Glen Scotia 24 Year Old
‘Leather Bound Ledger’ 1991 vinatge single sherry cask bottled 2015 by Wemyss Malts
CONTRASTING CASKS
New limited edition packs released from Tomatin Distillery
The Tomatin Distillery Co Ltd has released a limited edition pack of Tomatin Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky called Contrast – a unique comparison of fully matured Bourbon and Sherry whiskies from Tomatin Distillery.
In each pack, there are two 350ml bottles each containing a vatting of casks from 1973, 1977, 1988, 1991, 2002 and 2006, with one of the vattings being from Ex-Bourbon casks and the other from Ex-Sherry casks. Bottled at 46%, both whiskies are non-chill filtered and natural colour, and display greatly contrasting colours and flavours.
Casks from the same six years were selected and vatted by Tomatin’s Distillery Manager, Graham Eunson – “It is well accepted that up to 70% of the final flavour of Scotch Whisky is derived from the cask it was matured in. We wanted to directly compare the effect of different casks on the same whisky – the actual contrast between these two whiskies is far greater than we had anticipated. These are two incredible whiskies which consumers will enjoy comparing side by side in their own home.”
There are 5,400 of this limited edition pack available and it is expected to retail at £99.99.
Bourbon Matured:
AROMA Golden syrup and honey. Lemon & lime. Almond and macadamia nuts, vanilla and custard.
PALATE Sweet vanilla custard and lemon sponge. Pineapple chunks, raspberries and icing sugar.
FINISH Sweet, fresh and mellow.
Sherry Matured:
AROMA Toffee-apple crumble, Christmas pudding, raisins and treacle.
PALATE Cinnamon and cloves, peppercorns. Thick cut marmalade.
FINISH Oily, spicy and chewy.
The company has also announced the launch of its final release in the Cù Bòcan Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky Limited Release Trilogy – The Bourbon Edition.
The Bourbon Edition is the third and final release in a trilogy of limited editions showcasing the flavours which make up the standard edition of Cù Bòcan; Sherry, Virgin Oak and Bourbon. The Sherry Edition was released in 2014 and the Virgin Oak Edition earlier this year. Fully matured in First Fill Bourbon casks, this edition is rich and creamy with hints of smoke and sweet citrus.
There are 6,000 bottles available worldwide (except USA) and it is expected to retail at £49.99.
AROMA Toffee and honey are prominent. The smoke is distant at first but continues to emerge and then slowly fades to reveal pineapple and pear drops. A rich and creamy vanilla custard lingers.
PALATE Velvety smooth coconut and vanilla. Milk chocolate covered marshmallows, almonds and toffee. Citrus fruits, especially orange and lime, have a significant presence.
FINISH Long lasting and sweet.
Notes
Linkwood distillery 1997 18 year old 52.3%
252 bottles with only 18 bottles available in London.
Nose: sweet floral notes with some citrus. Pineapple and limes. Palate: long peppery notes start off the palate then its praline chocolates with honey and sweet ripe pears and fresh cut sweet grass. (Summer highlands) Finish: marzipan and coconut, a slightly drying note gives way to Lemmon grass. Astonishing array of flavours from the Linkwood distillery.
Linkwood distillery 1997 18 year old 53.5%
234 bottles with only 18 bottles available in London.
Nose: Sweet with lots of juicy citrus notes ; satsumas and some pineapple chunks. Palate: White chocolate and a little herbal. A touch of spice comes through a growing nutty creaminess. Finish: Refreshing zestiness mingles with light grassy / floral notes.
Is this my favourite or is it the other?? Best settle for both I guess.
Stephen at Cadenhead’s London
Speyside and Highlands Cask Strength Single Malts Limited Edition Small Batch
Aberlour 2000 15 year old 54.3%
243 bottles with only 18 available in London
Nose: Dry and malty with hints of raisins, almonds and dried apricots. Palate: Gooseberries. Malty with melted butter, honeycomb and faint white pepper. Finish: Waxy fruits with bursts of limes, kiwis and then fading to melted white chocolate.
GLENGOYNE DISTILLERY 2001 14Y/O 58.2%
(612 btls) Only 18 bottles available in London
Nose: Brandy soaked raisins. Vanilla flavoured tobacco and prunes. Palate: Baked bananas and brown sugar. Light soya sauce and quite meaty. Lots of dark honey. Finish: Creamy with rich sherry notes. Soft spice with honey and soft salty notes.
GLENGOYNE DISTILLERY Sherry Cask 2001 14Y/O 58.2% 70cl
Only 132 bottles in this small cask
Nose: Dried oranges lemon rind with candied ginger and clotted cream. Palate: Very creamy with hints of strawberries. Lots of vanilla with some salted butter and golden syrup. Finish: Slightly salty in the finish with faint spice giving way to vibrant grassy notes and hints of lime cordial.
Glendronach 15 Year Old
Revival Discontinued! Bidding a fond farewell (while stocks last) to the Highland favorite which will disappear until 2018.
