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Ballechin 6th Release / Bourbon Cask Matured Highland Whisky
70cl / 46% / Distillery Bottling – The 6th release of Ballechin, the heavily peated spirit that the folks at Edradour sometimes make. This one eschews the more fancy finishes of the rest of the range and was matured in a bourbon cask, for a straight down the line example of their peated malt.
Price: £ 62.65 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Johnnie Walker Black Label 12 Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky
70cl / 40% – Johnnie Walker Black Label is one of the world’s favourite Scotch whiskies – and over 100 years after its first appearance in 1909, it’s still winning awards.
Price: £ 24.75 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Black & White / Bot.1940s / Spring Cap Blended Scotch Whisky
75cl / 40% – A great looking and well kept bottle of Black & White from the 1940s, complete with royal crest and ‘By Appointment to HM The King’.
Price: £ 399.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Johnnie Walker Swing Superior Blended Scotch Whisky
75cl / 43% – A rare higher-strength version of enduringly popular Johnnie Walker in a rocking bottle.
Price: £ 71.95 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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The Princess Royal shown Prestige Bottling Hall by Chivas Employees
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal officially opened a brand new bottling hall during a visit to Renfrewshire.
The Prestige Hall was completed last year as part of an annual £40m investment in operations by Chivas Brothers. It was created to facilitate the hand-packaging of the company’s highest-value products, including those in the Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, The Glenlivet, Beefeater and Ballantine’s ranges, as well as some limited edition single malts.
The process in the Prestige Hall is much more hand-crafted, quiet and bespoke than in a typical bottling hall, drawing on the skills of specially-selected employees to ensure the highest possible standards to meet the specification expected by the expanding group of luxury whisky and gin consumers around the world.
During the visit, Her Royal Highness unveiled a commemorative plaque.
While on the visit, Her Royal Highness was able to witness the company’s full range of bottling facilities from high-speed, high-volume bottling lines to the detailed processes carried out by hand for the high-value expressions packaged in the new Prestige Hall. Employees presented to Her Royal Highness included current and former apprentices, family members who work together on the site and employees who have long service exceeding 20 years.
Speaking at the event, Mr Lacassagne, Chairman and CEO of Chivas Brothers, said: “It was an incredible honour to receive this visit by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, and one that our employees will remember for years to come. We are very proud of our state-of-the-art bottling facilities here in Paisley, and the teams that run them, so it was a pleasure to be able to present these to such a prestigious guest.
“The Prestige Hall is a prime example of how we have evolved our business to ensure it is clearly aligned for the future. The long term prospects for premium Scotch whisky and gin remain very good and this investment will continue to help us appeal to discerning consumers all over the world with the very highest quality products.”
| Supplier | Brand | % Fall |
Price Diff. | Price NOW | Price BEFORE |
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Abbey Whisky
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Bowmore 1985 / Feis Ile 2012 (70cl) |  -17% |
(£ -125.00) | £ 625.00 | |
The Whisky Barrel
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Tamdhu 21 Year Old 1990 Old & Rare () | -12% |
(£ -24.67) | £ 175.32 | |
The Whisky Barrel
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Tamdhu 21 Year Old 1989 Old & Rare () | -13% |
(£ -23.18) | £ 156.81 | |
Master of Malt
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Mannochmore 1998 – Managers Choice Single Malt Whisky (70cl) | -6% |
(£ -10.00) | £ 155.00 | |
Master of Malt
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Spirit of Hven Seven Stars No.1 Dubhe Single Malt Single Malt Whisky (50cl) | -3% |
(£ -2.70) | £ 93.61 | |
The Whisky Barrel
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Amrut Kadambam () | -19% |
(£ -15.60) | £ 67.59 | |
Master of Malt
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Highland Park 18 Year Old Single Malt Whisky (70cl) | -12% |
(£ -8.36) | £ 61.49 | |
Master of Malt
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Glenfarclas 15 Year Old Box Set Single Malt Whisky (70cl) | -14% |
(£ -8.99) | £ 54.99 | |
Edencroft
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Lagavulin – 1995 Distillers Edition (70cl) | -17% |
(£ -10.00) | £ 50.00 | |
The Drink Shop
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Jack Daniels – Silver Select 70cl Bottle (70cl) | -10% |
(£ -5.36) | £ 49.89 | |
The Green Welly Stop
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GlenDronach Cask Strength Whisky – Batch 2 – 55.2% (70cl) | -6% |
(£ -3.10) | £ 46.90 | |
Edencroft
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Talisker – 1999 Distillers Edition (70cl) | -29% |
(£ -17.44) | £ 42.50 | |
The Whisky Barrel
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Benrinnes 16 Year Old Berry Bros () | -12% |
(£ -5.76) | £ 41.23 | |
The Whisky Barrel
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Nishinomiya Nikka Coffey Grain () | -3% |
(£ -1.28) | £ 37.71 | |
The Green Welly Stop
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Glenglassaugh Revival (70cl) | -6% |
(£ -2.14) | £ 31.60 | |
Master of Malt
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Kentucky Vintage 75cl Bourbon Whiskey (75cl) | -8% |
(£ -2.76) | £ 30.19 | |
The Green Welly Stop
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Tamdhu 8 Year Old Whisky – The MacPhails Collection 43% (70cl) | -6% |
(£ -1.65) | £ 25.85 |
Port Ellen 1983 / 26 Year Old / Cask #5133 Islay Whisky
70cl / 46% / McGibbon’s – A rare Port Ellen 1983, originally bottled for travel retail by Douglas Laing for their McGibbon’s Provenance series. this is from a single refill butt and sounds very good from the bottler’s tasting notes.
Price: £ 325.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Tamdhu 8 Year Old / Sherry Cask / Bot.1980s Speyside Whisky
75.7cl / 40% / Gordon & Macphail – An old bottling of Tamdhu 8 year old whisky. This appears to have been bottled in the early eighties, just after the change from fl.ozs to cl. A rather dark sherried whisky considering its mere 8 years of maturation.
Price: £ 175.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Edencroft has 5 New additions to it’s range this week with whiskies from the Highlands, Islay, Lowland and Speyside regions.
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Edencroft
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
Whisky Online has 2 New additions to it’s range this week with a Dimple John Haig | Circa 1950 | 75cl Blended Whisky and a Port ellen 1979 | CASK Strength.
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Whisky Online
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Dimple John Haig | Circa 1950 | 75cl Blended Whisky Country: Scotland Region: Age: Strength: 70 Proof Summary: Blended Scotch Whisky 75cl / 70 Proof A Very Rare blended whisky of Haigs Dimple which was bottled in the 1950s. These incredibly time capsules are highly drinkable and collectible especially so given this one comes with the original packaging! |
75cl | £ 125.00 BUY NOW |
Whisky Online
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Port ellen 1979 | CASK Strength Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: Strength: 60.7% Vintage: 1979 Bottler: Gordon & Macphail Bottling Summary: Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Bottled by: Gordon & MacPhail 70cl / 60.7% |
70cl | £ 350.00 BUY NOW |
