Single Malt 10 Year Old
The Wait Is Over  

Shelter Point’s second 10 Year Old Whisky Release!

Attention Shelter Point Community: As of right now, you can visit https://shelterpoint.ca/single-malt-whisky/ and purchase a bottle of our second ever official 10 Year Old Single Malt Whisky! Bottled at 46%, this whisky is for the Shelter Point whisky fans across Canada and around the globe.

10 Years is a long time. A lot has changed in the world since Shelter Point started production in 2011, but what hasn’t changed is our commitment to craft, quality, and doing things the best way we know how. For the second 10-Year-Old Single Malt Whisky, we decided to let the casks and the spirit do the talking, and present this limited-edition small batch for your enjoyment.

With a nose led by notes of creamy vanilla, apples and bananas, a palate that features a blend of assorted spice, caramel and just a hint of sea salt. Our 2nd 10-Year-Old Single Malt finishes with a wonderful balance of sweetness and fruitiness. A whisky designed to be shared and savored..

This much anticipated whisky is a limited run and is guaranteed to sell out extremely quickly, so be sure to order yours online before it’s too late!

*Please note that due to a shortage of staff and irregular hours due to our ongoing public closure, that curbside pickup orders cannot be fulfilled until Tuesday November 9th at the earliest. You may also experience some longer than usual delays in shipping times for this release, as demand will be high*

Single Malt 10  Year Old is available in a 750ml ($130) and can only be purchased online at https://shelterpoint.ca/single-malt-whisky/

For all the latest news and information visit our website at https://shelterpoint.ca/

A Final Reminder that Scotch Whisky Auctions are on the road again!

Please see below for our November 2021 schedule. To register your interest in a collection please complete the form which can be found here. Please note home collections are available to those customers sending 10+ bottles or bottles to the value of £1000 and above. Please get in touch if your area is not listed below but you would like a home collection. We will do our best to accommodate all requests.

Collections are limited and by appointment only. If you would like to attend please complete the form which can be found here. Please note dead lines apply for collection requests.It would be appreciated if bottles could be packed for uplift. In addition the attached submission form and label should be completed. A winner in our auction? We are now offering a delivery (to collection point) service to customers who are dropping bottles off for a future auction. This service is charged at £12 (inc VAT), optional loss and breakage cover is available.

For an update on COP26 road closures please see here

Submission Form & Label

Unnamed Islay 28 Year Old

A secret Laphroaig

This 1992 vintage is purportedly a Laphroaig and has a flavour profile to match. A vatting of bourbon barrels (#6772) bottled in April 2021 at a nice 52.5%. Only 252 individually numbered bottles for the Signatory Vintage Cask Strength label.  Islay 28 Year Old 1992 vintage single malt Scotch whisky from a mystery distillery. Matured in bourbon barrels cask vatting #6772 bottled April 2021 by Signatory Vintage for the Cask Strength Collection. 252 numbered bottles.

Islay 28 Year Old – £361 / €352* / $406/ c$506

MYSTERY MALT SINGLE MALT WHISKY

Mystery single malt that don’t want to reveal their true identity. Rummage around and with a bit of investigation you are sure to find a rare unspecified bottling from independent bottler.

A very warm welcome to your newest bespoke Whisky Auction Platform.

Whilst we all wait for the main site launch, we present you with our holding page above. This enables you to sign up to our newsletter and enquire about selling your whisky through Highland Whisky Auctions inaugural auction in December.

Please do not hesitate in emailing us for further information or to ask any questions on Info@highlandwhiskyauctions.com

WHISKY WEEKLY IN NOVEMBER!

With celebrations restricted in 2020 – we plan to make up for it this year and roar into the end of 2021 as we prepare for a festive extravaganza!

As we introduce 18 new casks on First Friday Outturn – followed by new whiskies every week during November – check out the shop now to explore everything for release with the date they go on sale. Make your selection and be ready for 9am on Friday for the first release.  Get ready to roar into the party season!

OUTTURN HUB

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COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS

With Halloween out of the way, it’s officially time to get ready for Christmas, and what better way to count down the days than with the Society Advent Calendar. Celebrate each day of December with a special 25ml dram and enjoy a different flavour experience every day. You’ll find single cask and grain whiskies, a couple of Single Cask Spirits surprises and some exclusive special label bottlings that you might not have tried before. We’ll be exploring each day’s whisky online throughout December, so order your calendar now to be part of the experience.

ORDER MY ADVENT CALENDAR (AFTER JOINING THE SOCIETY!)

NOVEMBER UNFILTERED

It’s fantastic to be back out and about, but at this time of year it’s also comforting to hunker down at home and entertain friends and family in your very own tasting environment. In the new issue of Unfiltered – live now – we showcase some great SMWS member ‘whisky dens’, provide some invaluable advice on how to play host to your whisky-loving pals and include home tasting sheets to download.

