New Arrivals & Selected Diageo 2015 Special Releases Available From Edencroft!

Compass Box / This Is Not A Luxury Whisky
£ 150.00

All whiskies are sold on a first come basis and are subject to availability.

New Arrivals

Caol Ila / Unpeated 17 Year Old / 2015 Release
£ 90.00
Country: Scotland
Region: Islay
Age:
Strength: 55.9%
70cl

Summary: Country/Region: Scotland/Islay.
ABV: 55.9%
Distilled: 1997
Bottled: 2015
Unit: 70cl
An unusually rounded older unpeated Caol Ila, the most mature yet released in this series: a little less ‘full on’ than previous expressions, it still has all their fruity sharpness, hints of smoke and the sea, grainy cereals and bittersweet tannins, and becomes soft, harmonious and welcoming with water.
Appearance: Bright gold in sunlight. Good beading.
Nose: Reserved; at first fruity, with zesty orange or mandarin, then slowly becoming sweeter and denser, with malt and hard toffee, and fresh, creamy vanilla. There’s a balancing, lightly smoky and fresh-clean aroma too, backed by drier notes of newsprint and grainy cereal. Later, hints of moss, or crusty sourdough bread. A dash of water unusually produces a prickly nose-feel and makes the aromas more accessible, as fruitcake, wood smoke and caramel, salt on a sea breeze, and sweet honey and lemon.
Body: Medium to rich.
Palate: Intense, starting with sweet mixed fruit, chocolate and ginger, then distinctly salty, growing warm and slightly bitter. Waxy and coating, later adding a strong, clean, herbal dryness. With water the taste is softer yet somehow more pronounced: still salty, but with a mineral edge, and now peppery across the tongue. Quietly clean and leathery with pleasantly smooth tannins.
Finish: Medium to long, warming and coating, with dark chocolate, an appetising bitter-sweetness, distant light smoke and a touch of salt. With water, gently comforting, with a lingering, cooling aftertaste of Szechuan pepper.

Lagavulin / 12 Year Old / 2015 Release
£ 80.00
Country: Scotland
Region: Islay
Age:
Strength: 56.8%
70cl

Summary: Country/Region: Scotland/Islay.
ABV: 56.8%
Distilled: 2003
Bottled: 2015
Unit: 70cl
An expressive, energetic and self-assured Lagavulin with a straightforward aroma and a direct, full-on Islay flavour: classic, pleasantly relaxed and cleanly structured with a fine balance of cereal sweetness, appetising sharpness and dry, volcanic smoke, all adroitly set off by citrus and mint.
Appearance: Light gold. Moderate beading. Light body.
Nose: At first fresh cleaned, with soft malt, then rapidly developing maritime scents of sweet seaweed alongside a sharper, fruitier note, with grainy cereals. Quite starchy, like boiled basmati rice, then later vanilla-sweet, like a sponge cake dusted with icing sugar. With time, the aromas open up, releasing spent match and a little menthol balanced by sugary fruits, lemon zest, and gradually some distant smoke. Soft, fruity and minty with water: the sweetness now is of barley sugar and there’s fresh-baked sourdough or damp wool beneath the background smokiness.
Body: Light.
Palate: A smooth, oily mouthfeel; surprisingly sweet, with coating liquorice and a rising, smoky pungency, before the dryness of rich chocolate arrives with balancing salt and smoke. Water amplifies all these flavours, delivering more sweetness, saltiness, smoke and ash; dusty notes mingle with sulphury smoke and clean, pine-fresh menthol and eucalyptus, while the tongue finds the tannins well formed.
Finish: Easy-going, sweet and powerfully smoky. First there are those smoothly coating tannins. Then, salt and smoke; spent matches, clean slabs and charred embers; and a little orange oil. It’s sweetly appetising, warming and intensely smoky with water; clean, with cool smoke and wood ash.

Compass Box / Flaming Heart Fifteenth Anniversary Limited Edition
£ 100.00
Country: Scotland
Region:
Age:
Strength: 48.9%
70cl

Summary: Country/Region: Scotland.
ABV: 48.9%
Unit: 70cl
This fifteenth anniversary release is a huge, layered, long-lasting mouthful of a whisky to enjoy late into the night. Brooding, indulgent and older than ever before, this is a whisky born of oak, smoke and fire – with a big heart all of its own.
First released in 2006, Flaming Heart was the first whisky to combine the rich, complex spice of Scotch aged in new French oak with the evocative peat-fired smoke of Islay malt. It created a genre-defying style that was smouldering, spicy, complex – and so popular that it has been re-released four more times in the years that followed.
Availability: Fifteenth Anniversary Limited Edition release of 12,060 bottles.
Bottled: July 2015.
Flavour Descriptors: A unique interplay between spice, sweet and smoke characteristics. Sweet fruits and wood-smoke on the nose. Fat and full-bodied on the palate with a spicy sweetness and a brooding complexity that is rich, sweet and addictively decadent.
Recommendations: This is a whisky for late nights, for after dinner, for camping under the stars. Drink it neat or pair with rich cheeses, fine cigars or your favourite rock song turnedup to 11.
Ratings: 93 Points / Whisky Israel.

Compass Box / This Is Not A Luxury Whisky
£ 150.00
Country: Scotland
Region:
Age:
Strength: 53.1%
70cl

Summary: Country/Region: Scotland.
ABV: 53.1%
Unit: 70cl
This is not a luxury whisky. Or is it?
The inspiration for this limited release is René Magritte’s 1929 work “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, a Surrealist painting which challenges peoples’ perceptions of reality.
The reality is, these days we hear more and more commentators talking about ‘luxury’ whiskies, which are presumably whiskies that are either rare or expensive, or, possibly, both.
On one level, similar to the role Magritte’s painting played in the art world, this release is about getting people to consider for themselves what a ‘luxury’ whisky is.
On another level, a level we consider much more important, this limited release is about the liquid. This is about the whisky in the bottle, which we have painstakingly sourced and blended, and the engagement and enjoyment and pleasure this whisky will bring when shared with others.
This latter point is what we believe a ‘luxury’ whisky is. And at Compass Box, this is what they believe whisky, generally speaking, is all about.
Availability: Limited Edition release of 4,992 bottles.
Bottled: August 2015.
Flavour Descriptors: Complex, rich, lightly smoky and opulent. Sultanas, sweet sherry and concentrated floral notes combine with deep demerara sweetness, cacao and lighter creamy coconut character. An inviting nose, fat and full-bodied on the palate with a long, lingering sweetsmoke finish.
Recommendations: This particular luxury has been designed to be consumed, not preserved on a shelf. Use it to celebrate life’s little victories – a new job, a chance meeting with a friend, the conclusion of an enjoyable dinner. Above all else, share and enjoy.
Ratings: 92 Points / Whisky Israel.

If you are interested in ordering any of the other bottlings in the Release you can register the whisky on your wish list or contact us by email.