Wemyss Malts new Single Cask releases

Family-owned Wemyss Malts is delighted to announce the release of a new selection of single cask single malt Scotch whiskies.  This mouth-watering collection is named after the unique natural taste and aroma of each one and includes cask strength “The Rockpool” from Islay.

The full cask list of this release comprises:

“The Rockpool” 1995 single cask from Bowmore Distilery, Islay, Cask Strength “Foraged Fruit Fool” 1991 single cask from Blair Athol Distillery, Highlands “Toffee Tuile” 1999 singe cask from Aberfeldy Distillery, Highlands “Kumquat Cluster” 1993 single cask from Glenrothes Distillery, Speyside “Stem Ginger Preserve” 1995 single cask from Mortlach Distillery, Speyside “Rhubarb Royale” 2001 single cask from Benrinnes Distillery, Speyside

Each cask has been selected and named by the Wemyss tasting panel, under the watchful eye of industry aficionado Charlie Maclean.   There are only a few hundred bottles from each cask and the suggested retail prices range from £60 to £120. These bottlings will be available in selected retailers in the UK, EU and key Asian markets.

William Wemyss, Founder and Managing Director at Wemyss Malts, commented: “We’ve had an excellent start to 2015 and are already releasing our second parcel of single casks. As always, the tasting panel has come up with names evocative of these whiskies’ natural tastes and aromas and I’m sure they will delight our customers .”

Notes:

• Wemyss Malts is exhibiting for the first time at Whisky Live London 20/21 March 2015 where some of the new single malts will be available to taste
• Edinburgh based Wemyss Malts is owned by the Wemyss family and their family seat is Wemyss Castle in Fife where they’ve lived since the 1300s.
• Wemyss Malts has an ongoing blended malt whisky range comprising: The Spice King, The Peat Chimney and The Hive; single malt single cask bottlings and blended Scotch range, Lord Elcho.
• The Wemyss family premium wines and spirits brands also include boutique gin Darnley’s View, together with the premium wine estate of Rimauresq Cru Classé in Cotes de Provence.
• The family has opened a single malt distillery at Kingsbarns, near St. Andrews in Fife www.kingsbarnsdistillery.com

TANTALISING BOTTLINGS REVEALED

Our legendary Mystery Parcels have been tingling taste buds all over the country: after a rush of sales, the options have narrowed and second bottlings are now fixed for the remaining parcels, which leaves us free to – ta-dah! – reveal their identities. Get Sweet and Savoury Satisfaction with 1.188 in the Luscious Luxury Parcel or feel Balanced and harmonious with 9.89 in the Sweet Surprises Parcel. Whichever mysterious trio makes your mouth water, order now because they’re running out fast and the sale closes on Sunday…

Luscious Luxury Trio > Only £179

A journey from spring freshness to deep, rich maturity: flavours are varied and exciting in this highly desirable trio! Only 15 parcels left!

1.188 Sweet and Savoury Satisfaction

Bottle 2 revealed!

Spicy & sweet
28 years old
Refill ex-bourbon hogshead

More >

4.206 Clears the head

Juicy, oak & vanilla
14 years old
First fill ex-bourbon barrel

More >

Bottle 3 Fruit galore in every option.

Sweet Surprises Trio > Only £149

Whether you like your desserts floral and refined or boozy and decadent, this is a dream for those of us with a sweet tooth…
Only 41 parcels left!

9.89 Balanced and harmonious

Bottle 2 revealed!

Spicy & sweet
25 years old
Refill ex-sherry butt

More >

5.45 Une Grande Dame

Spicy & sweet
14 years old
Refill ex-bourbon hogshead

More >

Bottle 3 Anyone for dessert?

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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 here for membership information This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

