The Grand Tour – Touchdown on Mars!

Our exclusive series of single cask whiskies celebrating some of the explorations of our Solar Sytem and beyond. Marking Mars probes Viking 1 and 2, we have two exceptional Palo Cortado sherry casks.

GIRVAN DISTILLERY

30 Year Old 1991 Viking 1

Cask #TWB1022

£150.00

Girvan 30 Year Old 1991 Viking 1, 53.6%

Girvan 30 Year Old 1991 vintage Lowland single grain Scotch whisky. Single cask 1st fill Palo Cortado sherry Hogshead #TWB1022 bottled September 2021. The fourth release of The Grant Tour series. Viking 1 space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on August 20th 1975. Its lander was the first in history to successfully land on Mars. 162 numbered bottles.

After an eleven month journey the Viking 1 lander separated from its orbiter on July 20th 1976. The lander captured the first ever clear image from the martian surface and its biological instruments searched for life on the red planet.

Sweet sherry antimatter, carona of pineapple and Cripps Pink apples leading to a dark chili chocolate nedbular. Gravitational toasted cereals, honeycomb halo and galactic lemon cake finish with sherbet elements.

Girvan Distillery is a Scottish Lowland grain whisky distillery situated on the Ayrshire coast. It looks out to the island of Ailsa Craig the source of granite from which curling stones are shaped. William Grant and Sons Ltd opened this distillery in 1963 to supply grain whisky to their blends of scotch but with careful maturation in quality casks Girvan is also able to produce excellent single grain whiskies.

NORTH BRITISH DISTILLERY

30 Year Old 1991 Viking 2

Cask #TWB1023

£150.00

North British 30 Year Old 1991 Viking 2, 47.6%

North British 30 Year Old 1991 vintage Lowland single grain Scotch whisky. Single cask 1st fill Palo Cortado sherry Hogshead #TWB1023 bottled February 2021. The third release of The Grant Tour series. Viking 2 space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on September 9th 1975. Together with Viking 1 it would search for signs of life on Mars. 159 numbered bottles.

Travelling for 333 days to Mars, Viking 2 lander separated from its orbiter on September 3rd 1976 making touchdown on Utopia Planitia, one of the largest crater impact basins in our Solar System.

Lunar sweet sherry, popcorn clusters, planetary ripe pears, toasted cinnamon nebular, telescopic double cream with supernova strawberries. Protoplanetary runny honey circling runaway burnt cedar shavings.

North British Distillery was established on farmland to the west of Edinburgh in 1885 by Andrew Usher, John M. Crabbie and William Sanderson. Since then the city has expanded ever outwards and now the distillery resides in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh. North British opened in 1887 to guarantee supplies of grain whisky for its owner’s cordials and scotch whisky blending businesses. It is equipped with four Coffey stills to produce grain spirit at 94.5% alcohol and multi-million litres of spirit annually. Whilst most of its whisky matures in racked warehouses in the central Lowlands, a small number of casks spend at least eight years at the distillery in dunnage Warehouse No.1. Official releases are very few but excellent independent ones are available from Hart Brothers and Hunter Laing.