Not so many new arrivals from The Whisky Exchange this week but there are still 20 fine malts to lust after!
The whiskies this week come from the Highland, Island, Islay and Speyside regions.
The brands include Arran, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Clynelish, Highland Park, Isle Of Jura, Knockando, Lagavulin, Macallan, Octomore and Port Charlotte.
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Bruichladdich Organic 2003 / Anns An T-seann Doigh – Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: Strength: 46% Vintage: 2003 Bottler: Summary: 70cl / 46% / Distillery Bottling – A fully organic Bruichladdich 2003, some of which was matured in new wood to produce what they're calling their creamiest ever whisky. Somewhat confusingly, the marketing bumf proclaims this to be the 'World's First Organic Islay', before explaining that a century ago all barley was organic. The name means 'In the Traditional Way', incidentally. |
70cl | £ 38.25 BUY NOW |
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Knockando 18 Year Old / Slow Matured – Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 18 Year Old Strength: 43% Summary: 70cl / 43% / Distillery Bottling |
70cl | £ 56.49 BUY NOW |
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Macallan 1971 / Speymalt – Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: Strength: 43% Vintage: 1971 Bottler: Summary: 70cl / 43% / Gordon & Macphail – A 1971 vintage release for Gordon & Macphail's spectacularly good value 'Speymalt' bottlings of Macallan. These bottlings are a fraction of cost of the officially-bottled expressions from the same vintages. |
70cl | £ 139.00 BUY NOW |
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Amrut Fusion – Indian Single Malt Whisky Country: India Region: Age: Strength: 50% Summary: 70cl / 50% – Amrut Fusion gets its name from the fact that it uses two barleys: Indian and Scottish – with the latter being peated for good measure. Batch One was a hugely successful award-winner, this is a new batch which we think is just as good or better. |
70cl | £ 37.49 BUY NOW |
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Bowmore Tempest / 10 Year Old / Batch 2 – Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: 10 Year Old Strength: 56% Summary: 70cl / 56% / Distillery Bottling – The first bottling of Bowmore's Tempest was one of our favourite whiskies of the year so far, and it looks like you all must have agreed – they've run out! Here's a new batch, which we're sure will be just as good. |
70cl | £ 41.95 BUY NOW |
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Isle Of Jura 1999 – Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Island Age: Strength: 58% Vintage: 1999 Bottler: Summary: 70cl / 58% / Distillery Bottling – A batch of heavily-peated Isle of Jura distilled in 1999 to an extremely high level of 40ppm. The label bears the facsimile signature of Michael Heads, the former Jura distillery manager who took over at Ardbeg in 2007. |
70cl | £ 59.95 BUY NOW |
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Amrut Two Continents – Indian Single Malt Whisky Country: India Region: Age: Strength: 46% Summary: 70cl / 46% – We were staggered by the quality of this new Amrut, matured first in India before spending its final three years of maturation in Europe. Robust and complex, with deliciously elegant compensating sweetness, this perfectly-balanced dram is a revelatory malt that could herald the breakthrough for Indian whisky. |
70cl | £ 47.49 BUY NOW |
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Macallan 1952 / 25 Year Old – Speyside Single Malt Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 25 Year Old Strength: 43% Vintage: 1952 Bottler: Summary: 75cl / 43% / Gordon & Macphail – An old Gordon & Macphail bottling of 25yo Macallan 1952, bottled in the 1970s. |
75cl | £ 850.00 BUY NOW |
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Clynelish 12 Year Old / Spirit Of Free Embo / Bot. 1988 – Highland Single Malt Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Highland Age: 12 Year Old Strength: 40% Vintage: 1988 Bottler: Summary: 75cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – An historic limited edition of Clynelish 12yo, produced by the distillery in support of the neighbouring village of Embo, which declared itself independent from the rest of the UK for one day in 1988 to raise funds for a community centre. The village issued its own currency, the Cuddie, for the day and just 300 bottles of this whisky were released. |
75cl | £ 550.00 BUY NOW |
