GlenDronach Single Casks Batch #13

Nine sherry cask vintages from 1968-2003

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Springbank Local Barley 16 year old

The first in a series of annual releases distilled from barley grown locally around Campbeltown. Limited to only 9000 bottles. Tasting notes from our friends at Springbank: ‘Sweet and rounded with a very subtle peat influence combining with butter tablet, soft fruit and mineral notes.’

£129 Click to buy

Springbank 25 year old

This whisky has been matured in a combination of sherry and bourbon casks before being married together in port casks. It has been bottled at 46% and is limited to only 900 bottles worldwide. Tasting Notes: Very well balanced with notes of toffee apple, brandy butter, liquorice, milk chocolate and honeycomb.

£350 Click to buy

Bernheim 7 Year Old “K&L Exclusive Barrel #5253297” Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey (750ml – ships as 1.5L) ( $29.99) The Bernheim Whiskey, named for the magnificent and monolithic distillery and its namesake Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, is one of Heaven Hill’s innovative new products developed after the purchase of the distillery in the late 90s. IW Bernheim was the famous creator of the IW Harper brand and godfather of the Louisville whiskey scene. His namesake product, Bernheim Wheat Whiskey, uses an unusual mashbill of 51% wheat, 39% corn and a hefty 10% dollop of malt. The idea behind the high wheat whiskey was to design a softer flavor profile that would appeal to a broad range of people. The high wheat content means we don’t have the spicy of a rye heavy bourbon, but that does not mean they are lacking in complexity. A few months ago we travelled to Kentucky to visit the Heaven Hill facility and select a couple of casks of this special whiskey. What we found were some fabulous whiskies only a few stylistic steps sideways from the ultra-popular and hard to get wheated bourbons on the market. We selected two casks with quite different profiles and believe they’ll change the image of this style of whiskey. This barrel, the more classic Kentucky bourbon profile of the two has tons of rich vanilla, soft fruit and subtle barrel spice. Medium bodied and easy drinking with absolutely no bite, this is an easy going yet distinctive whiskey.

United States

Bernheim 7 Year Old “K&L Exclusive Barrel #5253192” Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey (750ml – ships as 1.5L) $29.99

Bernheim 7 Year Old “K&L Exclusive Barrel #5253297” Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Wheat Whiskey (750ml – ships as 1.5L) $29.99

Scotland

Kilchoman “PLOWED” Single Barrel #351 Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml)  $119.99

Kilchoman “PLOWED” Single Barrel #364 Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml)  $119.99

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Email: wine@klwines.com
San Francisco, Redwood City, Hollywood CA

Ailsa Bay

A new single malt, crafted in a state of the art distillery, by the visionary Peter Gordon, Brian Kinsman, John Ross and Conn Lynch. Born in the Girvan distillery with the aim of creating a new destination on the tasting map. Ailsa Bay combines smoke and sweetness in a way never seen before. Tasting Notes  Zingy, peaty kick layered with beautiful sweetness. A meaty character too – crispy rasher with a hint of maple syrup

£55 Click to buy

Glenmorangie Milsean – Private Edition 7

Described as “The most exuberant private edition whisky yet”. This highly limited Glenmorangie Milsean has been crafted to replicate sweetshop flavours that are not usually apparent in single malt whisky. Red wine casks have been used in the final stages of maturation, which has helped make some of those sweet candy flavours possible.

Official Tasting Notes:

A thick buttery, oily texture with a hint of tingling spices and suggestion of chilli giving way to a sweet, luscious candy-like flavour followed by a mix of tart plummy fruit, candied orange peel, cherries, angelica and then more fruits such as peaches, nectarines, plums and melons.

£76 Click to buy

Georgian Bay author distills a captivating,

award-winning tale of Scotch whisky

and Canada’s Sixth Great Lake

Canadian author, Daniel Marchildon hopes to make readers fall in love with whisky and its history in his latest novel, The Water of Life (Uisge beatha). Driven by a mysterious voice, Elizabeth Legrand plunges headlong into an insane project: opening a distillery in her small, isolated Canadian community in Georgian Bay. Using ancient reserves of Glen Dubh, a mythical Scotch thought lost to the world, she hopes to create a single-malt whisky better than anything distilled in Scotland. However, the only thing that could prove worse than failing to revive the Glen Dubh is if she succeeds. The water of life, incarnated in the Fearmòr clan’s whisky for over five centuries, is tainted by the dramatic and sometimes fatal struggles of the distillers. It bends the will of those it touches: guiding them or condemning them to their fate.

