Today we’re delighted to be welcoming back some familiar faces to our Inveraray store. Oh, how we’ve missed you!

We’ll be open from Thursday to Monday (10-4pm) with all staff keeping local customers safe in store while they search for the perfect summer-in-the-garden dram, or a top-up of their usual tipple! 🥃

Don’t forget, you can Click & Collect your orders on our website and pick up your bottle when it’s ready in store. We’ve recently added even more incredible drams to our whisky sale online, just to tempt you a little bit… 👀

Shop Sale

Check Out These Amazing Kilchoman Bottlings You Don’t Want to Miss!

Kilchoman ImpEx Cask Evolution Special Edition

2006 14 yr 53%

Commemorating 10 years in the U.S.

Listen to Anthony describe this dream dram and its significance 🥃

This Special Edition Single Cask of the ImpEx Cask Evolution series was selected by Anthony Wills, Kilchoman Master Distiller, to celebrate 10 years of Kilchoman in the US.

This 14 year old Scotch was fully matured in a 1st Fill Bourbon Barrel and was only the 32nd cask ever to be filled at Kilchoman, making it one of the most significant Kilchoman casks ever to be bottled.

This is one of the first casks Kilchoman Distilled – Cask #18 was filled in 2006. Only 208 bottles emerged, as the amount of years it was in the cask allowed the greedy angels time to enjoy their share.

This cask encapsulates Kilchoman’s unique balance of citrus, peat smoke, and sweetness.  A style of Islay whisky that sets Kilchoman apart.

It comes in a premium blue box, the same one that very special, one of a kind Kilchoman releases come in, as opposed to the standard ImpEx Cask Evolution red box, making it more unique.

NOSE: Marzipan, citrus sweetness, floral soft fruit, and light peat smoke.

PALATE: Bright, fresh, lemon cheesecake, tropical fruit, and salty peat smoke.

FINISH: Rounded yet assertive with lasting citrus and stone fruits.

“This Single Cask is a fitting tribute to the Scotch Whisky community in the US.  As a relative minnow amongst the giants of the Scotch Whisky Industry, Kilchoman has always relied on the passion of whisky enthusiasts to share their experiences of our whiskies.  Nowhere is that passion more apparent than in the States” – Anthony Wills, Founder, Kilchoman

“This is very special to my heart as it commemorates the 10 years of ImpEx and Kilchoman bringing these beautiful whiskies to the US consumer.” – Sam Filmus, President, ImpEx Beverages

Loch Gorm 2020 46%

Loch Gorm’s annual release has been a fan favorite for many years with its beautiful Sherry influence. It has a long and rich history earning awards and accolades, like the 91 points it got from Whisky Advocate in 2018, earning the #15 spot in the ‘Top 20 Whiskies of 2018’. The 2019 Loch Gorm earned 91 points as well.

This year’s expression is a 21 cask vatting of whisky from 2007, 2008, 2009, & 2011, all fully matured in Oloroso Sherry Butts.

15,500 bottles were produced for worldwide distribution, 1,920 of which came to the US.

NOSE: Sweet maltiness, sooty peat smoke and citrus sweetness, with light cinnamon, juicy raisins, and sultanas.

PALATE: Toffee, smoked meats, sherry sweetness with layers of ripe fruit, honey, and hints of orange peel and sea salt.

FINISH: BBQ smoke, dark chocolate, with apples, pears, plums, raisins, and lasting oak spice.

Am Burach 46%

Gaelic for “the mess”, it’s a great story of how it came to be, and it’s an expression that you will never find again.

“A somewhat complicated nine year maturation, a vatting of Bourbon and Sherry matured Kilchoman combined with Port Cask Matured (mistakenly), then a further Bourbon barrel maturation ahead a six month finish in Ruby Port casks.”

10,550 bottles were produced for worldwide distribution, 1,350 bottles were available for the US. This one was so in demand that is was sold out before it even hit our warehouse with people begging for more.

