Old Overholt 114 Proof Straight Rye Whiskey (750ml) $35.00 View
Old Overholt 114 Proof Rye is finally here! This long await release is the rye counterpart to Old Grand Dad 114 – one of the best deals in Kentucky.
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OUR BIGGEST GOLDEN DRAM EVER!
WIN £15,000 JOHNNIE WALKER BOTTLE
This January, we are holding a spectacular Golden Dram, with a prize worth £15,000! One lucky winner will take home a prestigious bottle of Johnnie Walker Master’s Ruby Reserve, which is one of just 398 in the world.
All you have to do to enter is simply purchase a bottle from our curated selection of distilleries often used by Johnnie Walker in blends, including Mortlach 12 Year Old, Lagavulin 16 Year Old and Johnnie Walker Blue Label. You can find all the selected bottles, here
Johnnie Walker Masters Ruby Reserve
An exceptional limited edition release from Johnnie Walker. Masters Ruby Reserve combines eight 40-year-old casks that have been personally selected by Master Blender Jim Beveridge OBE.
£15,000.00
Free Next Day Delivery for 12 Months For just £14.95 you can enjoy free next day delivery on all your orders for a whole year! Geographic restrictions apply, see full T&Cs. Find out more ❯
New and exclusive to The Whisky Exchange, the ultimate expression of Yellow Spot whiskey which has been matured for 23 years. This fruity pot still whiskey started off in bourbon barrels before being filled into a single sweet Malaga cask.
The result is a rich and full-bodied dram with notes of roasted peach, fruit cake and warming oak that work in balance with the sweet wine influence. Limited to just 564 bottles, this is a truly unique and vibrant expression bottled at 57.5% strength.
Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday filled with warmth, laughter, and, of course, some sensational Society drams.
As we start a new year, we’d like to invite you to join us in celebrating the pure pleasure of phenomenal whisky flavours. This First Friday, we have 11 new bottles that perfectly encapsulate the essence of Scotch whisky. And with Burns Night coming up, why not plan your toast to the Bard by choosing a Society dram to drink on that night.
What are you waiting for? Click over to our website now to preview ahead of their release today at 9am.
JANUARY UNFILTERED
In this month’s Unfiltered, we focus on flavour as the driving force behind everything we do. We explore cask selection, maturation and expert analysis by our Tasting Panel. Check out our feature on sherry-cask maturation and a Q&A with Euan Campbell in a Jerez bodega. We also explore the origins of flavour from various parts of the whisky-making process, starting with malted barley.
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This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!
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Macallan “The Harmony Collection – 2023 Amber Meadow” Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $219.99 View
The new Harmony Collection from Macallan has been an enormous hit with single-malt fans and collectors alike. The first release in 2021 can now be found averaging double its original price tag. The 2023 marks the third release of this special Scotch. Each release draws inspiration from the natural world with the first being Cacao, the second Arabica, and this one takes inspiration from the lush meadows of Scotland.
1997 Macallan 25 Year Old “Symington’s Choice Collection Signatory” 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Hogshead Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml) $2,999.99 View
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K&L Notes: This exceptional single cask was sold to this bottler as the “Williamson” blended malt and therefore cannot include the source on the label. But we have no problem telling you that this excellent whisky was distilled on the famous little stills located just outside the little seaside town of Port Ellen. Adorned in the throwback label, the Thompson Brothers are clearly giving the old “nudge nudge, wink wink” to the famous old bottling from nearly a century ago, with block letters and cursive writing. Filled into a used sherry butt in 2010, this excellent cask was transferred to Dornoch and bottled at a cool 100 proof without the use of coloring or chill-filtration. This is meaty old-school Laphroaig with big herbal notes and wild tropical fruit aromas balancing the savory smoke and oceanic zestiness. An absolute treat for lovers of quality peat.
