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ORDER NOW TO RECEIVE YOUR PERSONALISED ENGRAVED DECANTER FOR CHRISTMAS.

We can personalise our beautiful decanter bottles with a design or wording of your own.

Words, crests, images, etc. We will then fill it with a whisky of your choosing (English Whisky co. only), pack it in a red tube and dispatch.

Prices from £60 (prices vary depending on the type of whisky, quantity of engraving)

Enquires to sarah@englishwhisky.co.uk

FREE HIPFLASK with every order that includes a bottle of 70cl English Whisky Co. own brand purchased before Christmas*

*Free gift subject to availabilty and while stocks last

Deanston 1994 Whiskies of Scotland 55.4% ABV | 50cl

Our own label “Whiskies of Scotland” Deanston 1994 55.4% picked up the BRONZE award in this year’s Scottish Field Whisky Challenge with an impressive 14.95 points out of 20 in the £40 – £80 price category. Bottled in 2013, this expression of Deanston is arguably the finest I had ever tasted from that particular distillery so decided that it merited entry into this year’s competition.

The Deanston was up against stiff competition too with Glenmorangie’s Companta 46% winning the category Gold with 16.15 points and the Glendronach 18 Year Old 46% taking the silver award with 15.4 points out of 20. All of the nosing and tasting is completely blind so you don’t even know which category a whisky is entered into, which makes it very fair to everyone.

Deanston 1994 55.4% 19 year old:

Official Tasting Note
Nose: Full and sweet, fruit salad, gentle oak notes, vanilla and coconut with hints of sherry. Traces of milky chocolate and cappuccino too. Palate: Rich and spicy, quite full and oily. Rich toffee, caramel, bananas, vanilla and milk chocolate and hints of sherry again.

My Tasting Note On The Day
Light and buttery. Kiwi and passion fruit, round and balanced. A little closed but intensely sweet and sugary with amazing balance and a blanket of honey.

Other Judges Comments
“Fairly shy aromas – honey and waxy lemons – with a sugary sweetness and hints of green apple”. “A powerhouse: lots of well integrated spice and aromatics wrapped in a fruity, gently sherried whisky cask”.

Slainte, Ronnie

Buy Now Price £46.67 ex VAT  £56.00 inc VAT

News from the Distillery Team:

The winter season is always a busy one for James and the team at The Distillery.  When we wrote to you in the summer, building work was on hold for our new warehouse number 5 whilst the Golden Eagles welcomed their young.  We are pleased to announce that they are now the parents of two new eaglets and building work is back full steam ahead!  The plans for our VIP Tasting room are well on track and our order for two new stills has been placed.  We are looking forward to taking delivery of these in 2016 and increasing our capacity in line with the projected demand in the future.

Brand new warehouse 6 is serving us well and is now home to our short term cask storage and cask finish whiskies.  It has provided us with just the flexibility we needed in this area and we are delighted with the progress we have made this year. For the time being, the winter weather seems to be slowly creeping up on us and this is the time of year that our Distillery team work on distilling our peated Single Malt, The Machrie Moor, just before the closure in January for our maintenance and cleaning work.  The smell of fruity peated whisky in the air on a crispy winter morning is quite something!

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Give in to the attraction of the wonderful whiskies in November’s Outturn!

For full tasting notes of November’s releases please visit http://www.smws.ca/ but for now let our brief bottle notes pull you in:

Cask No. 1.176 Zesty ginger lime cooler $185.90
16 years old; refill hogshead; 55.4% Spicy & sweet
Initially fresh green saplings, apricots and peaches followed by old-fashioned rose water perfume. The taste neat has flavours of Weetabix cereal, red apples and the freshness of a ‘Zesty Ginger-Lime Cooler.’ With water, preparing a fruit punch and enjoying a minty grapefruit sorbet.

