Port Charlotte The Peat Project
All new multi-vintage release of the heavily peated Bruichladdich Islay single malt Scotch.
Matured in American oak casks.
Bottled at 46% ABV
Buy – $45.45
Loch Fyne Whiskies Stocks ‘Octomore 5.1, PC10 and more from Bruichladdich’
Now in stock the new releases from Bruichladdich:
Octomore 5.1
Port Charlotte PC10 Cask Strength
Port Charlotte The Peat Project
Bruichladdich 16 The Laddie Sixteen
Bruichladdich 22 The Laddie Twenty Two
Loch Fyne Whiskies
October 2012 Outturn Offerings
Moorland after rain
Cask No. 26.84
Highlands, Northern Highlands
We immediately noted a lightly mentholated effect, then a complex of fruity and woody scents: artificial peach, fruit syrup, varnish, natural liquorice, stripped wood, sawdust, beeswax. The taste, unreduced, is sweet, herbal and fruity (‘lime pith’), with light waxiness and white-pepper spiciness. It takes a while to open up with water, then becomes very fragrant (patchouli and vanilla, meadowsweet and elderflower) and fruity (fruit salad chews, fresh pineapple, rhubarb), with a whiff of snuffed candle. The taste is sweet and waxy; the floral note is now jasmine, and the fruity element Juicy Fruit chewing gum and orange pith. The distillery stands adjacent to another of the same name, overlooking the North Sea.
Drinking tip: An early-evening dram in the Highlands, when the rain has ceased
Colour: Mid gold
Cask: Refill barrel
Age: 21 years
Date distilled: August 1990
Alcohol: 49.1%
$145
Laundry in the Bakery
Cask No. 5.35
Lowlands, Western Lowlands
Initial nose is fresh and light, elderflower cordial, green apples and lemon puffs. Deeper and sweeter notes develop quickly, giving homely and warm feeling, like baking bread or jam doughnuts. Quite hot and lively to taste, strawberries with black pepper, turning fruity and fizzy like strawberry Creamola foam, also creamy similar to a raspberry milk shake or Macchiato coffee. That creaminess carries on when adding water and aromas of apple toffee, rice pudding, butter icing, strawberry jam and doughy bread emerge. The taste is that of dark hot chocolate, brown sugar, cinnamon and blackberry jam. And to finish, from this distillery known for distilling three times, cold peppermint tea and fresh slightly soapy laundry.
Drinking tip: Whilst baking bread and doing the laundry
Colour: Tarnished copper green
Cask: Second-fill hogshead
Age: 12 years
Date distilled: June 1999
Alcohol: 54.7%
$105
Sweet, peaceful dreams
Cask No. 33.113
Islay, South Shore
You’re in a fabulous pavilion – soaking in a bubble-bath – sweetly peaceful. Nearby, a platter of exotic fruits (pineapple, papaya, lychees) and a dram of this. Across the room there’s a fire of fragrant pine cones. Outside, the eighteenth green of the world-class golf course that you have just completed way under par. The door opens and another serving girl appears with poppy seed biscuits, Italian fennel-flavoured salami and a beaming smile. You are tired but still feeling strong and proud of your achievements. Everything is in balance and harmony – the dream, the feeling, and the evocative scents and flavours from this ‘small headland’ dram.
Drinking tip: The perfect dram for unwinding after a hard day
Colour: American dry ginger ale
Cask: First-fill barrel
Age: 8 years
Date distilled: July 2003
Alcohol: 60.4%
$85
Burnt granary toast with bramble jelly
Cask No. 85.23
Highlands, Speyside (Lossie)
The first notes are typical of ex-sherry wood maturation: lightly sulphury, with struck matches, or as one put it ‘home-made egg mayo with granary bread’. The sulphur notes soon blow off, leaving yeasty, sour pumpernickel bread and baked pecan pie. At natural strength the taste is very sweet, burnt and aggressive. Water re-introduces the sulphur notes, which linger behind burnt toast spread with butter and bramble jelly or plum jam, and later treacle toffee. In the mouth, the texture is thick and smooth, the taste very sweet and slightly bitter, with raw brambles and redcurrants.
Drinking tip: Strolling in an autumnal orchard
Colour: Pale amber with khaki lights
Cask: Refill Sherry butt
Age: 12 years
Date distilled: September 1999
Alcohol: 59.4%
$105
Seaweed, sushi and Arbroath smokies
Cask No. 93.47
Campbeltown
The nose seemed unusual – salted almonds and rice crackers; seaweed, sushi, and Earl Grey tea; smoked sausage, tar, hospitals, garage workshops and farmyards. The unreduced palate was enormous – tar, smoke and ash – big time; also salty liquorice, menthol, Arbroath smokies and the seaweed found in Japanese rice crackers. Adding water brought the nuttiness and sweetness forward on the nose; we also identified flying saucers, soap and dried strawberries. The reduced palate was still interesting but more tamed – vanilla sweetness, tongue-tingling ginger and cured sausage with subtle caraway and mace flavourings. The distillery is owned by the Loch Lomond Distillery Company.