READ UNFILTERED

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

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show. This week I fancied doing some American stuff, so I grabbed 6 random samples and this is the end result!

https://youtu.be/ouD8e0MoIAw

BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY RELEASES FRENCH OAK BOURBON AS PART OF ITS OLD CHARTER OAK BRAND

 The Old Charter Oak Brand is dedicated to the Role Oak Plays

in Whiskey Making

FRANKFORT, Franklin County, Ky (Nov. 3, 2021) – Old Charter Oak French Oak is the latest release from Buffalo Trace Distillery as it continues to showcase oak tree varietals through its Old Charter Oak brand.

First revealed in 2018, Buffalo Trace’s Old Charter Oak brand showcases the diverse taste profiles of barrels obtained from trees grown in different countries, climates and soil. The oak trees used for the barrels that are dedicated to this brand vary by country of origin, or species, or U.S. state. Some barrels are even made from century oaks, 100-, 200- or 300-year-old oak trees.

For the latest release, Buffalo Trace is revisiting its successful French Oak series, with a new release available beginning in late November.  In 2013, Buffalo Trace obtained a small number of barrels from France, filled them with its Mash #1, the same mashbill used to make Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare and other bourbons from the Distillery.

“We first experimented with French Oak barrels in 1995,” said Master Distiller Harlen Wheatley.  “We released our first experiment with French Oak in 2006, and we were so pleased with the results we bought more barrels from France and put more bourbon up to age.  Over time, this has become one of our favorite bourbons and it’s always a treat when we’ve got some that are ready to bottle. It’s power packed with sweetness, sourced from the vanilla, caramel and wood sugars while balanced with the French Oak tannins.  With the French Oak barrels, we are exploring how the flavors are delivered at different levels.  It speaks to the regionality of wood and how it can impact the flavor of the bourbon whiskey.”

By Federal standards, bourbon is required to be aged in a new, charred oak container. But there is no specification it must be American white oak, it’s just that nearly all bourbons made today are aged in American white oak.

Old Charter is a brand that has always celebrated the central role that oak plays in making great whiskey, given its namesake. The brand dates back to 1874, when Adam and Ben Chapeze created the bourbon, naming it in honor of the Charter Oak tree, a famous symbol of American independence and free spirit, which grew in Connecticut in the 12^th or 13^th century until it fell in a storm in 1856.

This is the third release of Old Charter Oak French Oak, and the sixth release overall for the Old Charter Oak brand.  Past releases include Mongolian Oak, Canadian Oak, and Chinkapin Oak.   Old Charter Oak Bourbon will be releasing many different oak expressions in the future, with its next release planned for 2022.  Subsequent releases are planned each year.

The suggested retail pricing for the French Oak is $69.99.   Like the previous releases in the Old Charter Oak series, supplies will be limited. The Old Charter Oak French Oak Bourbon is 92 proof.

About Buffalo Trace Distillery

Buffalo Trace Distillery is an American family-owned company based in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. The Distillery’s rich tradition dates back to 1775 and includes such legends as E.H. Taylor, Jr., George T. Stagg, Albert B. Blanton, Orville Schupp, and Elmer T. Lee.  Buffalo Trace Distillery is a fully operational Distillery producing bourbon, rye and vodka on site and is a National Historic Landmark as well as is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Distillery has won 35 distillery titles since 2000 from such notable publications as Whisky Magazine, Whisky Advocate Magazine and Wine Enthusiast Magazine. Its Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr. Four Grain Bourbon was named World Whiskey of the Year for 2018 and its William Larue Weller and Thomas H. Handy Sazerac were named 2^nd and 3^rd finest whiskeys in the world for 2020.  Buffalo Trace Distillery has also garnered more than 1,000 awards for its wide range of premium whiskies. To learn more about Buffalo Trace Distillery visit www.buffalotracedistillery.com

MORTLACH

20 YEAR OLD
COWIE’S BLUE SEAL

70CL | 43.4% £165

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An elegant 20-year-old single malt from Mortlach, offering a more refined look at The Beast of Dufftown (the distillery’s nickname). Matured exclusively in sherry casks this whisky finds a balance between rich sherried fruits and oaky spice.

The elegant oldie in the Mortlach range, channeling The Beast of Dufftown (the distillery’s nickname) into a more refined form. Matured solely in sherry casks, the whisky has been crafted to match rich and dark sherry character against old, refined oaky notes. It’s one to take time with, well-balanced and complex, with much more going on than you might expect.

TASTING NOTES

• Tasting notes from Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange

  • NOSE

    Olive oil, sultanas and green apples to lead. Warm, oily engines hide right at the back, with soft fruity notes pushing forward – sweet apples, raisins and mixed peel. Tropical notes begin to emerge: pineapple and candied papaya. Brown sugar and toasted oak slowly builds.

  • PALATE

    Demerara-sugar dusted apples, olive-oil sponge cake and a bowl of mixed sultanas and raisins. Darker flavours slowly develop, with dark chocolate, dates and prunes balanced against fresher apple and pear orchard fruit notes. Hints of honey and menthol appear towards the end.

