Cardhu

Country: Scotland
Region: Island
Bottle Size: 15cl
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Strength: 41.9%
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Summary: 15cl / 41.9% / Distillery Bottling – A trio of miniature bottles exploring different styles of single malt, including Talisker 10 Year Old, Cardhu 12 Year Old and Singleton 12 Year Old.
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Country: Scotland
Region: Speyside
Bottle Size: 70cl
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Strength: 40%
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Summary: 70cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – Cardhu is known for being an easy-drinking and sweeter style of whisky. Gold Reserve has been aged in toasted oak casks, which has led to notes of toffee apples.
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Country: Scotland
Region: Speyside
Bottle Size: 70cl
Age: 12 Year Old
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Strength: 30%
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Summary: John Cumming converted the familial farm called Cardow into a distillery round 1810. He used the barley produced by the farm and he produced his own peat. The proximity of the river Spey ant the surrounding hills were assets for a distillery. He began as a moonshine distiller. The hills were a place of safety in case the excise men would visit him. The controls were frequent, and John's wife, Helen Cumming helped her husband with a successfull stratageme. She used to receive them very well, and to invite them for dinner. When they arrived, she put a red flag behind the barn. As long this flag was visible, John knew the excise men were still present, and he waited before coming back to the farm. In 1824, after the promulgation of the Excise Act, John decided to purchase a licence for the production of his whisky. This made made marketting of his spirit quite easier. During the 19th century, the distillery was rebuild 3 times. John Cumming's daughter in law, Elisabeth took the management of the distillery in 1876 and contributed to its success. She built a new distillery near the farm, and sold stills to a certain William Grant, who was on the point to found Glenfiddich. As most of the distilleries, Cardhu closed during the second world war. Renewed in 1960, the numbers of stills growed from 4 to 6. The distillery was called Cardow Distillery since 1981. The Cardhu malt is currently one of the best sellers world-wide. About 30% of the production is sold as single malt, the remaining entering in blends. Cardhu is the basis of the Johnnie Walkers blends, Red, Black, Green and Blue labels. The commercial succes is so great currently that it was at the origin of many discussions in the whisky world in 2003. UDV is not able anymore to satisfy all the demand for Cardhu malt, and decided to market vatted malt instead of single malt without changing the packaging. The other procuders were furious, and after lots of discussions, UDV decides to change the colour of the label of Cardhu Vatted malt to avoid confusion for the customers, and depreciation of the image of single malt.
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Country: Scotland
Region: Speyside
Bottle Size: 70.00cl
Age: 12 Years Old
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Strength: 40.00%
Bottler: Cardhu
Summary: This whisky is 12 Years Old.
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Country: Scotland
Region: Speyside
Bottle Size: 70cl
Age: 12 Year Old
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Strength: 40%
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Summary: 70cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – A bottle of Cardhu's popular 12 year old Speyside single malt boxed up with a hefty balloon tumbler, for swirling and enjoying your dram.
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Country: Scotland
Region: Speyside
Bottle Size: 70.00cl
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Strength: 40.00%
Bottler: Cardhu
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Country: Scotland
Region: Speyside
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Summary: An elegant Cardhu that takes time to reveal its delicate, fruity and rich character, repaying a little thoughtful contemplation. With its fruit cake, almonds and tropical fruit flavours, this 15 Year Old Cardhu shines best when served neat. Cardhu comes from one of the oldest of the Speyside distilleries, which have nestled in foothills near the River Spey for 200 years and the Cardhu range is an excellent representation of these Speyside whiskies. Known for its smooth, sweet-natured single malt whisky, the history of Cardhu�s rise to fame is to a large part told in the story of two determined women who were members of the founding family. Tasting notes: Appearance: Deep old gold. Body: Light on the palate, with a medium body. Nose: Slow to give of its secrets, with mere hints of a fruity richness and spicy complexity to come. A swirl of the glass releases enticing, clean vanilla notes and tropical fruit. Soon, the fruits are dried (light fruit cake with flaked almonds). Adding water brings out typical Speyside character, and makes the nose slightly more acidic. Late on, at last, greater depth and complexity: sweet, spicy and rich, finishing with dense toffee and toasted coconut. Palate: Slow to venture forth and quite viscous straight. Cooling, then peppery and lightly charred. Growing richer, still sweet, but now with toffee and chocolate; burnt sugar on a Cr�me Br�l�e. With water, less viscous and sweeter with almost no acidity; very pleasant and easy to drink. Finish: Smooth, light and slightly drying, with attractive bitter chocolate notes. Not overly long, with a hint of faint smoke at the end.
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Country: Scotland
Region: Speyside
Bottle Size: 70cl
Age: 15 Year Old
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Strength: 40%
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Summary: 70cl / 40% / Distillery Bottling – A much-loved single malt, Cardhu is an easy-going, charming Speysider. This is has been aged for longer than the regular 12 year old expression, and the extra three years combine the distillery's characteristic orchard fruit, barley sugar malt and cake spices with richer tropical fruit and vanilla notes.
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