New Arrivals From Edencroft Including The Octomore Islay Barley 08.3!

Cambus / Hunter Laing Sovereign 25 Year Old

Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Lowland.
CATEGORY: Single Grain.
DISTILLERY: Cambus.
BOTTLER: Hunter Laing (HL).
BOTTLING SERIE: The Sovereign.
VINTAGE: 09.1991
BOTTLED: 11.2016
STATED AGE: 25 years old.
CASK TYPE: Refill Hogshead.
CASK NUMBER: HL13051
NUMBER OF BOTTLES: 271
STRENGTH: 55.5% Vol.
SIZE: 700 ml.
This pale gold whisky has a sweet nose with a slightly floral tinge initially, followed by vanilla fudge and butter toffee.
The palate is sweet and creamy with vanilla custard powder, stewed prunes and a touch of liquorice.
The finish is long and dry, with a hint of oak.
RATINGS: 95 Points / Jim Murray's 2018 Whisky Bible.

Octomore / Scottish Barley 81

Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Islay.
CATEGORY: Single Malt.
DISTILLERY: Bruichladdich.
BOTTLER: Distillery Bottling.
STRENGTH: 59.3% Vol.
SIZE: 700 ml.
THE SPIRIT OF OCTOMORE HAS BEEN DEFYING LOGIC FOR OVER FIFTEEN YEARS. THE “WHAT IF” MOMENT THAT ONCE SEEMED ALMOST ABSURD HAS PROGRESSIVELY MORPHED INTO SOMETHING ENDLESSLY ALLURING. NOW, SUDDENLY, THERE ARE EIGHT.
Led by the structural brilliance of 08.1, we can pause at this symbolic moment to enjoy a single malt masterclass. The experimental ethos, the muscular quality, is still very much to the fore, but there is enlightenment now, a sure-footed confidence. 08.1 is the necessary benchmark, the launch pad from which others can only follow. 08.1 reveals the astonishing subtlety of our phenolic universe, leading us along a pathway into a world like no other.
CHARACTER: Refined, confident, a little extra age has tempered some of the vitality but this dram has gained a classic, timeless feel.
COLOUR: Winter sun, crisp and bright.
NOSE: Initially smoke, tar, peat ash hint of muddiness/wet peat moss. Candied orange, pepper, chocolate, macaroon, vanilla fudge and lemon meringue pie.
PALATE: Liquid gold, soft and delicate texture from slow distillation. Superb fruit/smoke combination. On the lips there is soft kiss of salt spray, ozone fresh. Sweet oak gives vanilla, fudge, marzipan and walnut. Melon and citrus come through on a floral breeze. Many layered there is a lot find in this Octomore.
FINISH: Wow! Smoothness, sweetness and then smoke. A texture like no other, satin soft and devilishly warming. The American oak influence is in perfect tune with the smoke and soft fruits delicately, skilfully coaxed from the still during exceptionally slow distillation. Vanilla, honey, citrus rise up to be met with sea spray and leather, smoked mussels mix with autumn bracken and creíÛme brûlée.

Braeval / Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask 15 Year Old

Summary: Since its inception in 1998 connoisseurs around the world have grown to trust the Old Malt Cask range of independent single cask bottlings as offering both exceptional, dependable quality and a wide array of flavour profiles from many of Scotland’s distilleries. Naturally the spirit never undergoes chill-filtration which would remove many of the oils and with them much of its mouthfeel and intensity of flavour and is never adulterated with the addition of caramel. At this stage the whisky is carefully and slowly reduced with the addition of the purest Scottish water to the traditional OMC bottling strength of 50% alcohol by volume – the perfect strength to show single malts in their full glory.
Country/Region: Scotland/Speyside.
ABV: 50%
Unit: 1 x 70cl
Bottler: Hunter Laing
Bottling serie: Old Malt Cask
Distilled: Decmber 2001
Bottled: 
Age: 15 years old
Casktype: Sherry Butt
Casknumber: 
Strength: 50.0 % Vol.
Number of bottles: 677
Nose: Butter croissants, raspberry jam and crème caramel.
Palate: Velvety with red berries, marzipan and vanilla.
Finish: Enduring and beautifully dry with hint of nuts.

Mortlach / 24 Year Old Clan Denny

Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Speyside.
CATEGORY: Single Malt.
DISTILLERY: Mortlach.
BOTTLER: Douglas Laing.
BOTTLING SERIE: Limited Release.
BOTTLED: 2017
STATED AGE: 24 years old.
NUMBER OF BOTTLES: 60
STRENGTH: 56.9% Vol.
SIZE: 700 ml.
The Clan Denny range originally launched back in 1997, and has been home to some of the finest Single Cask Single Malt and Single Grain Scotch Whiskies ever since.
In 2017, the Clan Denny collection will undergo a packaging overhaul, and this final bottling honours Clan Denny's traditional roots.
Proudly bottled at natural cask strength, 56.9%, having spent 24 glorious years in one single cask, this Mortlach bottling is jam-packed full of creamy, buttery, sugary spices.Rich, clean and full of creamy, buttery spiced and cereal based character, running to an equally big, rich sugary palate showing the gentlest oak plus liquorice, burnt sugar and subtle cough drop flavours. It finishes full, deep, long and focused around the same rich, diverse range of flavours.