Tamdhu shows its strength with new expression

• Four Roses K&L Exclusive OESF (10 Years Old, 9 Months) Single Barrel Cask Strength Bourbon 750ml ($66.99) This past January we tasted another extensive round of Four Roses barrel samples and wound up choosing three more wonderful casks that help to illustrate both the quality and the diversity of the Kentucky distillery’s backstock. The ten year, nine month old OESF is the richest and roundest of the three barrels, despite the fact that it’s a month younger than one of its brothers. At 52.7%, the whiskey has evaporated more liquid and concentrated more oak into the spirit. Big, rich, oaky vanilla starts off the palate, more spice and peppery notes flutter towards the back, and the finish rolls in like a wave of cinnamon, clove, oak spice, and dry, woody notes. This is a classic, well-balanced, beautifully rounded whiskey. It’s of a style that we’re beginning to see less and less of in today’s market. Make this one your first choice.
• Four Roses K&L Exclusive OESK (9 Years Old, 7 Months) Single Barrel Cask Strength B ourbon 750ml ($66.99) This past January we tasted another extensive round of Four Roses barrel samples and wound up choosing three more wonderful casks that help to illustrate both the quality and the diversity of the Kentucky distillery’s backstock. Our nine year, seven month old barrel of formula OESK is a whopping 61.9% ABV with dark, brooding notes of oak and earth on the nose, fading in and out with undertones of burnt sugar and charred wood. The initial sip is all pencil shavings and more earthy notes before exploding on the finish with black cherry, oak spices, and a zippy note of white pepper. This is a rocks whiskey or a high-end Manhattan ingredient. The power and the intensity are best tamed by the addition of water and other ingredients. Not for the faint of heart.

• Jefferson’s K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Reserve Very Old Bourbon 750ml ($45.99) Jefferson’s is one of the few negotiant bottlers left that still has access to real Kentucky Bourbon. Most other second-party labels have moved on to MGP (formerly known as LDI) distillery in Indiana, which makes delicious whiskey, but is rather ubiquitous in today’s market. This single barrel from Jefferson’s mature stocks is one of the softest, more supple American whiskies we have in stock. The focus is clearly the creamy corn and the richness of the spirit. There’s a bit of an herbaceous note on the finish, hints of dried leaves and tobacco, but it’s still just a hint in the soft wave of oak and vanilla. In a store full of “cask strength” and “high rye” selections, this barrel clearly stands out from the pack. This is for those who like their Bourbon smooth.

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The Macallan 25 Year Old 1990

Single sherry hogshead cask bottled February 2015 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Old & Rare Platinum Selection.

Macallan 25 Year Old $557.13

Ledaig 42 year old 

Described by renowned whisky writer Charles MacLean as ‘Extraordinary!’ in our latest edition of Whiskeria, this 42 year old single malt has been matured in various types of cask before being transferred into high-quality Gonzales Byass oloroso sherry casks. Master Distiller Ian McMillan described this as ‘the smokiest whisky of its age he has ever encountered’, but it is balanced by a rich sweetness.

One of only 500 bottles ever produced and bottled at 46.3% abv.

£3500 Buy Now

LAST LICKS: CASK ENDS SALE

The fizzling lip-smackingness continues this month with a long anticipated (and now legendary) Society Cask Ends Sale. We’ve been doing a spot of spring-cleaning at The Vaults, and we’ve come across the last few bottles from a mouth-watering rainbow of single casks. We’ve used these final drops to put together 2 Mystery Malt Trios, and are offering them at a thrilling parcel price. The full identity of our parcels is a magical mystery but we are revealing one bottle from each parcel and giving a few tantalising flavour clues to the rest.

PLUS – the first 50 orders of each trio will be upgraded! So pucker-up and dive in straight away to maximise the mouth-watering value…

Luscious Luxury Trio Only £179

A journey from spring freshness to deep, rich maturity: flavours are varied and exciting in this highly desirable trio!

4.206 Clears the head

Juicy, oak & vanilla
14 years old

“Fresh, cooling and powdery, with a whiff of the sea and perhaps a thread of smoke. A drop of water increases the cooling effect, with mint and coriander, adding soft fudge. Sweet, herbal and spicy to taste, with a trace of hessian.”

Bottle 2 Hurry: the first 50 ordered will receive 29yr old 39.93 as bottle 2!  After that it’s a secret but guaranteed at least 28 years old

Bottle 3 Fruit galore in every option.

Sweet Surprises Trio Only £149

Whether you like your desserts floral and refined or boozy and decadent, this is a dream for those of us with a sweet tooth…

5.45 Une Grande Dame

Spicy & sweet
14 years old

“Highly fragrant (lavender, bath salts, hand soap) and richly fruity at full strength (maraschino cherries, angelica), becoming waxy with water and more fruity. The taste is sweet and chewy, with vanilla creams, lavender, cherry drops and Tunnock’s Tea Cakes..”

