Balvenie DoubleWood 17 Year Old
Balvenie‘s 12 year old DoubleWood is one of Speyside’s most-loved drams amongst the whisky fraternity, with many whisky nuts (yours truly included) citing it as a key ‘gateway’ malt. I certainly have vivid memories of it being poured liberally in my … Continue reading >>
We couldn’t leave you to your own devices in the lead up to Xmas, so here are a few little choice ideas for you and the whisky-lover/s in your life for the big day…
IDEA NO.1
PERSONALISED DRAM 101
£20 delivered or £30 gift-boxed & delivered
A delicious blended malt (or vatted malt for the old school among us) containing 3 different Speyside single malt whiskies. Fresh, sweet vanilla and citrus. Simply order on it’s own or in combination with one of our swanky gift boxes with two Glencairn tasting glasses and then email us with the name of the lucky recipient. Easy-peasey!
IDEA NO.2
WHISKY SCHOOL
Have a whisky-lover in your life that seems to have everything? Stuck for ideas? Enrol them in a Whisky School near them in 2013! Tasting, learning, blending and everything they need to know about Whisky in a one-day shift at a Malmaison or Hotel du Vin in one of 10 locations around the UK.
IDEA NO.3
SINGLE CASK BOTTLINGS
Want something really special and unrepeatable? Try one of our single cask, single malt whiskies. Bottled in 20cl bottles in order to make them accessible – they range from our famous ‘Salty Sea-Dog’ at £29.99 delivered, up to a 37 year-old, 1974 Glen Grant for only £64.99.
IDEA NO.4
BURNS’ NIGHTS
Fancy giving the gift of a great night out in a location close to the recipient? Our Burns’ Night tastings and dinners are great value and great fun, with slightly different offerings at each venue. These range from a tasting with a little food involvement all the way up to 3-course meals with the full monty of piper and poems!
IDEA NO.5
Our Whisky Festivals are the finest way for the budding whisky-enthusiast or hardened whisky-nut to spend the day in a city near them. For a very modest price, the attendees are gifted a tasting glass, a bottle of water, a festival guide, a food voucher and an ‘under the counter’ drams token as they walk into the venue. These are once a year occasions and are looked forward to by all! We can email you PDF tickets to print and trim in plenty of time for Crimbo, plus we have a stunning, but limited ‘2 for £40’ offer on for Brighton on the 6th April.
IDEA NO.6
For only £50, you can give the gift that keeps on giving for a whole year! New members receive 2 free tasting vouchers (can be used at any tasting event priced at £20), 10% off TWL website purchases (excluding some ludicrous offers), a Glencairn tasting glass, ‘under the counter’ dram tokens at festivals they attend plus, for a limited time only, a personalised 20cl bottle of our very own Dram 101. All of this sent to you in a smart gift box to wrap in time for the big day.
IDEA NO.7
Bewildered by the choice? Why not go for a Whisky Lounge Gift Voucher and let them choose themselves? Valid for a year and available in any denomination you like (within reason!), simply order through the website or email us with your requirements if you don’t see the value you need. We then email you a PDF to print and trim to pop in a card of your choice, or for a little extra we can post out to you in our 2012 Xmas Card.
Our mailing address is:
The Whisky Lounge Ltd
Unit 3
61a Osbaldwick Lane
York, North Yorkshire YO10 3AY
United Kingdom
Loch Fyne Whiskies Stocks ‘Arran Orkney Bere’
Arran Orkney Bere
46% abv
£44.90 inc vat £37.42 ex vat
Loch Fyne Whiskies
david@lfw.co.uk
Glendronach Cask Strength, Batch 1
This new release from the ever popular Glendronach distillery is a first. This cask strength, non chill filtered and at natural colour, has no age statement. This expression was released to bridge the gap between the core range of 12, 15, 18 and 21 and the various single cask bottling’s available hence providing the strength of flavour associated with the single cask bottling’s yet not breaking the bank. This first batch comprises of 12,000 bottles. Deep crimson in colour, glistening with crimson with a palate of intense toffee and cocoa with rich sherry soaked dark fruits, zested orange exploding in the long alcohol infused chocolate fondant.
£52.99 inc VAT CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW
UK exclusive GlenDronach single cask bottling – 1993 cask # 26
This is aged 19 years old, and is from a Pedro Ximenez sherry butt, bottled at cask strength – 57.1
Appearance: Rich ruby – mahogany.
Nose: Chocolate, figs and spices in abundance.
Palate: Layers of dark chocolate and orange in harmony with nutmeg, raisins and delicate spices.