David Othenin-Girard | K&L Spirits Buyer | Review Date: October 18, 2023
This badass barrel of Laphroaig has it all. I’m sort of grateful we can’t sell it as single malt because at this price it likely would have all sold out on pre-arrival and I just love selling this bottle. The labels are fashioned after the old style of Laphroaig labels, and indeed this has so little to do with what is going on with modern Laphroaig bottlings that it’s almost laughable. This is gorgeous, rugged, oceanic Laphroaig of the highest order. Here we go! The color is deep copper. The first nosing is big sulphur! Oh no!!! But wait, just a moment later that’s not sulphur, no no, it’s sizzling pancetta! It’s mesquite bacon and salted fruit. It’s big green fields of peat. It’s engine oil, sticky and greasy. It’s an old shipyard—old, brittle halyards and weather-beaten wooden hulls. It’s bitter barks and aged black tea. It’s frangipani and polished sandalwood. It’s a freshly rolled Galois hanging from your lips, match struck, but yet to be ignited. It’s burnt Seville orange peel being dipped into your Sazerac. It’s utterly drinkable and yet wildly challenging. One of the most exciting malts of the year in my humble opinion. They don’t make them like this at Laphroaig any longer. So I guess I like this a lot. Can you tell?
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Wyoming Whiskey Barrel Strength Bourbon (MSRP $299.99): Wyoming Whiskey is releasing its fourth national batch of Barrel Strength Bourbon, the most elusive Wyoming Whiskey offering. Wyoming Whiskey Barrel Strength is bottled at 122.4 proof and offers a distinct flavor profile that reflects its Wyoming origin. Specs: Aged 5 years, 61.2% ABV, 122.4 proof.
Wyoming Whiskey’s Single Barrel Bourbon (MSRP $99.99): This highly anticipated limited release is available in Wyoming and other select US markets this December. Single Barrel represents the top 1% of bourbon barrels sampled each year by Wyoming Whiskey. Each hand-selected barrel is bottled at 96 proof to maintain the character which defines it. Aged for a minimum of five years, no two barrels are alike. Chosen from six rickhouses for its singular character and taste, each barrel yields approximately 180 bottles that capture this unique bourbon and moment in time, both of which will never happen again. Specs: Aged a minimum of 5 years, 48% ABV, 96 proof
Discover the Lost Distillery of Caperdonich
Caperdonich
21 Years Old Small Batch Release
Caperdonich Distillery, once located on the banks of the river Spey, was closed in 2002, with all the buildings gone by 2011. This is Batch CA/001, aged entirely in First Fill American Oak Barrels. It was bottled without chill-filtration at 48% ABV.
£195.00
Caperdonich
25 Years Old CP/001 Peated Rare Edition
Limited release whisky from Caperdonich Distillery – which was demolished in 2011. This smoky and fruity single malt was matured in oak hogsheads. The rich peat smoke is balanced by green apple and sweet pear with a hint of salt.
£405.00
Caperdonich
30 Years Old Small Batch Release
This single malt from the lost distillery of Caperdonich was aged for 30 years in First Fill American oak Barrels, bringing the notes of soft fruit and sweet honey, balanced with warm, gentle spices and an incredibly long smooth finish.
£700.00
Mystery 14 Year Old 2009 Signatory Un-Chillfiltered For The Whisky Barrel
Secret Speyside Exclusive; A mystery malt sure to add intrigue to any whisky lovers list. Bottled exclusively by Signatory Vintage for TWB, distilled at the world famous Speyside distillery that begins with ‘M’.…ends in ‘acallan’.
Speyside 14 Year Old 2009 vintage single malt Scotch whisky distilled at Macallan distillery. Single Bourbon hogshead #DRU17 A194#163 bottled 9th May 2023 by Signatory Vintage for the Un-Chillfiltered Cask Strength Collection exclusively for The Whisky Barrel. 373 bottles.
MYSTERY MALT SINGLE MALT WHISKY
Mystery single malt that don’t want to reveal their true identity. Rummage around and with a bit of investigation you are sure to find a rare unspecified bottling from independent bottler.
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 513: Glengoyne 12 Year Old 2010 Cask Owner for The Glen Connection
Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries a single cask from Glengoyne. Some Belgian friends visit the Glengoyne distillery, enjoy both an extensive tour and a so-called blending masterclass afterwards and immediately decide to participate in the (now no longer active) Cask Owner’s Programme. They carefully choose a PX hogshead and pay for 10 years of warehousing in advance. This is 2010. The intention was to bottle the cask at 11 years, but the pandemic put a stop to that. In the end, the three (Koen, Charly and Glenn) had to wait until June 2023 before their cask #1837 was bottled. It yielded 318 bottles. The cask strength of 56.3% is impressive, but especially the deep bronze color immediately appeals to the imagination. Mark was blown away by this malt!
