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GM Mortlach Generations 1938 70yo
200ml 46.10% |
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The whisky that lit up the whisky world in 2010 and a rare chance to try a genuine pre-war single malt whisky that now has the claim to be oldest single malt whisky in the world!
Charles Maclean’s Tasting notes: Colour of Sun: bleached polished mahogany. Nose: A mellow nose, at once waxy and fruity; candlewax to the fore initially, which becomes snuffed candle (a thread of smoke), with Maraschino cherries in Madeira cake behind, and after a while orangey citric note – fresh and juicy, becoming apricot jam. Flaked almonds and whin flowers, becoming light coconut oil. Palate: Surprisingly lively tasted straight. A smooth, waxy mouth feel; a sweetish start becoming moderately dry, but not overly tannic. Dried fig and tobacco notes, and an intriguing light smokiness. A long finish and, for a time, a hint of planed hardwood in the aftertaste. With a teaspoon of water, the smooth texture is enhanced. The fresh , light sweetness becoming pleasantly sour (“Soor Plooms”), with sooty smoke in the finish.
Comments: Remarkable! No trace of wood or must or bung cloth – a delicate fresh, vital, fruity whisky, but with unusual attributes of waxiness and smokiness – uncommon today, more usual before the 1960’s.
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GM North Port Brechin 1982 27yo
700ml 43.00% |
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North Port has often been described at spirity, leafy, dry and cedary while the late Michael Jackson thought it gin like! And generally hard to find? You betcha!! Built in 1820, this eastern Highland's distillery suffered from many name changes: Townhead, Brechin and finally North Port as well a being closed down a number of times throughout the 1930's and 1940's. And then the 1980's came along and it was closed in 1983 and demolished in early 1990's.
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GM Old Pulteney 1969
700ml 43.00% |
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Another ancient but very classy offering from Gordon & MacPhail. There's lots of old, well varnished oak flavours, hints of dried fruits and a richness in the mouth that defies its ancient age.
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GM Smiths Glenlivet 1948
700ml 40.00% |
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The Glenlivet as we now say, but in 1948 while the malts were prized by the blenders for thier smoothness & character, few we ever bottled as single malts until the first boom of the 1960's. So it is remarkable that G&M were able to buy and save a cask of this very famous spirit.
The nose is complex, fruity & oily & yet it appears dry on the palate.
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GM Speymalt Macallan 1988 20yo
700ml 43.00% |
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$135.00 |
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Gordon & MacPhail and Macallan have a very old friendship that dates back to the last World War, when G&M kept Macallan afloat by buying their spirit on regular basis for maturation at G&M's warehouses in Elgin.
And this 1988 version, called Speymalt by G&M, is a fine example of old fashioned Macallan. Plenty of fruity sherry flavours including apples and pear , luscious oak and that famed rich spirit along with a nice touch of smoke.
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GM Speymalt Macallan 1999 8yo
700ml 40.00% |
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A slightly younger Macallan from Gordon & MacPhail, but a style that harks back to the older style of Macallan's before the Fine Oak's came out some time ago. Fully sherry cask matured, very floral, bright and loaded with malt and chocolate flavours.
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GM Strathisla 1963
700ml 40.00% |
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A big honeyed malt, very well rounded with soft, ripe fruit aromas. Hints of spice, raisined fruit & peat on the palate.
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Imperial 1982 16yo J Milroy Label
700ml 40.00% |
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Sadly out of stock. For me, a standout malt from my second shipment and one that definitely needs closer attention. A malt of great length and balance with a palate this is crisply dry as it is spicy but there’s a nice dollop of creamy American oak right in the middle. The oak handling is quite superb and the nutty/malty aftertaste just lasts and lasts.
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Laird Club Longmorn 1974 33yo
700ml 43.70% |
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$290.00 |
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David Le Cornu certainly has a nose for finding exceptional, well aged single malt whiskies. He also has the unique ability of the potential in young whiskies in cask. Who can ever forget his two very famous Macallan 25yo's that set the market alight in the early 2000's? Well David has done it again, this time he has carefully nursed a full sherried Longmorn to perfect maturity. This is a malt where nothing is out of place. A medium rich style that is massively long, beguilingly sweet, gently warming and very mouthfilling. Tasting of dried citrus peel, citrus oil & raisined cane fruits, and there's hints of cardamom, tobacco & Brazil nuts. The oak is superb: soft & chewy and the spirit adds life to the sweetness. The finish is drying and slightly astringent, maybe even tannic. Brilliant stuff!! Bravo David.
