Liquid Treasures Blended Scotch 20 Year

Decadent Drams sinDicate Blended Malt

$284.99

Produced and bottled exclusively for the sinDicate Whisky Club, with a few bottles left to be sold at KWM. 51.5%

Producer Description

"This beautiful old style malt whisky was blended from only the finest and scarcest of Scottish pure pot-distilled malt whiskies. Great makes such as Downess, Parkwhore. St. Spankdalene, Convalscore, Inverlovin', North Pork, and Ladybum all feature in this exceptional recipe, which has been a closely guarded secret since last month, passed down from Ops team to warehouse by email thread, just as our forefathers did in their day. It contains only the purest malt whiskies, matured in exquisite sherrywood and refill casks. Absolutely no deleterious agents of any kind have been added."

More Details - From the Sponge Himself!

"This was a parcel of sherry butts 'filled' in 2001. But we don't know the precise mix of components, only that it was originally intended to be for Famous Grouse. The constituent malts are very likely Macallan, Highland Park and Tamdhu. I was told that some parts of the mix date back to 1975, but we've no documentation to confirm that. It would explain the very old school sherry matured character of those casks though, and the low cask strength ABVs, all circa 45%."

1. 30% blended malt 2001 1st fill sherry (23 yo)
2. 15% Miltonduff 2012 1st fill sherry (12 yo)
3. 15% Aultmore 2006 refill sherry (18 yo)
4. 10% Ardmore 1997 refill HhD (27 yo)
5. 10% Ardmore 2000 1st fill sherry (24 yo)
6. 8% Ben Nevis 2013 refill (11 yo)
7. 5% Aberfeldy 2012 refill (12 yo)
8. 7% 2018 highland single malt heavily peated (6 yo)"

" The profile is old style sherry and peat, I’m very proud of it, to me tastes like old Berry Brothers All Malt bottlings."

Liquid Treasures 2011 Macduff 12 Year

$169.99

This Macduff comes from indie bottler Liquid Treasures. It was distilled in 2011 and matured in an ex-Bourbon Barrel before being bottled at 12 years old and a strength of 56.9% ABV. 85.58pts Whiskybase

Macduff Distillery was founded only around 60 years ago back in 1960 and resides near the mouth of the River Deveron near where it empties into the North Sea. That puts it in the Highlands, just north and east of Speyside. It's nearest distillery neighbours include Glenglassaugh Distillery which is about a 20-minute drive to the west along the A98 as well as Knockdhu Distillery which is about a 25-minute drive to the south and west if you start on the A98 and then connect to the A95.