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Ben Nevis 1967 40yo Sherry Cask
700ml 43.40% |
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$1300.00 |
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An odd but official bottling for Alambic Classique of Germany. Big, dark, brooding in colour, full Oloroso cask maturation and only 147 bottles produced. Very old fashioned in style, which really makes it highly intriguing.
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Benriach 10yo Curiositas (peated)
700ml 46.00% |
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Industry identity Mr Billy Walker has done an amazing job of re-inventing this old Chivas distillery and the 10yo Curiositas is one of his splendid outcomes. A full on peat monster that Jim Murray rates a 95.5. Very youthful, very exuberant.
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Benriach 1980 26yo Virgin Oak
700ml 46.00% |
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$365.00 |
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Mr Billy Walker has been busy at his new BenRiach, as he has released this very limited edition BenRiach that has been exclusively aged in brand new oak! Now I thought that was illegal, but along with Benromach, it's good to see distilleries breaking the rules from time to time...and this one does it over an extreme time period. And the taste? Smells of butter, spice, citrus fruits and floral scents while the distinctively vanillin oak, which you would think would be massive...which it is BUT it just neatly sits so well with the fruit flavours. Quite impressively, the nosing flavours flow onto the palate which is rich with custard malt, chocolate and creamily sweet oak..
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Benriach 1984 22yo Port Richly Peated
700ml 54.20% |
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From Billy Walker's revitalised BenRiach comes this limited release (only 294 bottles) peaty and very smokey & curious Speysider that comes with the declaration, "Cigar enthusiasts, this version will fit you like a glove". Some say it has the style of a pot still Irish with a heart born in Islay! As the nose is a unique combination of delicate confectionary notes coupled with a fine mist of sea spray, cloves, kippers and peat. The palate is earthy and peaty but there is a fruitiness that no doubt comes from the port pipe maturation. The finish is dry and minerally.
Brilliant stuff Mr Walker!
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Benriach 21yo Authenticas Peated
700ml 46.00% |
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Benromach 21yo
700ml 43.00% |
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$170.00 |
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From one of the smallest distilleries now owned by Gordon & MacPhail comes this first fill and refilled sherry cask matured 21yo an added degree of dried fruit richness and kitchen spice intensity & complexity to this normally robust single malt.
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Benromach Organic
700ml 43.00% |
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If the rumours are right, this massive malt was matured in virgin American oak! How did they get this past the SWA I ask? But this malt is a beauty, rich and fruity with plenty of oaky resinous flavours.
And why is it called Organic? The entire fermentation & distillation process used for this malt has been certified as fully Organic by the UK's largest organic certification body, The Soil Association.
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Benromach Origins Batch 1 1999
700ml 50.00% |
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$125.00 |
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Benromach have hit upon the idea of relaesing a limited amount of special edition drams that celebrate the the various building blocks & ingrediants that go into a fine dram such as Benromach.
For the First Edtion, they have used locally grown Golden Promise barley that has been aged in 1st and 2nd fill sherry barrels. Peating has also been introduced at 4ppm. And the results? It's quite a dram, intensely spicy but gently smokey, very long, narrow palate, crisp dry finish. The sherry adds a fruit & nut charachter but not sweetness. Very dry finish.
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Benromach Peat Smoke
700ml 46.00% |
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$95.00 |
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Clever, clever distillers. Why be stuck with the old ways of doing things? Why not be innovative? What not take on Islay at its own game? Why not indeed. Here we have a very young, highly intensive and massively peaty malt with a ppm that rivals Ardbeg's 10yo. You want smoke? Well here it is!
And by the way, this is Batch 2, distilled 2002, bottled 2008 at 35ppm and matured in 1st fill bourbon barrels..
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Benromach Traditional Gift Pack
700ml 40.00% |
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$85.00 |
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This is Benromach's 80/20 classic combination of bourbon and sherry oak matured single malt whisky with the addition of 10ppm of peat. Silky, custard creams and runny vanilla custard with a touch of bonfire smoke.
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Bladnoch 13yo Non Chill Filtered
700ml 55.00% |
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Cloudy but fine! New releases from this often underrated and recently re-vitalised Lowlands distillery, and one presumes from stock laid down pre 1993, the last mothballing date. There’s lots of lemon, butter, citrus and dairy flavours going on here and some splendid alcohol weight. The varying alcohol weights and ages make for an interesting comparative tasting.
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Bladnoch 13yo Non Chill Filtered (cloudy)
700ml 46.00% |
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Cloudy but fine! New releases from this often underrated and recently re-vitalised Lowlands distillery, and one presumes from stock laid down pre 1993, the last mothballing date. There’s lots of lemon, butter, citrus and dairy flavours going on here and some splendid alcohol weight. The varying alcohol weights and ages make for an interesting comparative tasting.
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Bladnoch 15yo Non Chill Filtered (Cloudy)
700ml 40.00% |
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Cloudy but fine! New releases from this often underrated and recently re-vitalised Lowlands distillery, and one presumes from stock laid down pre 1993, the last mothballing date. There’s lots of lemon, butter, citrus and dairy flavours going on here and some splendid alcohol weight. The varying alcohol weights and ages make for an interesting comparative tasting.
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BOS Blue Hanger 3rd Release 30yo
700ml 45.60% |
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Franz Scheurer of Aust Gourmet Pages has been on my back for ages to get this in. It is Doug's super premium, impeccably turned out vatting (multiple single malts) of a number of Speyside whiskies . Soft citrus notes on the nose intermingle with leather, custard and pear hints giving way to an elegant butterscotch and rich orange peel palate with a dry smoky finale.
But as always, the killer for me is texture of this whisky on the palate...it's just glorious.
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Bowmore 15yo Mariner
700ml 43.00% |
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The 15yo Mariner is the more intensive of the two, lots of leather, iodine and peat that leaves the palate tangily dry and smokey. Long and lingering.
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Bowmore 17yo
700ml 43.00% |
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Sadly discontinued...a long time favourite of mine, mainly for its all enveloping soft & creamy palate, background peat and that much debated, highly perfumed nose.
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Bowmore 1990 16yo Sherry Matured
700ml 53.80% |
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Sadly out of stock. A dark, brooding yet intensive Bowmore: big on the Oloroso; with lots of dense chocolate, raisins and fig flavours, and unmistakable Bowmore with the peat; that slightly salty spiciness so loved in Bowmores past. Last of the old style packaging.
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Bowmore 25yo
700ml 43.00% |
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Advanced age makes foe a gentle, well rounded and graceful old timer of a malt. But as you sniff, taste, roll it round your mouth, it is then that you discover the layer upon layer of flavour and texture. Long, broad and
deep, there’s intense sherry & stewed fruit flavours but the background peat is what makes this malt such an aged
beauty. A gentle giant.
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Bowmore Cask Strength
700ml 56.00% |
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Quite the youngster...a little bit awkward and unruly..but the big bang of smoke and alcohol always gets you in.
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Bowmore Dawn
700ml 51.50% |
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The Port Wood finish Bowmore that Murray raved about in 2008, "...the arrival on the palate is momentous...Fabulous...a must-have for any true Islayphile...94 points" Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2008
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