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Tomatin 1990 / 18 Year Old / Cask #7738 Speyside Whisky
70cl / 54% / Distillery Bottling – An offically bottled single cask of Tomatin 1990, released at cask strength in its natural state, without chill-filtration or colouring. Tomatin is definitely one to watch over the next couple of years.
Price: £ 125.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Edencroft has 3 New additions to it’s range this week with some Highland, Islay and Speyside whiskies.
The brands include Glenmorangie, Mosstowie and Port Ellen.
The ages of the new whiskies range from 25 to 34 Year Old malts.
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Glenmorangie – 25 Year Old Quarter Century Country: Scotland Region: Highlands Age: 25 Year Old Strength: 43% Summary: The rarest and oldest member of the Glenmorangie family, this is a single malt of notable class and intensity. Full bodied and sumptuous, the Glenmorangie 25 Years Old is the real embodiment of our continued dedication to perfection. Matured in a range of casks including American white oak, Oloroso sherry casks and French Burgundy casks before being blended back together in exact quantities, the Glenmorangie Quarter Century is complex, bursting with deep flavours, and a perfect testimony to our knowledge and experience. Aroma: The first impression is of dried fruits – blackberries, cherries, plums and dates interwoven with chocolate and coffee. Taste: Big and full-flavoured. Deep forest fruits burst on the tongue with mouth-watering blackberries and redcurrants emerging with bramble jelly. Finish: Long and gentle, with brambles and warming spices. Colour: Old gold. |
70cl | £ 235.00 BUY NOW |
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Mosstowie – 33 Year Old Gordon Macphail Rare Edition Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 33 Year Old Strength: 46% Summary: For over 25 years Miltonduff Distillery produced 2 different Single Malt Whiskies. In 1955 due to the increased demand within Hiram Walker for different styles of whisky, a chemical engineer, Alistair Cunningham designed the Lomond Still. This type of still had a wide neck which housed three rectifying plates. These plates were used to vary the amount of reflux that took place within the still thus altering the spirit produced. The plates could either be filled with cool liquid or left dry. They could be rotated – the horizontal position would maximise reflux while the vertical position would reduce reflux. Due to increased demand for Ballantines Blend in the 1980s, the Mosstowie stills were altered to produce Miltonduff – the key component of Ballantines. AROMA WITHOUT WATER: Freshly washed wool and hessian. With hints of polished oak, beeswax and orange peel. TASTE WITHOUT WATER: A sweet liquorice and aniseed flavour. Pepper and ash notes linger. AROMA WITH WATER: Creamy hot chocolate aromas with spiced orange and cardamom notes. TASTE WITH WATER: Cinnamon and Clove influences with hints of Cedar wood. |
70cl | £ 485.00 BUY NOW |
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Port Ellen – 34 Year Old Gordon Macphail Rare Edition Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: 34 Year Old Strength: 46% Summary: Port Ellen is one of the three main villages on Islay and one of the two ferry terminals on the island. The distillery was expanded in the 1960s and temporarily closed in 1983. Its white painted buildings form a street close to the seashore. Only peat which was dug in the district was used in the drying and the water was taken from two lochs in the nearby hills, the principal one used for distilling purposes being noted locally for its purity. Next to the distillery is a modern Maltings which exudes pungent peat smoke. AROMA WITHOUT WATER: Smoky and liquorice influences with fruity undertones and hints of pear. A fresh sea breeze aroma. TASTE WITHOUT WATER: Sweet, with peat smoke elements emerging followed by hints of aniseed. Some hints of kippers linger. AROMA WITH WATER: Butterscotch and pear, with slight medicinal notes. Reminiscent of a wooden fish box. TASTE WITH WATER: Dry ash flavours balanced with salty brine notes. |
70cl | £ 515.50 BUY NOW |
Macallan 1981 / Gran Reserva Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
70cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – Another of the hugely popular Macallan Gran Reserva series, released around the turn of the century. These releases were made in small batches from casks that were too good to be vatted into the standard 18yo release and are highly prized by collectors today.
