Two remarkable brand new and delicious Japanese whiskies now available to order via The Whisky Shop. Free delivery on all orders over £60 delivered to mainland UK.

Yamazaki Distiller’s Reserve

Full gold. A gentle, elegant fragrance topped by soft fruits – strawberry, white peach, cherry – and backed by sweet tobacco leaf. A smooth texture and a sweet taste, with crisp acidity, traces of coconut and a medium – length, warming finish leaving a hint of planed oak. More perfumed with water, with light oak notes, the taste is now sweet throughout.

Bottled at 43% volume

For nearly a century the Yamazaki distillery has been dedicated to the pursuit of crafting a world-class whisky that is uniquely Japanese. The still green valley that this distillery calls home is blessed with the perfect balance of pristine water and humidity. Here they have been creating innovations in single malt whisky production that incorporate an art of whisky-making passed down through the ages. This never-ending journey that winds tradition with innovation in pursuit of the finest Japanese whisky has led to the creation of a world-class whisky known simply as Yamazaki

£52.00 Simply Click Here To Buy

Hakushu Distiller’s Reserve

The colour of white wine. A fresh nose, and lightly cooling – eucalyptus, a hint of mint, a trace of cucumber – the first taste is likewise mouth-cooling, with a sweet start, a trace of fresh acidity and a shortish finish. A light, aperitif – style malt. A drop of water sweetens the aroma slightly and introduces pear drops. The taste remains light, sweet and fruity.

Bottled at 43% volume.

Known as the ‘Forest Distillery’, Hakushu Distillery is located at a site known for the pristine waters of the Ojira River, which has been designated by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment as one of the highest-quality water sources in the country. The construction of the distillery, which is surrounded by expansive forest, was the culmination of a many-year search for a site that could best take advantage of Japan’s natural bounty in the process of making Japanese whisky.

£52.00 Simply Click Here To Buy

New! Signatory Vintage Single Cask Whiskies

New arrivals from independent bottler Signatory the proprietor of Edradour including Laphroaig, Imperial, Cambus, Highland Park, Coal Ila and this 16 Year Old from the Glenlivet distillery.

Glenlivet 16 Year Old $61.31

www.ralfy.com reviews an unofficial Mortlach instead of the new official and expensive Mortlachs with Whisky Review 443 – Mortlach 16yo @ 60.2% (Single Malts Of Scotland)

DIAGEO LAUNCHES A NEW SPIRIT DRINK BASED ON J&B SCOTCH WHISKY

Springbank Society 10th Anniversary Tasting 

at 7.30pm on Thursday 3rd April 2104 

at The Kilderkin, 65/67 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh

Springbank 17yo 12/90 – 02/08 refill port hogshead 570 bottles 51.5%

Springbank 14yo 06/92 – 03/07 Bourbon hogshead 265 bottles 55.3%

Hazelburn 8yo 07/98 – 07/06 refill sherry butt 600 bottles 58.7%

Springbank 9yo fresh rum butt 07/97 – 03/07 700 bottles 60.2%

Longrow 8yo 02/97 – 07/05 refill sherry butt 630 bottles 59.9%

Tickets – £26/23* see http://www.jollytopertastings.co.uk/ for tickets and further details.

*£3 discount for first timers and members, membership costs a mighty £10 and lasts for a nice round 13 months.

Mora’s Fine Wine Whiskey Tasting Event for World Whisky Day, May 17 

Come taste over 25 whiskies from around the globe and celebrate World Whisky Day with Mora’s Fine Wine & Spirits at The Country Corner between 6-9pm on Saturday, May 17! 

$24 per person before April 19

$30 per person after April 19

BUY TICKETS NOW!

**space limited, ticket purchase required** 

Ticket purchase includes sampling of over 25 fine whiskies, Whisky friendly snacks, Glencairn tasting glass, door prizes for lucky winners. 

Some of our Featured Distillers: (check back for updates)

Amrut, Balcones, Benriach, Benromach, Breckenridge, Brenne, Corsair, FEW Spirits, Garrison Brothers, Glendronach, Glenrothes, Highland Park, Isle of Arran, Kentucky Bourbon Distillers, Kilchoman, Koval, New Holland, Nikka, Smooth Ambler, Tamdhu, Town Branch 

About World Whisky Day: Now you may be thinking ‘isn’t every day a whisky day?’. Well kind of, however, World Whisky Day is about celebrating whisky/whiskey and about giving whisky global stage and global media attention for not just a day but for a considerable amount of time around this date. The purpose of this is to introduce whisky to people who have never tried it before and for those that already enjoy whisky to have something special. 

Mora’s Fine Wine & Spirits

http://www.moraswines.com/

631-941-4458   sev.clemens@moraswines.com

Single-Malt Scotch Tasting
with Alastair Walker, Sales Director of BenRiach and GlenDronach
Tuesday, April 22nd
4:30 and 6:00

In 2004, Billy Walker and a group of investors bought BenRiach Distillery from Pernod Ricard and breathed a whole new life into it. It’s now regarded as producing some of the most characterful distillate in Speyside. In 2008 they bought the highland distllery GlenDronach, which produces a richly sherried single-malt. Billy’s son Alastair, BenRiach’s Sales Director, will be in the shop tasting us through some of the bottlings from both distilleries including some single-cask, cask-strength offerings. These casks represent great quality and fair value in a market where both are becoming increasingly rare. We’ll taste expressions ranging in character from classic speyside, rich sherry, peat, and combinations thereof. To complete the history, the group also purchased Glenglassaugh in 2013 but this sort of thing moves slowly, we hope to have some of their whisky in the near future. 