AUGUST PREVIEWS: ALL THINGS SUMMER
Summer fetes rich with the heady aromas of home made jam and freshly baked treats; rosemary-skewered bangers on the open fire; ocean spray topping the sea wall as you ride past on your motorcycle… However you love to enjoy this brief, beautiful season, the first nips from the August Outturn are sure to make the perfect sundowners.
Oily & Coastal
4.209 The Cinderella cottage
Chilly cottage, damp plaster and salt encrusted windows. Old cinders in the grate reignited with heather, peat. Grilled sausages with rosemary. A makeshift feast of prawn crackers, dimsum and tempura shrimps with sesame seeds. Crispy skinned baked apples in the embers.
19 years old
Refill ex-bourbon hogshead
£76.00
66.71 An apothecary on a motorcycle
The nose has wood and clean smoke, suggesting first aid boxes, hospital laundries, menthol-suffused saunas and motorcycle workshops. The palate delivers menthol cigarettes, pan-drops, spicy fennel seed sausages, smoked mussels, embers, bicycle repair kits, light smoke and some pleasant balancing sweetness.
12 years old
Refill ex-bourbon barrel
£46.10
Old & dignified
G1.13 Summer Fete and flower shows
Summer fetes with peach jam, banana bread, golden plums. Airfix paint and crisp florals. Sweet and short as Scottish summer. Pink wafers, warm scones, homemade chocolate truffles and caramel coffee cake. Greenhouse aromas mingled with warm wood of old deck chairs.
36 years old
Refill ex-bourbon hogshead
£124.10
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In Stock:
1792 Small Batch Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #40 and #11 – $25.99
BUFFALO TRACE Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #7 – $23.99
FOUR ROSES Barrel Strength OESK Bourbon TPS Private Barrel – $59.99
FOUR ROSES Barrel Strength OESF Bourbon TPS Private Barrel – $59.99
JEFFERSON’S Reserve Very Old Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #856 – $39.99
BLANTON’S Single Barrel Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #37 and #96 – $57.99
Future Private Barrels:
1792 Small Batch Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #10
BUFFALO TRACE Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #111, #162 and #169*
CROWN ROYAL Canadian Whisky TPS Private Barrel #30
EAGLE RARE TPS Private Barrel #170*
FOUR ROSES Barrel Strength OBSF, OBSQ*
MASTERSON’S Rye Finish in French Oak TPS Private Barrel #40
SMOOTH AMBLER Old Scout Single Barrel Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #1288*
W.L. WELLER 107 Antique Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #118*
WOODFORD RESERVE Double Oaked Bourbon TPS Private Barrel *John Hughes Collection
Barrels to hit later in the year…
FOUR ROSES Barrel Strength OBSV and OBSO (Bottled in Sept.)
1792 Small Batch Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #7 and #8
BUFFALO TRACE Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #43, #67 and #203 J
EFFERSON’S Reserve Very Old Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #843
KNOB CREEK Single Barrel Reserve Bourbon TPS Private Barrel #1726B
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THREE JAPANESE BOTTLINGS BROUGHT TO LIGHT
After our thrilling discovery of a first bottling hiding in the warehouse last week, we thought we’d better go back for a closer look. It turned out to be a great idea because we found three exquisite Japanese malts lurking in the shadows! Even more exciting, 120.8 A surge of sweet peat had been exclusive to our venues on its original release and has never been sold around the UK. Prepare to snag yours from 9am sharp on our sales line (0131 555 2929) – even limited to one bottle per member, these divine drams won’t be hanging around for long…
Sweet, fruity & mellow
124.5 Juicy fruits and spicy oak £275
23 years old
First fill ex-bourbon hogshead
Only 18 bottles found!
The nose has attractive wood aromas and attractive fruits (tutti-frutti, pineapple, lemon) plus coconut, honey and vanilla. The palate is full of juicy fruits, and vanilla…
Old & dignified
116.20 Fascinating complexity and finesse £296
26 years old
Virgin oak puncheon
Only 30 bottles found!
Fascinating nose – model-making, lacquered wood; crab boxes and lapsang souchong in a diesel truck; vanilla, coconut, honey and embers…
Peated
120.8 A surge of sweet peat £160
13 years old
Second fill hogshead
Only 24 bottles found!
Salt and pepper cashews, smoked vanilla and pickled ginger with a wave of delicate incense. Roast pork, peppered mackerel and pungent peat smoke (also cloves, cinnamon, star anise). With water, the peat really surged…
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THE GLENROTHES VINTAGE RESERVE LAUNCHES IN UK
Berry Bros. & Rudd Spirits is delighted to announce the UK release of Vintage Reserve from award-winning Speyside distillery, The Glenrothes.
Vintage Reserve is the expression that best epitomises The Glenrothes Vintage Single Malt philosophy of bottling whisky only once it has reached the peak of its maturity. Vintage Reserve marries together a good many carefully selected Vintages from the last three decades.