Drinking tip: A garden shed dram
Colour: Pale yellow gold
Cask: Refill barrel
Age: 9 years
Date distilled: April 2002
Alcohol: 59.7%
$90
Please visit the Scotch Malt Whisky Society of America at http://www.smwsa.com/ for further information on their single cask bottlings.
United States – Bourbon and Rye
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
On September 24th Whisky Intelligence posted THIS ARTICLE about a mysterious 45 year old Lochside. Here is the completed hand made bottle and white oak box with only 30 in existence and 14 have been spoken for already. Jim Murray has sampled this rare single malt and says it is going to be one of the highest scores he has given out. The cask came available from an estate and was purchased by Vintage Malt Whisky Company and Marcus von Albrecht & Associates; they are going to try to save the balance for a 50 year old release however this will be dependent on the remaining alcohol level.
Each bottle is numbered and the price for BC and Alberta should be available next week. This exciting project that has taken a year to bring together. More to information to follow!
Bruichladdich Octomore 5.1
‘The world’s peatiest whisky’ returns, with this the fifth annual release of Octomore from Bruichladdich distillery, Islay. Peated to 169ppm, Bruichladdich Octomore 5.1 is 5 years of age, bottled in 2012 at cask strength, 59.5% abv.
Only £97.50
(£81.25 ex vat)
Click here to buy Bruichladdich Octomore 5.1
Port Charlotte PC10 / 59.8%
Port Charlotte PC10, a limited edition annual bottling which has been created from a heavily peated Bruichladdich spirit. Matured in American oak casks for 10 years and bottled at cask strength, 59.8% vol.
Only £80.00
(£66.67 ex vat)
Click here to buy Port Charlotte PC10
Abbey Whisky
enquiries@abbeywhisky.com
www.abbeywhisky.com
0800 051 7737
Glenfarclas 1968 “My Tribute”
Private Exclusive Dinner Events
My tribute to the 175th Anniversary of the Glenfarclas Distillery Luc Timmermans has had a long love affair and collecting history with Glenfarclas and, in particular, casks dating from 1968. Not only was this the year that the distillery first began to market its single malt in its own right, and to build stocks for the future but it was also the year of his birth.
At exclusive private whisky dinners all over the world Luc Timmermans will present this exquisite whisky, the My Tribute cask, sadly Luc Timmermans last cask from the mythical 1968 vintage.
Exclusive private dinners will be organized in Belgium, Singapore & Taipei.
The presentation package holds more than just a bottle of whisky. It tells you a story about the mythical 1968 vintage and the history of this fine and independent distillery. So while you are enjoying this exquisite 44 year old whisky at home with your closest friends and family you can read and experience the story and history of this fine distillery.
The presentation pack holds :
-70cl bottle of the Glenflarclas 1968 “My Tribute” Single cask, Single Highland Malt,
-2 Crystal Cut Glencairn “My Tribute” tasting glasses
-1968 Booklet by Ian Buxton describing Luc’s story, the background and comments of Luc Timmermans and notorious whisky reviewers -Book by Ian Buxton describing the History and 175 years of independence of this great 6th Generation Family owned distillery
Since this fine cask only yielded 175 bottles only 175 people will be able to join this experience.
More information at www.glenfarclas.be
This month we offer you three (3) new bottlings under the OLD MALT CASK label –one (1) new OLD & RARE – two (2) CLAN DENNY Old Grain releases, three (3) ADVANCE SAMPLES and two (2) from the DIRECTOR’S CUT selection.
