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Overeem Single Malt Whisky / Sherry Cask #030 Australian Whisky
70cl / 43% / Distillery Bottling – A French oak, ex-sherry cask matured Australian whisky, distilled and matured at the Old Hobart distillery in Tasmania. More approachable than the cask strength edition, this is still packed full of sherry fruit and spice.
Price: £ 140.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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The Whisky Barrel has 20 New additions to it’s range this week with whiskies from the Highland, Island, Islay and Speyside regions.
The brands include Aberlour, Brora, Caol Ila, Glendronach, Glenfiddich, Highland Park, Isle Of Jura, Lagavulin & Port Ellen.
The ages of the new whiskies range from 17 to 41 Year Old malts.
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The Whisky Barrel
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Isle Of Jura Superstition Country: Scotland Region: Island Age: Strength: Summary: Isle of Jura Superstition Island single malt Scotch whiskey. A mixture of heavily peated young Jura whisky with older vintage lighter peated Jura whisky. |
£ 42.36 BUY NOW | |
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Aberlour A'bunadh Batch 46 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: Strength: Summary: Aberlour A'bunadh Batch 46 Speyside single malt Scotch whiskey. Full strength sherry cask matured Scotch. |
£ 40.95 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 41 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #702 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 41 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 41 Year Old 1972 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Oloroso Sherry Butt #702 bottled 2013. 448 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 584.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 27 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #1035 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 27 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 27 Year Old 1985 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon #1035 bottled 2013. 290 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 161.60 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 23 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #5470 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 23 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 23 Year Old 1989 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon #5470 bottled 2013. 525 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 126.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 23 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #1243 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 23 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 23 Year Old 1990 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon #1243 bottled 2013. 679 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 126.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 21 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #5405 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 21 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 21 Year Old 1991 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon #5405 bottled 2013. 702 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 111.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 21 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #195 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 21 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 21 Year Old 1993 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Oloroso Sherry Butt #195 bottled 2013. 566 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 111.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 20 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #5 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 20 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 20 Year Old 1993 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Oloroso Sherry Butt #5 bottled 2013. 645 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 104.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 19 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #3385 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 19 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 19 Year Old 1994 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon #3385 bottled 2013. 637 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 98.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 18 Year Old Batch 9 Cask #3302 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 18 Year Old Strength: Summary: Glendronach 18 Year Old 1995 Vintage Batch 9 Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon #3302 bottled 2013. 677 numbered bottles. MAXIMUM 1 BOTTLE PER ORDER |
£ 93.99 BUY NOW | |
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Glendronach 19 Year Old 1994 Cask #67 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 19 Year Old Strength: Vintage: 1994 Bottler: Summary: Glendronach 19 Year Old 1994 vintage Highland single malt Scotch whiskey. Single Oloroso Sherry Butt cask #67 bottled November 2013 for the United Kingdom. Limited release of 625 numbered bottles. |
£ 80.73 BUY NOW |
The Green Welly Stop has 10 New additions to it’s range this week with whiskies from the Highland, Island, Islay and Speyside regions.
The brands include Dufftown, Port Ellen, Bruichladdich, Old Pulteney, Caol Ila, Lagavulin, Cardhu, Talisker, Convalmore & GlenDronach.
The ages of the new whiskies range from 5 to 36 Year Old malts.
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Port Ellen 1982 30 Year Old Chieftains THE LAST CASK Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: 30 Years Old Strength: 50.1 Vintage: 1982 Bottler: Ian Macleod |
70cl | £ 420.00 BUY NOW |
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Bruichladdich Octomore 6.1 – Scottish Barley Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: 5 Years Old Strength: 57 Vintage: 2008 Bottler: Bruichladdich |
70cl | £ 85.00 BUY NOW |
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Caol Ila – Stitchell Reserve – 2013 Release Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: Strength: 59.6 |
70cl | £ 68.00 BUY NOW |
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Cardhu 1991 21 Year Old – 2013 Release Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 21 Years Old Strength: 54.2 Vintage: 1991 Bottler: Diageo |
70cl | £ 155.00 BUY NOW |
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Convalmore 1977 36 Year Old – 2013 Release Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 36 Years Old Strength: 58.0 Vintage: 1977 Bottler: Diageo |
70cl | £ 580.00 BUY NOW |
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Lagavulin 12 Year Old – 2013 Release Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: 12 Years Old Strength: 55.1 |
70cl | £ 77.00 BUY NOW |
The Green Welly Stop
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The Singleton of Dufftown 1985 28 Year Old – 2013 Release Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 28 Years Old Strength: 52.3 Vintage: 1985 Bottler: Diageo |
70cl | £ 220.00 BUY NOW |
The Green Welly Stop
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Talisker 1985 27 Year Old – 2013 Release Country: Scotland Region: Island Age: 27 Years Old Strength: 56.1 Vintage: 1985 Bottler: Diageo |
70cl | £ 465.00 BUY NOW |
The Green Welly Stop
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Old Pulteney 1990 Vintage Country: Scotland Region: Highland Age: 23 Years Old Strength: 46 Vintage: 1990 Bottler: Old Pulteney |
70cl | £ 114.00 BUY NOW |
The Green Welly Stop
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GlenDronach Cask Strength Batch 3 – 54.9% Country: Scotland Region: Highland Age: Strength: 54.9 |
70cl | £ 46.90 BUY NOW |
Glen Scotia 1992 / 18 Year Old / Sherry Cask #7017 Campbeltown Whisky
70cl / 50% / Douglas Laing – A single cask release of Glen Scotia, distilled in 1992. This whisky has been matured for 18 years in a Sherry cask and bottled at 50% for Douglas Laing’s Old Malt Cask series.
