New – Westport
15 Year Old Burns Malt (52.5%)
Rare opportunity to enjoy Glenmorangie
with a teaspoon…
New – Glenrothes
25 Year Old Burns Malt (51.1%)
Great value 1988 vintage single cask expression
of the Speyside favorite.
DELILAH’S
Limited Edition
Blended Scotch Whisky
• Delilah’s is a Limited Release Compass Box homage to Delilah’s, Mike Miller’s legendary punk rock whisky bar in Chicago, to celebrate the bar’s 20th anniversary in 2013.
• The whisky was developed jointly by John Glaser and Mike Miller as an expression of their shared vision that great whisky should be enjoyable by all.
•Delilah’s is an intense yet subtly complex Scotch whisky aged in a mix of experimental new American oak barrels and rejuvenated American oak hogsheads.
• It has been created to be perfect served as a shot with a beer.
If you like whisky and you like to have fun, you will love Delilah’s, which has been voted many times “Best whisky bar in America”.
At Delilah’s you can drink your whisky any way you like. In classic American style, you will always find an evening special for a “shot and a beer”…
…Which is the inspiration for this whisky. We’ve created a Scotch whisky that works perfectly as a shot with a beer. To achieve this, we have chosen a combination of single malt and single grain whiskies, all of which have been aged in American oak casks, some of which were new. So you get lovely, intense richness, vanilla character and sweetness. It’s an unusual style for Scotch whisky, but one that we think is absolutely delicious drunk as a shot along with a beer.
Happy 20th Anniversary to Mike Miller and Delilah’s!
John Glaser, Whiskymaker
Availability; Limited Release of 6,324 bottles Bottled in July 2013.
Flavour Descriptors; Rich and sweet, with intense yet subtly complex, honeyed and seductive fruity notes, cereals and vanilla-cream.
Recommendations; Delicious drunk as a shot along with a beer or sipped neat with chilled water to taste.
Distillery Sourcing; Single malts from the towns of Alness and Longmorn (approx 50% of the recipe); single grain whisky from Fife (approx 50% of the recipe).
Bottling Details; Bottled at 40%. Not chill filtered. Natural colour.
We at Single Malts Direct are proud to continue our long relationship with Runrig by bottling this exclusive cask of Glen Grant 1995 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of Scotland’s musical treasures. The limited edition of 250 bottles will be available exclusively online at www.singlemaltsdirect.com from Saturday 10th August.
Kilchoman Distillery was founded in 2005 and is the first distillery to be built on Islay for 120 years. It is a farm distillery and a proportion of the barley used in production is grown and malted at the distillery. The spirit is filled into a combination of bourbon barrels from Buffalo Distillery, Kentucky, USA and oloroso sherry butts from Miguel Martin in Spain. This is the third 100% Islay release from Kilchoman and has been produced from barley grown, malted, distilled, matured and bottled at the distillery. It has been aged for 4 years in a combination of fresh and refill bourbon barrels.
Product Description
Nose: Floral and delicate with a mix of soft fruits and pear drops
Palate: The peat smoke explodes in the mouth. Sweet soft mixed fruits are very evident.
Finish: A long sweet lingering finish with a soft peaty aftertaste.
Save Lars Whisky – the Limited Fan Edition!
You recently read about the Save Lars Whisky from Belgian whisky vlogger Mark Dermul. He was met with so much response that he has decided, together with his pal Imanuel Dijk, to release 50 more bottles from this exceptional cask.
The Save Lars Whisky Limited Fan Edition can be preordered through this website: www.markdermul.be/savelarswhisky. But you will have to hurry as the bottling is limited and bottles are going fast.
Price 99 EUR + shipping.
May the Malt be with you!
August Outturn Offerings
Cask No. 37.51 $130
Speyside, Spey
Gorgeous colour and an immediate impact of sherry-related aromas: dried fruits, figs macerated in dark rum, strong black tea, crème caramel, polished oak and waxed leather – the image of a classic yacht sprang to mind. The taste is bitter-sweet, with burnt salt taffy and ginger cake, but also herbal and spicy notes (tarragon and mouth snuff) and chilli chocolate in the long finish. Immediate sulphur notes with water, but these soon give way to crème brulée, fruit cake, dried figs and old furniture. Still bitter-sweet to taste (burnt raisins, caramel); at once cooling and warming, with a hint of blackcurrant in the finish. The distillery was built by a very large man named John Smith.
