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GlenAllachie

This is a step up in liquid for GlenAllachie, one to seriously test the palate, fantastically complex and flavoursome, with a wonderfully sherried nose and amazing finish.

TyndrumWhisky Tasting Notes:
Dramtastic. Buy Me One.

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The 4th release, and going by recent releases of GlenAllachie, this is going to be stunning. Bottled at 56.1%, the GlenAllachie Cask Strength Batch 4 is a combination of PX and Oloroso sherry puncheons along with a small quantity of Virgin Oak casks. They achieve a perfect balance of fruit, dark chocolate and spice with underlying classic GlenAllachie sweet honey notes.

Official Tasting Notes:

COLOUR: Rich Mahogany.
NOSE: Dark chocolate, vanilla pods and treacle, with rich notes of orange peel and cinnamon.
TASTE: Lashings of raisins, treacle, dark chocolate, layers of heather honey, cinnamon and orange peel.

Ideal to be paired with Speyside Chocolate from Chocisky.
From GlenAllachie Distillery

Saturday October 17th, 5:30 PM:

Starward Whiskey with Founder David Vitale

Join us for a virtual tasting of Starward Australian Whiskey, presented by founder David Vitale!

For this tasting, we have a $25.00 whisky tasting set available exclusively for our customers. Each set comes with a 2oz bottle of Two-Fold, Nova, and Solera expressions. Select ‘Add Tasting Set’ when purchasing to get yours. Shipping is free!

Starward whiskey brings together Australian malted barley and Australian red wine barrels to create a distinctly Australian spirit. Housed in a large industrial space in Melbourne, this urban distillery is as bold and unconventional as the spirit it produces and the city it calls home. Starward’s distinctive whiskies are exclusively matured in Australian wine barrels in the variable Melbourne climate – which experiences “four seasons in one day” – to create a dynamic form of elemental maturation.

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What is a Virtual Tasting?

Virtual tastings are free educational zoom meetings held by whiskey & scotch experts. They typically consist of a presentation followed by question-and-answer, and run about 60-90 minutes. During the virtual tasting, you’ll be able to ask scotch & whiskey related questions to our experts and get a behind-the-scenes look at the scotch & whiskey world! 

Additionally, featured whiskys are always on sale on our website – you can purchase beforehand to drink along with our presenters or shortly afterwards.

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Arran is a whisky distillery that is still growing up; they’ve only just hit their mid-twenties. But, wow. For a distillery that is still in infancy, in the grand scheme of whisky, they’re giving us product after product of well made, balanced, robust, characterful single malt whiskies. This is The Bothy or The Quarter Cask. Nine years of full Bourbon matured raucousness in a bottle. Cask strength, natural colour, non-chill filtered. £50. TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY!

WALKER TURNS TO FRANCE, SPAIN AND THE USA FOR THE GLENALLACHIE’S NEW VIRGIN OAK FINISH RANGE 

The limited edition range features three 12-year-old single malts finished in virgin oak casks sourced from France, Spain and the USA

Building on a remarkable run of award wins, The GlenAllachie Distillery is launching The GlenAllachie Virgin Oak Series, a new limited edition range of Speyside single malt whiskies which have been finished in specially selected casks of different oak species from specific regions around the world.

Released in October, on the back of winning a 50^th award in three years, The GlenAllachie Virgin Oak Series consists of three limited edition 12 year-old single malt whiskies; the 12-year-old French Virgin Oak Finish, the 12-year-old Spanish Virgin Oak Finish, and the 12-year-old Chinquapin Virgin Oak Finish.

Each whisky in the Virgin Oak series is first matured in American Oak (Quercus Alba) ex-Bourbon barrels. To add a delicate and distinctive twist to the taste, the whisky then undergoes additional maturation for approximately 18 months in specially selected virgin oak casks. Each whisky is non chill filtered, natural colour, bottled at 48%, and limited to around 1,100 cases of each.

The subtle flavour differences in the Virgin Oak series are led by a variety of influences: the oak species, the local terroir and the period of natural air drying, along with the toasting, charring and coopering of the casks. Each of these reacts uniquely with the GlenAllachie spirit, adding texture, depth and variety.

In September, the Speyside distillery picked up its 50^th award in just three years, with a Double Gold at this year’s International Spirits Challenge for The GlenAllachie Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky 18-year-old.

The new Virgin Oak Series showcases the expert cask sourcing and renowned wood management skills of The GlenAllachie’s Master Distiller Billy Walker who hand-picked each cask type.

The 12-year-old Spanish Virgin Oak (RRP £59.99), is finished in hogsheads made of Spanish oak (Quercus Robur) sourced from the Cantabrian Mountains in Northern Spain which have a cooler climate and greater humidity than the rest of Spain.