Price: £ 69.95 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Glenfiddich 15 Year Old Solera Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
70cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – Immensely popular Glenfiddich variant. Using a Solera system common in the maturation of quality sherry, 15yo malt from three different types of casks is married together in a wooden vat, which is constantly topped up to ensure the quality is maintained.
Price: £ 33.45 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Aberlour A’bunadh – Shot by Ted Dwane
Aberlour, the award-winning single malt whisky, has brought its artisanship and craft to life by linking up with up-and-coming photographer and bassist for the world-famous band, Mumford & Sons, Ted Dwane, as the exclusive partner for his inaugural solo photography exhibition, ‘A Show of Faces’, that featured in Shoreditch, London earlier this month.
Dwane, who already has a keen interest in single malt, takes a unique and intricately crafted approach to photography using hand-developed single edition prints that provide layers of contrast, and remain the unique and only result of the photo.
This approach strongly mirrors Aberlour’s reputation for crafting a malt of superlative quality and careful curation of ex-sherry casks to provide the rich and intense sherry-cask influence to its range of single malts.
Aberlour Puts its Crafted Quality Under the Lens with Ted Dwane’s Photography Exhibition
Talking of Aberlour, the final countdown to Monday’s Aberlour Tweet Tasting has begun!
The tasting will take place on December 2nd at 7:30PM and the malts to be sampled are:-
You can view the tastings by watching the hash tag #AberlourTT on Twitter and follow the tweets.
Dalmore Cigar Malt Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
70cl / 44% / Distillery Bottling – The second coming of the Dalmore Cigar Malt, relaunched in an eye-catching red box. Fans of the previous edition will definitely want to get their hands on this.
Price: £ 65.65 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Ardbeg 1972 / 27 Year Old / Douglas Laing Islay Whisky
70cl / 50% / Douglas Laing – A bottling from the turn of the millennium. Distilled back in 1972 at Ardbeg, aged for 27 years and then bottled in January 2000 by Douglas Laing for the Old Malt Cask range.
Price: £ 1500.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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The Glenlivet Guardians’ Chapter
On 24th October in London, Glenlivet organised a tasting of their new Guardian’s Chapter. Guardians of The Glenlivet were invited to vote for their favourite expression (out of three selected by Master Distiller Alan Winchester).
It was a great opportunity to taste the three new expressions and to cast my vote on which one I thought was the best.
The Guardians’ votes will be counted and the winning whisky will be proclaimed “The Guardians’ Chapter”. A limited run of 2000 9 litre cases will then be released globally from February 2014.
But … the good people of Glenlivet took pity on me and sent me my very own tasting pack.
The three new single malt whiskies have been created from the distillery’s exceptional cask collection and classified by their taste –
Nikki Burgess, Brand Director for The Glenlivet, said: “Choosing a Scotch whisky is normally a privilege reserved for a very select handful of experts revered for their knowledge, passion and experience.
With The Glenlivet Guardians’ Chapter, we wanted to recognise and reward the knowledge, passion and experience of our Guardians and invite them to write the next chapter in The Glenlivet’s history.
We’re excited to see which whisky our Guardians choose and hope it brings members – new and old – closer together.”
So, what did I think?
Here are my tasting notes … and my final verdict!
Classic – 48.7% ABV – non chill filtered.
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Nose: Quite woody with a heady scent of spice.
Palate: Sweet, fruity, slight caramel. A rich, fruit cake mixture before it goes in the oven! Finish: Spicy, peppery and warm – a short finish. Overall: I can see why they’ve called it the classic! It contains all the flavours you’d expect from a Glenlivet. |
Exotic – 48.7% ABV – non chill filtered.
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Nose: A golden syrupy coloured malt with aromas of caramel and toffee.
Palate: Very thin feel on the tongue. Sweet, almost chocolatey flavours. Hints of spiciness to come. Finish: Mmm … spicy and fiery with a medium to long finish. Overall: Incredibly light malt that packs a spicy punch. |
Revival – 48.7% ABV – non chill filtered.
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Nose: A pale straw colored malt, easily the lightest of the bunch that gives aromas of vanilla and fruit.
Palate: Syrupy sweetness that tickles on the tongue with flavours of vanilla and fruits. Finish: The fruit and sweetness lingers and a moderate spice comes through. The sweetness goes on forever! Overall: Almost like a dessert whisky. Such an usual taste! |
The Verdict
The CLASSIC is simply that, a classic. Welcoming at anytime and a great companion sitting by the fire on a cold, wintery night.
The EXOTIC is very much like a breath of fresh air. With it’s spicy finish it’s a definite pick-me-up and would make a great party malt.
But, the one I’m going to go for is REVIVAL.
It may not be everyones choice but I loved it for daring to be so very different!
With a tingling sweetness and fruity flavours I think it would be a great malt for the connoisseur and novice alike.
It would be very welcome as a pre-dinner aperitif, a dessert style malt and as an after dinner malt to savour with friends.
In fact, welcome at any time!
To become a member of The Glenlivet Guardians community, please visit: www.theglenlivet.com/guardians
The Samples
Smws 114.1 / 9 Year Old / Millennium Malt
50cl / 58.1% / Scotch Malt Whisky Society – The first bottling from the Scotch Malt Whisky from distiler 114 (aka Longrow), distilled in 1990 and released in 1999 ready for the millennial celebrations.
Price: £ 499.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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