We’ve just added to the site 6 Flora and Fauna Whiskies, these are all from the earlier Wooden Boxed editions.
We have – Caol Ila, Balmenach, Glenlossie, Linkwood, Rosebank, Bladnoch.
http://www.specialistwhisky.com
Take a look today!
Slainte
Craig
Hello Fellow Scotch Lovers –
This week, I am again thrilled to offer you the opportunity to pre-order another highly collectible whisky: Glenfiddich Snow Phoenix 2010.
The story about this incredible whisky is one of, shall I say, divine intervention. This is an extremely limited edition whisky…it will absolutely not be availabe beyond March, and this may be your only chance to aquire a bottle (limit 2-bottles per customer, please). So if you want a bottle, please purchase your Snow Phoenix ASAP.
http://for-lovers.com/store/scotch/glenfiddich-snow-phoenix-2010-non-chill-filltered-speyside-single-malt-750ml.html?sid=akae3t5vjfa9rt772u790f2494
Also, for those who live in California, or are looking for a great reason to visit San Francisco in March, I am excited as hell to tell you that ForScotchLovers will have a booth at this years Whiskies of the World Expo on March 26th. This is a terrific show, and I’m thrilled we’ll be a part of it. And because we are participating in the show, I’m able to offer you a great discount on tickets (see below).
These are two extremely exciting opportunities…I hope you’ll take advantage of both. And if you do attend the Whiskies of the World Expo, ya better stop by our booth and say hello.
I hope to see you all there,
Doug Stone
Founder
www.ForScotchLovers.com
12th Annual Whiskies of the World Expo & Artisanal Spirits Fest
March 26th in San Francisco
The Whiskies of the World Expo gathers the world’s most fascinating distilled spirits along with their makers and ambassadors to give its guests an opportunity to sample, learn and experience a night of delicious spirited fun.
By popular demand, the 12th Expo will take place again on the San Francisco Belle Yacht (docked) with its three ballroom-size tasting decks, and an open roof Whisky & Cigar Pairing deck. Come on March, 26th to enjoy a full buffet dinner; meeting and learning from the world’s spirits producers; creators and experts; a live Pipe and Drum Concert; mixology demonstrations, Celtic craft and whisky gear booths, artisanal food pairings with exclusive whiskies; live music and more. Learn, celebrate, experience!
And of course, ForScotchLovers will be there too!
For details and to buy your tickets visit the Whiskies Of The World website.
Enter discount code: WOW2011FSL on the checkout page for an 8% discount on tickets and Dram Club membership.
GLENFIDDICH SNOW PHOENIX NON-CHILL FILTERED WHISKY
THE SNOW PHOENIX STORY
Glenfiddich Snow Phoenix commemorates a moment of drama in the long history of the Glenfiddich Distillery. It all began in December 2009 when it started to snow – it kept snowing for several months. After weeks of record low temperatures and alternate freezing and thawing there were four feet of densely compacted snow on the distillery roofs.
On the evening of Thursday 7th January, in the most remote part of the snow covered distillery, some of the warehouse roofs collapsed, ripped open by the sheer weight of snow, leaving maturing oak casks of Glenfiddich exposed to the winter sky. It was as if some of the distillery angels had finished their ‘share’ and had come back looking for more.
Glenfiddich Malt Master Brian Kinsman selected a number of casks from the snow damaged warehouse, some of these casks had previously held Oloroso sherry and others were traditional whisky casks made of American oak.
This Glenfiddich is as they found it – a marriage of Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whiskies of different ages and finishes with the strength brought to 47.6% abv by the addition of the distillery’s Robbie Dhu spring water. It has not been chill filtered.
This is a limited edition bottling – one of a kind and only bottled and released in 2010.
TASTING NOTES
Colour – Gold with bright copper highlights
Nose – Creamy vanilla aromas mingle with vibrant notes of apple and pear – the whole complimented by the scent of fresh blossom.
Taste – This is Glenfiddich in the wild – apples roasted in the embers of a campfire, sweetened with heather honey and accompanied by a piece of chocolate, rich and complex with a whiff of burned sugar, coffee and woodsmoke.
Finish – An exceptionally long finish – austere sherry notes mellow into a satisfying sweetness.