Tasting Notes for OLD MALT CASK follow:
OMC 2195 Inchgower 16 Year Old Sherry
Nose: Initial caramelised oranges warm to rich spices + polished oak
Palate: sweet & mouth coating, developing to soft leather and sweet spice
Finish: Long, now drier – runs to a more tannic/oaked/camphor character (J)
OMC 2196 Macallan 16 Year Old
Nose: Spiced + polished oak + wooden fruit boxes & ripe apples
Palate: Sweet & malty – develops to a warmingly spiced tablet style
Finish: Long, spicy with ripe bananas – now runs drier + an oak tang (J)
OMC 2199 Allt A’ Bhainne 21 Year Old Sherry
Nose: Richly spiced – sweet & nutty – carrying a hazelnut praline style
Palate: Mouth coating – warmingly spiced – still nutty + butterscotch
Finish: Long & richly spiced + a cigar boxes & cedar wood character (J)
The 3 Advance Samples OLD MALT CASK are as follows:
SMC0428 Glen Spey 10 YEARS
SMC0433 Tamdhu 14 YEARS
SMC0434 Aberlour 12 YEARS
Tasting Notes for the OLD & RARE release:
OAR 0176 Highland Park 27 Year Old
The nose opens with a sweet, macerated fruit quality that runs to a softly smoked character. Equally sweet, now mouth coatingly spiced on the palate, it carries a vanilla tablet style developing to a late burnt oak style. The finish is long – still sweetly spiced with late soft smoke lingering. (J)
Tasting Notes for CLAN DENNY:
DEN 0087 Cambus 37 Year Old
Opens sweetly spiced on the nose, carrying a tangy, caramelised oranges quality with a dark chocolate style. The palate is warming and mouth coating, still spicy with a salty butterscotch (salt toffee) character. The finish is surprisingly long with a creamy, caramel custard style plus more of those sweet spices. (J)
DEN 0070 Dumbarton 46 Year Old Bourbon
Massively and sweetly spiced early on the nose – it then softens to a truly fruity mixed bag – beyond which detect sugar and light oak. The palate is BIG, still fructiferous but carries black coffee, sweet spices and vanilla flavours – all neatly (and too swiftly) replicated on the finish. (F)
Tasting Notes for DIRECTORS CUT:
DIR 0023 Springbank 15 Year Old Sherry
Nose: Big, briny, interesting and spicy. Softens to ginger, peat, tobacco & cedar.
Palate: Still spiced, lightly oaked, salty, gristy, citric plus toffee & liquorice.
Finish: More tobacco + camphor, mocha, soft smoke + heather honey (F)
DIR 0025 Macallan 21 Year Old
Nose: Fresh & fragrant – sweet & fruity – developing to a butter plus crushed sugar style
Palate: Sweetly spiced & honey’d character carrying a barley sugar, citric quality
Finish: Medium long – still distinctly sweet – evolving to a tangy orange pith style (J)
Please note the BIG PEAT 20 cls bottles are now packed in Gift Boxes. With only 12 weeks to Christmas perhaps keep a note on your chimney about BIG PEAT @Xmas – which we hope you will consider, together with some of this month’s releases.
Yours faithfully
Fred Laing
Visit Douglas Laing & Company at www.douglaslaing.com
Whiskybroker.co.uk Update October 2012
Jane and I have celebrated the birth of our first baby, Harry, on 7th September, so the past month has been spent taking it slightly easier. No anymore though! Yesterday I bottled some 17yo Mortlach, 16yo Glen Elgin and 17 Linkwood, which can be seen in the photograph below. All 3 bottlings are priced at £37.00 and can be purchased on my online shop at http://www.whiskybroker.co.uk/acatalog/Bottlings.html. Some of you may also not be aware of the 14yo first fill sherry Benrinnes that I bottled about a month ago. About 30 bottles of this is still available on my shop, priced at £37.50. Trade prices are available to purchasers of more than 24 bottles. I can also send whisky Duty Free to anybody who is capable of receiving it (warehouse, registered consignee, temporary registered consignee etc.).
I’ve just purchased some 2005 hogsheads which should be delivered in a couple of weeks. They include: June 2005 Dalmore, December 2005 Speyburn and May 2005 Glen Moray. I’m hopeful there will also be a few others. They will be re-gauged upon arrival but should be priced around £1600.
For those of you searching for new make spirit I’ve also got some June 2012 Tullibardine barrels on their way down to me in the next week or so, to go along with the 2012 Macduff barrels I’ve already got.
Finally, in the next few weeks I’ll be bottling 60 litre shares of my 22 year old Aultmore, 22yo Bunnahabhain, 22yo Strathmill and 20 Glen Grant. If anybody is interested in buying a 60 litre share of these, please let me know now, before I put the casks back in the warehouse!
That’s all for now, but as always I’m open to suggestions, criticisms or any questions you might have.
Regards,
Martin Armstrong
WHISKY GALORE @ THE GREEN WELLY STOP
http://www.thegreenwellystop.co.uk/whiskyshop
The LAST CASK of Port Ellen from Ian Macleod is being bottled now, and we have some of this extremely rare Port Ellen for Pre Order today. From the Chieftain’s Range, this bottling is limited to circa 302 bottles worldwide, so extremely collectable.
Cask Number #1518
Distilled 1982
Aged 30 Years
Cask Strength 50.1% vol
Cask Type – Hogshead
Available to order now HERE
Contact craig@thegreenwellystop.co.uk for information. www.thegreenwellystop.co.uk