  • FINISH

    Honey and menthol to start – lemon Lockets without the lemons – with nuts and vanilla to follow.

  • COMMENT

    Harking back to the elegance of the Mortlach 25 Year Old from the previous range, this layers on sherry notes and adds extra depth to that dram’s more gentle character. A marriage of traditional sherry with old Mortlach’s more delicate and frarant side. More a pussy-cat than The Beast of Dufftown, and that’s no bad thing.

• Producer’s Notes

  • NOSE

    Super dense and rich, with touches of floor polish and much more of the waxy, earthy, meaty element seen in the previous examples. This has real elegance and complexity – and little intrigue. There is an added oiliness which you only get from mature whiskies. This in turn moves into varnish, leather oil, wood resins and even a touch of dubbin. The sensation is like being in some ancient, mysterious, library. There are dried fruits, a touch of scented wood, fir trees, cedar, Moroccan leather, slightly foxed books, floor polish, and some ink. It grows in the glass, moving towards chanterelle mushroom/cep mushroom even some of the wax crayon also seen on the 12-year-old. Huge, highly complex and contemplative.

  • BODY

    Robust and rich. Palate clinging.

  • PALATE

    The mature depth seen on the nose comes immediately into focus, but before it goes towards the dark there’s a refreshing lift of aromatic and overripe fruits (quince especially) and a touch of spiciness. It then expands as the fruits dry and the oils start to coat the tongue. The meaty element comes in quickly here, full-on grunt with animalic edges, cured leather and light bitter notes that bring to mid nutshell, espresso crema, damson jam, cacao nibs all balanced with some hedgerow berry fruits meaning that the back palate has a brighter lift than you might expect from something which is so dense and meaty (think of a berry sauce with venison). As it develops so this back palate shows more roasting tin elements, some bark. It continues to extend into dried fruits.

  • FINISH

    Quite dense. It carries on seamlessly from the progression seen on the palate with liquorice and dried fruit.

This holiday season is set to be filled with joyful get-togethers. Get-togethers with the people we love. The people we haven’t seen for a while. The people we didn’t get to celebrate with last year. At Compass Box, we’re celebrating with a get-together of some of our finest whiskies. So once you get reacquainted with our core range, why not introduce a bottle to your friends and family? With each character bringing something different to the festivities, there’s a perfect gift for everyone to enjoy. Read on to find out more!

Glasgow Blend

A gregarious and gallus ode to the Glaswegian spirit. Beneath its smoky exterior lies the welcoming warmth of a coal fire. Best for the big and bold characters in your life. Shop now.

The Spice Tree 

A rich, well-rounded malt whisky. Bursts of baking spice are complemented by delightful toasty oak notes. A whisky for the lovable rogue of the group. Shop now.

The Peat Monster

This monster comes out after dark – for late-night sipping. Known for its layers of smoke and peaty intensity, it’s a gift for those who thrive on debate with bite. Shop now.

Serves & Pairing Ideas

This dangerously delicious Peat Monster Old Fashioned brings out an unexpected elegance from this smoky-peaty whisky, highlighting its depth and complexity. Discover more recipes to delight your guests with.

Whisky with dessert is the perfect holiday indulgence. Try The Spice Tree with some traditional fruit cake for an explosion of warm gingery flavours. Explore more food pairings to share and enjoy this holiday season.

Prepare your taste buds for ritzy glitz and glamour as a new cask collection takes to the stage in celebration of the most magical season.

GET LOST…

CASK NO. 59.64

INITIAL CASK:  Ex-bourbon hogshead

FINAL CASK: Heavy-toast medium-char refill ex-bourbon hogshead

AGE:  10 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Juicy, oak & vanilla

MANGO TECHNOSPHERE

LIMIT ONE PER MEMBER

CASK NO. 93.156

CASK TYPE:  1st fill ex-bourbon barrel

AGE:  10 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Sweet, fruity & mellow

DRAGON’S BLOOD FRAGRANCE OIL

CASK NO. 30.113

INITIAL CASK:  Ex-Oloroso butt

FINAL CASK:  2nd fill Pedro Ximenez butt

AGE:  7 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Deep, rich & dried fruits

SHAKE YOUR BUTT

LIMIT ONE PER MEMBER

CASK NO. 63.73

CASK TYPE:  2nd fill ex-Oloroso butt

AGE:  12 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Deep, rich & dried fruits

AN ORCADIAN PEATZERIA

CASK NO. 4.271

CASK TYPE:  1st fill ex-bourbon barrel

INITIAL CASKS:  Ex-bourbon hogsheads

FINAL CASK:  Refill ex-bourbon hogshead

AGE:  20 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Lightly peated

SMOKEY MACSMOKEFACE

CASK NO. 108.28

CASK TYPE:  2nd fill ex-bourbon barrel

AGE:  11 years

FLAVOUR PROFILE:  Peated

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