2019 bottling year of the single malt from the Isle of Skye distillery. Always a bestseller at TWB and it’s not hard to see why; a sweetly rich and warming dram with just a hint of smoke. Unmissable this festive season!
Buy – Talisker 18 Year Old – £85.76
We know how hard picking presents can be, so consider this a helping hand. We’ve chosen a selection of gifts to cover all bases so that no matter who you’re buying for, we’ve something to fit the bill. If you still can’t find what you want or you’d like some more advice, feel free to visit our website and use our Live Chat function to speak to a member of staff. We’ll be more than happy to help!
We are almost at the end of the year for the releases, it has been a busy year one way or another, we have seen some amazing whiskies and more recently the introduction of a new world range of spirits like the new single cask Armagnac, Cachaca and Calvados with the additional vintages added to the Cognacs.
What will be next? Time will tell I guess, but before we try to guess too much – let us look at the current range.
Some classic drams have been added to the release like the very enjoyable Speyside distillery 28 years old. This dram is one to look at, as it’s a great age and taste, excellent in the finish and it seems to grow with every sip.
We have an incredible Ord distilled in 2008, that’s a true classic of the distillery style. This one has rich and complex mid palate tones, that lead to a really nice and creamy finish, adding some twists and turns as it draws you back in again and again.
Deanston is back with the rum cask! If you have ever had a Deanston then you will understand how great a quality distillate this can be! Especially with the rum cask, their product keeps the familiar elements of Deanston, whilst offering somewhat different perspective to their delicious range of flavours. We can’t recommend Deanston enough as a single malt!
Sherry cask whisky is also included in this release, but with a twist, as it’s a single cask Grain from Strathclyde distillery. You will be expecting extremely elegant, smooth and rich offering.
Also a charming Glentauchers is included in this release, being a classic Speyside single malt packed with flavour that never fails to deliver. It’s one of those surprising younger vintages that stand out nicely.
Benrinnes is another favourite here in London! This vintage was distilled a few months after the London Shop was opened in 1995, so this is a great dram to talk about with the anniversary year coming up in 2020.
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Kilchoman 2006 Single Cask – Loch Fyne Exclusive
70cl / 56.9% abv
Loch Lomond 2002 Cristie Kerr
70cl / 48.1% abv
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Highland Park 40 Year Old 2019 Release
70cl / 43.2% abv
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Whisky of the Year – the winner…
It’s that time again – the announcement of our Whisky of the Year. And the winner is, drum-roll, please…
Congratulations to Benromach! We’re big fans of the distillery’s old-fashioned, lightly-smoky style and we’re really pleased that our judges agreed. It’s available from The Whisky Exchange website with a discount to celebrate its win – Benromach 15 Year Old.
Here are my tasting notes:
Nose: Chocolate, caramel and wood smoke lead to a hint of new-trainer-sole rubber and rich maltiness – Shreddies cereal and malt extract. The smokiness winds its way through the gaps, becoming wispy coal smoke trickling out of a stove filled with baking sultana-studded apples.
Palate: Rich, thick and rounded, with sultanas and raisins quickly overwhelmed by spicy peat smoke. The baked apples from the nose are revealed as the smoke blows away, sprinkled with spicy cinnamon and mint leaves. Chocolate-covered liquorice and Hob Nob biscuits appear, along with a touch of charcoal.
Finish: Singed fruit cake and sultana-heavy fruit loaf fade slowly away to leave tingling menthol, leafy mint and cocoa.
Comment: Peatier than expected, but with all smoke wrapped up in fruit and chocolate. Supremely well-balanced, with a long and leafy finish.
This year we changed the way we nominated and judged the whiskies, opening it up to you – the public. We asked you to nominate whiskies on our website for a month, and then took the top three from The Whisky Exchange’s panel and the top three public choices to create a six-whisky short-list. We then made them into blind tasting sets and sent them out around the world. Votes were cast online as well as at our yearly Whisky of the Year blind tasting, and I pulled them all together to choose the winner – Benromach 15 Year Old!
But now the big reveal – what the whiskies in our blind tasting set were:
Whisky A – Kavalan Single Malt (Runner-up)
Whisky B – Glenallachie 12 Year Old
Whisky C – Balvenie 14 Year Old Caribbean Cask
Whisky D – Benromach 15 Year Old (Winner)
Whisky E – Port Askaig 8 Year Old
Whisky F – Lagavulin 16 Year Old
If you want to try your way through the short-list yourself, we now have non-mystery versions of the set available – Whisky of the Year tasting sets. The voting might be closed, but you can still see if you agree with our judges.
Sixteen sleeps ‘til Christmas! If you’re anything like us, you’ve still got some stockings to fill. Fear not, though – we can hear sleigh bells! Our Whisky Sleigh is back and, as per the annual tradition, is dropping a gift in every order that’s placed today.
That’s right: every order placed between 00:00 and 23:59 GMT on 9 December 2019 will receive a little token of appreciation for shopping with us this Christmas. A single present will be allocated to each order – a little gift of Christmas spirit, from our family to yours.
Gifts include £10 Gift Cards, Perfect Measure Glasses, and Perfect Measure whisky and spirit samples. Plus, six lucky customers will find a bottle of Jim Murray’s World Whisky Of The Year 2020 – 1792 Full Proof bourbon from Barton Distillery.
We Have The Holidays All Wrapped Up!
With our hand-wrapped festive gift wrapping and a huge selection of whiskies and rums, we have the Holidays all wrapped up!