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LD Springbank Cask Strength
750ml 59.30% |
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Tim Duckett and Bill Lark found a cask of whisky a few years back, that had been slowly maturing away in in all places, Melbourne. It turned out to be a cask of Springbank! So they bought it, bottled it at cask strength and at a lesser 50%. When the time came to sell it, it was pointed out to them that the label would have to say matured & bottled in Australia! The result is an unusual but highly engaging Springers, very rich, very spicy and very sweet.
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LD Springbank Single Cask
750ml 50.00% |
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$165.00 |
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Tim Duckett and Bill Lark found a cask of whisky a few years back, that had been slowly maturing away in in all places, Melbourne. It turned out to be a cask of Springbank! So they bought it, bottled it at cask strength and at a lesser 50%. When the time came to sell it, it was pointed out to them that the label would have to say matured & bottled in Australia! The result is an unusual but highly engaging Springers, very rich, very spicy and very sweet.
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Matthew Forrest Highland Park 1973 30yo Refill Sherry
700ml 47.80% |
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Sadly out of stock.This was a rare and exciting for me: first up its an original bottling, that is bottled by Highland Park, from a single 2nd fill Spanish oak sherry butt, cask 11207, for a chap named Matthew D. Forrest. It has been described to me as a full on sherry style but with a subtlety that would put the official bottling to shame & the peat just smolders in the background. Brilliant, oh how I wish I had more.
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Matthew Forrest Isle Of Jura 2002 Superstition
700ml 58.80% |
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Some years ago a chap by the name of Matthew Forrest decided to become an independent bottler. But in Mr Forrest's case, he was able to get the actual distillery to do the bottling for him. So in some ways they are semi official. This is one brutal malt. Massive amount of peat, a bucket load of alcohol, very clean with a big degree of purity but really not a lot else...but still very engaging.
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Matthew Forrest Isle of Jura Very Heavily Peated 1999 5yo
700ml 61.30% |
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Another from the Forrest range of exciting, hold onto your seats single malt whiskies. This time this is a no holds barred, stupendously peaty, ridiculously youthful, searingly intense infantile dram that definitely does not caress & soothe a tired palate. Awesome stuff.
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Matthew Forrest Old Fettercain 1997 6yo CS
700ml 62.30% |
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Sadly finished, but the cleanest, most characterful Fettercain I have ever seen! Traditionally a light & clean spirit with an inherent sweetness about it, and as with Mr Forrest’s Jura, the blistering alcohol level just makes it so enormously intensive.
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Milroy's Badger Islay Single Malt 2001
700ml 46.00% |
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Now I'm not supposed to tell where this comes from....but it's intensely peaty, it has plenty of bonfire smoke, has a wonderful mouthfeel and it's big on the complexity stakes. Any guesses? No it's not Bowmore, or Caol Ila, it's definitely not the Laddie or Bunny, or Lag, forget about Kidalton and I would laugh if you mention the Frog. So I wonder who it could be?
Young, feisty and sprightly, the peat literally leaps out of the glass, together with bonfire smoke and charcoal. Notwithstanding its youth, this Badger has a modicum of elegance and finesse.
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Milroys Laphroaig 12yo
700ml 46.00% |
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Matured in a single ex-Bourbon hogshead, it is a quintessential Laphroaig, gently sweet on the entry, followed by a powerful peat, brine and seaweed. This isn't a medicinal Laphroaig, but a very clean and pure example of one of Islay's most loved malts. With less than 350 bottles, this release is destined to disappear quickly!
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Old Bothwell Port Ellen 1979 26yo
700ml 53.00% |
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Sadly out of stock. Cask 7094, comes
via the Old Bothwell Wine & Spirits Co: autumn leaves & woodsmoke.
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Old Bothwell Port Ellen 1982 26yo Sherry Cask
700ml 52.00% |
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Another Indie bottling of this most famous of closed distilleries. This one comes from The Old Bothwell Wine & Spirits Company, based in Lanarkshire in Scotland. This one was bottled in 2009.
Here's what one blogger has written, " Big flavours and constantly surprising – you just don’t know where it’s going next. Bizarre, but flirting with brilliance. A schizophrenic genius or idiot savant. Wow! Well it ain’t perfect, but it certainly is a trip."
Coal, spice & sweetness. (Pic indicative only)
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PDA Dallas Dhu 1981 26yo Closed Distilleries
700ml 57.30% |
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$390.00 |
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PDA? Part des Anges, an impressive French wine and spirit wholesaler who just so happen to have a love for closed Scottish distilleries. The Speyside located Dallas Dhu was once part of their mighty DCL/United Distillers/Diageo empire but after the great whisky downturn of the late 1970's, it was decided to close it in 1983. This is a big, oily, nutty version of Dallas, the spirit is intensive but gives the malt a distinctive tanginess, but there is also an intriguing medicinal note with a touch of saltiness.
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