Price: £ 999.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Tamdhu 1995 / 17 Year Old / Cask #1043 / Adelphi Speyside Whisky
70cl / 58.8% / Adelphi – A 1995 vintage whisky from Tamdhu. This whisky has been aged for 17 years. As with all whiskies in the Adelphi Selection, this whisky has been bottled at natural strength without chill-filtration.
Price: £ 68.95 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Strathisla 1953 / Gordon & Macphail Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
70cl / 43% / Gordon & Macphail – A marvellous Gordon & Macphail bottling of ancient Strathisla, distilled in 1953 and bottled over 55 years later. Even better, for their most recent bottlings Gordon & Macphail have upped the strength to 43% from 40%. This should be phenomenal for lovers of the style.
Price: £ 723.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Edencroft has 6 New additions to it’s range this week with whiskies from the Islay, Lowland and Speyside regions.
The brands include Bunnahabhain, Glen Grant, Glen Moray, Glenlivet, Littlemill & Invergordon.
The ages of the new whiskies range from 20 to 38 Year Old malts.
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24 Year Old Invergordon – Berry’s Own Selection Country: Scotland Region: Lowland Age: Strength: 46% Summary: Invergordon distillery is located on the shores of the Cromarty firth in the north-east Highlands of Scotland. Founded in 1959, it is the only grain distillery in the Highlands and for a few years also had the Ben Wyvis malt distillery on the site but this closed in 1975. The nose gives toasted oak, apple and melon skins with an uplifting menthol note. There is some honeyed depth and cinnamon spice. The palate is beautifully expansive with bourbon cask notes, buttery vanilla and cream caramel. The delivery is almost angelic and long lingering. |
70cl | £ 59.50 BUY NOW |
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23 Year Old Bunnahabhain – Berry’s Own Selection Country: Scotland Region: Islay Age: Strength: 51.4% Summary: Bunnahabhain translates as “mouth of the river” from the gaelic, the river in question being the Margadale which flows into the Sound of Islay near to the distillery. Although generally a more lightly peated Islay this expression is an exception as it was produced from a batch of stock using barley at a higher level of peat-smoke exposure. The nose gives noticeable smoky notes with a little marzipan, some jute cloth and spice. The fruity palate is layered, rich with building sooty intensity as the flavours displayed on the nose develop. This is beautifully intense with a classy lingering finish. |
70cl | £ 89.50 BUY NOW |
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37 Year Old Glen Grant – Berry’s Own Selection Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 37 Year Old Strength: 47.8% Summary: Nose: at 54, am I too old to swoon? That near perfection of thick grape infused with the essence of barley malt. The sugars are mere hints: grist here, honeydew melon there. And all emboldened by a smattering of herb and not overly antagonistic spice; Taste: the spices are more upfront now. But before they get a chance to really soar, molten honey fills the palate and dispenses grape in its cleanest form; the middle is a marvellous mix of coconut and raisin chocolate; Finish: maybe suffering from not quite knowing where the middle ends and the end begins. But there is no bitterness, no oak trying to have the last say at the cost of all else. Just a slow denouement, perhaps with a sprig of mint attached, of all else that has gone before; Balance: when I come across an unspoiled nugget like this, a malt of timeless magnificence, then the whisky world seems such a wonderful place in which to live. Those responsible for Scotland’s whisky future could do worse than invest in a bottle and see what steps have to be taken to continue this glittering tradition. Certainly, the casks which have gone into this bottling represent a high water – or is it grape juice? – mark for Scotch single malt whisky. |
70cl | £ 140.00 BUY NOW |
