Glenmorangie Ealanta
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Ireland – Irish
Midleton Barry Crockett Legacy Irish Whiskey 750ml – 3 available ($249.99)
Scotland – Single Malt Scotch
Bruichladdich Octomore 5.1 Comus Heavily Peated Islay Single Malt Whisky 750ml ($179.99)
United States – Bourbon and Rye
Lexington Bourbon Whiskey 750ml ($24.99)
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United States – Bourbon and Rye
Balcones Brimstone Corn Whisky 750ml – 6 available ($49.99)
Black Maple Hill, Small Batch Bourbon (1 bottle limit) 750ml ($32.99)
Jefferson’s Reserve Very Old Bourbon 750ml – 2 available ($39.99)
K&L Wine Merchants
http://www.klwines.com/
Phone: 877-KLWines (toll free 877-559-4637)
Email: wine@klwines.com
San Francisco, Redwood City, Hollywood CA
Longrow Rundlets & Kilderkins
11 Year Old second release of Springbank Distillery’s Rundlets & Kilderkins cask matured whisky.
2001 vintage bottled January 2013.
Limited release of 9,000 bottles.
EXTREMELY LIMITED RELEASE £180
First came the Springbank 10yo Rundlets & Kilderkins and now we are pleased to announce the imminent arrival of the second in the series
£57.99
Our mailing address is:
T.B.Watson Ltd.
Dumfries, Scotland DG1 2BU
1993 GlenDronach 19 Year Old “K&L Exclusive” Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky 750ml ($139.99)
Located in an isolated portion of the Aberdeenshire, amid rolling green hills and sinister shadows, GlenDronach is churning out sherry-aged single malt that simply destroys many of its competitors. This 19-year-old selection smells of Armagnac and rich caramel, with roasted fruits and big sherry aromas. The palate is soft, integrated and very smooth, even at full proof. The richness is powerful, but unlike some of their older selections, it is completely in check and balanced by the spice and alcohol in the malt. This is a bigger, more expressive version of Macallan 18. It’s going to be a huge hit!
K&L Wine Merchants
http://www.klwines.com/
Phone: 877-KLWines (toll free 877-559-4637)
Email: wine@klwines.com
San Francisco, Redwood City, Hollywood CA
Milroy’s of Soho Bottlings
We are pleased to have been featured as one of ‘London’s Best Shops 2013′ by TimeOut, thanks to a long tradition begun by brothers John and Wallace Milroy in the 1960s of travelling to Scotland, selecting choice casks from the distilleries themselves, and bottling under the Milroy’s of Soho name. We choose the casks with an aim to bottle unusual or particularly outstanding examples of single malt whisky for our discerning whisky lovers back home, and have become rare collectibles in their own right.
So to celebrate our recognition by TimeOut, this February we’re discounting our Milroy’s of Soho Bottlings for you to enjoy; buy any two and receive 10% off!
Milroy’s of Soho Single Cask, 46% ABV, Cooley 2001,
11 Year Old, Cask 3440
We are able to offer you what has become an increasingly rare independent bottling of Irish whiskey; until recently Cooley was the only privately owned distillery in Ireland. It was sold at the end of last year to multinational Beam for about £60 million – you can pick up a bottle from us for just £55! Those of you with a sharp eye will notice that this is an Irish whiskey bottled in Scotland. Just 394 bottles were produced from this single cask.
We recently held our first ever live Twitter Tasting in which our Cooley’s bottling won new fanatics, detecting notes of “Creamy lime & coconut, herbal & rye, even some coriander.” A highly unusual dram!
Milroy’s of Soho Single Cask Bottling
Triple distilled lowlander, which is smooth, mellow and easy going. Ideal introduction to Scottish Single Malts in a handy 5CL format.
£6.00
Glen Garioch 1978, Single Cask Cask Strength, Exclusive to Milroy’s of Soho
An extremely rare limited edition of just 146 bottles exclusively for Milroy’s of Soho. An elegant Glen Garioch with fruity finesse. Notes of fine eau de vie, dusty melon candy fuses with traces of wood-smoke, leaving a gentle finish of heather honey and clean powdery icing sugar.