Before being filled, the wood is air dried for around 18 months, opening up the oak for the GlenAllachie spirit to extract its flavours. This process produces a whisky with waves of heather honey, treacle, coconut and orange zest.

For the 12-year-old French Virgin Oak Finish (RRP £59.99), Walker sourced hogsheads made of French Oak (Quercus Robur) from the Haute-Garonne region close to the Pyrenees. The fine-grained, consistent wood is air dried for 15 months before hosting the GlenAllachie spirit. The result is a rich bronze malt with a subtle, sweet and earthy taste.

For the 12-year-old Chinquapin Virgin Oak Finish (RRSP £59.99), Walker selected casks from the Northern Ozark region in Missouri. Chinquapin is a sub species of Quercus Alba and delivers spicy flavours and aromas. Air dried for almost four years, then toasted to medium level, the casks create complex, zesty flavours with notes of heather honey, barley sugar, toasted biscuit and orange zest, followed by cinnamon, rosehips and liquorice.

Commenting on the new range, Walker said: “With this new range, I wanted to explore and showcase the different range of flavours that can be created with different types of virgin oak. Lots of people have matured or finished whisky in virgin oak before, but I wanted to take things further and explore what happens when you use different derivatives of virgin oak – for example with different terroir, different drying periods and different toasting and charring levels.

“There’s an understanding that good whisky matured in good wood makes something special. But I wanted to put good whisky in spectacular types of wood, wood with real history and unique characteristics. I’m constantly looking for interesting types of wood and with this range we found three exceptional examples from France, Spain and the USA that have helped create three very different and special whiskies.

“With the French virgin oak for example, the wood is very finely grained and rich, which creates a lovely sweet, earthy flavour with silky tannins. The pores of the Spanish virgin oak are less tight and it’s been naturally air dried for a slightly longer period which imparts more flavour, with the distinctive spicy, treacly notes.

“The Chinquapin Virgin Oak Finish is significantly different. The wood has been dried for a much longer period which creates really interesting flavours of liquorice and even hints of rosehips.”

Further information on the distillery and company can be found at www.theglenallachie.com

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TASTING NOTES

12yo French Virgin Oak 

12yo Spanish Virgin Oak 

12yo Chinquapin Virgin Oak 

Preludium:04 Mine Stored Elegance

“Mine stored elegance. A true celebration of our Bodås Mine Warehouse“

Purchase A Bottle Of Preludium:04 Mine Stored Elegance

On Friday 9th of October, at 7 PM (BST) we will be releasing the final 14 distillery bottles of Mackmyra Preludium:04 Mine Stored Elegance.

The fourth edition in the series Mackmyra Preludium is a tribute to our own whisky warehouse – Bodås mine – where we store the liquid gold 50 metres underground.

Here you can own this edition of our first whisky release where every cask was matured in this amazing and unique location. To celebrate this, and to add a touch of occasion to this expression, Preludium:04 is also Mackmyra’s first wine-finished release using champagne seasoned casks from Philipponnat.

Mackmyra Preludium:04 Mine Stored Elegance, will be available to our UK and European Customers from Mackmyra.co.uk 

The Pinnacle of American Whiskey at a Strikingly Affordable Price
Barrell Craft Spirits “Batch #25” Cask Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) ($79.99)
“…a contender as American whiskey of the year.” — Fred Minnick on Barrell Batch #25

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.

When world-renowned whiskey writer/blogger Fred Minnick, calls a bottling a contender for whiskey of the year, we sit up and take notice. When that bottling is priced at only $79.99, we not only jump for joy, but we also start shouting from the rooftops. The truth is, even without the critical adoration, the Barrell Bourbon “Batch #25” would be on our own shortlist for the top bourbons of 2020. As our NorCal spirits buyer, Andrew Whiteley, describes it: “Batch #25 is a step up to the next level. It’s balanced and energetic in a beautiful way, while capturing the very best each of its components has to offer.” This is seriously good bourbon, delivering a whirl of flavors and scents that include marzipan, brown sugar, honey, caramel, nuts, and peppercorn. Barrell Craft Spirits is responsible for some of the best bourbons we’ve had in recent years, and this expression is wheated—a first for Barrell. Given how hot the bourbon market is now, it is unbelievable that a bottling this good can be had for such an affordable price. Once word gets out, we don’t expect our allocation to last for long, so make sure you don’t miss out on what could very well be the top bourbon opportunity of the year..