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Suntory Hakushu Heavily Peated – Japanese Single Malt Whisky Country: Japan Region: Age: Strength: 48% Summary: 70cl / 48% – When you get a category as hot as Japanese whisky, a distillate as good as Hakushu's AND it's peated as well, you know you've got a hit on your hands. We expect this to be big. |
70cl | £ 61.95 BUY NOW |
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Suntory Yamazaki Puncheon – Japanese Single Malt Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Age: Strength: 48% Summary: 70cl / 48% – A special edition Yamazaki from Suntory, aged in a 480-litre puncheon cask, which allows the whisky to mature much more slowly than the standard 230-litre hogshead. There's no age statement, but at 48% and unchillfiltered, it's likely to be pretty tasty. |
70cl | £ 61.95 BUY NOW |
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Octomore 5 Year Old / Edition 03.1 – Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: 5 Year Old Strength: 59% Summary: 70cl / 59% / Distillery Bottling – The third annual release of 'normal' Octomore has arrived – unlike the previous bottling, Orpheus, this has not been wine-finished and, at 152ppm, is said to be most heavily-peated Octomore released so far. |
70cl | £ 81.49 BUY NOW |
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Port Charlotte An Turas Mor – Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: Strength: 46% Summary: 70cl / 46% / Distillery Bottling – 2010's release of Port Charlotte is a departure from previous years in two significant ways: as a multi-vintage vatting and being bottled at 46% rather than the humungous cask strength of the earlier PC's. An Turas Mor ("The Great Journey", it says here) is intended as a coming-of-age PC, and, it is claimed, fulfils Jim McEwan's original vision for the brand. The journey continues… |
70cl | £ 34.49 BUY NOW |
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Arran 14 Year Old – Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Island Age: 14 Year Old Strength: 46% Summary: 70cl / 46% / Distillery Bottling – Released in late 2010, this Arran 14yo is intended to be the standard issue bottling, taking over from the 12yo that appeared in late 2008. As has always been the case with Arran's malt, this has been neither coloured nor chill-filtered and has been bottled at a sensible drinking strength of 46%, for which the management deserve maximum kudos. |
70cl | £ 38.25 BUY NOW |
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Arran Amarone Cask Finish – Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Island Age: Strength: 50% Summary: 70cl / 50% / Distillery Bottling – After a remarkable (if understandable) proliferation of single cask bottlings with experimental and occasionally unfortunate wine finishes, Arran have plumped for a core range of just three finished malts, of which this Amarone red wine finish is the driest. Earthy and complex. |
70cl | £ 36.95 BUY NOW |
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Arran Port Cask Finish – Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Island Age: Strength: 50% Summary: 70cl / 50% / Distillery Bottling – A bold, sweet Port finish from Arran, released in late 2010 as part of the downsized standard offering from the distillery now that their malt is fully mature. Bottled at 50%, so some water may be preferred. |
70cl | £ 36.95 BUY NOW |
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Bowmore 25 Year Old Decanter – Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: 25 Year Old Strength: 43% Summary: 75cl / 43% / Distillery Bottling – A rare old edition of Bowmore 25yo in a fetching blue ceramic decanter. |
75cl | £ 350.00 BUY NOW |
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Lagavulin 1993 Double Matured / Distillers Edition – Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: Strength: 43% Vintage: 1993 Bottler: Summary: 100cl / 43% / Distillery Bottling – Finished in casks previously containing Pedro Ximenez sherry, this Lagavulin is the most popular of the 'Distillers Edition' expressions of the Classic Malts. A delicious layer of sherry sweetness smooths out the rough edges of the standard bottling. |
100cl | £ 74.94 BUY NOW |
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Highland Park 1973 / 35 Year Old / Nuance Group / Cask #6194 – Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Island Age: 35 Year Old Strength: 49.6% Vintage: 1973 Bottler: Summary: 70cl / 49.6% / Distillery Bottling – A single cask edition of 1973 Highland Park, bottled at full strength for the Nuance Group at 35 years old. |
70cl | £ 275.00 BUY NOW |
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Compass Box Peat Monster Miniature – Blended Malt Scotch Whisky Miniature Country: Scotland Region: Age: Strength: 46% Summary: 5cl / 46% – |
5cl | £ 5.03 BUY NOW |