£300.00
Our mailing address is:
Milroy’s of Soho
3 Greek Street
London, England W1D 4NX
United Kingdom
Early February 2013 Outturn Offerings
Sweet versus savoury
Cask No. 33.114 $105
Islay
Bacon, maple syrup and waffles vie with Black Forest Gateaux and sticky toffee pudding, while fried seaweed, spare ribs and black pudding tussle with lint bandages, and smoke. Sweet, rich, smoky, ashy, thick and herbal on the palate lent weight to the meatiness (pork covered in caramel). The addition of water brought forth aromas of smoked goose, salty scallops, toffee, Seville orange marmalade and fresh minty notes. The taste was chewy and rich but this time with scorched heather, burnt citrus, barbecued lamb & mint sauce, violet ice cream and caramelised onions. This distillery’s mascot is Shortie the Jack Russell.
Drinking tip: A definite foodie dram – while spit roasting a suckling pig perhaps?
Colour: Burnished gold Date distilled: August 1999
Cask: Refill ex Sherry butt Alcohol: 56.3%
Age: 11 years USA allocation: 168 bottles
Coconut shy
Cask No. 1.161 $160
Speyside, Spey
Strawberry jam and vanilla brings to mind Victoria sponge dusted with icing sugar, with Cornish ice cream, but soon light bosky notes emerge: dried grasses, high-summer dustiness, gorse flowers. The latter come through strongly in the taste, now as full-blown coconut; sweet to start, and tannic dry in the finish, with a light aftertaste of cottage cheese. It drinks well straight; with a dash of water, the aroma is lightly woody before the coconut returns, with sugared almonds and some Fruit & Nut chocolate. A creamy texture, with more coconut, and a return of the Fruit & Nut in the finish. The distillery is still owned by descendants of its founder.
Drinking tip: To accompany a Jilly Cooper novel
Colour: Pale amber Date distilled: December 1986
Cask: Refill hogshead Alcohol: 49.2%
Age: 24 years USA allocation: 114 bottles
Mon Chérie
Cask No. 7.71 $135
Speyside, Lossie
A profound, very dark chocolate, nose, reminiscent of Mon Chérie cherry-liqueur chocolates, a hint of wild mint and creamy coffee. A creamy mouthfeel at full strength, with the bitter chocolate theme continuing, joined by light coconut and sultanas: lively but pleasant. Water reveals its Speyside origins – acetone and warm vinyl, creamy and buttery; vanilla ice cream with desiccated coconut. A soft and gentle texture; not as sweet to taste as previously, with traces of orange bitters and later, canvas or hessian; a long finish, with dry coconut in the aftertaste. The distillery used to be connected to BenRiach Distillery, which supplied it with malt, by a railway line.
Drinking tip: At dusk with a loved one and a box of hand-made chocolates
Colour: Deep gold towards amber Date distilled: April 1992
Cask: Refill hogshead Alcohol: 53.0%
Age: 19 years USA allocation: 138 bottles
Moselle and nasturtiums
Cask No. 121.52 $90
Highland,Island
Soft and gentle, with vanilla sponge, tart apples (or sour apple chews), hard pears, skins of peaches and nectarines, then a sharper note, like lime, with traces of jasmine. Water sweetens it – ‘poached pears in Moselle’ – and raises estery notes of warm vinyl and ‘leaky BIC biro’, with ladies face powder, developing to warm apple pie. At natural strength the taste is hot and simple, with traces of apple and flour; water makes it sweet and spicy, with a spritzich fizz and a slightly bitter finish, like eating nasturtiums. The island on which this distillery is located is known as ‘Scotland in miniature’.
Drinking tip: A lunchtime aperitif
Colour: 9CT gold, white wine Date distilled: July 2002
Cask: Refill barrel Alcohol: 59.9%
Age: 9 years USA allocation: 60 bottles
Please visit the Scotch Malt Whisky Society of America at http://www.smwsa.com/ for further information on their single cask bottlings.
January 2013
We offer two (2) new bottlings under the OLD MALT CASK label with two (2) ADVANCE SAMPLES – four (4) from PROVENANCE together with one (1) CLAN DENNY Grain release.
Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK follow:
OMC 2225 Arran 15 Year old –
Nose: Rich spices +honey -fruit& barley + a home baked doughy quality
Palate: Carries barley + macerated dark (raisiny)fruit + treacle toffee
Finish: Sweetly spiced (camphor style) plus molasses & herbs +light oak (F)
OMC 2224 Dufftown 30 Year Old
Nose: Clean, fresh & fragrant – runs to a floral style with a hint of anise
Palate: Llight & spicy – carrying a sweet herbal character + light liquorice
Finish: Now running drier to a spicy, slightly oaked style + subtle smoke (J)
Advance Sample 20 cls.
SMC 0435 Glengoyne 12 Year Old
SMC 0437 Fettercairn 10 Year Old
Tasting Notes for PROVENANCE:
PRV 0948 Miltonduff 7 Year Old Sherry
Opens with spiced oranges and cloves on the nose (mulled wine style) and develops to polished wood plus a chili & caramel mix. For its age, the palate is surprisingly rich and distinctly mouth coating with a real chocolates-with-orange-filling style. The finish is medium long, lightly oaked running drier with a leather and dark chocolate quality – now with black cherries. (J)
PRV 0959 Fettercairn 10 Year Old
Despite being so blond – opens with an attractively crushed sugar sweetness and develops to a candied fruit quality. The palate is light and fresh, still sweet, carrying soft spices and orange zest. The finish is spiced,sweetly toffee’d, remaining fresh and light. (J)
PRV 0958 Glengoyne 12 Year Old
Clean, fresh, and sweetly sugared plus juicy barley tones – all warming nicely on the nose. Palatewise it carries a distinctly chewy Maltiness before soft spices, toffee and a light oakiness gather – all being rather neatlyreplicated on the finish. (F)
PRV 0957 Caol Ila Young and Feisty
The nose opens distinctly Islay in style, balanced with a malt mash and a sweetly vanilla’d quality. This sweetness continues on the palate and develops to a sweet liquorice and soft warm tar character. Sweet smoke plus honey on distinctly burnt toast linger on the long finish. (J)
Tasting Note for CLAN DENNY Old Grain:
DEN 0089 Invergordon 46 Year Old
Lightly oaked initially on the nose – with burnt sugar – then citric fruity tones appear till vanilla custard and sweet baking ease in later. The palate is sugary sweet then vanilla from its Bourbon cask (plus some of its oak)is released – with more candied citric flavours – all running to a finish that carries a syrupy sweet set of fruit-inthat- custard flavours. (F)
We hope you have a good start of 2013, which we hope will be happy – and above all HEALTHY, for you and your family.
Yours faithfully
Fred Laing
CSN Wine & Spirits
1716 Centre St N
Calgary, Alberta
T2E 2S4
p (403)296-0240
Longrow 11 Year Old Rundlets & Kilderkins
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber
Nose: Smoke is easy to identify from the beginning and is soon joined with medicinal notes and subtle burning embers. On returning to nose, sweetness such as toffee apple is more pronounced.
Palate: Both peat and smoke are detected yet it is simultaneously sweet, particularly toffee and fudge. This is followed with the taste of liquorice. Rich and oily from its maturation in small casks, it gives an impression of being older than its 11 years.
Finish: Long, smooth and sweet. Slow and lingering hint of peat with peat reaching a crescendo with a strong peaty aftertaste.
For the most part of the 17th and the 18th centuries Campbeltown was a smuggling centre, an occupation that was supported by the area’s geography, topography…. and the local gentry. One famous story tells of an old woman living in the town who was up before the Sheriff for smuggling. She had been found guilty and before passing sentence the Sheriff told her:
£58.99 inc VAT
Springbank 21 Year Old
Tasting Notes:
Colour: Rich gold
Nose: Sherry is the dominant aroma, accompanied by classic Christmas cake ingredients of raisins, sultanas, almonds and marzipan. You could nose this all night, the possibilities are infinite.
Palate: Rich and creamy, bursting with flavour. Great oily texture like the previous edition. Concluding with a hint of treacle and salt. A whisky full of rich flavour that will not let you down.
Finish: Goes on and on, deliciously sweet. Develops on the tongue for eternity, evolving continuously.
£199.00 inc VAT
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