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Exclusive single casks from Caol Ila, Bunnahabhain, Ledaig, Aberlour, Dalmunach, Girvan, Balblair, LIttlemill and more, only at TWB. Burns Malt® & Burns Grain® single cask Scotch whiskies are exclusive to The Whisky Barrel online store alongside carefully selected casks from our independent bottling partners including Hunter Laing & Co. of Glasgow and Berry Bros & Rudd of London. You won’t find these great whiskies anywhere else!

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I like grain…technically, we all do. But as a lighter, easier and more affordable style of whisky, it really can rock the world of whisky drinkers.

This Single Grain from Clonakilty is finished in Bordeaux casks, prior to which it was sat in ex-bourbon and both have imparted some wonderful flavours of strawberry, chocolate, cherry and caramelised white chocolate. These are all things I love and now there’s booze too!

Another fun and very well put-together example of Clonakilty’s style!

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Bimber Distillery reveals 2021 Country Collection 

2021 Country Collection consists of twenty-four cask strength single cask London single malt whiskies  

Eight new countries added to the growing Country Collection roster  

London’s Bimber Distillery today announced the release of its 2021 Country Collection of single cask, single malt whiskies. Following the well-received 2020 Collection which sold out worldwide, new editions have been exclusively bottled for Australia, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Taiwan and the USA.

2021 sees eight new locations added to the Country Collection roster with Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, South Africa and Switzerland all receiving their first exclusive Bimber releases.

Each exceptional cask was selected to showcase Bimber’s award-winning single malt spirit with the unique personalities derived from a variety of different cask types including: ex-bourbon; Pedro Ximenez finished ex-bourbon; madeira finished ex-bourbon; ruby port and ex-rye whiskey casks.

Bimber’s 2021 Country Collection continues the worldwide expansion of the London-based distillery and recognises the flourishing demand for the craft producer’s single malt whiskies. Fourteen expressions will be released over the summer with the remaining ten releases following later in the year.

Each of the Country Collection Editions were crafted to Bimber’s exacting standards. The spirit was produced from the distillery’s single farm barley and malted on a dedicated floor at Warminster Maltings before being fermented for seven days in bespoke, on-site constructed American oak washbacks. Distillation took place in Bimber’s customised stills, which possess an increased copper surface area, resulting in a light and fruity, but layered new make spirit.

Speaking of the upcoming release of the 2021 Collection, Bimber Distillery spokesperson Matt McKay said: “Each expression within our 2021 Country Collection celebrates the individuality of our growing selection of cask styles. Our exploration of the flavour possibilities of cask experimentation reflects how our traditional processes can be employed to produce impactful and delightfully flavourful results from a wide variety of wood types. As the distillery grows, we are excited to be able to share these exceptional single cask releases with an ever-widening number of worldwide Bimber drinkers.”

Bimber 2021 Country Collection  The initial expressions of the 2021 Bimber Country Collection include:

Cask #182 (Ex-bourbon), 58.5% ABV               -Produced for Austria
Cask #194 (Ex-bourbon), 58.4% ABV               -Produced for Belgium
Cask #150 (Ex-bourbon), 59.5% ABV               -Produced for China
Cask #254 (Ex-rye whiskey), 58.5% ABV          -Produced for Denmark
Cask #30 (Ex-ruby port), 58.9% ABV               -Produced for France
Cask #104 (Ex-bourbon), 59.7% ABV               -Produced for Germany
Cask #47 (Ex-ruby port), 58.7% ABV               -Produced for Hong Kong
Cask #101/7 (PX Finish), 57.4% ABV                -Produced for Japan
Cask #224 (Ex-rye whiskey), 58.2% ABV          -Produced for The Netherlands
Cask #29 (Ex-ruby port), 58.7% ABV               -Produced for Poland
Cask #102/8 (PX Finish), 57.6% ABV                -Produced for South Africa
Cask #178 (Ex-bourbon), 58.1% ABV               -Produced for South Africa
Cask #205 (Ex-bourbon), 58.6% ABV               -Produced for Switzerland
Cask #105/4 (Madeira Finish), 57.7% ABV        -Produced for Taiwan

A further 10 single cask releases will follow later in 2021 for distributors based in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Israel, Italy, Nigeria and the USA.

About Bimber  

Bimber Distillery produces world-class single malt whisky, handcrafted with passion in West London. As a leading distiller of English whisky, we combine generations of rich distilling heritage, with the finest quality ingredients to create the ultimate craft whisky experience.