Barrell Craft Spirits “Batch #25” Cask Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) ($79.99)

Barrell Craft Spirits has established themselves as the premier independent bottler of American whiskey on the market today. They focus their efforts on blending, barrel selection, and ferreting out interesting and unusual mashbills. While every new batch from Barrell draws a lot of attention, #25 is the first batch to incorporate any wheated bourbon. This combination of 5.5-, 9-, 13-, and 15-year-old whiskies from Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee shows exactly why Barrell has made their name with artful blends. While it hasn’t been awarded yet, it definitely deserves the hype Fred Minnick bestowed upon it when he said it’s “a contender for American whiskey of the year.”

Andrew Whiteley | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: October 06, 2020

At first pour this feels like a real powerhouse that’ll just bowl you over. However, if you let it sit in the glass a while and open up, it really begins to strut. Marzipan and chocolates mix with brown sugar and cracked black and white peppercorns. It is a fully mouth-coating whiskey but the tannins are more refined than most ‘big’ whiskies. Rather than one big grip on your tongue, it’s like 1000 little tugs all over your palate. The finish offers a bit of singed oak, lots of salted caramel, and again a distinct honeyed/caramelized almond note. While Barrell has long been regarded as America’s premier independent bottler and has won many accolades for their work, Batch #25 is a step up to the next level. It’s balanced and energetic in a beautiful way while capturing the very best each of its components has to offer. The younger (yet very respectable 5.5- and 9-year-old) wheated bourbon softens the older 13- and 15-year-old corn forward mash bills and provides a richness to the mouthfeel without dominating with an overtly creamy profile. No doubt one of the best releases this year from anyone.

Glen Scotia 11 Year Old Limited Edition

Glen Scotia Sherry Cask Strength

2020 Limited Edition double matured in PX and Oloroso sherry casks from the Campbelltown distillery.  Glen Scotia 11 Year Old Campbeltown single malt Scotch whisky. Double matured in first fill Pedro Ximenez and Oloroso sherry hogsheads. Cast strength limited release for 2020. Spiced rum, juicy plum, toffee and citrus peel. Rich velvety mouthfeel, sweet vanilla and salted butter. Raisins and sultanas with warming spice of clove, cinnamon and nutmeg. Long, nutty, dry finish.

GLEN SCOTIA SINGLE MALT WHISKY

Glen Scotia Distillery was established in 1832 in Campbeltown at the foot of the Kintyre Peninsular on the west coast of Scotland. Situated on the south side of Campbeltown’s High Street beside the lost Lochrin and Dalintober Distilleries where their rear walls were lapped by the tides of Campbeltown Loch. Glen Scotia Distillery is now one of only three whisky distilleries in Campbeltown where a further thirty have come and gone. Both peated and un-peated malt whisky are produced for its expanding range of single malt whiskies such as Glen Scotia Double Cask and the Glen Scotia 15 Year Old.

Shop – Glen Scotia 11 Year Old 2020 Release

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 344: Macallan 18 Year Old Triple Cask Matured

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, ventures to Macallan. In their Triple Cask Matured series, this is a very nice one with 18 years of maturation on three types of casks: American and European sherry seasoned casks and American bourbon casks. Just like the 15 years old, this one is cut to 43%. It was bottled in 2018.

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GORDON & MACPHAIL REVEALS SECOND 125^th ANNIVERSARY WHISKY 

— 35YO Glenury Royal is second of four ‘last cask’ single malts —

Gordon & MacPhail has launched the second of four commemorative whiskies to celebrate its 125^th anniversary.

With spirit hailing from a closed distillery in Stonehaven in the eastern Highlands, the 35-year-old Gordon & MacPhail 1984 from Glenury Royal is ultra-rare and comes from the last cask of the make maturing in the Gordon & MacPhail’s famous warehouse.

It joins a 1972 Coleburn whisky launched in September. The remaining two whiskies in the anniversary series are set to be revealed in November and December – each as rare and unique as the last.

No spirit has been distilled at Glenury since 1985, when it closed its doors for the final time and was demolished after a long history stretching back 160 years. Founded in 1825 by Captain James Barclay, the suffix ‘Royal’ was added due to the owner’s friendship with King William IV.

Its extreme scarcity in the market has since attracted whisky fans from across the world and it is a prized addition to any whisky connoisseur’s collection.

Gordon & MacPhail 1984 from Glenury Royal [RSP £1500*]

Just 397 bottles are available worldwide of this elegant and oily 35-year-old whisky, which was laid down on Thursday 7 June 1984 and has been fully matured in cask number 2335, a first-fill Sherry Butt.