Drinking tip: A reward for the crew who won the race
Colour: Deep mahogany, with rosewood lights Date distilled: March 1993
Cask: First-fill Sherry butt Alcohol: 60.0%
Age: 18 years USA allocation: 120 bottles
Cask No. 4.164 $100
Muddy Tractor
Highland, Island
Rich Madagascan vanilla with lemon barley to start on the nose. On the first sip of spirit, the panel’s composure was tested. There was an immediate welling up of eyes. The sensation was akin to sucking on full strength peppermint sweets. An old mud covered tractor remembered one of the panellists. An unexpected combination of flavours mingled favourably- lapsang souchong tea and chilli chocolate. With water the Panel got recently extinguished camp fires and a heather covered field on a hot summer’s day interspersed with wild garlic. The mouth had us chewing on smoked bacon to start, then were sucking on dusty boiled lemon sweets for our dessert.
Time to drink: Camping trip in late September
Colour: Honey over porridge Date distilled: June 2000
Cask: First-fill barrel Alcohol: 62.0%
Age: 11 years USA allocation: 78 bottles
Cask No. 27.103 $110
Fishing boats in Campbeltown harbour
Campbeltown
Terrific layering on the nose – peat-smoke, coal and bandages – seaweed, shellfish and smoked haddock – melon, coconut and burnt orange – toffee, caramel and Cornish cream teas – a complex entanglement of pleasing aromas. With water we got apple, banana, peppered fish soup and bonfires – one or two panellists got paint. The palate was big and tongue-roasting – honey, toffee and marshmallow sweetness arm-wrestling with smoke, ash and salty pork crackling. In reduction we tasted more delicate smoke and buttery mackerel (fishing boats in Campbeltown harbour?) – all balanced by sweeter flavours of crystallised orange – from peaty to sweetie. From the oldest surviving Campbeltown distillery.
Drinking tip: For watching the world go by – especially by the harbour
Colour: Honey gold Date distilled: March 2000
Cask: Refill barrel Alcohol: 52.5%
Age: 12 years USA allocation: 90 bottles
Cask No. G3.3 $180
Curious but good
Grain
The shimmering, shape-shifting nose started with wood glue, then cricket bats, cigar boxes and polished furniture, before soaring into crème caramel, buttered brioche, vanilla and cafe crème – eventually we found tea-smoked duck. To taste, we got Lapsang Souchong and Turkish coffee, banana toffee and ‘licking butterscotch off a polished table’. The reduced nose seemed slightly odd, with initial raisin, Riesling and truffle oil resolving into honey, toffee and crunchy nut cornflake sweetness. The palate became sweet and spicy, ‘curious but good’ – hickory-smoked almonds, toasted hazelnuts, sandalwood, five-spice powder and apple skins in the finish. The Haymarket-based distillery closed in 1993.
Drinking tip: A dram to offer when something different is needed – needs an open mind
Colour: Old rolled gold Date distilled: April 1986
Cask: Refill barrel Alcohol: 56.0%
Age: 26 years USA allocation: 48 bottles
Please visit the Scotch Malt Whisky Society at www.smwsa.com
The Gateway to Distilleries
Illustrated Encyclopedic Distillery-Guide upgraded
The ultimate photographic professional free guide to distilling whisky. More than 130 distilleries are illustrated and described in full detail by thousands of pictures.
“Join in a comprehensive journey to the distilleries of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Mainland Europe and Asia. Meet the people behind the labels and learn more about the making of whisky,” says the editor Ernie – Ernst J. Scheiner.
Highlighted by Ingvar Ronde in his Malt Whisky Yearbook 2013 The Gateway to Distilleries refers to historic aspects of whisky distilling and explains details of production methods. The quality of information may give whisky enthusiasts a detailed understanding of distilling whisky. People of the industry may study and virtually visit neighbouring distilleries. The presentation is accompanied with a host of information on historic and cultural highlights.
A full list of independent bottlers, whisky festivals and whisky literature is also offered. Portraits of people in the whisky industry make for a complete personal presentation.
It is an excellent teaching website about the whisky industry.
