Get your hands on the full Game of Thrones Single Malt Collection

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Winter is here! With the seventh and final series of Game of Thrones released in 2019, this collection of eight limited edition single malts is a true celebration of the hit HBO series. Each bottle in the collection is inspired by one of the seven Houses of Westeros and The Night’s Watch. Released by Diageo in collaboration with the makers of the series, each of the expressions features a unique design taken from the house sigils.

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Orders dispatched w/c 3rd June

The collection consists of eight 70cl bottles including:

Cardhu Gold Reserve – House Targaryen – 40% abv
Clynelish Reserve – House Tyrell – 51.2% abv
Dalwhinnie Winter’s Frost – House Stark – 43% abv
Lagavulin 9 Year Old – House Lannister – 46% abv
Royal Lochnagar 12 Year Old – House Baratheon – 40% abv
The Singleton of Glendullan Select – House Tully – 40% abv
Talisker Select Reserve – House Greyjoy – 45.8% abv
Oban Bay Reserve – The Night’s Watch – 43% abv

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We’ve been really busy since you’ve been away and redesigned The Whisky Shop website! As well as getting a brand new facelift you’ll find the new website much easier to navigate. Don’t worry, we still have the same fantastic selection of whiskies from new releases, exclusives, old & rare, customer favourites and everything in between!

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GlenDronach Parliament

Our Malt of the Month for May is the magnificent GlenDronach Parliament. Matured in a combination of the finest Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez sherry casks for a minimum of 21 years, this fine Highland dram has won numerous accolades, including a Gold Medal at the San Fransisco World Spirits Competition…

Available at Abbey Whisky for only £105!

*Limited stock at this price*

Liz, Paul & Charlie

Why is our whisky blog called the ANGEL’S BLOG?

Named after a few things really, the angel’s share; the amount of alcohol (whisky) that is lost to evaporation when the liquid is being aged in oak barrels. Up to 2% (in Scotland) of the volume of the cask can be lost each year through evaporation, called the angel’s share. Paul’s dad; he has been an angel for some 60 years or so, liked a dram when he was with us (I was told by my Uncle Harry) and I believe he is still taking his share in that distillery in the sky. No, not Heaven Hill, that is American and worldly, the other heavenly distillery with a unique membership policy. Our Paul; he writes almost all of the whisky blogs, with a few being from friends around the whisky world now and then. Club Patron (It did used to be a club) is another Maclean, this time of the Charlie variety; Charles Maclean. We know Charlie well (cousin) early on Paul (McLean) asked Charlie did he wish to become a club member, his reply; Yes, I will be your Club Patron.  And so it came to pass … you can find him here; https://whiskytours.scot/charlie

Our blogs https://whiskytours.scot/blog are a blend of interviews, product launches and information, stories and observations, many of which are Paul’s views, good or bad, Paul is no literary giant, mostly he struggles with grammar etc, so Liz often amends his work. He writes as if he is talking to you, we have had so many people on tour and email, saying they prefer it this way, so – he carries on! This is quite ironic when he numbers amongst his friends authors Charlie Maclean and Ingvar Ronde – who DO write whisky books (Very well). Not only does he continually write these whisky blogs (and whiskey blogs), but also does every blog for our McLeanScotland web; http://mcleanscotland.com At the top of this blog you will see an angel reading a whisky book … or is it Paul’s blog?

So, if you like this drivel he writes, carry on logging in every week, as Liz will place another online, sometimes monthly when he is away on tour. Afraid there is no stopping him, maybe it’s something to do with being a west coast child of Scottish/Irish blend? They do tend to chat a bit.

BrewDog, Compass Box, Duncan Taylor and Zuidam have huddled together to release a new range of ‘boilermaker’ whiskies. The launch has been timed to coincide with the renaming of the brewery’s LoneWolf distillery as BrewDog distillery. The three whiskies in the new series have been created to bespoke recipes designed to pair with BrewDog’s beers as a boilermaker or hauf and hauf serve. Transistor, a blended Scotch by Compass Box’s John Glaser, is designed to partner with BrewDog’s flagship beer, Punk IPA. A blend, the whisky contains a ‘good proportion’ of grain from Cameronbridge, as well as malts from Linkwood, Teaninich, Dailuaine and Clynelish, with some maturation in French oak? Bottled at 43% abv, described as ‘pineapple, orange and lychee’ notes, with a sweetness that is cut through by the ‘spiky, tropical, hoppy bitter notes of the beer’. Who writes these notes?

Torpedo Tulip is a 100% rye whisky from Millstone, made at the Netherlands’ Zuidam distillery. Matured exclusively in ex-oloroso Sherry casks and bottled at 46% abv, the whisky is described as ‘rich stone fruit’ and ‘underlying spice’, and has been chosen to pair with BrewDog’s American pale ale, Dead Pony Club.