February Outturn: Red Hot Lovers
Let’s take a look at the single casks getting you HOT…here’s the TOP Five fastest-selling whiskies from February’s Outturn:
1. 127.7 A sense of elemental freedom
2. 44.48 Turkish seduction
3. 29.89 The dark edge of Saturn
4. 64.28 Lots of ginger (SMWS HOT favourite)
5. 53.146 A saline gargle, with peanuts
Not forgetting our February Offers:
PAIR: 53.146 & 36.51 for £90 (save £17.70)
THREESOME: 29.89, 64.28 & 44.48 for £131 (save £26.40)
CASE OFFER: 53.146, 36.51, 29.89, 64.28, 44.48 & 1.156
for £259.50 (save £50.00)
Society Tastings & Events (48 Society tastings online)
6 Nations Wales V Scotland Lunch – The Vaults, Sat 12 Feb
6 Nations Wales V Scotland – Queen Street, Sat 12 Feb
Valentines’ Champagne & Whisky Tasting – Queen Street, Mon 14
Dining Room Valentine Dinner – Queen Street, Mon 14 Feb
Valentine Dinner at The Vaults – The Vaults, Mon 14 Feb
Wokingham Preview Tasting – Cantley House Hotels, Fri 25 Feb
Harrogate Preview Tasting – Hotel du Vin, Fri 25 Feb
Brighton Preview Tasting – Hotel du Vin, Fri 25 Feb
6 Nations Ireland V Scotland Lunch – The Vaults, Sun 27 Feb
6 Nations Ireland V Scotland – Queen Street, Sun 27 Feb
SMWS Venue News: If you go down to the Members’ Rooms, be sure of a big surprise…
28 Queen Street: Enjoy Queen Street only Valentine Offers and Treats, more >
The Vaults & London: Sample drams of the Society’s oldest bottling – at 47 years old!
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 http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.
The perfect gift for whisky lovers – with a further 5% discount for our newsletter members!
Glengoyne Personalised Bottles with a Valentine’s Neck Tag. Choose from the 10 YO, 17 YO or 21 YO.
You can personalise the label by specifying your own text and / or by uploading a photo.
Personalised Bottles are currently available at the same price as normal bottles. To get a further 5% discount use the voucher code VAL5 on the shopping basket page before checking out.
Note: Last order time for UK orders is 5 pm on Thursday 10th February to get bottle delivered on February 14th.
http://shop.glengoyne.com/personalised-bottles
Loch Fyne Whiskies has stocked a new item, ‘Glenfarclas 175th Anniversary’
Glenfarclas 175
43% abv
£71.90 inc vat
£59.92 ex vat
Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of Glenfarclas Distillery.
Limited to 6000 bottles worldwide including 1500 in the UK.
You may view the latest post at https://www.lfw.co.uk/blog/2011/02/08/glenfarclas-175th-anniversary/
Best regards,
Loch Fyne Whiskies
Dear Customer,
Being released in February we have five (5) new bottlings under the OLD MALT CASK label, two (2) CLAN DENNY Grains, four (4) in the 20 cl range and a DOUBLE BARREL.
Tasting notes for OLD MALT CASK:
OMC1984 BOWMORE 14 YEAR OLD
Nose: Freshly scented + peat, fruit & vanilla + boiled sweets.
Palate: Opens sweet – runs to a spiced/smoky/ashy character.
Finish: Sweet liquorice develops to soft/chewy tar and BBQ ashes (J)
OMC1986 GLEN GRANT 15 YEAR OLD
Nose: Opens with a sweet grist quality running to a creamy home baked style
Palate: Carries a fruity sweetness (lemon and oranges) + vanilla & honey
Finish: Remains fresh & sweet, still vanilla’d now with a more spicy character (J)
OMC1968 ABERFELDY 16 YEAR OLD
Nose: Softly perfumed with fruit, honey and dry grist.
Palate: A silky smooth introduction to vanilla, Malt and spice.
Finish: Butterscotch + spices + sugar + oak (F)
OMC1972 PORT ELLEN SHERRY 27 YEAR OLD
Nose: Clean & fresh, yet strongly spiced + a chewed leather quality
Palate: Opens round – subtly peated/sweetly spiced – runs to smoke
Finish: Spices continue + some late, sweet, smoky character returns (J)
OMC1983 CAOL ILA 30 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh and grassy – developing to an earthy + dark chocolate style.
Palate: Overwhelmingly rich character + burning tobacco + a soft tar quality.
Finish: Still sweet (burnt custard) running to a cough drop (camphor) style (J)
Tasting Notes for the CLAN DENNY GRAINS:
DEN0058 CAMERONBRIDGE BOURBON 45 YEAR OLD
Carries a soft fermented apple quality on the nose, running to a “Poire William” style with a sweet & macerated fruit character, maybe even some late tobacco. The palate is more Calvados in style running to toffee’d apples – bizarrely without much Scottish heritage – but intriguing nevertheless! The finish is typically short yet remains surprisingly fruity – now carrying a honey, vanilla, stewed bananas and light oak quality. (F&J)
DEN0041 GIRVAN 20 YEAR OLD
Opens sweetly with a round vanilla quality – Bourbon style. The palate is still vanilla’d with a warm custard and toffee character, running to an interestingly sweetly spiced quality. The finish is, typically, not so long yet replicates the palate – still sweet and attractively spiced. (J)
The DOUBLE BARREL releases is:
DBS0022 Highland Park/Bowmore
And lastly the four (4) 20cl Advance Samples are:
SMC0383 Aberlour 12
SMC0384 Auchentoshan 12
SMC0382 Glengoyne 12
SMC0385 Miltonduff 12
We will continue to pick casks that we believe to be of an appropriate quality for you to enjoy in good company.
