The Taste:

It blends the recipe of centuries ago with the smooth, refined flavors that appeal to today’s palate

Nose – Freshly snapped cornhusk, but only after a bare drizzle of pure water is added to open the nose.
Taste – Smooth, mellow and elegant. A mid warm sweetness of unrefined raw sugar, retaining the richness from freshly picked corn.
Finish – A pleasant and tempered clean finish, void of impurities, with a diffused and balanced lingering of warmth.

Versatility – the subtle, distinctive character is most noticeable when sipped just shy of neat with a slash of pure water. When wall bruised with ice, it transforms into a creamy, voluptuous, satiny texture. The mixability of this spirit is most friendly to any fruit that has medium or strong acidity, but is also well-matched with most mixers within the bartender’s repertoire.

Did You Know…

MOONSHINE was crafted by many U.S. Presidents….and outlawed by others.

For more then a decade it ruled New York’s most decadent and glamorous age of nightlife and was hotly pursued by federal agents. It gave birth to the nations second largest sport: NASCAR. During Prohibition MOONSHINE runners souped up their cars so they could get away from the law.

Signature Cocktail: The Shiner

1 ½ parts Original MOONSHINE
Juice of one-half Lime
3 oz of club soda
Pour Original MOONSHINE and lime juice into an old fashioned glass over ice cubes. Top with club soda and stir. Garnish with a slice of lime.

The STILLHOUSE Distillery:

The STILLHOUSE Distillery is located in historic Culpeper, Virginia.

The Culpeper area was a highly prized position for both sides during the Civil War. In 1863, over 20,000 soldiers clashed at Brandy Station just outside of Culpeper, engaging in what would go down in history as the largest cavalry battle in the history of the Western Hemisphere.  All the corn that goes into the production of Moonshine is grown at the estate in Culpeper. The estate distillery houses a genuine sold copper pot still, which was constructed in 1930, there years before the end of Prohibition

The Brand

Original MOONSHINE is the first product launched from STILLHOUSE, a premium spirits brand based in Culpeper, VA .

STILLHOUSE partners include entrepreneur Brad Beckerman and famed chef Adam Perry Lang, who passionately developed the Original MOONSHINE recipe over the past 3 years.  Original MOONSHINE is now available in select locations throughout New York, Los Angeles, Austin and Virginia and is coming soon to Las Vegas and Miami.

It also will be available off- premise in early 2011 at select retailers.

www.moonshine.com

Hello Fellow Scotch Lovers –

Each Wednesday from now until the end of the year we’ll let you know about exciting opportunities to acquire a special limited production collectible whisky. These whiskies will be reasonably priced, so you can give one as a gift in addition to keeping one for yourself.

Our first whisky is Compass Box Flaming Heart Malt Scotch Whisky Ltd Ed 10th Anniversary Bottling, one of the fiinest and most-difficult-to-get-your-hands-on expressions created by John Glaser and the folks at Compass Box.

John Hansell of The Malt Advocate said in his What Does John Know blog “I like this version (the third Flaming Heart release and second one brought to the U.S.) better than the last one imported here. I love the balance on this one, all the way through to the finish…” and then gave the whisky a Malt Advocate magazine rating of 95 points.

The ForScotchLovers retail price is $84.50, which includes a FREE acrylic presentation box to store your prized whisky (see below).

If you want a bottle, please purchase it ASAP (limit: 2-bottles per member). http://tinyurl.com/3x5hmdh With less than 2,000 bottles allocated to the US market, we have a limited number of bottles available to us. 

Enjoy!

Doug Stone
Founder
ForScotchLovers.com

To celebrate their 10th Anniversary, John Glaser and the folks at Compass Box have released the third limited edition of Flaming Heart, with a new label illustrated by Alex Machin The bottle comes with a clear storage/ presentation case. 
 
Compass Box Flaming Heart

Flaming Heart combines Highland, Islay and Island single malts, aged in a both American and French oak casks, to create a smokysweet flavor profile like no other Scottish malt whisky.