This turbulent family saga spans two continents and several generations of three lineages, climaxing with the tragic arrival of the whisky in Lake Huron. The present-day descendants of the bloodlines are about to meet, and so will begin yet another tumultuous chapter in the odyssey of “the water of life”, mixing the captivating tale of Scotch whisky with the stories of the challenging Georgian Bay coastal life.

This novel, originally published in French, has been translated into English by Mārta Ziemelis. It was winner of the 2009 Émile-Ollivier literary prize, awarded by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française du Québec, and short-listed for both the Prix des lecteurs de Radio-Canada and The Ontario Trillium Award.

“This book is a remarkable literary expedition that keeps you breathless up until the very last page …  a must read — with a glass in hand.”

— Yves Dubuc, radio-host, CBON FM, for the Radio-Canada web site: 100 Must read Canadian novels (April 2015).

 “In all, The Water of Life is a superb novel. Upon reading the last sentence the reader is left feeling not only entertained and fulfilled, but with a vast knowledge of the history of something they may previously have known little or nothing about: Scotch whisky. The Water of Life lingers in the memory, a book to be savoured, like a dram of Glen Dubh.”

— Isobel Blackthorn, reviewer

See other comments at:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25961331-the-water-of-life

The Water of Life (Uisge beatha) by Daniel Marchildon published by Odyssey Books and available in paperback and ebook editions. 322 pp $ 24.95.

For more information visit:

Official  Water of Life Site

Odyssey Books

Available at Amazon Canada:

THE WATER OF LIFE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Marchildon was born and raised in Penetanguishene, (Ontario, Canada). In his thirty years as a freelance writer, he has published thirteen novels in French, as well as short stories, historical works, and the screenplay of the feature film, La Sacrée, (Holy Brew in the English subtitled version) produced in Canada in 2011. Marchildon is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including The Trillium Award for children’s literature.

Littlemill 26 Year Old 1988 Old & Rare Exclusive

Lowland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

$301.38

Introducing the Glendronach batch 13 range. Nine highly limited single cask whiskies, including the 1968; the oldest Glendronach in existence.

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Tasting Notes: Glendronach 1968 Cask #5837

Matured in a Pedro Ximenez Sherry Hogshead, this gorgeous expression has an imposingly sherried flavour, woven with dark prunes and molasses. Strong, bright flavours of orange bitters and dark espresso contains curious hints of eucalyptus and pine needles.

Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength

Released in the early part of 2016 is the latest release of the ever-popular 12 year old cask strength whisky from Springbank distillery. Created from a combination of 70% sherry & 30% bourbon casks, bottled at 54.1% vol.

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Springbank 16 Year Old Local Barley

Springbank Local Barley is a new release from Springbank distillery and the first in a series of annual releases distilled from barley grown locally from around the town of Campbeltown. Aged for 16 years, this limited edition Campbeltown single malt Scotch whisky release has been created from 80% bourbon & 20% sherry casks. Bottled at 54.3% vol, 9,000 bottles released worldwide.

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FEBRUARY UPDATE: RUMBLING, REVERBERATING RESONANCES

Feel the subsonic rumble of a cheering crowd and the echoing notes of a Welsh choir – has the Wales-Scotland match started already? Arriving from the Welsh valleys just in time is tomorrow’s rarely seen new release, 128.6 Rumbling, reverberating resonances. Prepare your palate for a fully immersive experience as deep, rich sweetness resonates with cinnamon spice to bring flavour into three dimensions. Prefer the quiet life? Check out your fellow members’ favourites but don’t take too long; the final whistle has already blown on 4 February bottlings…

NEW RELEASES FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY

Spicy & sweet

128.6 Rumbling, reverberating resonances  £79.90 

Young & spritely

77.41 Citric zing and spicy tingles  £49.10

FEBRUARY OUTTURN TOP 5

No. 1: Oily & coastal

42.17 Beachcomber’s dram £47.40

No. 2: Young & spritely

48.71 An amazing technicolour dram £49.10

No. 3: Peated

3.257 Jacobite trip to the kitchen £69.20

No. 4: Spicy & dry

50.74 Lazing on a summer afternoon £129.40

No. 5: Spicy & sweet

46.36 Old Fashioned Manhattan £99.80

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