Top trending winter warmers

Make your wintery holiday at home cosier by delving into new drams from Johnnie Walker, Benriach, and more, or chilling out with cocktails that you can whip up at home. Here’s what we’ve been raving about recently:

Johnnie Walker Blue Label
Year of the Ox
Chinese New Year Edition
£224.00

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John Walker & Sons
King George V
Chinese New Year Edition
£550.00

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A very warm welcome to our Christmas auction! Naturally our malty grotto is filled to the brim so if you’re not already pouring a large festive dram then please take a browse and see if you can pick up a treat or two. You snow the drill by now so let’s get started with what Santa has distilled for us.

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Ardbeg Committee Set! 

This auction also holds a fantastic choice of rare SMWS bottles!

Modest looking but don’t be fooled!

Go and treat yourselves, you’ve earnt it after this stonker. There’s plenty more dynamic and varied drams to pick from and to help get you through the New Year! We hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas wherever you are and look forward to seeing you all next year!

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FREE UK COLLECTIONS

We continue to offer free doorstep collections for over 10 bottles or collectively worth a minimum of £1000 are also available across Central Scotland – contact us to find out more and check availability.

Glasgow appointments

In line with government COVID restrictions our office is currently closed to the public. Book now for collections or drop offs from 18th January.

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 361: Ledaig 11 Year Old 2008 The Whisky Barrel

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a young and feisty Ledaig. The online retailer The Whisky Barrel has released a series called ‘Originals’ in which they showcase the different styles of malts to their customers. Among those is also this young Ledaig – peaty Tobermory – that was bottled after 11 years of maturation on a first fill oloroso hogshead.

https://youtu.be/k4L99cx58fw

Sazerac Whiskies Awarded Gold Medals

at International Spirits Challenge 2020 

            Louisville, Ky. — (Dec. 10, 2020) – Sazerac brands Paddy’s Old Irish Whiskey, Michael Collins Irish Whiskey and Imperial 12-Year-Old Scotch Whisky earned Gold Medals for their quality and excellence during the 25^th annual International Spirits Challenge. These medals were only given to brands that saw exceptional success in the competition’s blind tasting process.

The Tasting Awards were held over 12 days of intense blind tastings by panels of more than 50 experienced industry professionals.  Samples were delivered to the judges in flights of numbered tasting glasses to ensure accuracy.  Each judge assessed the products according to age, region and variety, which is determined by the entrant and verified by the chairman.

Paddy’s Old Irish Whiskey is a triple-distilled spirit from Cork County, Ireland, where it has been produced for almost 250 years. Michael Collins Irish Whiskey is a blended offering named after the legendary Irish revolutionary. The brand was revived by Sazerac in 2015. Imperial 12-Year-Old Scotch Whisky is a blended Scotch noted for its fruity aroma and caramel notes.

The International Spirits Challenge received more than 1,700 entries from nearly 70 countries around the globe in this, its 25^th anniversary year. Results from the 2020 International Spirits Challenge can be found at www.internationalspiritschallenge.com.

About Sazerac

Sazerac is one of America’s oldest family owned, privately held distillers with operations in the United States in Louisiana, Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Maryland, California, and global operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, India, Australia and Canada. For more information on Sazerac, please visit www.sazerac.com.

For time-sensitive bottles this December, please get your orders in early. Thanks and happy holidays! We appreciate your business. NOTE: Our walk-in retail locations are currently closed. We have curbside pickup and low cost (often free) delivery options available in ZIP codes where we can ship lawfully, including anywhere in California. We can also include any new or existing will call orders in your delivery batch. Choose local delivery at checkout to learn if you qualify.

The heart and soul of our Spirits Department is our Direct Import program. We travel far and wide, meeting with well-established distillers and little-known estates alike, in a never-ending search for bottlings that combine exceptional quality and outstanding value. Our standards are exacting (as are the standards of the producers we work with), as we take great pride in offering our customers the very best expressions to be had, whether it be Scotch, or bourbon, or rum, or any other distilled spirit. Because of the relationships we’ve struck, we have unfettered access to some of the world’s finest spirits. And because we are skipping several tiers of the distribution chain, we are able to offer these gems for a fraction of what you’d expect. As a result, we have built one of the most robust and diverse spirits programs in the country.