Availability: One-off, limited release of 4,186 bottles bottled in September 2010. Less than half of that production making it to the US.

Flavor Descriptors: A complex and smoky malt whisky with a rich, sweet, spice-laden fruitiness and long, lingering finish.

Distillery Sourcing: Single malt whiskies from six distilleries located in the northern Highlands and Islands. Primarily whiskies from distilleries located in the villages of Brora (Highlands), Port Askaig (Islay) and the
Isle of Mull (Islands).

Wood: 40% refill American oak, 31% first-fill American oak, 29% new French oak.

Bottling Details: Bottled at 48.9%. Not chill filtered. Natural colour.

November 2010

Dear Customer

This month we have a number of new bottlings, being twelve (12) from the OLD MALT CASK,four (4) PREMIER BARREL ceramics, one (1) OLD & RARE, two (2) DOUBLE BARRELs, three (3) CLAN DENNY Grains and five (5) in the 20cl range.

The Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK follow:

OMC1928 LAPHROAIG 12 YEAR OLD
Nose: Opens to old style hairdressing – warms sweet ‘n’ peaty.
Palate: Distinctly phenolic, tarry, creosoted – still sweet.
Finish: Ashy, rather sooty – as above, still sweetly phenolic. (F)

OMC1936 MANNOCHMORE 13 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh, carries a green fruit quality + a boiled sweeties character
Palate: Sweet + peaches on syrup – runs to a sweet cough drop style
Finish: Long, still sweet, now spicier – develops to toffee and orange (J)

OMC1934 MORTLACH 13 YEAR OLD
Nose: Macerated ripe fruit – runs to spicy biscuits + polished wood
Palate: Mellow & round, spicy & sweet – vanilla tablet + ginger
Finish: Medium long – balance of rich spices & toffee character (J)

OMC1931 CAOL ILA 14 YEAR OLD
Nose: Charred meat on the BBQ + beach bonfire style – SMOKY!
Palate: Opens sweetly – runs to a light spice, smoky and soft tar quality
Finish: Long and smoky – bonfire ashes and a grilled meat style (J)

OMC1932 CRAGGANMORE 19 YEAR OLD
Nose: Carries sugary, grassy, gristy and sweet elements.
Palate: Initially drier – then spiced fruit/barley/oak all evident.
Finish: Gristy, warmingly spiced, now dry, lightly smoked. (F)

OMC 1959 SCAPA 17 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh/fruity/vanilla’d – a custard, fruit, and jelly tartlet style
Palate: Still fruity and sweetly – barley sugared with honey & sweet spices
Finish: Long, still fresh – runs to warming spices, smoke and orange pith (J)

OMC1901 BRAES OF GLENLIVET 20 YEAR OLD
Nose: Opens fresh, dryly spiced – warms to barley sugar and Malt
Palate: Still dry initially – warms sweetly, honied and spiced.
Finish: Warmingly spiced – cough drop style. (F)

OMC1935 GLEN ORD 21 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh & citrusy with a gristy sweet quality – lemon meringue pie
Palate: Tangy & crisp – a lemon curd character – runs to banana + orange
Finish: More citrus lingering on the medium long finish – now lemon pith (J)

OMC 1955 PORT ELLEN 27 YEAR OLD
Nose: Opens fresh running to a green malt sweetness being peat kilned
Palate: Initially sweet, developing to camphor + a charred wood style.
Finish: Smoke + ashes + dark chocolate & liqueur quality, run and run… (J)

OMC1923 CAPERDONICH 28 YEAR OLD
Nose: Initially malty, then runs to a sweet, mixed dried fruit quality
Palate: Macerated summer fruits, fudge & barley, tends to oak & walnuts
Finish: Long & spicy, more dried fruit, with a Christmas pudding style (J)

