Edencroft: All Their New Whisky Arrivals!

Edencroft has 5 New additions to it’s range this week with whiskies from the Highlands, Islay, Lowland and Speyside regions.

Supplier	Brand	Bottle Size	Price
Edencroft	Compass Box – Delilah’s Country: Scotland Region: HighlandsandLowland Age: Strength: 40% Summary: Delilah’s is a Limited Release Compass Box homage to Delilah’s, Mike Miller’s legendary punk rock whisky bar in Chicago, to celebrate the bar’s 20th anniversary in 2013. The whisky was developed jointly by John Glaser and Mike Miller as an expression of their shared vision that great whisky should be enjoyable by all. Delilah’s is an intense yet subtly complex Scotch whisky aged in a mix of experimental new American oak barrels and rejuvenated American oak hogsheads. It has been created to be perfect served as a shot with a beer. Availability: Limited Release of 6,324 bottles, Bottled in July 2013. Flavour Descriptors: Rich and sweet, with intense yet subtly complex, honeyed and seductive fruity notes, cereals and vanilla-cream. Recommendations: Delicious drunk as a shot along with a beer or sipped neat with chilled water to taste Distillery Sourcing: Single malts from the towns of Alness and Longmorn (approx 50% of the recipe); single grain whisky from Fife (approx 50% of the recipe).	70cl	£ 50.00 BUY NOW
Edencroft	Compass Box – Great King Street Experimental Batch #00-v4 Country: Scotland Region: LowlandHighlandSpeyside Age: Strength: 43% Summary: Great King Street is a new line of craft Scotch whiskies created by the Compass Box Whisky Company for people who love great whisky. Since the launch of the Artist’s Blend in 2011 we’ve been thinking about the style of the second permanent whisky in the Great King Street range. Blending provides a platform for limitless styles, so the world is our oyster. Two styles have emerged as the leading contenders – one smoky the other lightly sherried – and so we have decided to release a small experimental batch of each to see what you think. So, taste, savour, mix if you like; above all, share and enjoy them with your friends. Then simply visit www.greatkingstreet.com/experimental and give us your views. WHAT MAKES GREAT KING STREET DELICIOUS? ART – A marriage of the very best whiskies from Scotlands top distilleries, aged in the finest quality oak. Inspiration – Inspired by the golden age of 19th Century Scotch whisky making, improved with Compass Box innovation. Craft – Natural colour, no chill filtration, a perfect balance of malt and grain whisky. Flavour Descriptors: Sweet, fruity with notes of blueberry jam, ripe plums, candied oranges and toffee popcorn. Availability: A one-off, limited release of 3,439 bottles. Bottled in September 2013. Recommendations: Perfect for drinking neat, with a splash of water or with ice. You can also enjoy Experimental Batch #00-V4 with soda water as a classic Highball, or in all manner of cocktails. Distillery Sourcing: 28% Lowland grain whisky, 72% Malt whisky from the regions of Speyside, the Highlands and islands and with a small percentage of peated malt from Islay. Wood: Mostly first-fill Sherry casks and refill ex-Bourbon barrels.	50cl	£ 29.50 BUY NOW
Edencroft	Compass Box – Great King Street Experimental Batch #00-v6 Country: Scotland Region: LowlandHighlandSpeyside Age: Strength: 43% Summary: Great King Street is a new line of craft Scotch whiskies created by the Compass Box Whisky Company for people who love great whisky. Since the launch of the Artist’s Blend in 2011 we’ve been thinking about the style of the second permanent whisky in the Great King Street range. Blending provides a platform for limitless styles, so the world is our oyster. Two styles have emerged as the leading contenders – one smoky the other lightly sherried – and so we have decided to release a small experimental batch of each to see what you think. So, taste, savour, mix if you like; above all, share and enjoy them with your friends. Then simply visit www.greatkingstreet.com/experimental and give us your views. WHAT MAKES GREAT KING STREET DELICIOUS? ART – A marriage of the very best whiskies from Scotlands top