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Caol Ila 1978/25yo
700ml 59.40% |
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Sadly out of stock. The gently complex Caol Ila.
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Caol Ila Cask Strength
700ml 61.60% |
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$135.00 |
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Full throttle Caol Ila...lots of seaside bite, plenty of smoke, cured meats, sweetly malty, and with the alcohol just under 60%...it's also perfectly balanced. Nice one.
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Caol Ila Distillers Edition
700ml 43.00% |
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Take one standard issue Caol Ila 12yo with its pure & heavily peated spirit and pour it into a cask that once held a lusciously sweet Moscatel dessert style wine. And it works, that old synergy of sweet flavours contrasting dry smokey flavours.
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Caol Ila Unpeated 8yo
700ml 59.80% |
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This malt completely bowled me over, the complexity of this dram, the quality of spirit and oak is just downright breathtaking and then my notes go on and on about the beautiful background peat! Hang on, this is supposed to be unpeated!! Bravo Diageo.
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Cardhu 12yo
700ml 40.00% |
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The controversy that surrounded this malt has well and truly past as Diageo caved into pressure and stopped Cardhu being a blended single malt (what we used to call a vatted malt) and re-made it as a single malt.
Many have regarded this as a rather dreay malt, but if you like honeyed richness, then this is the malt for you.
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Clynelish 14yo
700ml 46.00% |
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$115.00 |
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Classic oily heavy weight Highland malt with both maritime and peat characters. More delicate peat than in your face like the rest on this page, but a worthy participant in the Big Smokesters league.
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Clynelish Distillers Edition
700ml 46.00% |
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$125.00 |
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The Distillers Edition, where the 14yo is further matured in sweet Oloroso casks, where you get a curious mix of sweet sherry flavours mingling with Clynelish's classic maritime peatiness.
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Convalmore 1977 28yo
700ml 57.90% |
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Sadly out of stock. An official release of this now closed but sought after distillery.
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Cragganmore 1993 10yo Cask Strength
700ml 60.10% |
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Replace the usual oak regime for Cragganmore and replace it with tight grain European oak originally used in a solera system on Jerez and serve it up as a cask strength. The result leaves a whisky that is intensive dry, nutty and very complex and quite the contrast to the DE.
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Cragganmore 1993 Distillers Ed
700ml 40.00% |
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Take the classic Cragganmore style and add to its undoubted sophistication, by further maturing it in a port pipe. The resulting extra layer of sweetness makes it a charmer.
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Cragganmore1988 Distillers Edition
700ml 40.00% |
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$130.00 |
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As I have said before, take the classic Cragganmore style and add to its undoubted sophistication, by further maturing it in a port pipe. The resulting extra layer of sweetness makes it a charmer. And this is an older version of this highly individual single malt..
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Dailuaine 16yo Flora & Fauna
700ml 43.00% |
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$180.00 |
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This malts still charms me with its overall poise and balance and excellent cask selection. Pity about the caramel.
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Dalmore 12yo
700ml 40.00% |
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$100.00 |
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The new owners of Dalmore have finally spruced up the entire range. And I dare say the quality has got heaps better as well, esepcially when you think that Dave Robertson (Ex Macallan) is lurking in the background as well. The new 12yo is matured in a mixture of ex bourbon & sherry oak, and you can really taste the sherried fruitiness on the palate. Murray loved it at 95pts, others have described it as oily rich with a big dose of confectionary and fruit salad flavours. And as the distillery says, "robust yet elegant".
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Dalmore 15yo
700ml 40.00% |
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$140.00 |
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Dalmore's rich spirit married up to three types of sherry oak from Gonzales Byass: Matusalem Olorosso, Apostoles Paol Cortado and Amaroso butts. And this could be the first all sherry wood Dalmore for ages! So what sort of whisky does this leave us with: this distillery says potent and robust and the words rich and smooth pop up quite a bit. Smith & Canavan's whiksy pages declare, "Nicely balanced Sherry and Christmas spices on the palate, plus lush malt and a drier, gingery nuttiness. That nuttiness carries through into the long and progressively drying finish." And the bIg G, I couldn't agree more, a lush full flavoured dram.
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Dalmore 18yo
700ml 43.00% |
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$260.00 |
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Another new release from the relatively new owners of Dalmore, Whyte & MacKay and as I've said before, the old Macallan master distiller, Dave Robertson has a had a hand in this gem of a whisky. And it's Dalmore's first 18yo! Matured initially in American white oak then additional maturation in ex sherry butts courtesy of Gonzales Byass premium range of sherries, Matusalem.
The whisky is supple and rich, plenty of dried fruits, nuts, chocolate flavours along with a soft maltiness and citrus fruitiness that has become a hallmark of Dalmore.
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Dalmore Cigar Malt
700ml 43.00% |
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A big, cuddly, furry sherry influenced monster that's sadly dosed up with caramel. Full of rum, raisins, dark chocolate and caramel. And as Dave Broom so famously said, “Goes wonderfully with cigars!...and fur coats...and gold jewellery.”
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Dalmore Gran Reserva
700ml 40.00% |
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$110.00 |
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Believe it or not, but this newey from Dalmore is the malt that replaces the famous or infamous (depending on your views about caramel) Cigar Malt. Sixty percent matured in Gonzales Byass oloroso butts and 40% in ex bourbon casks, this malt is a malt with no age statement, but some believe it to be around a 10 to 15yo.
From Tom Canavan: Nose: heather and dark chocolate. Rather malty. Orange marmalade. Cake. Hints of sherry and oak. Roasted coffee beans. Mouth: slightly weakish but rich enough. Heather again. Orange notes. Caramel as well (too bad). Vague smoke. Finish: mixture of coffee, dry oloroso sherry and hints of vanilla.
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Dalmore King Alexander III
700ml 40.00% |
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The King Alexander III is remarkable for the amount of oak styles & ages Richard Patterson has used to construct this whisky: French wine casks, Madeira drums, Sherry butts, Marsala barrels, Port pipes and Bourbon barrels from Kentucky. It is very skillfully put together as it offers the drinker a whole world of complex oak related flavours on a bed of dalmore's soft and luscious spirit.
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Dalwhinnie 15yo
700ml 43.00% |
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Elegant, smooth and medium-bodied with a light, fruity palate and a whiff of heather on the finish. Part of Diageo's Classic Malt range.
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Dalwhinnie Distillers Edition
700ml 43.00% |
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The additional of an extra dose of Oloroso sherry maturation adds a pleasing degree of sweetness & richness to this “classic” malt.
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