Bottled at 49.1% ABV, the liquid itself is a rich amber in colour, with aromas of stewed fruit, cocoa powder, cinnamon, and toasted oak. On the palate, the whisky provides sweet orange peel, cherry, burnt sugar and dried fig giving way to a medium and fruity finish with notes of aniseed and sherry.

Stephen Rankin, a fourth-generation member of Gordon & MacPhail’s owning family and the company’s Director of Prestige, said: “Since 1895 Gordon & MacPhail has released single malts from over 100 distilleries, many of which are lesser-known or closed.  The anniversary series is a true homage to this endeavour.”

For more information visit www.gordonandmacphail.com.

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Tasting notes

Gordon & MacPhail 1984 from Glenury Royal Distillery

Matured in cask 2335, a first-fill Sherry Butt, and bottled at 49.1% ABV. Outturn of 397 bottles. 

• COLOUR: Amber
• AROMA: STEWED FRUIT aromas and soft notes of POLISH give way to COCOA POWDER. CINNAMON spice comes to the fore alongside tart PLUM SKIN, TREACLE and subtle traces of TOASTED OAK.
• TASTE: Sweet and drying with fresh CHERRY and ORANGE PEEL flavours. BURNT SUGAR and notes of DRIED FIG develop accompanied by BLACKCURRANT and fresh COFFEE grounds.
• FINISH: Medium and fruity with lingering ANISEED and SHERRY influences on the finish. 

About Gordon & MacPhail Whiskies

For over 125 years, Gordon & MacPhail has been driven by a simple mission: to create single malt Scotch whisky of exceptional quality.

Through four generations of family ownership, the company has matched spirit from over 100 Scottish distilleries to its own bespoke casks.

It is this unique depth and breadth of experience that enables Gordon & MacPhail to combine oak, spirit and time to create a portfolio of iconic whiskies found nowhere else in the world.

• ‘Discovery’–This flavour-led range is the perfect introduction to our portfolio of quality single malt Scotch whiskies
• ‘Distillery Labels’–A range celebrating our long-standing relationships with Scotland’s distilleries
• ‘Connoisseurs Choice’ –The heart of our portfolio. Always unique, these non-chill-filtered, natural coloured, small batch expressions are genuine one-offs.
• ‘Private Collection’–Greatly-aged single malts from celebrated, little-known, or closed distilleries specially selected by members of the Urquhart family
• ‘Generations’–A prestigious collection of old, rare, and exclusive masterpieces

FIRST EVER CERTIFIED ORGANIC IRISH WHISKY

Waterford Distillery, the barley-forward, terroir-driven Irish distiller, has released Ireland’s very first organic whisky in the modern age.

ORGANIC: GAIA 1.1 was distilled in 2016 from organic Irish barley grown by a small, dedicated band of organic farmers. The single malt whisky is certified by the Organic Trust.

John Mallick, Paddy Tobin, Alan Jackson, Pat and Denis Booth, Jason Stanley and Trevor Harris rose to the challenge laid down by Waterford Distillery to produce the first Irish-grown organic malting barley.

It forms part of Waterford’s ARCADIAN SERIES, which celebrates radical growers and alternative philosophies, including heritage grains and unusual growing methods.

Waterford’s ORGANIC: GAIA 1.1 is matured in a spectrum of fresh, super-premium oak: 42% first-fill US oak, 17% virgin US oak, 23% premium French oak and 18% Vin Doux Naturel – sweet fortified wine casks. It is bottled at 50% ABV without colouring, chill-filtration or any additives whatsoever – totally natural.

QUOTES

Waterford Distillery Founder and CEO Mark Reynier says: “It beggars belief that much of the industry treats with indifference the primary source of single malt whisky’s extraordinary flavour: barley. We have placed barley – where and how it is grown – at the heart of what we do, curious about where the real whisky flavour may be found.

“A natural progression of this philosophy is to see what not only single farm origins can accomplish but what organically grown barley can do when it is given the right platform. Compliance for organic status is not straight forward by any means – there’ s a shed load of hoops to jump through, deep cleaning regimens, audits and assessments to undergo. So, is it worth it?  We certainly think so, what we lose in yield and hair pulling we gain in purity and definition of flavour.

“We’re not playing at it; we lay down 400 to 600 casks of organic spirit a year, we buy all the Irish grown organic malting barley that can get our hands on. Waterford Organic will be a main player in our ongoing portfolio for the discerning whisky drinker.”

AVAILABILITY AND PRICE

ORGANIC: GAIA 1.1 is priced at approximately €80-86/£80 / US $110 and will be available from specialist retailers in over 20 markets from October 12th worldwide.

18,000 bottles will be released throughout Europe and Asia, with a further 6,000 bottles in the USA.