All best wishes
Fred H Laing
Managing Director
Visit Douglas Laing & Co. Ltd. at www.douglaslaing.com
February Outturn: Hot date with eight?
This February Outturn we celebrate our love of the single cask with 8 new bottlings guaranteed to make you hot under the collar
HOT Date Recommendations:
PAIR: 53.146 & 36.51 for £90 (save £17.70)
THREESOME: 29.89, 64.28 & 44.48 for £131 (save £26.40)
CASE OFFER: 53.146, 36.51, 29.89, 64.28, 44.48 & 1.156
for £259.50 (save £50.00)
Romantic dinner at home? Try..
77.21 Crispy duck and jasmine tea
Highland Northern
£69.10 inc free p&p
Wonderfully rich deep aromas of old leather, and perfumed smoke intermingle with apple crumble, honeycomb, fresh rhubarb and orange pomanders
Valentine night on the edge…
29.89 The dark edge of Saturn
Islay
£71.20 inc. free p&p
The palate, with liquorice, coal-dust, Black Jack chews, burnt heather and blackened chicken, suggested the colour of Saturn (merrymaking in December’s darkness)
Society Tastings & Events (48 Society tastings online)
New Members’ Tasting – Queen Street, Tue 8 Feb
Whisky Quiz – London, Tue 8 Feb
Penderyn Tasting – The Vaults, Fri 11 Feb
6 Nations Wales V Scotland Lunch – The Vaults, Sat 12 Feb
6 Nations Wales V Scotland – Queen Street, Sat 12 Feb
Valentines’ Champagne & Whisky Tasting – Queen Street, Mon 14
Dining Room Valentine Dinner – Queen Street, Mon 14 Feb
Valentine Dinner at The Vaults – The Vaults, Mon 14 Feb
Wokingham Preview Tasting – Cantley House Hotels, Fri 25 Feb
Harrogate Preview Tasting – Hotel du Vin, Fri 25 Feb
Brighton Preview Tasting – Hotel du Vin, Fri 25 Feb
6 Nations Ireland V Scotland Lunch – The Vaults, Sun 27 Feb
6 Nations Ireland V Scotland – Queen Street, Sun 27 Feb
Share your adventure with a friend
“Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life”
Recommend a friend to the Society – we’ll reward you a £15 e-voucher for every friend that joins. You can use your e-voucher online against any of our whisky, tasting tickets or even your membership renewal.
There’s no limited to the number of friends you can recommend so spread the word and start saving!
http://www.smws.co.uk/your-society-adventure/share-adventure?afc=PromoteIT_367266
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).
Dear Customer
This month we have six (6) new bottlings under the PROVENANCE label. Their Tasting Notes are:
PRV0669 CAOL ILA 9 YEAR OLD
Opens big and sweetly on the nose running to a smoked ham and burning hay character. The palate is sweetly smoked carrying a burnt/ashy quality – burnt home bake style – SMOKY! These qualities all run through on the finish – more ashes, still sweet and a smoky, oily character that runs and runs. (J)
PRV0670 BENRIACH 11 YEAR OLD
Clean and self evidently malty on the nose – it is the palate which excels with its initial spicy burst. Held there – detect crunched white sugar, honey and Scottish vanilla tablet flavours – all leading to a toasted barley mixed with vanilla finish. (F)
PRV0684 BRAEVAL SHERRY 11 YEAR OLD
On the nose detect autumn fruits with dry spices and a barley gristiness – all “perfumed” together. On the palate
anticipate crunched sugar, barley, spicy fruit and oak – all leading to a toffee’d – fruity -barleyed and lightly oaked finish. (F)
PRV0681 ABERLOUR 12 YEAR OLD
The nose carries an attractively sweet and fruity character – a fresh fruit salad with lots of ripe banana. The palate is round and still sweet, replicating the nose – Pisang style. This sweet banana character runs through on the finish with late orange pith appearing. (J)
PRV0682 AUCHENTOSHAN 12 YEAR OLD
The nose is distinctly sweet, carrying a vanilla tablet and cotton candy quality. Still sweet, the clean palate now carries a more floral, fruity character, reminiscent of wine gums. The finish remains fruitily sweet, carrying an orange tang – “Grand Marnier” style. (J)
PRV0680 GLENGOYNE 12 YEAR OLD
The fragrant nose carries a gristy sweet character running to a lemon style plus a barley sugar quality. The palate is light, sweet and fresh carrying more citrus characteristics. The finish remains fresh and fruitily sweet with late orange pith apparent. (J)
We hope you will find that there are some really interesting new Malts offered in this selection . We are enthusiastic about them and hope that you will enjoy them.
With all best wishes, I remain
Yours faithfully
Fred H Laing
Managing Director
Viist Douglas Laing at www.douglaslaing.com
