*

CASK NO. 46.131

REGION:  Speyside

CASK TYPE:  1st fill ex-bourbon barrel

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Spicy & sweet

BOTTLE NOTE:  “Playfully sweet, but with enough nourishing earthy spices to provide backbone. This is a wonderfully balanced and eminently sippable dram.”

*GIVING SPIRIT BOTTLE:  100% of SMWS Canada’s profits from the sales of this bottle will be donated to charity

LITTLE DRAM ON THE PRAIRIE

CASK NO. 140.12

REGION:  Texas

INITIAL CASK:  French oak barrique

FINAL CASK:  2nd fill port barrique

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Spicy & sweet

BOTTLE NOTE:  “The nose – port, plum jam, toffee apples, and rum and raisin. The palate combines cinnamon and chili with toffee, vanilla and sweet bourbon.”

BEWARE OF THE REAPER CHILLI

CASK NO. 16.72

REGION:  Highland

CASK TYPE:  Refill re-charred hogshead

AGE:  8 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Heavily peated

BOTTLE NOTE:  “Aromas of malt extract, oily mechanic’s rag and peat singed pineapple pieces all could not prepare us for the taste, Carolina reaper chili pepper.”

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NEW WORLD EXCLUSIVE:
DALMUNACH 6 YEAR OLD WULVER SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT

We are privileged to present the inaugural release of Dalmunach’s Scottish Mythical Creatures, a series of three Speyside single malts inspired by the legendary beasts of the Scottish Highlands. The first official bottling of Dalmunach has been matured for six years in American oak barrels and is named for the Wulver, a mysterious figure said to fish along the shorelands of the Shetland Isles.

For whisky enthusiasts and collectors alike, these landmark releases from Dalmunach offer a glimpse of a distillery rarely seen in the wild. The series is strictly limited and available exclusively at The Whisky Exchange.

A truly landmark whisky, the first official bottling of Dalmunach to be available outside the distillery is also the inaugural release in the Scottish Mythical Creatures series. Available exclusively at The Whisky Exchange, this collection of three limited edition Dalmunach single malts draws inspiration from the legendary beasts of the Scottish Highlands. The first edition is named for the Wulver, a fearsome yet benevolent figure said to fish along the shorelands of the Shetland Isles.

After six years in American oak barrels, this seldom-seen Speyside malt has emerged rich and fruity with a palate coating texture and vivid notes of white fruit, citrus oil and nuts. A strong debut for Dalmunach and an excellent addition to any whisky collection.

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Our Vaults Collection offers members the chance to journey back into whisky history – and we are delighted to offer you these exceptional bottlings from Islay which are AVAILABLE NOW to buy (Membership info shown below).

These drams will not only transport you to another place, but to a different era. We’ve delivered timeless twins, with a split oloroso sherry butt from Distillery 53 which we divided into an ex-bourbon barrel and an ex-rye barrel after 27 years, for a further four years of maturation. From Distillery 29, prepare to find a tropical flavour paradise, with elegant perfumed spice and ripe tropical fruits finding perfect harmony after 27 years of maturation in bourbon wood.

Keep scrolling to learn more about each of these bottlings, or WATCH our introduction below.

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Wild Turkey “Kentucky Spirit” Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey $59.99 View

This historic 101 proof bottling is one of the first ever single barrel offerings on the market. It’s classic Wild Turkey with the added nuance of a single cask. For drinkers who love the Kickin’ Chicken and want to see what it looks like before being blended, the Kentucky Spirit bottling is perfect. Blanton’s who?

Knob Creek 12 Year Old Small Batch 100 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) 95 $64.99 View

95 points Whisky Advocate

 Until now, most Knob Creek has been bottled at 9 years of age or younger for good reason: There’s no guarantee that bourbon will taste good after a dozen years in the barrel—let alone great. This one is richly complex from the start: York Peppermint Pattie, raisins, baking spice, dark chocolate-covered cherries, iced tea, and tobacco barn appear on the nose, followed by a chewy, full palate laden with cinnamon, allspice, and ginger, and perfectly balanced with sweet berry cobbler, chocolate ganache, and caramel. The finish goes on and on. Add in a fair price and excellent availability as part of Knob Creek’s core lineup, and only one question remains: What are you waiting for? *#2 WHISKEY OF 2020* (SSB, Winter 2020) 

K&L Notes

#2 Whiskey Advocate Whiskey Of The Year 2020. The return of the age statement! As we’re now over a decade into the whiskey boom, and producers have done everything possible to massively increase supply, we are finally reaching a point where there are enough aged stocks for brands to bring back long-gone age statements, or to introduce ones. Knob Creek hits the scene now with a much sought-after 12 Year Old age statement. This is classic Kentucky bourbon at its best.

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Rabbit Hole Kentucky Straight Bourbon, 47.5%

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Welcome back to the world of bourbon! It feels like so long since something new appeared in the UK, luckily that wait is over…for me, anyway.

Rabbit Hole is the concept of Kaveh Zamanian, a former clinical psychologist, now whisky maker! Here we have the Heigold, a Kentucky straight bourbon with 70% corn, 25% malted German rye and 5% malted barley. The name Heigold and the inclusion of German rye specifically is a reference to a German rock cutter who moved to Kentucky in the 1800’s. Lacking in the tropical fruit area, but very strong in the heavy spice and butterscotch flavour profile, Rabbit Hole Heigold is a relatively affordable and powerful style of bourbon that stands up on its own and probably in your favourite cocktail.