Cask No. 64.53 Retro and kitsch $161.90
12 years old; 1st fill barrel; 57.2% Young & spritely
Like stepping back to granny’s home. Kahlua, homemade lemonade and Pledge. Stewed apple and coffee chocolates. Lip tingling clip around the ear with root ginger. Grapefruit with a sugar crust, Jamaica loaf. Grandfather’s old vinyl records and warm leather car seats completed the picture.

Cask No. 39.92 Dessert wine and smoking jacket $231.90
23 years old; refill hogshead; 49.5% Sweet, fruity & mellow
To start on the nose, honey-covered toast, chocolate and coconut. To taste, crispy bacon, pancakes and maple syrup. With water, pork chops followed by Eton Mess on the nose. To taste, darkly roasted coffee, ginger cake and brown sugar.

Cask No. 9.82 Breathe in long! $251.90
25 years old; refill butt; 52.1% Old & dignified
The aroma is like a meditative walk through a summer garden with the taste of melting chocolate and honey dripping from a wooden spoon. A tiny drop of water adds rich vanilla custard sauce and an overall great balance of sweet and spicy flavours – Soporific!

Cask No. 4.183 Something for everyone $157.90
13 years old; 1st fill barrel; 62.1% Lightly peated
Multi-faceted nose; apple flan, heather honey, Miso soup, briny, smoky, ashy and exotic cedar. The taste is an intriguing balance of sweet and savoury; treacle tart, peanuts and balsamic tahini salad dressing. Water adds maritime notes and in the flavour garlic Indian Naan bread.

Cask No. 93.57 Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of this! $225.90
21 years old; refill sherry butt; 58.3% Oily & coastal
The nose provides appeal from sherry-soaked Chrismas cake and balsamic-glazed pears – also toffee, tobacco, burlap and smoke, evocative of old sailing ships. The palate has cinnamon, nutmeg, iced gingerbread, toffee apples, sweet sherry, honey-glazed ribs, vanilla, wood, leather and ash.

Cask No. 127.39 Intensely tasty $156.90
11 years old; refill sherry butt; 66.7% Heavily peated
The nose has tobacco leaf, dried fish, smoke, Germolene antiseptic, soap in a coal scuttle, dark honey, bacon and caraway-flavoured rye bread. The palate suggests sea shells, oily mackerel, treacle, liquorice, Tabasco, toasted sesame seeds with honey and deep-fried Mars Bars. Wowee!

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Introducing The 1824 Masters Series

They say all good things come in threes, and today we’re rather excited to introduce not one, not two but three stunning new whiskies, Rare Cask, Reflexion and No.6. The three whiskies, together with The Macallan M, complete the incredible 1824 Masters Series.

Our whisky maker Bob Dalgarno has expertly crafted each of the whiskies to create the Series which truly honours the beautiful spectrum of natural colour in our unique single malt, bringing to life the interaction of our peerless spirit and exceptional oak casks. Sitting above the innovative 1824 Series, The 1824 Masters Series will take whisky lovers on a journey through increasingly dark and complex single malts beginning with Rare Cask followed by Reflexion then No.6 and finally to the pinnacle of the entire Series, M.

Reflexion and No.6 will be available worldwide, whilst Rare Cask will initially be available exclusively in the USA and China from specialist whisky retailers and selected bars. Explore the range at The Macallan.com

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN PREVIEWS: TOO EXCITED TO WAIT

It’s just like seeing the presents under the tree on Christmas eve: we’ve been hopping up and down in anticipation of our biggest Outturn ever! We just couldn’t wait until Friday to show you so here’s a sneaky peek under the wrapping paper at the first few bottlings from our bumper Christmas countdown list…

Light & delicate

44.62 Soft Sweet and Smooth £92.40

73.68 Summer landscape with woods £92.40

Spicy & sweet

35.105 Santa’s Christmas stocking £57.10

Juicy, oak & vanilla

121.74 A box of chocs £48.10

Peated

3.231 This little piggy went to market £98.60

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

LIMITED EDITION JOHNNIE WALKER® GOLD LABEL RESERVE™ EXCLUSIVE TRAVELLERS’ EDITION LAUNCHED IN TRAVEL RETAIL

Featuring a Striking Golden Map of the World, this exclusive Limited Edition bottle design has been created for the gifting market

Diageo Global Travel, 5^th November 2014; JOHNNIE WALKER®, makers of the world’s number one best-selling Blended Scotch Whisky¹, today launched a limited edition bottle design exclusive to travel retail – the JOHNNIE WALKER® GOLD LABEL RESERVE™ EXCLUSIVE TRAVELLERS’ EDITION.

