Eiling Lim Bessie's Dram
$279.99
Eiling Lim Speyside 1973
$849.99
Bottled after 43 years at 47.8% this Fino Sherry cask of "probably Glenfarclas", is beautiful, and one of the best priced single malts of this age you will find. Only 24 bottles are coming to Canada.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: bright, exotic and fruity; it jumps out of the glass; polished new Italian leather shoes, waxed tropical fruits in an outdoor market and mixed berry compote; tangy with some creamed honey.
Palate: sweet, leathery and fruity with decadent delicate spices and loads of waxed tropical fruits; peeled mandarin oranges, diced buffet melon chunks and candied grapefruit; increasingly caramelized with a touch of candied ginger and soft black licorice; lots of layers.
Finish: long but light, elegant and drying; it is stays fresh even as the tannins of this old malt slowly dry out your mouth.
Comment: this is slightly unusual, but in the most intoxicating kind of way; you struggle to get to know it and even as you pull back the layers you get the sense that it still isn't revealing everything!
Producer's Description: "I was really happy to be able to share it first with a group of friends and whisky lovers during our recent trip to Orkney. I remembered opening this bottle first at Dornoch Castle Hotel and then taking some nice shots of it at the Yesnaby cliffs. What a place and company to enjoy a good dram! And in less than a month, my bottle was almost empty!"
92pts WhiskyNotes.be : "Nose: full of beehive notes, beeswax, pollen, with some old and rather fragrant, minty oak, or sandalwood. Quite some blonde tobacco too. Orange peels, greengages, hints of dried apricot and herbal honey. Mentholated notes. Light exotic spices. Very light flinty / resinous notes in the background. Mouth: oak spices, again with this resinous feeling and bright tobacco notes. Fruit teas, stewed fruits, pollen, a little mead and honey. The wood brings freshness instead of a tannic dryness. Something of a fruity hoppy note too. Finish: long, flavourful, with white fruits, wax and vibrant oak spices. Comment: Great stuff. You have to like a good dose of old oak but it's magically fresh and vibrant. I've heard the source of these casks could dry up any day now."
About Eiling Lim
"Lim 林" is my family name and in Chinese, it is defined as woods or forests. If you separate the family name into two, this character "木" means wood and wood is crucial in making a good cask.From a humble beginning of a young lady who enjoys her whisky to being the 1st independent bottler of scotch whisky in my home country Malaysia is quite a feat! It is beyond my wildest dreams. This has not been possible without the guidance and motivation from my family and my husband Luc Timmermans whom is a whisky connoisseur and collector as well as a "retired" independent bottler himself under the handwritten label, Thosop.
"Maybe it was fate that brought me to start my very own whisky adventure. After all, whisky has played an important part in my life at every level. I wouldn't have met my husband if it was not for whisky and I would not have met so many wonderful friends in many parts of the world coming together for whisky. Whisky changed my life and now I would love to change whisky scene in Malaysia by introducing them to a world of wonderful independent bottlings.
"The whisky selection which both my husband and I have chosen are based simply on 3 criterias. First of all the taste of the whisky has to be better than good because good is simply not good enough. Second, the whisky has to be highly quaffable where one have to feel the pleasure of drinking our whisky because taking just a sip is an insult. And lastly, we strive for a good price-quality ratio. We avoid choosing casks from only famous distillery and overpriced whisky. We bring variety to the whisky market with reasonable prices so that no one is obliged to keep my bottles as an investment and not to open them. We want whiskylovers to open and savour every bottle and share them with friends or even with us!"
Asta Morris Benrinnes 2006
$154.99
Bottled at 10 years of age after maturing in a Fresh Bourbon cask. 46&%
The Whisky Agency Orkney 2002
$209.99
Bottled exclusively for Canada, a joint bottling between Heads & Tails and The Whisky Agency. This 2002 single Hogshead cask of probably Highland Park, was bottled after 15 years at 51.7%. Only 48 bottles.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: creamy, honeyed and floral; a surge of Old English Butterscotch and Werther's Original; some soft oily peat and Manuka honey; very floral, sliced ginger, clean smoke and maritime coastal notes.
Palate: creamy, lush and floral; firm maritime tones and crisp clean smoke; bags of honey, dried apricots, canteloupe and mandarin orange; tarry with Dutch licorice, fennel seeds and cigar ash; leathery with burnt orange marmalade and firm sherry; more Old English Butterscotch and Werther's caramels.
Finish: firm, coating and leathery; more honey, Dutch licorice and ashy cigar smoke.
Comment: this is an enigma, elements of both American oak and sherry; another clue that it is ex-Edrington sotck? Highland Park matured in ex-American oak sherry seasoned wood!
The Whisky Agency Bunnahabhain 1989
$364.99
Bottled at 40.4% after maturing 28 years in a Hogshead cask. Bottled as a collaboration between The Whisky Agency and Heads & Tails, this whisky is dangerously drinkable. "Antique-y" to quote industry legend John Glaser.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: wow, this is my jam; creamy, old, antique-y, loads of tropical fruits; floral with a hint of the sea and sandy beached on a sunny day; white chocolate Hershey’s Kisses, cranachan and Earl Grey tea crème brulee.
Palate: waxy, creamy and floral; loads of tropical fruits: melons, flambéed banana, sliced mango, ripe papaya and even some kiwi fruit; loads of honey and beeswax and more cranachan; more vanilla and creamed heather honey; silky, so many layers, even some savoury salty tones and possibly a whiff of smoke?
Finish: creamy, floral and toasty; sweet, more honey, vanilla and tropical fruits; silky, elegant and sublime.
Comment: this is a beautiful older malt, with the profile of a much older whisky; it would be dangerous to leave me alone with a bottle like this!”
Cadenhead Small Batch Dufftown 2007
$129.99
A 2007 small batch release from Cadenhead. This 10 year old Dufftown is a marriage of two bourbon hogsheads bottled at 56.8% ABV. Very much a treat to see a cask strength independent bottling from a distillery we really only get access to via the Singleton expressions..
Cadenhead Small Batch Glenburgie 2004
$139.99
ONLY 12 BOTTLES AVAILABLE
This lucky 13-year-old Glenburgie comes from the oldest Scottish independent bottler Cadenhead. Distilled in 2004 and bottled in at a cask strength of 54.7% ABV.
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Cadenhead Small Batch Glengoyne 1996
$199.99
A 21 year old gem from the Highlands. This Cadenhead independent bottling from the iconic Glengoyne distillery is a mash-up of two hogsheads - one ex-bourbon and one ex-French wine. Limited to 510 bottles worldwide.
Cadenhead Small Batch Linkwood 1992
$234.99
Cadenhead delivers big time with a batch strength marriage of two ex-bourbon hogsheads from the Linkwood distillery in the heart of the Speyside region. A fruit bomb of a whisky that once again showcases the distillery's amazingly vibrant character and proves that we see far too few expressions from this producer. 24 years old, natural color and unfiltered. This release is limited to 384 bottles worldwide.