Regardless of how Am Bùrach came to be, its depth of character sets it apart. Rich, fruity, and sweet on the nose, it coats the palate with red fruits, creamy sweetness, and herbaceous peat smoke on the palate before a long finish of dried fruit and citrus sweetness.

NOSE: Red fruits with light citrus, earthy peat smoke, and hints of creamy sweetness.

PALATE: Redcurrant jam, cinnamon, with layers of citrus, floral sweetness and coastal influence.

FINISH: Layers of cooked red fruits, vanilla, peat, and lasting intensity.

Thanks again for being part of our family and enjoying these fine whiskies with us!

We’ll be in touch about other exciting news as the year drinks on … 🥃

Please feel free to reach out for more details on the bottling: office@impexbev.com

Open again from 15th July

We are delighted to announce that the main business will be open from tomorrow (15th July). The business hours are as follows:

Filling Station – 7am until 9pm
Snack Stop Café – 7am until 8.30am & 3.45pm until 9pm
Main business – 8.30am until 5pm

Whilst it is fantastic to be re-opening, our Food & Beverage departments will have a restricted menu until further notice. We respectfully ask whilst in the restaurant queue that you keep your masks on until you reach your table.

We will have plenty of hand sanitising stations, please use them. We will also have clear signage to assist with social distancing.

If you have any comments to make to us, please come and speak to a member of our team directly. We want you to enjoy your visit and are doing everything we can to keep both our customers and staff safe.

We look forward to welcoming you back into our business.

#StaySafe #SoupsOn

Fiona Robertson, Partner, The Green Welly Stop

The Green Welly Stop

Tyndrum

CRIANLARICH, PERTHSHIREFK20 8RY

United Kingdom

2006 Balblair 13 Year Old K&L Exclusive Cask No. 76 Single Spanish Oak Oloroso Seasoned Butt Cask Strength Single Cask Highland Single Malt Whisky (750ml) (ships as 1.5L)

$109.99

View

The wonderful Balblair Distillery has long been under the radar. In the little town on Edderton on the northern coast of Scotland at the southern edge of the Dornoch firth, this great distillery has never garnered the fan fare of it’s prominent neighbor just a few miles down the road in Tain. The distillery was originally founded 1790 and then rebuilt 1895, but closed during World War I. It wasn’t until 1949 when Hiram Walker fired the old plant up again. Many buildings from the 1870s still stand on the site, but the excellent malt has remained more less unknown to modern drinkers. It was not until Inver House Distillers took control of the distillery in 1996 that we began to see the malt available internationally and a large investment by Thai Beverage in 2001 set a course for a new chapter in the excellent distillery’s history. Over the last two decades the distillery has become famous for it’s vintage bottlings and odd squat bottles. Our buyers, Andrew and David, visitedt the distillery in Spring of 2019 to select a cask and meet distillery manager John Macdonald. This barrel is Spanish Oak, unlike the vast majority of oloroso butts we see. IN addition, it held for many years oloroso wine vinified outside of the Sherry triangle about 140 miles North East in the region of Montilla Moriles. The combo of Spanish Oak and old Montilla is a rare and welcome surprise. The resulting malt is a big dark “oloroso” bomb with powerful spice and unctuous texture.

We’re delighted to announce that as of Monday 3rd August, we will be welcoming visitors to the distillery once again for our Tour & Tastings!

We’re now taking bookings from this date onwards and will continue to run our tours three times a day, seven days a week, at 11am, 1pm and 3pm.

Please note: our café remains closed until further notice.

If you are going to be joining us on one of our tours, please read the following information before visiting:

HELP KEEP OTHERS SAFE

Please do not visit us if you have COVID-19 symptoms. These include: a high temperature, a new continuous cough and loss of or change to sense of smell or taste.

Please bring your own face covering which should cover your mouth and nose and will need to be worn during tours.

We will also be asking people to use hand sanitiser which will be available at the distillery.

SOCIAL DISTANCING

We have decided to limit the number of people on each tour to a maximum of 8 people.

