Our Final Whisky Releases Of 2025 Are Here

(Think of us as clever little elves)

Let us brighten up your dark nights, warm the cold evenings and excite your tastebuds. It’s our last whisky release of the year and it’s been worth waiting for. Islay, Speyside, somewhere in the Highlands, France, and the Gulf Stream are our inspirations. Each one was chosen because it offers something unique, something you will find hard to get elsewhere. Oh, and we’ve also got something new you might not have been expecting.

Bruichladdich

As independent bottlers occasionally we get the opportunity to purchase something special. Really special. This falls into that category. We’ve been sitting on it for a wee while now and it’s everything we dreamed it would be. In fact the only disappointment is there are only 140 bottles of it available. It’s a 22 year old from a single bourbon cask, filled on the 25 May 2003. We bottled it last month. We used a 20 micron filter instead of the usual finer ones so you can get the full cask experience. This isn’t one to miss.

Longmorn

Smooth is an overused word in whisky and one we normally try and avoid, but that’s not going to stop us using it to describe this rather wonderful 11 year old Longmorn 2014. We can’t think of a better adjective that helps conjure the taste of this smooth Speyside. We don’t get too much Longmorn and that’s a shame because we rather like it. It’s like Pierce Brosnan and Steve McQueen had a lovechild, it’s that smooth.

Ssshhh…

Can you keep a secret? We’re terrible at it, which is why we leave Easter Eggs (ask a teenager) on the label and description. Legally we’re not allowed to tell you which exciting distillery near Brora this 2011 cask strength comes from. But we can’t stop you guessing.

Mid Atlantic Twang

Do you know someone who went to live in America and developed a stupid accent after about half an hour there? Is there anything more annoying than a half British/half American accent? Well OK, there probably is, but for the purposes of this let’s agree it’s quite grating and we require compensated for having to put up with it. Well, for the first time, we might have something that’s half from here and half from there and is actually rather good. Some clever people in Invergordon decided to distil an authentic American bourbon in Scotland. The result is excellent, however as it wasn’t distilled in America it’s not a bourbon. Likewise, although it was expertly created in Scotland it’s not a whisky, pitched enzymes during fermentation are verboten. So it’s not a whisky and it’s not a bourbon, but it is really good. We’ve called it a High Rye Scottish Spirit and there are only 299 bottles of it available.

Liberte, Egalite, Brandy

Amongst an abundance of exceptional whisky a man in a beret is valiantly raising a tri-color, with an obedient poodle by his side. It would be a crime to overlook a 31 year old vintage French brandy and yet many people do. We are so fortunate to be able to bring this to you. This is the best of French distilling, more impressive than 100 men in lycra cycling round France while taking performance enhancing drugs. No performance enhancement was required for this, it’s cask strength and natural coloured.

…Now For something Completely Different

A big part of what we love about what we do is finding those hidden gems, the spirits that don’t conform, that have aged differently, trodden their own path. Yet we’ve always recognised that arguably the greatest challenge every blender faces is consistency. Creating a spirit that is not only great but consistently great, every barrel matching the one before. A wee while ago we decided we wanted to put our skills to the fore too. So we’re proud to introduce you to our first ever core expression – The Little Brown Dog Aberdeenshire 12 Year Old Single Malt.

As sometimes happens in life not everything went to plan. While we’re delighted with the whisky, it’s exactly what we were aiming for and we’re really excited to hear what you think of it, the labels weren’t going to arrive in time for us to launch this year.

Soooooo…. we’ve made some temporary labels and bottles until the real ones are ready. The whisky is excellent, the label, well, maybe it’ll be a collector’s item one day. Maybe.

As a gesture of goodwill if you purchase a bottle we’ll give you a £5 off another bottle with the correct label on it when we get them next year. We’re really getting the hang of this capitalism lark.