SCOTCH 

Faultline Blended Scotch Whisky (750ml)$24.99 View

2010 Glen Garioch 10 Year Old “Old Particular” K&L Exclusive Single Hogshead Cask Strength Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $54.99 View

2006 Behind The Highlander (Craigellachie) 14 Year Old “Hepburn’s Choice” K&L Exclusive Single Refill Sherry Butt Cask Strength Blended Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $59.99 View

2010 Islay Strait (Caol Ila) 10 Year Old “Sovereign” K&L Exclusive Single Sherry Butt Finish Cask Strength Blended Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $69.99 View

1998 Archiestown Adjacent (Dailuaine) 22 Year Old “Old Malt Cask” K&L Exclusive Single Refill Hogshead Cask Strength Blended Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $109.99 View

2003 Craigellachie 16 Year Old “Old Particular” K&L Exclusive Single Sherry Butt Cask Strength Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $109.99 View

1997 Hebridean Mulligan (Ledaig) 23 Year Old “Old Malt Cask” K&L Exclusive Single Hogshead Cask Strength Blended Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $119.99 View

1997 Hector Macbeth (Glenfiddich) 23 Year Old “Hepburn’s Choice” K&L Exclusive Single Sherry Butt Finish Cask Strength Blended Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $119.99 View

2008 Highland Park 10 Year Old K&L Exclusive Cask #7774 Refill Sherry Hogshead Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $139.99 View

1995 Aberlour 25 Year Old “Old Particular” K&L Exclusive Single Hogshead Cask Strength Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (750ml) $299.99 View

American Whiskey & Bourbon

John E. Fitzgerald “Larceny – The Quarantine Barrels” K&L Exclusive Single Barrel #6625292 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $26.99 View

Ezra Brooks Distiller’s Collection K&L Exclusive Single Barrel #7166876 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $34.99 View

Old Forester K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Warehouse I, Floor 4, #OF201755 Straight Kentucky Bourbon Whisky (750ml) $39.99 View

Rebel Yell Distiller’s Collection K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Straight Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $39.99 View

New Riff K&L Exclusive Single Barrel #16-10785 Straight Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $49.99 View

Smooth Ambler 5 Year Old “Old Scout” K&L Exclusive Barrel #27990 Straight Indiana Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $49.99 View

Wilderness Trail K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Cask Strength Sweet Mash High-Rye Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $59.99 View

Woodinville K&L Exclusive Single Cask #2556 Cask Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $69.99 View

Wathen’s Barrel Proof “Barrel #99 SoCal Barrel” K&L Exclusive Cask Strength Single Barrel Straight Kentucky Bourbon (750ml) $79.99 View

Hillrock Estate Solera Aged Single Barrel K&L Exclusive Cask Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $139.99 View

Distil Your World brings together The Macallan and the Roca brothers in a journey of discovery, driven by the question: can you distil the essence of a city? It documents how we seek knowledge and insight, and gain inspiration to create something completely unique in the world of whisky and gastronomy.

EXPLORE

Distil Your World London Documentary

Available now on Prime Video, Distil Your World London is a documentary that follows The Macallan and the Roca brothers as they seek to distil London, one of the cultural capitals of the world, understanding the flavours, scents, sounds, and people at the heart of the city.

Distil Your World; The London Edition

A unique limited edition embodying London’s special charisma, and capturing the people, experiences, colours and history that ultimately define the city.

The Macallan Distillery Experience, The Macallan Distillers Ltd, Easter Elchies, Craigellachie,

Moray AB38 9RX, Scotland, +44 (0)1340 318 000

BLENDED SCOTCH DISTILLERY

45 Year Old 1973 Sovereign Exclusive

Cask #15894

$299.70

45 Year Old 1973 vintage blended Scotch whisky. Single cask bourbon hogshead #15894 distilled December 1973 and bottled March 2019 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Sovereign series. Selected and bottled exclusively for The Whisky Barrel. 300 numbered bottles. This burnished golden coloured whisky is mellow bodied, sweet on the nose, with vanilla ice cream strawberries. It is smooth sweet on the palate with, again, vanilla notes to the fore followed by red berries and a hint of sultanas leading to a long satisfying sweet finish.

Blended Scotch whiskies are produced by blending whiskies distilled at two or more different Scottish distilleries and the whiskies may be single malt whiskies, single grain whiskies, or single malt and single grain whiskies.

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 360: Tobermory 17 Year Old Distillery Exclusive

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a distillery exclusive from Tobermory. This always captures Mark’s attention. After all, if you can only get it at the distillery, surely it must be special. Only 990 bottles of this Tobermory were released after a maturation of 17 years, the last months spent on a Madeira cask. That’s a fortified wine from the eponymous Portuguese island off the coast of Africa.

https://youtu.be/QvzGaSqADlk