Bottle 2 Hurry: the first 50 ordered will receive 24yr old 73.66 as bottle 2!  After that it’s a secret but guaranteed at least 24 years old

Bottle 3 Anyone for dessert?

Browse New Outturn >
Browse All Bottlings >

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 here for membership information This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

 Cadenhead’s Authentic Collection

DUE MID APRIL

We have the list of the new Cadenhead’s Authentic Collection list due out mid April

• Dailuaine-Glenlivet Distillery 1997 18y/o 54.4% Chateau Lafitte cask since 2009
• Glenfarclas Distillery 1990 25y/o 52.6%
• Glenlivet (Minmore) Distillery 1996 18y/o 53.7%
• Glentauchers-Glenlivet Distillery 1976 38y/o 50.8%
• Ledaig Distillery 1993 22y/o 54.3%
• Tomatin Distillery 1989 25y/o 51.9%
• Irish Whiskey (Peated) from Cooley Distillery, Eire 1992 23y/o 55%
• Scottish Single Grain from Girvan Distillery 1988 26y/o 56.6%
• Tasmanian Single Malt – Cradle Mountain from The Small Concern Whisky Distillery ex Cabernet Sauvignon cask! 1996 18y/o 52.9%

Now I think that’s it for now, or have the whisky pixies got another dram to pull out of the hat? Of course they have…

• LongrowTM distilled at SpringbankTM Disitllery 2002 12y/o 53.1% (Sherry)
• Laphroaig Distillery 1998 16y/o 57.5%

SPRINGBANK

I have just one more thing to tell you about!

If you missed the rather amazing Springbank 17 Sherry Cask fear not we have something rather stunning to bring out as soon as we can get the time on the bottling line.

Springbank 12 year old Port Cask UK bottling…I am sitting here trying it as a sort of blind tasting with no ABV or outturn on the label, just a cask sample that a few lucky people have tried so far, with great feedback indeed – 100% positive.

We expect demand to be very hight for this dram so get your name down as soon as I send the release newsletter out for this rare dram. Who knows what else we will be pulling out of the whisky pixies hat next time I can’t wait to tell you.

All the best from Cadenhead’s Stephen W

Cadenhead’s Whisky Shop & Tasting Room
26 Chiltern Street
London
W1U 7QF

Tel: 020 7935 6999

SMACK YOUR LIPS ROUND THESE FOODIE DRAMS!

This spring we’re waking the senses by matching spritzy whiskies with light beers – more on our Spritzich Page. Today we had a thought: “Whisky and beer are pretty awesome together but how about some food?” Get  your chef’s hat on with 3.227 Tasty Farmhouse Cooking, or get your heat and your peat on with 53.198 Wasabi on a California Roll. Wondering where all the March bottlings have gone? Most of them to a good home already – last chance to bag one before they vanish… #spritzich  

Lightly peated

3.227 Tasty farmhouse cooking £59.40

16 years old
Refill ex-sherry butt

“Enjoy whilst cooking for or with friends”

Spicy & sweet

35.125 A cornucopia of complexity £95.00

25 years old
Refill ex-bourbon hogshead

“some Panelists identified warm wool tweediness, others warm baking from the oven: both homely”

Juicy, oak & vanilla

121.60 Interesting nooks and crannies £46.20

13 years old
Refill ex-bourbon hogshead

“Would work well served with food”

Heavily peated

53.198 Wasabi on a California Roll £71.70

18 years old
Refill ex-sherry butt

“steamed fish with spring onions, fennel, sage and thyme”

Light & delicate

72.27 Bouquet of flowers in a new car £89.80

30 years old
Refill ex-bourbon hogshead

“A dram for special occasions”

Browse New Outturn
Browse All Bottlings

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 here for membership information This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

Small Batch Collection

DUE EARLY APRIL

CREATIONS BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY 23Y/O 54.3%

Grey stripe (Robust smoky embers)! (Composition: Cao Ila, Invergordon)

Nose: Smoke is present , fairly mellow and not attacking. Invergordon provides lots of vanilla and custard cream notes. Palate: Very sweet with lots of toffee, fudge and tablet once you get past the initial smokiness. Becomes fruitier with time, very mouth coating with earthy dunnage overtones. Finish: A salty lingering finish with smooth honeycomb.

