New Limited Release:

Lum Reek 10 Years Old Cask Strength Batch 2

This peated blended malt was aged for at least ten years. Created by Master Distiller Billy Walker, who has sourced the finest vintage Speyside and Islay Single Malts and blended them with aged Glenallachie in pursuit of the perfect balance between peat and rich, fruity character. The spirit was laid to rest in premium Spanish sherry casks, wine barriques and virgin oak casks. The flavours marry and extract additional characteristics from the wood as time passes. Batch #2 of the 10 Years Old is bottled at a natural cask strength of 55.8% ABV, with no colour added and non-chill filtered for maximum flavour.

NOSE: Waves of grilled honeycomb, ginger and vanilla, cinnamon, campfire smoke and treacle.

PALATE: Bursting with dark chocolate, burnt orange peel and honeycomb, followed by smoked spiced, butterscotch and roasted coffee beans, with notes of ginger on the finish.

£60.99

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The 140th auction closes Sunday evening (tonight!), so we thought we’d take this opportunity to highlight a few excellent lots in this month which you might have missed.

Hibiki is a Japanese blend launched by the whisky giant Suntory in 1989 to celebrate their 90th anniversary; and it is really something special. It has received a Gold Editor’s Choice award from Whisky Magazine, not to mention achieving the top prize in its category at the World Whisky Awards 2010. This Hibiki 30 Year Old Kacho Fugetsu is a triumph of design with an elaborate 30-sided bottle, each face representing a year of maturation.

This one is definitely for those amongst us with deep pockets, The Macallan 72 Year Old Lalique Genisis Decanter.  An utterly tremendous expression this one, distilled in the 1940’s the whisky comes in a bespoke decanter by celebrated French crystal producers Lalique which is itself held in a case designed by Burgess Studio and handcrafted by cabinet maker NEJ Stevenson.  One of the oldest whiskies Macallan have ever bottled, this is your chance to purchase one of the most sought-after expressions on the secondary market.

And finally, we have another absolutely stunning dram from Speyside’s juggernaut, The Macllan 50 Year Old The Red Collection.  Taking inspiration from founder Alexander Reid, who’s surname means “the red one”, this show stopping range is also noteworthy for having been crafted by Macallan’s first female Master Whisky Maker, Kirsteen Campbell, who took the up the reins in 2019.  We’re running out of superlatives to describe The Red Collection, so let’s just say this is one of the finest collections The Macallan have ever released, so don’t rest on your laurels if you want to snap this one up.

We have some fantastic bottles in this month, so make sure to get your bids in early so you don’t miss out.  Happy bidding everyone and best of luck to you all in the auction.

SINGLE AND FABULOUS

If you happen to find yourself less than enamoured with Valentine’s Day, we have an alternative. With this year being the Society’s 40th anniversary, it seems a great time to focus on celebrating singledom – and by that we mean the Society single cask. Find your perfect partner over on our website, we’ve selected some great little numbers OR keep on scrolling for fabulous flavours recommended by our DRAM-cierge team.

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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 here for membership information

This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

After Milestone January, Whiskey Raiders Celebrates Status as America’s Largest Whiskey Website

NEW YORK (Feb. 2, 2023) — Whiskey Raiders is proud to announce it had its highest month of traffic ever in January, with more than 1.7 million unique visitors. It is now the leading whiskey website in the U.S.

Helmed by Jay West, often referred to by the moniker “t8ke,” Whiskey Raiders was co-founded By West and Dan Abrams’ Abrams Media after the latter acquired West’s website, t8ke.review.

“It’s incredible to witness just how explosive Whiskey Raiders’ growth has been since our launch,” West said. “In December of 2020, when Whiskey Raiders first went live, I never pictured a reality in which the reviews I penned and the articles our team published would garner millions of page views in such a short time.”

Whiskey Raiders focuses on the intersection of critical whiskey reviews, aggregating the internet’s most trustworthy review scores to present one, comprehensive “Raided Score” for each whiskey. While other review websites simply provide their own reviews, Whiskey Raiders uses its aggregation technique to offer readers a holistic look at critics’ opinions of whiskeys.

Beyond its reviews and aggregation, Whiskey Raiders covers the latest news and happenings in the world of spirits and uses its vast archive of nearly 2,000 whiskey reviews to produce evergreen content to recommend whiskeys to readers based on price, quality and occasion.

Whiskey Raiders published more than 1,200 articles and 200 reviews/aggregated reviews in 2022 and looks forward to continuing its growth in 2023.

In November, Whiskey Raiders launched “The Whiskey Raiders Podcast,” hosted by West and John Henderson of TheBourbonFinder.com.

These new sites are already off to a promising start, garnering almost 500,000 unique visitors collectively in January.

2023 Customer Update

This year has gotten off to a great start and will only get better as we look forward another year full of fantastic whisky auctions.  Our aim as always is to bring you the highest quality auctions we can, and literally everything we do is geared towards that end.  We hope you are as excited as we are about what the coming year will bring.