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20 Year Old Glen Moray – Berry’s Own Selection Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 20 Year Old Strength: 57.3% Summary: Nose: a lovely intertwining of polished oaky floors and muscavado-polished barley; Taste: deliveries on the palate rarely come more delicious than this: Glen Moray, when on form, is in the true malty elite of Scotland and here it tops the Premier League. The blend of sugars, some honeyed, spices and cocoa make you groan with pleasure; Finish: the vanilla and butterscotch kick in as you suspect they might. But the barley remains steadfast and clean; Balance: I have long regarded Berry’s whisky buyer Dougie McIvor one of the genuinely understated gems of the industry and the best whisky writer we never had. Here he demonstrates his understanding of clean, barley-rich malts which has made this year’s crop of Berry’s Own Selection arguably their best yet. When you taste this you can see why I exploded in rage at the deficiencies of the official ‘Distillery manager’ bottling a few years back… |
70cl | £ 71.50 BUY NOW |
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38 Year Old Glenlivet – Berry’s Own Selection Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: 38 Year Old Strength: 48.6% Summary: Nose: despite the fact it pulses antiquity this remains sprightly and nubile, the barley absolutely fizzing on the nose. A few shards of honey offer weight and resonance to the citrus; Taste: demands a mouth-watering delivery after that nose, and that is exactly what you get. The spices flock to the scene so the taste buds are at once drowned, caressed and burnt alive…; Finish: long, with a slow devaluation of the sugars as the vanillas take command; Balance: about as salivating a near 40-year-old you are likely to find! © Jim Murrays – 2013 Whisky Bible. |
70cl | £ 145.00 BUY NOW |
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20 Year Old Littlemill – Berry’s Own Selection Country: Scotland Region: Lowland Age: Strength: 54.9% Summary: Littlemill distillery was founded at Bowling to the east of Glasgow on the banks of the river Clyde in the 1770’s and laid claim to being Scotland’s oldest distillery. It was dismantled in 1997 and the remaining buildings destroyed by a fire in 2004. The nose gives white chocolate and peach skins with traces of ginger, cinnamon and delicate peat. The palate comes alive with nectarines and more white chocolate as the mouth-feel fattens to release some honey and lemon. When excellent examples such as this appear they make Littlemill’s sad demise even sadder. |
70cl | £ 78.85 BUY NOW |
Abbey Whisky has 5 New additions to it’s range this week with whiskies from the Highland, Islands and Speyside regions.
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Arran Batch 2 Country: Scotland Region: Islands Age: Strength: 49.4% |
50cl | £ 39.95 BUY NOW |
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Benromach Port Wood Finish / 2000 Country: Scotland Region: Speyside Age: Strength: 45% Vintage: 2000 Bottler: Benromach |
70cl | £ 41.50 BUY NOW |
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Compass Box Miniature Sample Gift Pack Country: Scotland Region: Age: Strength: |
5cl | £ 39.50 BUY NOW |
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Glenfarclas 31 Year Old / Port Cask Country: Scotland Region: Highland Age: 31 Years Old Strength: 42.8% Vintage: 1981 Bottler: Glenfarclas |
70cl | £ 305.00 BUY NOW |
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Mackmyra Special 08 / Handpicked Country: Sweden Region: Age: Strength: 46% |
70cl | £ 66.25 BUY NOW |
Tomintoul 21 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
70cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – This 21yo Tomintoul boasts a floral, fruity, spicy character and was introduced in summer 2011 following the demise of 27yo. As with its illustrious predecessor, this will gladden the hearts of fans of mature easy-drinking Speyside whiskies that don’t cost the earth.
Price: £ 51.95 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Glenlivet 1955 / Gordon & Macphail Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
70cl / 40% / Gordon & Macphail – A 1955 vintage Glenlivet, bottled by Gordon & Macphail.
Price: £ 570.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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Inchgower 12 Year Old / Bot.1980s Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
75cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – An rare old 1980s official bottling of Linkwood 12yo from the days when it was administered by Bell’s.
Price: £ 125.00 BUY IT NOW from The Whisky Exchange
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