SMALL BATCH 46%

NORTH BRITISH DISTILLERY 1985 29Y/O 46% Nose: Yoghurt covered raisins. Honeycomb and buttered pancakes. Palate: Dry oily cereal notes with lots of vanilla. Blanched almonds and some peach notes with soft brown sugar. Finish: Fruit syrup and cookie dough. Soft delicate finish with Jamaican rum notes.

STRATHMILL DISTILLERY 1995 19Y/O 46% Nose: Lots of marzipan, and very floral – apple blossom? Some lime notes and a touch of cardamon. Palate: Toasted fennel seeds, gooseberries and almost salty. Vanilla ice-cream and cocoa powder. Finish: Saltiness develops in the finish. Hay like with whiffs of shortbread and golden syrup.

SMALL BATCH CASK STRENGTH

AALT-A-BHAINNE DISTILLERY 1992 22Y/O 52.5% Nose: Custard creams; hints of fennel and allspice. Creme caramel. Some dusty notes with some strawberries coming through. Palate: Very creamy with growing ever changing fruit bursts; limes, satsumas, peaches and solid toffee. Finish: Develops an effervescent fruitiness mingling in a blanket of thick cream.

GLENALLACHIE-GLENLIVET DISTILLERY 1992 22Y/O 48% Nose: Vanilla; freshly cut grass; icing sugar and buttered gingerbread. Palate: French cakes, very creamy with pistachios, marzipan and lemon icing. Finish: Faint coconut notes; gentle grassiness and and some fresh herbs. A picnic whisky – very refreshing.

GLENDULLAN-GLENLIVET DISTILLERY 1996 18Y/O 55.6%

Nose: Very minty with lots of toffee. Hard boiled sweets and very floral and grassy. Palate: Less minty on the taste with tablet and shortbread coming to the front. Becoming more buttery. Lemon meringue pie and lashings of cream. Finish: Initially short and creamy before giving way to some quince and apple notes.

GLENROTHES-GLENLIVET DISTILLERY 1990 24Y/O 55.7% (SHERRYWOOD) Nose: Huge sherry; very meaty with liqueur chocolates. Roasting pan juices with figs and poached pears. Palate: More massive sherry – grab a knife and fork for this. Lots of marzipan, quite creamy like a sherry trifle and then more meatiness grows. Finish: Huge sherry tussles with dried oranges, soft black pepper and a little rubber. One for the hardcore sherry fans.

MILTONDUFF-GLENLIVET DISTILLERY 1994 20Y/O 51.5% Nose: Bakewell tart, clotted cream and soft ginger notes. Fresh runny honey with cashew nuts and lemongrass. Palate: Bitter lemon, with lime and growing creaminess. A touch of cinnamon and white pepper mashed over ripe bananas and chocolate bourbon biscuits. Finish: Soft dry chocolate notes becoming creamier with hints of lime zest

SINGLE CASKS AT CASK STRENGTH

ARRAN DISTILLERY 1996 18Y/O 50.9% Nose: Juicy red fruits, hints of cough syrup and stewed apples and soft oily rag notes. Palate: Very fruity with lots of toffee, lemon drizzle cake and a very faint trace of smoke. Finish: A thick chewy finish, green apple skins and orange bitters. Slightly drying leaving you wanting more.

NORTH PORT (BRECHIN) DISTILLERY 1977 38Y/O 48.4% Nose: A real fruit bomb, kiwi fruits, limes, pears in syrup and melted white chocolate. Palate: Very syrupy with soft woody notes. More waxy fruit notes with dried spices and lemon sherbet. Finish: Very syrupy and a little flinty. Toffee bananas with more kiwis, lychees and watermelon.

ROYAL BRACKLA DISTILLERY 1984 30Y/O 54.1% Nose: Rich and oily with sweet fruits;honey; liqourice and hints of butterscotch. Palate: Soft oakiness, orange liqueur and a faint hint of spice. Quite full bodied with chocolate and runny toffee. Finish: Spiced apples, sweet vermouth and lightly smoked almonds.

TEANINICH DISTILLERY 1983 32Y/O 47.5% Nose: Sweet floral notes, juicy raisins; white chocolate buttons and faint tangerine notes. Palate: More orangey notes emerge along with some distant perfumed smoke, green tea; basil and oregano. Finish: Fruit syrup, barley sugar and Victoria sponge cake.

Cadenhead’s Whisky Shop & Tasting Room
26 Chiltern Street
London
W1U 7QF

Tel: 020 7935 6999