Skeleton Key is a blended Scotch whisky created in collaboration with Duncan Taylor to pair with BrewDog’s Jet Black Heart stout or Zombie Cake porter. Containing a proportion of peated Bunnahabhain and a high ration of single malt, including whisky from Glentauchers distillery, Skeleton Key (46% abv) is described as having ‘bold, maritime and peat smoke aromas’ which pair with the chocolate and coffee notes in the beers.

All three no-age-statement expressions are available to purchase in all BrewDog bars as well as through its online retail site for £52 for a 70cl bottle – a wee bit high if you ask me. The brewery recently appointed ex-Johnnie Walker boss David Gates as its managing director of BrewDog Distilling Co., the company’s spirits arm. BrewDog opened its own distillery at its Ellon site in 2016, and following years of barley, yeast, distillation and maturation trials, has now settled on a recipe for its flagship single malt. Now known as BrewDog distillery, the site is set up to produce a number of spirits, including vodka and gin. The LoneWolf brand will continue to be used for BrewDog’s gin. How will Diageo etc react to this news re their drams?  Paul McLean, Perth.

A personal blether from Paul McLean. www.whiskytours.scot

Glenfarclas 2019 Events Calendar

For more information about any of the below events, please contact info@glenfarclas.com

Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, 1st – 6th May 

Robbie Drams Festival, Ayr  Town Hall, Ayrshire Scotland, 1st June

Whisky Fringe, Royal Mile Whiskies, Edinburgh Scotland, 9th – 11th August

Whisky Social, Waterfront Hall Belfast, 14th September

Whisky Exchange, Old Billingsgate, London, 28th – 29th September

The Wee Dram Festival, Bakewell, Derbyshire, 19th October

Whisky Live, The Printworks, Dublin, 22nd – 23rd November

Glasgow Whisky Festival, Hampden Park Glasgow, 9th November

After an astonishing 46 years service, mashman Alistair Miller has officially retired from Glenfarclas.  He is pictured here with John and Ishbel Grant, who presented him with gifts including a bottle of 1972 Family Cask (distilled just before he started with us) and a framed picture of the distillery.  Many thanks for all your years of hard work, Ali!

Keepers of the Quaich Spring 2019 Banquet which was held at Blair Castle.

(In the picture on the left – Shareen Yew of Single Malt Sdn Bhd, with her husband, Ben Lip and in the picture on the right George Grant of Glenfarclas, Michael Urquhart of Gordon & MacPhail, Ian McWilliam of Glenfarclas)

Sunday, 3rd March saw the official “handing over” of a special 3 litre Glenfarclas bottle which John Grant donated to the CairnGorms Branch of The Gillies Club (Australia).  The bottle will be the perpetual trophy for the ‘Norman Case Whisky Of The Year Award’.

Norman Case was the first person to import Glenfarclas to Australia, so it was our honour to contribute to this memorial award in his name.

Macallan

The Macallan is one of the most highly revered whisky brands in the world. It is the third largest selling single malt whisky in the world and the second largest by value.

Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak 2018

This annual release of The Macallan’s popular 18 Year Old Sherry Oak is matured exclusively in sherry seasoned casks, built from both Spanish and American oak, providing a beautifully dark flavour with rich aromas. The nose opens with dried fruits, ginger and hints of citrus with vanilla and cinnamon. The palate is rich in dried fruits, spices, orange, cloves and wood smoke, before a full and lingering finish with sweet toffee, ginger and a hint of smoke.

70cl / 43% abv

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Macallan 25 Year Old Sherry Oak 2018

The sumptuous Macallan 25 Year Old Sherry Oak is becoming harder to find and delivers everything you would expect from an older, sherry-matured expression from this highly-revered Speyside distillery. The nose has citrus notes balanced with cinnamon, sherry and wood smokehe palate is full and rich, with dried fruits and a hint of wood smoke and long smokey and spice finish.

70cl / 43% abv

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Macallan No 6 1824 Series

This incredibly rare Macallan has been crafted from a hand selected first fill sherry seasoned oak cask resulting in a whisky that is full of the most luxurious rich flavours imaginable. To match this unparalleled whisky comes the sublime, handcrafted crystal decanter in which the whisky is housed in. Luxury defined!

70cl / 43%

£2,800.00 – Buy Now

Macallan M

Introducing the final part of the Macallan 1824 series. A whisky to get the heart racing, incredibly the Macallan M contains whisky from as far back as the 1940’s. Furthermore the whisky boasts possible one of the most luxurious of presentions we have ever seen. Housed in a crystal decanter created especially for this expression by legendary fashion designer Fabien Baron and crafted by Lalique who also collaborated with Macallan on earlier expressions. The Whisky is spectacular with rich, smooth notes balanced with the softest hint of wood smoke!

70cl / 44.5%

£3,700.00 – Buy Now

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ralfy talks ‘Game of Thrones’ stuff !

https://youtu.be/n8CC9PjK1WY