Storage

We are constantly evolving here at Scotch Whisky Auctions, and as we move into 2023 we are continuing to improve our storage system as it grows.  We are committed to providing the safest and most secure environment for your bottles, and we are proud of our climate controlled and fully secured storage units which provide a fully insured storage solution for a growing customer base.  The cost to enter bottles into our long term storage facility remains at 3% of the hammer price, however a minimum charge of £5 will apply as of 03/03/2023 which we believe represents great value for continuing peace of mind.  As a reminder this fee covers L&B for 12 months and should you ship cover still applies.

Pay in your own currency

Stay tuned for another update to our payment system which is coming soon.  We are in the process of implementing the ability to pay outstanding invoices in your own currency, which will give our valued international customers more flexibility while potentially reducing the fees paid for currency transfer through financial institutions.As always we are striving to improve, and we believe these changes will result in a net benefit to you, the customer.  All the best this year, and best of luck in the upcoming auctions!

Some relaxed news

2023 is already a month and a couple of days old. With all the mayhem in the world we thought you might be up for some relaxed news!! So here it is!

…and a nice reminder of what Maltstock is all about:

From now on we will start to update you again on our programmed other news regularly! So watch this space!

Bob, Klaas, Stan, Teun

Back at Het Buitencentrum

Maltstock 2023 will be held at our regular venue in Overasselt! The Square, the midnight cafe, the campfire place… we’ve missed all these places and we know you did too!

At the moment the venue is getting an overhaul and some upgrades, such as new environmentally sustainable HR++ windows. We are looking forward to being back at our ‘spiritual home’! If you, like us, want to keep track of their news and progress you can check their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/hetbuitencentrum

Although we have sold a record number of early Bird tickets, we still have plenty tickets available at the moment. Want to enjoy Maltstock? Simply get your ticket here: https://www.maltstock.com/shop

Campbeltown Loch Blended Malt

All five malts from the region’s three distilleries have been used to produce this genuine Campbeltown blended malt.  It’s an unmistakable Campbeltown whisky: Initial sweet, softer notes of fruit, honey and butterscotch give way to reveal more complexity with traditional maritime and spice notes combined with the subtlest touch of peat smoke. Matured in a combination of Ex-Bourbon and Ex-Sherry Casks. Vatted and bottled at Springbank Distillery, Campbeltown.

£38.50

MacNairs Cask Strength Batch 2 

Taking inspiration from MacNair’s discovery of the delights of a dram beside a smoky peat fireplace, Master Blender Billy Walker has drawn upon his half century’s experience in blending to develop a recipe fit for a traditional Scottish toast to long life: “Lang may yer Lum Reek”

In Batch Two Billy has created a sublime Blended Malt where the smoke of Islay is blended with the finest Speyside and GlenAllachie whiskies. The spirit was then rested in Spanish sherry casks.

Billy’s Tasting Notes:

Nose: Waves of grilled honeycomb, ginger and vanilla with cinnamon, campfire smoke and treacle
Palate: Bursting with dark chocolate, burnt orange peel and honeycomb.
Finish: Smoked spices, butterscotch and roasted coffee beans with ginger.

55.8% ABV
Limited to two bottles per household

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ralfy review 963 Extras – Irish Whiskey in 2023

Our First Ever Door Crasher Sale is on now with almost everything in-stock on sale. Formerly our Year End Inventory Sale… the sale happens to coincide with the 1 year anniversary of what we call the “Dogde Ram Incident”… which took place on February 11, 2022. This is as one customer said the other day, the first Ramnaversary!

The truck was actually black, unlike the one in the image created by OpenAI’s DALL-E-2… But despite that and there is an extra “a” in SAALE, that image is still my favourite.

The sale runs Friday, February 10, through midnight Sunday, February 12, in-store and online. But the pricing is live online now!

Almost all in-stock inventory is 5-50%, but only until midnight Sunday!

One last note, given the pending restoration work and renos which will put an even higher premium on space in the shop, we kindly request prompt pickups. If necessary, we may have to temporarily transfer products on hold to the warehouse for storage.

Sincerely,

Andrew Ferguson

The Deets!

The sale is online and in-store only. No phone orders, please.

You can save:

10-40% on most in-stock Whisky

To make your browsing a little easier, we have linked PDF files below highlighting Wines Discounted 25%-45%, and another for Whiskies & Spirits Discounted 15%-50%.

Browse Whiskies & Spirits Discounted 15-50%

Shop in-store or online at: 

www.kensingtonwinemarket.com/ 

In-store pickup will be available throughout the sale and we will also offer Free Delivery for orders over $100. Customers wanting to pay by cash or debit are encouraged to shop in-store. 

The Sale Fine Print

• No additional discounts or promotions can be applied to the sale price.
• Prices do not include GST.
• In the event of a discrepancy in price, the point of sale at KWM will be taken as correct.
• Sale pricing will not be applied retroactively or carried forward past the end of our Door Crasher Sale at midnight (11:59 PM), Sunday, February 12, 2023.
• The sale is in-store and online only.
• No phone orders, please!

If you order online, please wait for confirmation that your order is ready for pickup before heading down to the shop.

Thursday, April 6 @ 6 PM.

FREE DELIVERY

We are proud to offer Free City Wide Delivery on all orders over $100 Monday-Friday!

Orders under $100 are subject to a flat rate $10 delivery fee.

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Thurs & Fri 10 AM – 9 PM

Sat 10 AM – 8 PM

Sun 11 AM to 6 PM