£73.99 inc VAT CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW
Santa’s Little Helper: Gift Ideas
Some Society suggestions for Santa, on the first day of Christmas which bottlings will be under the tree…
Last orders for guaranteed delivery: Wed 19 Dec (midday)
*Light, fruity dram….tasty, very easy drinking
50.50 Conifers, grasses and flowers
22yo Lowland, £68.70
Conifers, grasses and flowery perfumes before fruity sweetness emerged –apricot flan, yellow plums, lemon cake, honey, flapjacks, ginger ale and butterscotch. BUY 
*Delicate, sweet with bags of character…nurse this one!
85.24 Autumn Kitchen
27yo Speyside Lossie, £87.60
Oranges, sandalwood, tobacco, quinces, and woody spices reminded some of North African cuisine, others more of an Autumnal kitchen with stewed apples, pecan pie, fruit cake, raspberry jam, milk chocolate, crème fraîche on Madeira
cake and cognac. BUY
*Smoky seductress…mmm, and a sherry cask
29.128 Deep, dark and hugely entertaining
21yo Islay, £79.50
The nose had sweet hickory smoke, pagoda roof timbers and a boat-builder’s workbench; rich, delightful savoury notes (grilled prawns and scallops in balsamic glaze, roast pig with an apple in its mouth); plus molasses, cough syrup,
five-spice powder and leather. BUY
*Honey-sweet smoke
3.199 Life is a beach
16yo Islay, £66.50
We sniffed – and were once again young and carefree, enjoying beach bonfire/barbeques – hot stones, burnt sticks, charcoal, ash, wood smoke, scallop shells, lemon, flame-roasted pork, salt-encrusted rocks and sun cream!
BUY
*For the Hippy at Heart?
35.72 Vinyl Revival
23yo Speyside Lossie, £69.90
Richly textured whisky reminded our panel of the warming fragrance of a vinyl record in the middle of play. This was accompanied by the smell of a stir-fry with raisins and Hoisin Sauce. BUY
Stocking Fillers: Mighty Mini packs
Sweet & Savoury or a smoky Surf & Turf Seaside BBQ pack
Four-not-of-a-kind bottlings, pack and tasting book. More
Christmas Parcels on-sale NOW
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.
Hi folks. We’re rapidly filling up for the 21st auction which will run from December 28 till January 06. Accordingly, we will be unable to accept any more bottles from Wednesday, December 19.
Kind regards from Glasgow
Bill,Tam & Mick
www.ralfy.com has a tussle with a benchmark prestige Scotch with Whisky Review 323 – Royal Salute 21yo Scotch. . . do you know where this Scotch got it’s name? Find out here.
The Whisky Shop welcomes the Jack Daniel’s Holiday Select 2012 Limited Edition onto our website. Only £79.99 with free postage to all UK mainland addresses before Christmas!
Stock of this limited edition Jack Daniel’s is expected to sell out very quickly with only a limited amount of stock available for the UK market. Available for immediate delivery. Jack Daniel’s Holiday Select is the whiskey that was specifically selected and drawn from the barrels used to craft their 2012 Barrel Tree in Lynchburg.Bottled at 45.2% volume.
Simply Click Here To Buy £79.99
The Whisky Shop
Tel 0141 427 2919
info@whiskyshop.com
www.whiskyshop.com
Whisky Ramblings Via Video #29
Mark Dermul, Belgian Whiskyblogger, tries the brand new Isle of Jura 20 Year Old 1992 by Malts of Scotland. It is a bottle that has special meaning for the simple fact that it came from a cask that was selected (more or less) by a good friend of his. But is it any good?
Christmas is a time for indulgence and treating loved ones. That’s why the stunning new collection of Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky will make the perfect festive gift.
Malt lovers will adore our exquisite new range, which features a premium Glengoyne 15 year old, a new cask strength expression and an exceptional 18 year old. Our Distillery boasts the slowest distillation process in Scotland and these three new expressions have certainly been well worth the wait.
The new premium collection, on sale now, is part of an enhanced and beautifully repackaged family of malts, which includes the acclaimed 10 year old, 12 year old and 21 year old.
Handcrafted using barley dried by air – never peat – and oak sherry casks, which are seasoned for no less than six years, Glengoyne is an investment of time and infinite care.
Christmas is the season for indulging, slowing down and taking it easy, so what better way to wind down and enjoy the festivities than with a dram of Glengoyne.
Prices start from £32.99
Available from selected Waitrose, Sainsburys, ASDA, specialist independents and Glengoyne.com
