Celebration of the Cask Arran 18 Year
$166.49
Carn Mor Strictly Limited Jura 2000
$122.39
Amrut Bengal Tiger Single Cask
$115.99
Amrut is India's first single malt to be exported, and has made quite a name for themselves around the world! This single cask has been selected by the distillery's Brand Ambassador Ashok Chokalingam for the Canadian market. It was matured in Bourbon before finishing in Pedro Ximenez Sherry. 540 bottles have been bottled at 56.5%.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: butterscotch ice cream, Caramilk chocolates, baking spices, warm cocoa and jujubes; soft and fruity with malt, honey and soft toasty oak.
Palate: rich, fruity and malty with more Caramilk bars, big creamy butterscotch ice cream, cocoa powder and baking spices; a little bit of Demerara and nutty tones with some soft leather and chewy licorice candies.
Finish: soft and long with lots of fruits, fading spices and sugars.
Comment: this is a lovely single cask, not enormously complex but very pleasant and rich!
Advent Calendar Whisky GMI 2000
$10.79
Advent Calendar Whisky GMA1996
$11.69
Advent Calendar Whisky GMC2003
$10.79
Advent Calendar Whisky THM14
$8.09
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 124.4
$314.99
FULL OF SECRET PLEASURES
This 17 year old Japanese single malt is from a 1st fill sherry butt and is 60%.
Flavour profile: Deep, rich & dried fruits
Outturn: 479
Panel's tasting note: "The nose held dark, brooding sherry aromas – prunes, syrup of figs, molasses and marmite – also some lighter impressions (plums, black grapes, damson jam, cocoa powder and spices). Some of us imagined a motor museum, others an artist’s studio. After reduction, we got sacks of raisins and bouquets of black orchids and tulips. The neat flavour was supremely intense – treacle, cinder toffee, ginger cake, liquorice root, maraschino cherries, strawberry jelly cubes and chocolate sauce. With water, despite a faint hint of old-fashioned telephone flex, this was an immensely tasty Pandora’s box of a dram – dark, but full of secret pleasures."
Drinking tip: "Perfect digestif"
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 29.158
$143.99
THE SMOKING GUN
This 14 year old is from a refill sherry butt and is 61.7%.
Flavour profile: Peated
Outturn: 584 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "Initially a rich, soft, sweet peat smoke followed by aromas of chestnuts roasting on an open fire, crème caramel and caramelized brown sugar. Also noted was prosciutto dry cured ham and that of a well-used leather saddle. The taste was that of hickory smoked almonds and cashew nuts and a tussle between honey sweetness and peat smoke like preparing a ‘Smoked Old Fashioned’ using a smoking gun. With water we all moved to the fish market by the sea; tarry ropes, fish boxes and salted codfish on the nose and flavours of peat smoked salmon and haddock – probably not infused by a smoking gun."
Drinking tip: "Chilling out with friends"