Cadenhead Enigma 25 Year Blended Scotch

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."

Balvenie 25 Year Old 48%

$1379.99

The latest 25 year old offering from the venerable Balvenie Distillery also comes with a brand new, slightly higher price. Though not too high, at least. This quarter century single malt has been carefully put together by the legendary David Stewart. Bottled at 48%.

Producer Description

"To craft The Balvenie Twenty-Five, David carefully chose some of The Balvenie’s rarest Traditional American and European Oak casks to create the special tasting profiles designed for the range. These single malt whiskies had matured for twenty-five years and were handpicked to complete the layers of flavor envisioned. The two casks were then married together in the brand’s Traditional Oak Tuns for just the right amount of time to become one sophisticatedly simplistic expression." 

Cadenhead Enigma Orkney 8 Year

$104.99

This 2016 vintage Orcadian single malt was matured in ex-Bourbon Barrels for 8 years before bottling at 57.5%. No mention of peat in the tasting note, does that mean it is Scapa?!

White Heather 15 Year

$119.99

This Blended Scotch whisky is composed of single malts from the Speyside, Islay, and Northern Highlands, blended with grain whisky. The spirits initially matured in American oak and Sherry Buts, before being Billy Walkered (re-racked) into PX and Oloroso Puncheons as well as some Virgin American oak, for a finishing period. The whiskies were then blended back together and bottled at 46%.