distilleries, aged in the finest quality oak. Inspiration – Inspired by the golden age of 19th Century Scotch whisky making, improved with Compass Box innovation. Craft – Natural colour, no chill filtration, a perfect balance of malt and grain whisky. Flavour Descriptors: Complex, smoky and aromatic with notes of seaweed, mint, salt spray and an underlying dried fruit sweetness. Availability: A one-off, limited release of 3,805 bottles. Bottled in September 2013. Recommendations: Perfect for drinking neat, with a splash of water or with ice. You can also enjoy Experimental Batch #TR-06 with soda water as a classic Highball, or in all manner of cocktails. Distillery Sourcing: 33% Lowland grain whisky, 67% Malt whisky from the regions of Islay, the Highlands and Speyside. A third of the recipe is from fruity single malt from the village of Brora. Wood: Mostly first-fill ex-bourbon casks and new French oak finish for additional complexity.	50cl	£ 29.50 BUY NOW
Edencroft	Compass Box – The Peat Monster Tenth Anniversary Limited Release Country: Scotland Region: IslayHighlands Age: Strength: 48.9% Summary: Ten years ago we created a bespoke blend of very peaty single malts for the owners of the Park Avenue Liquor Shop in New York. We named it “Monster” and for the label graphics we used a 19th century illustration of a bizarre and strangely beautiful creature that appeared to us to capture the idea of the whisky. It sold so well that when it became endangered we decided to share the idea with the rest of the world. We appended “The Peat” to the front of “Monster” and breathed fresh life into the beautiful beast. It has gone on to become our best-selling Compass Box whisky. In 2013, let’s celebrate ten years of sharing the joys of the craft blender’s art, of inspiring others in the industry and of enjoying the balanced, peaty charms of this creation. HEAVY PEAT AND SMOKE, COMBINED WITH NOTES OF MALTY RICHNESS For this special bottling, we have produced a special recipe of The Peat Monster, maintaining the smoky, heavy-peated intensity of the classic bottling and adding a bit more malty richness through the use of some very special, quite odd casks of peaty Highland single malt. Flavour Descriptors: Intense aromas of peet-reek, smoke, seaside character and burnt ropes, with a subtle apple-fruitiness in the background. The palate is full, round and tremendously complex. Water brings out a spice-laden, sweet vanilla character, as well. Availability: A one-off, limited release of 5,700 bottles. Bottled in September 2013. Recommendations: A fantastic late-night digestif malt whisky. Distillery Sourcing: Islay single malts distilled on the south shore of the island and in the village of Port Askaig. Balanced with a rich, smoky Highland single malt and a fruity oily malt from the village of Brora. Wood: Primarily a mix of first-fill and refill American oak, plus approximately 2% new French oak for finishing.	70cl	£ 77.50 BUY NOW
Edencroft	Tomintoul – With A Peaty Tang Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: Strength: 40% Summary: Tomintoul distillery was founded by the whisky broking firms W&S Strong and Hay & MacLeod. In 1974, the number of stills were doubled from 2 to 4, when its first single malt was marketed. For a number of years Tomintoul Single Malt was renowned for its perfume shaped bottle.The distillery is 8 miles from Tomintoul village which is used by walkers and climbers as a base camp. Nose: takes me back to my early teens, spending schooldays working on a farm: pure farmyard with an earthy yet fruity punch. The sort of complex nose that almost makes you forget to drink the stuff … almost … ; Taste: a gentle coating of vaguely sweet peat that multiplies in intensity; salivating yet chewy. Some liquorice and hickory notes make their drying mark; Finish: distinctly gristy and unusually dry for a smoky malt. Long, luscious and not a little oaky late on; Balance: a bit more than a tang, believe me! Faultlessly clean distillate that revels in its unaccustomed peaty role. The age is confusing and appears mixed, with both young and older traits being evident.	70cl	£ 27.85 BUY NOW