Author's Series Ardbeg 21 Year

$1,043.99

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Tullibardine 1952 60 Year

$25,020.00

Cadenhead Small Batch North British 1985

$197.99

A single grain Scotch whisky produced at the North British distillery in Edinburgh. Distilled in 1985 and bottled in 2015, with only 432 bottles filled. An excellent example of what single grain can be.

BenRiach 1976 Cask 541 Batch 12

$764.99

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 7.103

$239.39

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 7.103 

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 53.210

$200.69

FANTASTIC STUFF

This 24 year old from Islay was matured in a refill hogshead and sits at 53.3%

Flavour profile:  Peated

Outturn:  240 bottles

Panel's tasting note:  "This nose had  a little bit of everything one might expect – peat smoke, tea chests, tobacco, pine resin, sea breezes, bandages, puff candy, peanut brittle and smoked salmon, to name just a few. The palate was a delight – a good whack of smoke and toffee apple sweetness – but nicely complicated by aniseed, liquorice, Brazil nuts, sesame oil, soy sauce, five-spice powder, salt and vinegar chips and smouldering sawdust. The reduced nose was softer and sweeter, with caramel, treacle, old tawny port and pork crackling, while the palate found some mint and ash in the finish. Fantastic stuff from Islay’s biggest distillery."

Drinking tip:  "Could accompany a stir-fry or aromatic duck - or an evening bonfire as the stars appear"

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 26.105

$233.99

BUMBLEBEES BY THE SEA

This elegant 29 year old is from the Highlands and sits at 57.6% from a refill butt

Flavour profile:  Light & delicate

Outturn:  548 bottles

Panel's tasting note:  "The first aromas were predominantly dark runny honey over crackers, followed by salted lemon and fresh kiwi fruit. With time, camphor and citronella candles burning in a damp pine forest. Juicy Fruit gum emerged on the nose and in the taste. It retained a white peppery heat at full strength, with lemon zest and lime posset emerging. Aspen bark, cinnamon and spearmint all became easier to find with water as if they had all been washed up on a seashore. A muskiness reminiscent of coastal dunnage warehouses belied its age, but homemade lemonade and green Starbursts lifted any hint of heaviness."

Drinking tip:  " Have a light hand with water"

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 27.107

$152.99

TO THE MANOR BORN

This 16 year old from Campbeltown was aged in a refill gorda and comes in at 56%

Flavour profile:  Deep, rich & dried fruits

Outturn:  759 bottles

Panel's tasting note:  "Thick, old fashioned vanilla ice cream, with tinned peaches, then a complex of polished leather (an antique desk, a sea chest, a worn leather chair, a vintage car), but also sherry trifle and creamy yogurt, amber beads and rich fruit cake. Rich and sweet to taste, then tannic-dry with bitter chocolate and salt crystals; sandalwood. Water sweetens the nose to treacle toffee and sticky toffee pudding, hazelnut and almond praline – rich and complex. The taste is rich, sweet and very fruity; elegant, with dark chocolate and treacle, and macadamia nuts in the aftertaste."

Drinking tip:  "Digestif after Sunday lunch"

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 73.69

$193.49

DARK SIDE ECLIPSED BY SWEET JOYS

This 22 year old Speysider comes in at 52.9% after maturing in a refill sherry butt

Flavour profile:  Deep, rich & dried fruits

Outturn:  620 bottles

Panel's tasting note:  "The nose delivered savoury notes, evoking tapas bars (fino, amontillado, tortilla, old polished wood, etc.) but the dessert menu was even stronger (crème caramel, rum and raisin ice-cream, apple granny cake). More complex with water – sugared seaweed, Japanese sweet omelette, earthy hazelnut and plastic toys in the sun. The taste was essentially sweet – vanilla, amaretto, caramel, carrot cake, figs – but with a slight metallic, gamey, bittersweet edge of burnt cake and walnut. With water, its darker side (hoisin duck patrolling the farmyard in wellies) was happily dominated by the joyful sweetness of toffee, toasted marshmallows, Nutella, Dr Pepper syrup and panna cotta."

Drinking tip:  "Could accompany food (Spanish, oriental, e.g.) - or maybe better after a meal, with coffee"