OMC 1948 DALMORE RUM FINISHED 33 YEAR OLD
Nose: Initial spicy sweetness runs to macerated ripe fruit + melted chocolate (Rum style)
Palate: “Rum and Raisin” now + concentrated vanilla carrying a lingering oak quality
Finish: Long – still carrying an oak tang + a liquorice wood character (J)

OMC 1949 TOMINTOUL 40 YEAR OLD
Nose: Fresh and fructiferous – with some cedary/spiced tones
Palate: Beyond its light body that same fruity gristiness endures
Finish: Vanilla custard/fruit dessert, more (Chinese?) spices + light smoke (F)

OLD & RARE Tasting Note:

OAR 0110 LAPHROAIG SHERRY MATURED 21 YEAR OLD
On the nose it carries soft summer tar initially – then as it warms – it softens to sweet spices, tobacco, barley, smoke and
liquorice. The big palate is “dark” distinctly peated, ashy, still sweet, spiced, peppery with late gentle oak (lightly toasted) –
going onto a finish which is drier – yet largely replicates those flavours of the palate. (F)

The PREMIER BARRELs taste something like this!:

PBR0082 BLAIR ATHOL SHERRY 13 YEAR OLD
A buxom, balanced, buoyant beacon of Blair Athol. Saliently and surely – salubriously spiced …. supremely satisfyingly,
superbly and scyntillatingly citric! Tango with this B.A. of the North! (F)

PBR0083 BOWMORE 13 YEAR OLD
A bundantly (sic) bodacious Bowmore – briny, beachy and braw! A sure-fire sea-shanty of salty sails, stylish smokiness,
sea-weed and saline swash buckling…. AAHRR …..to be sure, Jim lad! (F)

PBR0084 HIGHLAND PARK 12 YEAR OLD
A high powered – high spirited – HIGHland Park! Fundamentally and factually a feast of fetching fermented phenolic
flamboyance – with a titanically titillating toast of a taste – tantamount to toffee! (F)

PBR0085 AULTMORE SHERRY 12 YEAR OLD
This authoritive Aultmore arrays an aromatic and masterful miscellany of Malt mash – a substantial sugary swirl of syrup,
plus a forté of fresh, fragrant fruitiferousness! (F)

Tasting Notes for the CLAN DENNY Grains:

DEN0032 NORTH OF SCOTLAND 37 YEAR OLD
Carrying a dried fruit overload, it warms further to light tobacco and old wardrobe smells. Very sweet throughout the
palate – detect hard candy boilings and vanilla caramel – running to a lightly smoked and spiced finish, with a treat of a
toffee’d tail. (F)

DEN0052 GARNHEATH 43 YEAR OLD
The nose is sweetly spiced then heads citric with a subtle hint of new wooden flooring, freshly polished. Palatewise,
overripe pineapple, plus ginger, vanilla and mocha flavours all appear leading to a drier, lightly smoked and oaky – even
mentholated – finish. (F)

DEN0053 CARSEBRIDGE 29 YEAR OLD
Americana in style on the nose – detect its Bourbon cask history (even on the empty glass). Massively sweet on the palate
– it is full of hard candy fruity boiling plus vanilla pods. The finish carries a hint of smoke – plus soft, sugary, flambéed
banana. (F)

The DOUBLE BARREL releases are:

DBS00018 Macallan/Laphroaig
DBS0021 Highland Park/Bowmore

And lastly the five (5) 20cl Advance Samples are:

SMC0378 ARDMORE 7
SMC0379 BLAIR ATHOL 11 SHERRY
SMC0381 BOWMORE 13
SMC0380 LAPHROAIG 11
SMC0377 BEN NEVIS 12

We hope you will find that there are some really interesting new Malts offered in this selection .

With all best wishes, I remain

Yours faithfully

Fred H Laing
Managing Director

Visit Douglas Laing & Company at www.douglaslaing.com

Kilchoman Winter Release

Following the previous releases we expect this one to move fast so we are giving you the opportunity to pre-order now to avoid missing out on one. Despatch to you is the 22nd November 2010

Tasting Notes:

Colour – Pale straw

Nose – Strong peaty aromas and a complex blend of pear drops, citrus and hints of mango.