Inspired by the spirit of travel and celebrating shoppers’ own journeys across continents, this limited edition bottle design in a striking gold-coloured, metallic coating has been embossed with a travel-inspired image of the world map.

This limited edition bottle design is aimed at the festive gift market in travel retail. The smooth, award-winning² taste of JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE super-premium Scotch Whisky transforms any celebratory moment into something extraordinary.

The striking metallic bottle coating serves to emphasise the super-premium, golden cues of the liquid: the gold-standard craft and ‘golden whiskies’ that went into creating this blend, and the special moments that this whisky is made to celebrate.

JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE EXCLUSIVE TRAVELLERS’ EDITION will be available for a limited time only from travel retail outlets worldwide where JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE is already stocked. It will be available in time for key festive occasions such as Christmas, New Year’s Day and Chinese New Year in February. The RRSP for 1ltr will be USD68, £48, €58 or AUD88.

Peter Fairbrother, Marketing Director of Diageo Global Travel and Middle East (GTME), said: “We have created this Limited Edition bottle design exclusively for our Travel Retail partners in the run up to the key festive gifting moments. JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE EXCLUSIVE TRAVELLERS’ EDITION serves to highlight our commitment to provide differentiated premium products for the travel retail channel and we are positive that the luxurious world map design captures the imagination of travellers seeking gifts that celebrate journeys.”

JOHNNIE WALKER Master Blender, and creator of this celebration blend, Jim Beveridge suggests the perfect serve to show off the versatility of JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE: “A whisky as special as this is designed to be shared, so I would suggest savouring JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE in a tall glass with crushed ice and a slice of orange, to really bring out each layer of flavour. JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE EXCLUSIVE TRAVELLERS’ EDITION is perfect to toast the occasion and transform the moment into something spectacularly memorable.”

Notes:

¹IWSR, 2013

²Awards:

2014 – Gold

Scotch Whisky – Deluxe Blend – 2014

International Wine & Spirit Competition

2013 – Silver

Scotch Whisky – Deluxe Blend – 2013

International Wine & Spirit Competition

JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE has an ABV of 40%.

TASTING NOTES

On the nose JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE is soft and buttery, carrying aromas of fresh botanicals and smooth caramel. On the tongue, sweet honeyed and floral flavours carry a smooth and creamy character. Then, the signature JOHNNIE WALKER smokiness brings all the golden flavours together in one sensationally long, lingering finish.

ABOUT THE JOHNNIE WALKER® GOLD LABEL RESERVE™ LIMITED EDITION SERIES

The JOHNNIE WALKER GOLD LABEL RESERVE LIMITED EDITION series features limited edition bottle designs, released annually to celebrate different occasions or themes. They are distinctive from the standard edition bottle, with a gold-colour coating that celebrates the golden quality of the award-winning super-premium Blended Scotch Whisky inside. The 2014 bottle is exclusive to travel retail: its design celebrates the spirit of global travel.

ABOUT DIAGEO

Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits, beer and wine categories.  These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Buchanan’s, Windsor and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Diageo is a global company, and our products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world.  The company is listed on both the London Stock Exchange (DGE) and the New York Stock Exchange (DEO).  For more information about Diageo, our people, our brands, and performance, visit us at http://www.diageo.com/.  Visit Diageo’s global responsible drinking resource, http://www.drinkiq.com/, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practice.

Celebrating life, every day, everywhere.

The JOHNNIE WALKER and GOLD LABEL RESERVE words, the Striding Figure device and associated logos are trademarks © John Walker & Sons 2014.