A NIPPON WHISKY COLLECTION – ONLINE-ONLY SALE 

After a 100% “white-glove” achievement in March, the online-only sale of A Nippon Whisky Collection returns from 26 July to 2 August on Bonhams.com. Around 50 lots strong, the sale spotlights a range of fresh-to-market whiskies from the very early years of the eight most internationally-sought-after Japanese distilleries, namely Karuizawa, Hanyu, Yamazaki, Hakushu, Yamazakura, Miyagikyo, Yoichi and Saburomaru. Highlights include:

(From left to right)

·         山崎 Yamazaki-Noblesse Oblige-25 year old. Est. HK$60,000-80,000.

·         山崎 Yamazaki-1984-20th Anniversary of WakuWaku. Est. HK$38,000-50,000.

·         余市 Yoichi-1976-15 year old-#126121. Est. HK$20,000-26,000.

·         Ichiro’s Malt Pulse・Moment-律動・刹那. Est. HK$30,000-40,000.

Sale: “A Nippon Whisky Collection” Online-only Sale 26 July – 2 August Bonhams.com

Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest and most renowned auctioneers, offering fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewellery. The main salerooms are in London, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, with auctions also held in Knightsbridge, Edinburgh, Paris, San Francisco and Sydney. With a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 22 countries, Bonhams offers advice and valuation services in 60 specialist areas. For a full list of forthcoming auctions, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, please visit bonhams.com. bonhams.com

We hope everyone is enjoying a relaxed as possible summer. We’re looking forward to meeting you all in September for a safe and relaxed Maltstock!

As always there will be many relaxed tastings for you to chose from at Maltstock, all included in your ticket! The full line-up will be on the website soon. Here are two more names we can now announce:

Annette, Bob, Klaas, Stan, Teun

You’ll probably remember David Stirk. He used to own the Creative Whisky Company. And was well known for his very relaxed bottlings with a great value for money! After selling his company he has been living a relaxed life. He is still very much involved with whisky. At Maltstock he will be presenting some very relaxed bottlings of First Cask by Whisky Import Netherlands. David has told us he also got some new joke books.

American Whisky

It’s with great relaxedness we can announce that Norbert Tebarts is joining us again at Maltstock this year. There’s probably no one in the Netherlands with more knowledge about (and certainly not with more enthusiasm and passion for) American whisky. It’s always a great joy to be educated and entertained by Norbert. We’re already looking forward to what relaxed surprises Norbert will bring this year.

Maltstock tickets

If you’re looking for a relaxed weekend and meeting old and new friends:

if you haven’t got a ticket yet then it’s time to get relaxed! We still have a few tickets available in our shop: https://www.maltstock.com/shop

Please do check out the information regarding Covid-19. By following these regulations we can have a safe and very relaxed Maltstock!

Stay healthy everyone, stay relaxed and we hope to see you in September!

Maltstock and COVID-19

New temporary covid measures are in place in the Netherlands until August 13th. By then the number of fully vaccinated people is expected to be high. We are confident the restrictions will be lifted and we can have a normal safe and relaxed Maltstock. Of course we will keep you informed.

Greetings Shelter Point Community

Hello Shelter Point fans! Whisky Scribe Pat Dunlop here with an exciting announcement regarding our recently arrived Ardbeg casks: Distiller’s James Marinus and Leon Webb along with myself have been busy filling these casks with single malt new make spirit (and some other enticing goodies from our warehouse) over the last few weeks, and we’re all beyond excited to see how these fantastic casks interact with Shelter Point whisky.

Now that we have them all filled, we’ve made the decision to release 5 more of these wonderfully peaty casks filled with new make single malt to the general public for a private cask purchase. These will be sold on a first-come-first-serve basis, and are sure to move incredibly quickly! For further details and to claim one of these unique casks, contact our distillery manager Jacob Wiebe jacob@shelterpoint.ca and he’d be happy to get you on your way to cask ownership.

For all the latest news and information visit our website at www.shelterpoint.ca

A very warm, and we mean WARM, welcome here from the rather sultry sauna that is SWA HQ. Yes the sun is out and it’s very much ‘Taps Aff’ weather for us befuddled sweating Scots. Not even this sweltering heat though can distract our attention away from our most recent malty wonders!

New releases this month are plentiful, from the Macallan Concept No.3, Ardbeg 8 Year Old For Discussion and plenty of Lindores to be had.

Fresh in from Campbeltown is Springbank’s Hand Filled Distillery Exclusives. Call us biased but these are sure to be tasty and of course cask strength!

Tickling our taste buds we begin with a Highland Park 1964. Vatted from two refill hogsheads, this dram is all about the complex balance between environment, skill, hard work and patience. Not much can surpass a fine Orcadian single malt in a sleek black bottle, boxed in a wooden case featuring marquetry inspired by the wood carvings at the Urnes Stave Church in Norway!

Next in line is a Laphroaig 1980 27 Year Old.This Islay bomb is rich in colour, not surprising considering it’s been slumbering in the finest Oloroso sherry casks known to man for the best part of three decades. Not much can beat a ridiculously smoky AND sweet whisky, the best of both worlds. Well, that’s our opinion anyway.

