Caol Ila / 2010 Berry Bros Small Batch.
£75.00
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 Caol Ila / 2010 Berry Bros Small Batch. £75.00 Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: Strength: 46% Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Islay. CATEGORY: Single Malt. DISTILLERY: Caol Ila. BOTTLER: Berry Bros & Rudd. BOTTLING SERIE: DISTILLED: 2010 BOTTLED: September 2021 AGE: 11 Year Old. CASK TYPE: Hogshead. BATCH NUMBER: 2 NUMBER OF BOTTLES: 958 ABV: 46% The nose is initially deceptively gentle, offering icing sugar and a slight earthy smoke, though time in the glass crescendos the coastal peat showing muscular phenolic character. The palate gives more notes of peat smoke along with damp wool, icing sugar, slight floral notes, and more peat smoke! The finish is unmistakably coastal fading slowly with flavours of kippers, tar and yet more smoke. |
 Craigellachie / 2010 Berry Bros Single Cask #10028. £80.00 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: Strength: 60.6% Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Speyside. CATEGORY: Single Malt. DISTILLERY: Craigellachie. BOTTLER: Berry Bros & Rudd. BOTTLING SERIE: . DISTILLED: 2010 BOTTLED: 2021 AGE: 11 Years Old. CASK TYPE: Single Sherry Butt. CASK NUMBERS: 10028 NUMBER OF BOTTLES: 550 ABV: 60.6% The heavy distillate from Craigellachie works wonderfully in ex-sherry wood, powerful aromas of struck matches and malting barley roll into muscular notes of dates, clove rock and sultana bread. The palate is incredibly thick bringing a waxy character carried with honey, almonds, prunes with bursts of lime and mango towards the back palate. Wood spice dominates on the finish with an array of baking spices dancing across the tongue. Powerful, complex. cerebral and moreish! |
 Glen Grant / 1998 Berry Bros Single Cask #13214. £230.00 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: Strength: 56.1% Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Speyside. CATEGORY: Single Malt. DISTILLERY: Glen Grant. BOTTLER: Berry Bros & Rudd. BOTTLING SERIE: DISTILLED: 1998 BOTTLED: 2021 AGE: 24 Years Old. CASK TYPE: Single Sherry Butt. CASK NUMBERS: 13214 NUMBER OF BOTTLES: 612 ABV: 56.1% Glen Grant is one of Speyside’s stalwarts, consistently producing outstanding whiskies in its own subtle, understated way, this old sherry butt is a perfect example. The harmonious nose is a masterclass in maturation over wood-seasoning showing well developed distillate character; bruised apples, hessian, orange zest and aged desert wine. This theme drifts onto the palate with the oak very gently guiding more soft fruit notes over the palate. There’s a hint of wood smoke on the palate along with a little more fresh fruit. A great example of classy old distillate left to mature in a wonderfully inactive cask, turns out wood doesn’t always make the whisky. |
 Glentauchers / 1996 Berry Bros Single Cask #3977. £170.00 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: Strength: 48.9% Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Speyside. CATEGORY: Single Malt. DISTILLERY: Glentauchers. BOTTLER: Berry Bros & Rudd. BOTTLING SERIE: DISTILLED: 1996 BOTTLED: 2021 AGE: 25 Years Old. CASK TYPE: Single Hogshead. CASK NUMBERS: 3977 NUMBER OF BOTTLES: 73 ABV: 48.9% The nose is initially floral, with walnuts, wax varnish and oak jostling for position. A little water brings out more balanced heather honey, honeysuckle and pear drops. The palate is an explosion of sweet, ripe fruits; apples and melon with cinder toffee and strawberry jam showing on the back palate. Spicy ginger and nutmeg linger on the finish. An excellent aged Speyside. |
 Penderyn / 2013 Berry Bros Single Cask 7526. £120.00 Country: Welsh Region: Welsh Age: Strength: 57.9% Summary: COUNTRY/REGION: Wales. CATEGORY: Single Malt. DISTILLERY: Penderyn. BOTTLER: Berry Bros & Ruud. BOTTLING SERIE: DISTILLED: 2013 BOTTLED: 2021 AGE: 8 Years Old. CASK TYPE: Madeira. CASK NUMBERS: 7526 NUMBER OF BOTTLES: 275 ABV: 57.9% A warming spicy nose offers notes of sweet Madeira, Victoria Sponge and lashings of golden syrup. A little time in the glass allows the distillate to power through bringing some green apple and barley sugars into the equation. The chewy palate shows a good balance of sweet sticky dried fruit notes from the cask balanced off with fresher citrus bursts and perhaps a little nuttiness on the back palate. A well made whisky that delivers well in the powerful cask. |