Joe Howell

Federal Wine & Spirits

Phone: (617) 367-8605

Web: http://www.federalwine.com/

The Relaxed Whisky Weekend
5 – 7 September 2014

Can we have a little bit of your time to update you about Maltstock 2014? A couple of things we would like to update you about. First of all:

Maltstock in “the World’s top 10 whisky shows” list
The Spirits Business Magazine put Maltstock in a list called “the World’s top 10 whisky shows”. Of course we are very happy and proud of this and would like to send a BIG “thank you” to all visitors and volunteers!
http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/03/the-worlds-top-10-whisky-shows/

The Ticket Shop

We are very proud to have a the new Maltstock ticket shop up and running with 3 tickets you can choose from:

Maltstock 2014 + accommodation
Maltstock 2014 No accommodation
Maltstock 2014 + accommodation +bedding

Please visit http://maltstock.com and go to the ticket shop or click following link http://maltstock.com/index.php/en/online-shop/buy-your-tickets-here
to buy your tickets.

Banners and wallpapers
We recently updated the press and media page of maltstock.com. Banners and wallpapers for pc and phone are available to use and share for free!
http://maltstock.com/index.php/en/press-media/logos-banners-etc

Introduction of new members
With this newsletter we will start to introduce our new members in the organizational team.

Starting with Klaas:
– Hi my name is Klaas Steenhuis, a primary school teacher. After visiting Maltstock every year and being a loyal member of Whiskyclub ‘t Woest Genoegen in Nijmegen I’m a member of the organizational team now. I started to develop an interest in Whisky back in 2004 and visited quite a lot whisky festivals since. At whisky festival The Hague I love being one of the tour guides introducing people to whisky. Through my whisky hobby I have met lots of nice people and made whisky friends all around the globe, especially on Islay :). Because of the enthusiastic members in our team and good ideas I’m convinced that Maltstock 2014 will be a success again.

Hope to see you at Maltstock 2014!

Klaas

Maltstock promo tour

Whisky festival Gent was good fun! Friday 28/03/2014 we will be heading to Groningen, do we see you there as well?

Whisky festival noord Nederland – 28\29\30\March – http://www.wfnn.nl/
Spirit of Speyside Whisky festival – 1\2\3\4\5\May – http://www.spiritofspeyside.com/
Dramboree – 4\5\6\July – http://www.dramboree.co.uk/

Annette, Bob, Jeroen, Klaas, Stan and Teun
www.maltstock.com

Gordon & MacPhail Mortlach

There’s a lot of talk in the whisky world at the moment about Mortlach. They’re not the most mainstream of distilleries, but they are much loved by whisky connoisseurs (or geeks, as I like to call us). However, Diageo have recently discontinued their one regular ongoing bottling, the 16 year old Flora & Fauna release, and have announced a new, premium range that will be arriving in June:

New. Shiny. Hopefully tasty.

We’re not going to talk about the new range yet, other than to show the rather blingy bottles in the piccy above, as we’ve not tasted it yet and don’t want to wade in to any debates about pricing and the like until we have. Reports are starting to surface that the spirit is really good and we are feeling encouraged.

We have also recently found a cache of the Mortlach Flora & Fauna 16 year old, so don’t fret about its disappearance quite yet (although don’t hang around for too long if you want a bottle). However, for those looking to the future and want something to keep you going when the Flora & Fauna runs out – step forward Gordon & MacPhail.

G&M are well known for putting out ridiculously good-value bottlings, mainly things that you don’t see elsewhere. While you get the slightly more quirky things, like their 8yo Bunnahabhain and Highland Park, and the Macallan Speymalts, you also get releases that would slot happily into most distillers’ ranges – step forward Longmorn 12, Linkwood 15 and 25, Old Pulteney 8 and 15, and, relevantly, Mortlach 15 and 21.

Coming in at about £45 and £70 respectively, they’re already competitively priced for 15 and 21 year old whiskies, but with the new Mortlach range on the horizon, they’re looking even better than ever. I recently cracked open a bottle of the 15yo at a tasting that I hosted in honour of my birthday (I hate organising parties, so thought that hosting a whisky tasting would get me out of doing one – it worked) and it went down particularly well:

Gordon & Macphail Mortlach 15 Year Old, 43%. £42.95

Nose: Sugared raisins, buttery pastry, cinnamon toast, stewed apples, linseed oil, fruit gums and garibaldi biscuits. There are some dark notes hiding around the back, with a touch of liquorice and demerara sugar.

Palate: Lighter than the nose suggests, with sweetness and woody spice up front – sweet apple, nutmeg, cinnamon and a touch of clove. The buttery notes from the nose carry through, with darker and more savoury flavours developing – damp wood and mulching leaves.

Finish: Medium length, with anise and cinnamon providing heat that fades into apple skin, apple sauce and liquorice.

Comment: Not too sherried but showing off some sherry influence – good spice and dark fruit notes balanced by some more fresh and rich buttery notes. A great everyday whisky that firmly ticks the traditional Speyside box.

We suspect that the days of G&M’s prices on Mortlach staying where they are may well be numbered, but for now they are an easily obtainable, alternative source of Mortlach and we’d recommend checking them out sooner rather than later.

5007 Underwood Ave, Omaha NE 68132 dundeedell.com 402.553.9501

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