Palate – An initial sweetness is followed by peat and smoke and mixed fruits

The finish is long, clean and refreshing leaving hints of peat smoke and cloves.

Kilchoman Distillery was founded in 2005 and is the first to be built in Islay for over 120 years. It is a farm distillery and a proportion of the barley used in production is grown and malted at the distillery.
 
Kilchoman is one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland producing 90 to 100,000 litres of alcohol per year bourbon barrels from Buffalo Trace Distillery, Kentucky, USA and fresh oloroso sherry butts direct from Spain.

Visit Single Malts Direct at www.singlemaltsdirect.com

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Loch Fyne Whiskies has stocked a new item, ‘Jura 21yo 200th Anniversary’

Jura 21yo 200th Anniversary
44% abv
£82.50 inc vat
£70.21 ex vat

Loch Fyne Whiskies
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Visit Loch Fyne Whiskies at www.lfw.co.uk

Signatory Vintage Laphroaig 19 Year Old

1990 vintage single cask #87.

Limited release of 242 numbered bottles from a single ex-bourbon barrel bottled August 2010.

Description

Single cask #87 ex-bourbon barrel bottled August 2010. 242 numbered bottles.

Distillery: Laphroaig

Founded in 1815. A stupendous complexity of sweet malt, Islay reek, Islay salt, all that is Islay, all that is the Scottish islands, that flows across the palate, that benefits from a chew and, finally rocks your own little foundations.

Heavyweight decanter bottle ideal for Christmas. 54.4%.

£70.99 (£60.42 ex VAT) buy at www.thewhiskybarrel.com

Loch Fyne Whiskies News has stocked a new item, ‘Chivas Regal Christian Lacroix 12yo 1.5 litre’

Chivas Regal Christian Lacroix 12yo
40% abv
£145.00 inc vat
£123.40 ex vat

Please note that this is a magnum 150cl bottle

Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk and visit Loch Fyne Whiskies at www.lfw.co.uk

November 2010

Dear Customer

This month we have eight (8) new bottlings under the PROVENANCE label from the Highland, Speyside and Islay regions.

Their Tasting Notes are:

PRV0654 GLENTAUCHERS 10 YEAR OLD
The initial impression on the nose is of the aroma from a Mashtun, sweet and malty, then toffee and caramelised fruit become apparent. The palate opens sweet and warming and runs to a dry and smoky quality. The finish is medium long, still dry with a spicy, nutty character. (J)

PRV0656 MACDUFF 10 YEAR OLD
The nose is sweet and floral and carries a real fresh herbal quality. The palate is sweetly spiced, creamy and runs to a spicy, cinnamon and pastis character. The finish is light and very elegant – aperitif style. (J)

PRV0659 DALMORE 11 YEAR OLD
Opens fresh and fruity on the nose, it runs to a sweet vanilla style with a candy floss character. The palate is sweet and spicy and carries a tablet, American cream soda quality, maybe even a lightly smoked character, before it runs drier. The finish is long, reminiscent of a coffee liqueur filled (dark Belgian) chocolate. (J)

PRV0652 BENRINNES SHERRY 12 YEAR OLD
The nose is fresh, fragrant and spicy – with a fruity, gristy and sweet character. The sweetness runs through on the palate, now with honey and vanilla – in a mor-ish dessert style. More spices appear on the finish which runs between cedar wood dry and caramel sweet qualities. (J)

PRV0645 BLAIR ATHOL SHERRY 11 YEAR OLD
The nose opens with a rich, nutty quality (walnuts?) and develops to a spicy character with oranges and marzipan. On the rich palate, the spicy, nutty style returns, now with a soft leathery quality. The finish is initially gristy dry before a honey’d, Golden Syrup sweetness appears. (J)

