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Happy New Year!

December 31, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Happy New Year from Malthound!

Happy New Year from Malthound!

Happy New Year from Malthound!!

Have a safe, happy and prosperous 2011!!

Filed Under: General, New Year

Strathisla 1953 – Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

December 31, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Strathisla 1953 - Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Strathisla 1953 - Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

70cl / 43% / Gordon & Macphail.

Price: £ 279.00  BUY IT NOW

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 1953, gordon, macphail, Speyside, Strathisla

Glenlochy 1980 / 29 Year Old / Cask #2649 – Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

December 30, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Glenlochy 1980 / 29 Year Old / Cask #2649 - Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Glenlochy 1980 / 29 Year Old / Cask #2649 - Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

70cl / 52.8% / Signatory – The Glenlochy distillery was closed in the early 1980s, and the whisky made there rarely sees the light of day as most of the malt produced there went into Diageo’s blends, so this is indeed a rare treat from Signatory..

Price: £ 97.95  BUY IT NOW

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 1980, 29 Year Old, closed, diageo, Glenlochy, Highland, malt, produced, rare, signatory

Edradour 2000 / 10 Year Old / Burgundy Finish – Highland Single Malt Whisky

December 29, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Edradour 2000 / 10 Year Old / Burgundy Finish - Highland Single Malt Whisky

Edradour 2000 / 10 Year Old / Burgundy Finish - Highland Single Malt Whisky

50cl / 57.9% / Distillery Bottling – A double-matured Edrasdour 2000, spending over 18 months in a Burgundy hogshead for its second maturation. judging from th ecolour, it was probably red burgundy, making this a rare example of a Pinot Noir finish..

Price: £ 40.95  BUY IT NOW

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 10 Year Old, 2000, distillery, Edradour, example, finish, Highland, maturation, rare, red

Malt Whisky Yearbook 2008 – Whisky Book

December 28, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Malt Whisky Yearbook 2008 - Whisky Book

Malt Whisky Yearbook 2008 - Whisky Book

An absolute must for aficionados of the uisge, this is the third of these yearbooks. Bang up to date, with brilliant distillery profiles (and not just Scottish ones either), interviews and fascinating articles – just a great read for anyone interested in whisky..

Price: £ 12.95  BUY IT NOW

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Filed Under: Malt Tagged With: 2008, distillery, malt, whisky

Cragganmore 1997 / Managers' Choice / Sherry Cask – Single Speyside Malt Scotch Whisky

December 27, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Cragganmore 1997 / Managers' Choice / Sherry Cask - Single Speyside Malt Scotch Whisky

Cragganmore 1997 / Managers' Choice / Sherry Cask - Single Speyside Malt Scotch Whisky

70cl / 59.7% / Distillery Bottling – A full-strength Cragganmore 1997 bottled in 2009 from a single sherry cask by Diageo for their Manager’s Choice series..

Price: £ 245.00  BUY IT NOW

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 1997, cask, choice, Cragganmore, diageo, series, sherry, single, Speyside

Glen Moray 1960 / 26 Year Old – Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

December 26, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Glen Moray 1960 / 26 Year Old - Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Glen Moray 1960 / 26 Year Old - Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

75cl / 43% / Distillery Bottling.

Price: £ 399.00  BUY IT NOW

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 1960, 26 Year Old, bottling, distillery, Glen, Speyside

Talisker Pure Malt Whisky / Bot. 1960s – Single Island Malt Scotch Whisky

December 25, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Talisker Pure Malt Whisky / Bot. 1960s - Single Island Malt Scotch Whisky

Talisker Pure Malt Whisky / Bot. 1960s - Single Island Malt Scotch Whisky

75cl / 43% / Distillery Bottling – A wonderful old 1960’s distillery bottling of Talisker at the more conventional strength of 43%, before they switched to 45.8%..

Price: £ 1,500.00  BUY IT NOW

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 1960, bottling, distillery, Island, strength, Talisker

Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

Merry Christmas from Malthound!

Merry Christmas from Malthound!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from Malthound!!

(And enjoy a happy respite and a few drams before the Sales start!!)

Filed Under: Christmas, General

The Glengoyne Christmas Cask 2010

December 24, 2010 by Gary Leave a Comment

The Glengoyne Christmas Cask 2010

The Glengoyne Christmas Cask 2010

Glengoyne Distillery is to launch its SLOWEST ever bottling. Taking over four years to complete, this is a world’s first small batch release from a single cask, creating a live experiment which whisky enthusiasts can take part in.

Available from Tuesday 28 December 2010, The Glengoyne Christmas Cask will be released each Christmas until 2014. Just 100 bottles will be released at a time, exclusively available to buy in person from the distillery shop. This highly innovative, first of a kind bottling will allow single cask lovers to trace the flavour evolution in this remarkable, yet typical, Glengoyne cask over its next four years of maturation.

Cask 790, a First Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt distilled in 2002, is currently rich, with hints of rosehip syrup, cocoa beans, oak and spice. It still clings to the last of its spirited youth, but delivering plenty and promising much more.

Glengoyne’s unique flavour is derived from Scotland’s SLOWEST malt whisky distillation and the use of some of Spain’s finest sherry casks. Every year a team of dedicated noses search the warehouses for casks that are just right, releasing between two and four Single Casks a year. Once in the bottle the whisky stops maturing, so Single Cask bottlings represent a snapshot in time.

Stuart Hendry, Glengoyne Brand Heritage Manager explained “One day, after a particularly productive tasting session, we got to thinking – what if there is something more? We at the distillery are able to taste casks as they mature, witnessing their highs and lows, their flavour peak and troughs as they wind their way towards maturity. What if we were able to share that with our anorak-wearing whisky chums?”

‘Headspace’ – the area within the cask unoccupied by liquid – is normally created through evaporation at the rate of approximately 1.5% per annum. In the case of the Christmas Cask we will be removing 70 litres from the cask each year, leading to much increased headspace, giving the potential for higher rates of evaporation and interactive maturation. Stuart continued: “We don’t know for sure what will happen, but we’re looking forward to finding out.”

The release of the Glengoyne Christmas Cask is something completely different, a first of its kind for the distillery, and the world, representing the Glengoyne SLOW ethos. It is an utterly unique insight into the life of a Single Malt Whisky cask, with the staggered bottlings perfectly demonstrating the long slow path each and every cask takes to reach the moment of perfect maturity. Each bottle will be numbered and signed by the Glengoyne Tasting Panel, but will be presented without packaging in order to keep the price down.

The release date for the first 100 bottles is 28th December 2010 and the bottles must be purchased AT the distillery, priced £100. They will not be available online.

For further information visit: www.glengoyne.com

About Glengoyne:
Award-winning Glengoyne is one of the leading premium malt whiskies in the world and has been distilled at Glengoyne distillery since 1833. The Glengoyne portfolio consists of the 10 Years Old, 12 Years Old Cask Strength, 12 Years Old at 43%, 17 Years Old , 21 Years Old and Vintage 1972 as well as other limited edition special bottlings.

SLOWLY distilling the spirit allows more contact with the copper stills, removing unwanted sulphur which can result in bitterness and encouraging the formation of esters creating Glengoyne’s distinctive apple fruitiness. The increased copper interaction also helps draw more flavour from the slowly handcrafted Spanish Sherry oak casks during maturation.

Filed Under: 10 Year Old, 12 year old, 17 Year Old, 21 Year Old, Glengoyne, New Arrivals, News

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