Social distancing between bubbles at 1 metre + must be adhered to at all times.

AMENDED LAYOUT

We have adapted our tours and the layout at the distillery to ensure the safety of our staff and visitors.

TOILET FACILITIES

Toilets will be open for those joining us on a tour, including disabled access.

Pre-booking is required, so if you’d like to visit us and learn more about how we craft our range of Outstanding Natural Spirits, please head to our website by clicking on the button below to check availability and book your place.

We hope to see you soon!

BOOK A TOUR

Cotswolds Distillery
Phillip’s Field, Whichford Road
Stourton
Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire CV36 5EX
United Kingdom

Ardbeg Wee Beastie 5 Year Old

 70cl · 47.4% ABV

£38.95

ADD TO BASKET

Ardbeg Wee Beastie has been matured for just 5 years, making it the untamed ‘enfant terrible’ of the whisky world. Whereas most single malts seek the smoothness and balance of older age, Ardbeg know that more time in cask tends to subdue the smokiness that so many whisky fans love. By boldly proclaiming the whisky’s relative youthfulness, Ardbeg invite consumer curiosity and promise a monstrously smoky experience.

New release alert:
Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak 2020 🥃

The latest release from Macallan’s Sherry Oak range is here – and what a dram it is! Matured in sherry casks from Jerez, this is a whisky filled to the brim with notes of dried fruit, orange, ginger and cinnamon.

We know this one is going to be popular – grab a bottle before it goes!

As always, enjoy free UK delivery on all orders over £25.

Starward is an exciting micro-distillery producing modern, fruity, flavoursome whiskies in Melbourne, Australia. The whiskies are produced from Australian barley, and matured in Australian wine barrels, both fortified and table wine. These barrels are often still saturated with sun drenched Australian wine, imparting a distinctive texture and fruitiness to the whiskies. Australia’s warm climate ensures rapid maturation and extraction of colour, flavour, and texture from the cask. Starward has adopted and adjusted whisky making techniques from around the world to produce whiskies that are a true reflection of the place and people who make it.

BROWSE OUR FULL STARWARD RANGE HERE

Located in Dufftown in Speyside, Glenfiddich produces the world’s most popular single malt whisky. William Grant and his nine children built the distillery in 1886 with the aid of a single stone mason. Now run by the fifth generation of the Grant family, the distillery has grown to become one of the largest in Scotland. In 1963, Glenfiddich launched their first single malt, effectively creating the modern single malt whisky category at a time when blends accounted for nearly 100% of Scotch whisky production. Glenfiddich’s character is traditionally light, delicate, and approachable with flavours of citrus, apple, and pear. Older whiskies often feature a higher proportion of ex-Sherry casks, adding weight, fruit, and complexity.

BROWSE OUR FULL GLENFIDDICH RANGE HERE

WHISKI ROOMS
Reopening Friday 17th July

We are super excited to be opening back up again – it’s been a long few months but we have been busy and our new setup is super safe for your to come back to with increased hygiene and safety measures – we can’t wait to see you for a great Scottish welcome!

Reserve a Table Now

Keeping you Safe

We are committed to operating with the highest standards of safety to protect the health and wellbeing of guests and our team.  We look forward to serving you soon.

STAFF HEALTH – we will perform daily health screenings of our team members

SOCIAL DISTANCING – tables will be spaced apart to maintain a safe environment

PPE – face masks, gloves and visors will be available for team members

HAND CLEANLINESS – all staff will use hand sanitiser alongside frequent hand washing

ENHANCED CLEANING – we will adhere to strict cleaning regimes and disinfect high touch areas

HAND SANITISER – available for all customers around the venue

WHISKY TASTINGS

Join us for a whisky tasting – due to the size of our venue, numbers are greatly reduced but that doesn’t stop us having fun and trying some great scotch whiskies in a fun environment – no experience necessary!

See our Whisky Tastings

Whiski

4-7 NORTH BANK STREET

EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, City ofEH1 2LP

United Kingdom