PRV 0662 GLENROTHES 11 YEAR OLD
Opens freshly on the nose carrying a sweet malt character and runs to sweet, spiced apricots and toffee. The palate is warming with an attractive spicy and sweet style before a honeyed quality develops. On the long finish, orange pith and extra dark bitter chocolate are pleasantly lingering.(J)

PRV 0663 LAPHROAIG 11 YEAR OLD
A distinct smoked ham quality appears initially on the nose, running to a smoking furnace/chimney quality with soft tar. The initial sweetness on the palate is quickly overtaken by rich peat smoke and a charred bbq meat quality. The finish is long (there seems to be no end) with an ash and tar character plus a creosote quality – like an old style fishing port. (J)

PRV0658 MANNOCHMORE 12 YEAR OLD
Opens fresh and fruity on the nose and runs to a sweet vanilla and Scottish “tablet” character. The palate is warming, still sweet, with a spiced peaches quality and an interestingly sweet camphor style. The finish is long and spicy, carrying an orange tang quality. (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 respond positively to them.

With all best wishes, I remain

Yours faithfully

Fred H Laing
Managing Director

Visit Douglas Laing & Company at www.douglaslaing.com

November Outturn: For Pioneering Spirits

Introducing Far Flung Flavours
Not only are we releasing 11 outstanding single casks this November First Friday, we’d like to introduce three unforgettable characters, each coming from a different time.  Just one look at their unique labels begins to reveal their true temperament. 

Far Flung Flavours for pioneering spirits.  Available only as part of a set (one per member), numbers for the collection are very few. Give us a call (0131 555 2929, Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm) or visit us online – The Far Flung Flavours go onsale Fri 5 Nov, 10am

November bottlings on-sale NOW:

19.48 Big, friendly, toffee nose
Highland Eastern
£64.40 inc. Free P&P
A big, friendly, toffee nose (toffee crunch ice-cream, millionaire shortbread); in its wake, wafted vanilla, marmalade, sweet tobacco, lemon, cherry and rich honey-glazed ham

7.60 Life is a Cabaret, old chum…
Speyside Lossie
£69.40 inc. Free P&P
A 1930’s Berlin cabaret – fag packets, cheap perfume, lipstick, seamed stockings, grease paint, serge uniforms, leather jackboots and bacon crisps (did they have those in the ‘30’s?)

127.5 Morning dew on Islay
Islay
£43.70 inc. Free P&P
A platter of seafood awaited us; shrimps, oysters and crabs, with a boiling pot of crayfish and lobsters.  The neat palate was both peppery and sweet with tobacco smoke and charcoal, dark chocolate and leather

Sherry Butt Pair:
76.78 & 44.47 for £81 and save £9.90

WIN A CASK Competition: 37 one-of-a-kind bottles

48.21 Sunshine on a rainy day
Don’t forget about our Win a Cask competition – buy any bottle from now until Mon 13 Dec and we’ll enter you into our competition where you could win 37 bottles of 48.21 (the whole outturn!)

SMWS Whisky Tasting & Events

New Members Tasting – Queen Street, Mon 8 Nov
New Outturn Open Tasting – London, Mon 8 Nov
Penderyn Tasting – London, Wed 10 Nov
South African Rugby Brunch – The Vaults, Sat 20 Nov
Christmas Outturn Tasting – Queen Street, Thu 25 Nov
Winchester Preview Tasting – Hotel du Vin, Thu 25 Nov
Glasgow Preview Tasting – Malmaison, Fri 26 Nov
Pan-Asian Curry Experience – London, Sat 27 Nov

Visit the Scotch Malt Whisky Society today for your chance to join http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships

Loch Fyne Whiskies News has stocked a new item, ‘Chivas Regal Christian Lacroix 18yo’

Chivas Regal Christian Lacroix 18yo
40% abv
£400.00 inc vat
£340.42 ex vat

Limited to 3000 bottles

Loch Fyne Whiskies
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