Please Drink Responsibly. Visit www.DrinkiQ.com

Masters of Photography: Mario Testino Edition

The Macallan brings to life its foundation stones, The Six Pillars, through the eyes of the world’s most prolific portrait and fashion photographer – Mario Testino. The Masters of Photography: Mario Testino Edition sees him interpret The Six Pillars through the characterisation of six individual personalities in his distinct, inimitable and luxurious style.

The Masters of Photography: Mario Testino Edition is truly inspired: our Master Whisky Maker, Bob Dalgarno, has selected six unique casks from over 200,000 maturing at our home in Speyside to craft this limited edition. The whisky brings together the six different casks each with their own definitive character, flavour and aroma, much like the characters in Testino’s shots, to create the perfect single malt.  The six casks, a combination of Spanish and American 100% sherry seasoned oak butt and puncheon casks, result in a truly multi-dimensional flavour experience that once drunk is gone forever.

For more information visit The Moment

Bruichladdich Octomore 6.3 Islay Barley

First release distilled using 100% Islay-grown barley. Matured in bourbon barrels this is the most heavily peated Scotch whisky ever!

Octomore 6.3 $194.53

anCnoc 18 Year Old launched

anCnoc Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky has announced a remarkable addition to its multi-award-winning collection. The new 18 Year Old joins the family of single malts crafted at Knockdhu Distillery in true anCnoc style, offering a traditionally distilled, exquisite spirit with a modern twist. It follows a string of highly successful new releases and is expected to be just as popular. anCnoc’s Assistant Brand Manager Stephanie Bridge explains:

“2014 has been anCnoc’s most ambitious year to date. We unveiled our new Peaty Collection in April, two new expressions for Global Travel Retail and our hugely popular 2000 Vintage. We are confident that our new anCnoc 18 Year Old will be extremely popular amongst single malt aficionados with its unique taste profile and striking packaging.”

The Whisky

anCnoc 18 Year Old was matured in top quality hand-selected American oak ex-bourbon and European oak ex-sherry casks. The combination of the two types of wood gives this mature expression of anCnoc an outstanding depth, complexity and balance of flavour. It’s a single malt for the most discerning drinker.

The whisky is bottled at 46% ABV, non-chill filtered and presented at its natural colour. Initially 6,000 bottles will be available in key markets worldwide. The recommended retail price is £70.

Tasting notes

Colour: Pine sap

Nose: Gentle spices and intense sweetness of dried fruits are topped with silky chocolate ganache, a squeeze of ripe orange and a mere suggestion of oiled leather. Intricate and elegant, balancing both maturity and Distillery’s signature character.

Taste: Full-bodied and bold, the palate brings aromatic spices, fruit loaf and candied lemon slices followed by a surge of vanilla custard, honey and runny caramel. European and American casks play in harmony delivering a lush and irresistibly moreish drinking experience while retaining anCnoc spirit firmly at the heart of this whisky.

Finish: Long and rewarding, the finish transforms from peppery and hot to deliciously sweet and smooth with an undertone of bitter pralines.

Notes

• anCnoc [a-nock] Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is produced at Knockdhu Distillery in the village of Knock near Huntly.
• The distillery was established in 1894 and is considered one of the most enchanting in Scotland.
• The distillery uses traditional production techniques including a time-honoured method of condensing distillate in worm tubs.
• anCnoc is known for being a modern brand with a strong focus on the contemporary, diverse whisky audience. The brand has a strong affiliation with modern arts and sponsors a number projects and galleries in Scotland and beyond.
• Other core expressions of anCnoc include a 12 Year Old, 16 Year Old and 22 Year Old, all celebrated worldwide.
• In 2012 super premium anCnoc 35 year old was launched across selected markets worldwide to much critical acclaim.
• In April 2014 anCnoc launched the Peaty Collection consisting of whiskies distilled at Knockdhu Distillery with the use of peated malt. To date these includes Rutter, Flaughter, Tushkar and Cutter, all are named after traditional tools of the trade.
• anCnoc is part of International Beverage Holdings