The combination of Vintages aged in a variety of casks creates a balanced whisky with mature experience and vibrant youth: the most venerable constituent brings mellow oak and dried fruits. The younger Vintages add soft, mature, sweet vanilla; the more youthful Vintages add exuberance and lemon citrus notes.
Malt Master, Gordon Motion has hand-selected the very finest casks to create the Vintage Reserve, using character and flavour as his guide, not a pre-determined age. Gordon Motion’s flavour notes appear on the front label: “Mellow, soft fruits, citrus and honey.”
Ronnie Cox, The Glenrothes Brand Heritage Director, states: “This is our most complex Reserve to date. Unlike other malts that bottle by age, we choose whiskies that represent the best of a particular year and marry them together when they are ready. That is in contrast to many distillers who bottle simply based on the age of a whisky. The emphasis is on the quality, taste and flavour of the whisky – not the age.”
The Glenrothes Vintage Reserve 40% ABV
Appearance: Brassy gold.
Bouquet: Unusually fragrant, soft in style, wafts of mature citrus and honeycomb accompanied with characteristic red fruits.
Palate: Very soft silky/creamy mouth-feel. Red berry fruits swirl and dominate with time over the nebulous nuttiness.
Finish: Mid to long citrus and honeyed vanilla and the faint reminder of 1st fill sherry casks.
The Glenrothes Vintage Reserve is now available at The Whisky Exchange and Gordon & MacPhail with a recommended retail price of £39.99
For more information about The Glenrothes, visit www.theglenrothes.comor contact Maxxium Customer Services on +44(0) 1786 430 500 for further information.
Notes:
The Glenrothes was founded in 1879.
Only 3% of the distillery capacity is bottled as Single Malt to ensure exceptional quality.
Of the 22 Vintages released to date, 14 have entirely sold out.
Owned by Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd, the wine and spirit merchants established in 1698, The Glenrothes is an award winning Speyside Single Malt Whisky of exceptional quality from the town of Rothes in Speyside -Scotland’s whisky heartland.
Established in 1879, the Glenrothes is a pioneer in Scotch Whisky. All our single malt is vintage malt. When we say vintage, we mean whisky distilled and put in cask in a single year. When judged to be at its peak of maturity, character and flavour, then we carefully marry selected vintages together as Reserves, or bottle them individually as Single Vintages.
At The Glenrothes, maturity matters more than age. A combination of many factors, including our unusually slow distillation process in tall copper pot stills, deliver our characteristic sweet, fruity and elegant spirit. Further flavours are derived from our extensive knowledge of maturation in oak casks. Each expression has its own unique personality, underpinned by the distinctive, hallmark characteristics of the distillery – ripe fruits, citrus, vanilla and an exquisite spicy finish all encased in the creamiest of textures and with a complex and well-poised balance.
The Glenrothes is only selected for bottling when it has reached its zenith of maturity; each cask is carefully checked, nosed and tasted many times. An age statement does not reveal the maturity of the whisky and so the Glenrothes is bottled only when ready, meaning mature and at its peak of perfection. Malt whisky matures at its own pace as shown by the two casks selected.
Some of our recent awards and accolades for current bottlings:
The Glenrothes, Vintage Reserve
The Glenrothes Sherry Cask Reserve
The Glenrothes Alba Reserve
The Glenrothes Select Reserve
The Glenrothes 1998 Vintage
The Glenrothes 1995 Vintage
The Glenrothes 1988 Vintage
The Glenrothes 1978 Vintage
Kilchoman’s 5th Edition 100% Islay is a vatting of ex-bourbon barrels filled in 2009 and 2010.
First released in 2010, the 100% Islay range is only lightly peated, compared to Kilchoman’s Machir Bay and Loch Gorm.
The annually released, limited edition bottling, is produced solely from barley grown at the distillery. Kilchoman remains the only Scotch whisky distillery to produce single malt using these traditional Farm Distillery methods.
Anthony Wills, Kilchoman Founder and Managing Director, says: “There is a clear difference between the 100% Islay range and other releases, the lighter peating level and maturation exclusively in ex-bourbon barrels gives the whisky a beautiful fragrance and balance. When we first set out to build Kilchoman the ambition was to produce a single malt from barley grown on the distillery farm to give complete control and traceability, we also wanted to echo how whisky was once made on Islay and across Scotland. We are incredibly proud to continue these traditional practices”.
Founded in 2005, Kilchoman is one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland and was the first distillery to be built on Islay for 125 years. Kilchoman is the only independent Islay distillery.
Kilchoman 100% Islay 5th Edition is bottled at 50% ABV and is now available from ImpEx Beverages at a recommended retail price of $100/bottle.
Tasting Notes: Kilchoman 100% Islay 5th Edition Single Islay Malt Scotch Whisky
Colour: White wine Nose: Light, fresh and clean with peat smoke in the background.
Palate: Light, fresh and well balanced with peaty smoke and sweetness coming through on the finish.
Finish: Finish: Long, clean and sweet with soft peat smoke.
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