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Announcing Decadent Drinks Ltd the home of Whisky Sponge

Decadent Drinks is the result of an experiment with independent bottling that got out of hand. What started as a collaborative side project between Iain McClune and Angus MacRaild, quickly grew arms and legs and has now become a terrifyingly real and busy company.

We attempt to source and bottle natural, charismatic, crazy but always excellent Whiskies.  We aim to have new bottles coming out every month!

We have a few whiskies available for you at the moment including:

Equinox and Solstice Edition No.2

This edition is for the 2021 summer solstice and contains a 10 year old Highland Single Malt that we have named ‘Candlekitty’ – we’re confident you can work out what we mean by that.

It is composed from an assemblage of three consecutive first fill bourbon barrels, all filled in 2010 and bottled at this series’s set bottling strength of 48.5%.

The whisky has bags of the classical waxy distillery character while also displaying bright fruit tones, natural sweetness and subtle coastal freshness as well. It’s the perfect summer sipper and would also be superb in a highball.

Caol Ila 9 Year Old Whisky Sponge Edition No.32

We return once again to the malt whisky enthusiast’s comfort blanket that is Caol Ila. For this edition we took a refill hogshead from 2007 and a rejuvenated (de-char – re-char) hogshead from 2011 and smooshed them together. The natural strength was surprisingly low so we left it where it was at 53.6%. The result is a 9 year old that is rich, oily, complex and hugely satisfying.

We suggest you enjoy it in a sun lounger in the rain, wearing nothing but a pair of salmon-hide slippers to protect you from the midgies while thumbing an old 1st edition copy of Alfred Barnard’s legendary magnum opus from 1887 : Whisky Investment Companies Of The United Kingdom.

Secret Speyside 1990 Whisky Sponge Edition No.29

This very special bottling commemorates that time the Earth was accidentally destroyed by a reversing hyper-galactic Salmon stillhouse because Jan Birch was distracted by the amusing properties of zero-gravity dramming.

The whisky inside this bottle hails from an unspeakable and mysterious distillery in the town of Rothes. Known locally only as ‘the second least amusing of our distilleries – several of which are in fact quite dull so potentially not that amusing at all’.

This bottling is the result of a cosmic collision of two refill hogsheads. Bottled with slight reduction to our commonly enjoyed ‘seshing ABV’ of 48.5%.

Please enjoy it responsibly and do not attempt to adjust the fabric of space time or operate a microplane while under the influence.

You can sign up to hear about our new releases by registering your interest at www.decadent-drinks.com.

All of our whiskies are available directly from our website at www.decadent-drinks.com and we ship globally, including to the USA.

Speyside Whisky Auctions July auction ends soon, browse below a select few bottles we have up for sale or click on the link to view the full auction and find some hidden gems.

Auction closes from 8pm (BST) Tuesday 27th July.

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Macallan – Concept No.3 – inc. Exclusive David Carson prints

Concept Number 3 is the third and final release in the Concept Series. It brings together the worlds of whisky and design through this collaboration with David Carson. Matured in American ex-Sherry, European oak and selected refill oak casks.

David Carson is an American graphic designer, art director and surfer. He has teamed up with Macallan to present the Concept No.3 through his designs. He was inspired from Macallan’s close relationship to nature and the craftmanship that has been put into making their casks, bringing them to life in a new graphic interpretation presented on the box and label.

Some of the other amazing bottles we have available this auction…..

Glenfiddich
29 Years Old – Spirit of a Nation ~ South Pole Challenge

Glenfarclas
40 Years Old – Scottish Classic ~ Kidnapped

Macallan
25 Years Old – 1974 Anniversary Malt

Springbank 
25 Years Old – The Frank McHardy Bottling

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Ardbeg Auriverdes

2014 bottling from the Islay distillery celebrating the annual Feis Ile. Limited release matured in American oak casks. Ardbeg Auriverdes Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Limited edition 2014 bottling released for Feis Ile Ardbeg Day on 31st May. Auriverdes is also the nickname of Brazil’s national football team, hosts of the 2014 World Cup Soccer. Ardbeg Distillery was established in Ardbeg on the Kildalton Peninsular on the Isle of Islay in 1815 by John McDougal.

Ardbeg Distillery draws soft peaty water from Loch Uigeadail and Loch Airigh nam Beist up amongst the hills behind the distillery to produce it world renowned range including Ardbeg Uigeadail and Ardbeg 10 Year Old. Ardbeg Distillery is a participant in the world famous Feis Ile, the annual Islay Festival of Malt and Music. Visitors are welcome at the distillery visitor center which offers Ardbeg Distillery tours and serves delicious Scottish fare in the Ardbeg Old Kiln Café.

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