“The definitive virtual distillery tour – of a stunning number of distilleries. An unbelievable resource…” The Coopered Tot
See: The Gateway to Distilleries at www.whisky-distilleries.net
Contact: info@whisky-distilleries.net
August Outturn: What’s on the Menu?
This month’s Outturn is oozing with flavour. Whether you’re well seasoned at pairing your dram with dinner or it’s your first taste, you’ll find 15 whiskies and 15 curiously good meaty matches as their perfect accompaniment. Go on, have a butcher’s… Recipes 
August
Offers: This Months Serving Suggestion
August
TRIO: 7.92, 29.121 & 30.77 for only £165
7.92 Set the juice loose!
29.141 Bear branded by Darth’s light sabre
30.77 This is nuts!
August PAIR: 9.73 & 30.77 for only £99
9.73 Frighteningly easy to drink
30.77 This is nuts!
Butcher’s Half dozen CASE Offer: 66.43, 72.37, 9.73, 7.92, 29.141 & 30.77 for only £325
66.43 Charmingly hefty and manly
72.27 Bouquet of flowers in a new car
9.73 Frighteningly easy to drink
7.92 Set the juice loose!
29.141 Bear branded by Darth’s light sabre
30.77 This is nuts!
*30.77 is exclusive to our August offers
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 http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.
The Bowmore 1989 23 year old limited release is now available to order at The Whisky Shop – whilst stocks last!
A delicious feast of smoke-infused blood orange, winter spices, black truffles and walnut oil. A whisky to warm the coldest Islay night, this limited edition Bowmore Single Malt has been matured exclusively in port casks for 23 years, giving it a deliciously dark colour and remarkably rich flavour.
Nose: Big sweet and fruity notes. Think of marmalade or apricot jam. Only a soft hint of smoke at this point.
Palate: And we’re off – there goes the smoke and lightly peated greatness that we all love Bowmore for! Some ground spices in the background combined with candy floss and other sweet delights.
Finish: Delicate truffles that melt in your mouth combined with some of the richest overtones every tasted in a Bowmore.
Bottled at a natural cask strength of 50.8% volume. One not to be missed…
August Previews: Compare and Contrast
You may have good reason to think that two Society drams will be similar, but this is the beauty of single cask whisky: despite matching regions, casks, ages or even distilleries, no two are alike. We’ve created an exceptional new Islay pairing and picked two distinctive Speyside previews from the August Outturn to illustrate the point…
36.66 Springtime in a glass
10yo First fill ex-bourbon barrel
Speyside Spey, £44.10
The nose was light, even elusive, but we eventually discovered the fresh heart of it – grassy meadows, pear, crisp white wine, light candy, pine, strawberry tart, spring flowers, elderflower cordial, apples, heather and gorse – springtime in a glass; bright, floral and refreshing… Buy
76.107 A Moroccan tagine
24yo Refill ex-bourbon hogshead
Speyside Spey, £79.00
A rich and meaty/fruity example of the famously rich make from Dufftown’s oldest distillery. The mellow first nose is of macerated dried fruits (dark cherries, raisins, figs), edging towards fruit flan; behind this light wax (furniture polish), with cinnamon and nutmeg. The texture is big and mouth-coating; the taste both sweet and savoury… Buy
NEW! Two Faces of Islay Pair – only £125
So similar on paper, yet so diferent to experience.
Buy
53.169 Invitation to a beach barbecue
18yo Refill ex-sherry butt
The nose invited us to a beach barbecue – bonfire smoke, pork ribs in BBQ sauce, over-toasted burger buns, brown sauce… More
29.123 Hang-gliding over Islay
20yo Refill ex-sherry butt
On the nose, we found toffee, caramel, butterscotch, coconut, vanilla, snowdrops and even silverware cleaner – but no smoke… More
Last chance to snap up our July offers!
Doubles Game PAIR: 9.72 & 76.103 for £125
48 available… Buy
Grand Slam TRIO: 76.103, 64.47 & 29.138 for £179
40 available… Buy
July CASE Offer: 4.177, 48.37, G1.11, 3.204
9.72 & 76.103 for £329
2 available… Buy
Browse July Outturn
*76.103 is exclusive to our July offers
*64.47 is exclusive to our July Trio
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 http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.
