Cadenhead Original Tomatin 12 Year
$107.99
This bottling in the new Cadenhead Original line comes from Highland Distillery Tomatin. It was matured in ex-Bourbon casks and bottled at 12 years of age and 46%.
Cadenhead Original Caol Ila 12 Year
$119.99
This Caol Ila bottling from the new Cadenhead Original line is 12 years old and bottled at 46%. Matured in ex-Bourbon casks.
Producer Tasting Note
Kavalan Solist Madeira TM Chapter 5
$292.49
Chapter 5 from Truth Malters is a single Madeira cask from the Kavalan Distillery distilled: 2015.05.17 and bottled: 2020.11.17 at 57.8% after maturing 5 years and 6 months.
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Opens with scents of fresh grape and apple, followed by hints of honey and cinnamon spice. The buttery aromas of toffee, almond and vanilla fill the background. With time, beautiful read fruit aromas fill the nose with baked fruits - completed with tobacco leaf and sandalwood, enveloped in sweet cherry notes.
Palate: The palate is extremely creamy, delivering rich melon and apricot flavours which intensify an array of fig, marmalade, and grape, sprinkled with white pepper and cinnamon, and more of that great cherry. Never overpowering, with a texture and hint of sweet toffee and honey, leaving a full and long-lasting aftertaste.
Finish: Delivers a long finish that evolves into a juicy mouthfeel. Oak spices, cinnamon, and caramelized butter add to the enjoyment. A single malt to enjoy and focus on the finer things. The small island of Madeira, along with Kavalan’s new make and maturation, delivers a big taste to this expression.”
Springbank Hazelburn 13 Year Sherry Wood
$121.99
Springbank 17 Year Madeira Wood
$204.99
Springbank 12 Year Cask Strength 56.1%
$107.99
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 44.117
$125.99
HAPPINESS IS A WARM BUNG
This 8 year old Speysider spent 6 years in an ex-American oak Oloroso butt before being transferred to a 2nd fill Spanish oak PX butt for the remainder of its maturation and comes in at 68.5%.
Flavour profile: Deep, rich & dried fruits.
Outturn: 590 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "A big and sumptuous nose of treacle pudding, dried figs, fresh pear cake, ginger biscuits, old wine cellars, leaf mulch, chocolate sauce, strawberry-scented tobacco and aged Madeira drizzled over fresh lychees. Water gives us café latte, roast chestnuts, milk chocolate, carnations, toasted almond flakes, chocolate spread, pencil shavings, sheep wool, soft earthiness, unlit cigars lost in a new handbag and game meats.
The palate is alive with spiced honey cake, aged sweet wines, rosewater, jasmine tea, cherry marmalade, wood spice, black pepper, wax and methylated oils. A little water brings out coffee tequila liqueur, rosehips, mint leaf, wood extracts, cocoa powder, pink peppercorns, dried thyme, Bovril and old workshops. Matured for 6 years in an Oloroso butt before transfer to a 2nd fill Spanish oak PX butt."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 53.317
$179.99
BURIAL AT SEA
This 10 year old from Islay comes in at 58% after maturing in a refill hogshead.
Flavour profile: Peated.
Outturn: 279 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "50/50 lime juice and brine at first nosing. Then bright, shining peat smoke and clean, crisp, freshly kilned malt. Sooty cereals, cured meats, burlap, bonfire and newspaper ash. Add to this some squid ink, BBQ charred calamari with lemon juice and mercurochrome-drenched wellies. Reduction reveals pure farmyard smokiness. Bonfires on the seashore, old rope, tar liqueur, stir fried oysters with soy sauce, liquid seasoning and vinegar-soaked chip wrapping paper.
The palate neat is like a hot injection of lighter fluid and antiseptic. Salt baked cod, iodine drops, lemon flavoured cough syrup, pine air freshener, mouthwash and fiery salami. With water it all melts into hot plastic, lemon infused green tea, kippers in kedgeree, petrol doused oatmeal, green olives bobbing in seawater and dried seaweed in ramen broth."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 10.190
$164.99
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This 6 year old from Islay was matured in a 2nd fill Oloroso butt and comes in at 61.1%.
Flavour profile: Heavily peated.
Outturn: 616 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "There's mountains of silage, freshly poured bitumen, boilers belching smoke, molten tar erupts from a gnarled peat bog and winged demons season the land with black pepper and slices of spicy salami while noshing down smouldering jeroboams of pickled onion Space Raiders! With water comes a tidal surge of briny disinfectant, peat bricks are bobbing about the inside of your car while the engine bursts into flames and molten putty oozes from the dashboard. The sky opens and down comes an apocalyptic rain of petrol and kippers. The Devil's sherry bodega is open for business!
As you drown, your mouth floods with kipper eau de vie, burnt pencils, oozing mechanical oils, a stray bicycle inner tube and globules of iodine-laced paraffin wax. Some water dilutes things to reveal an ocean of soot, molten tractor fumes, olive tapenade cut with malt vinegar and flaming farmyard peat embers. The finish is long and tinged with the end of the world!"