OMC Port Ellen 23 Year
$190.34
This independent bottling is from my favorite distillery, Port Ellen. Port Ellen closed in 1983, and it's whisky is increasingly hard to come by... This bottling was matured in a sherry butt, 549 bottles produced, 50%ABV.
Independent bottler Douglas Laing somehow seems to get their hands on more casks of Port Ellen than anyone else. What can I say, brothers Fred & Stuart know what they're doing. "Nose: With sea tang, salt & tarry sweetness. Palate: Dry, saline, sweet & leathery. Finish: Runs long on tar, an oily quality & peat." - Fred Laing. Bottled from 1 sherry butt, 549 bottles, 50%ABV.
Tullibardine JB 2 Single Cask
$210.59
First-fill sherry, and 57.2%, this whisky packs a punch, but drinks better without water. The nose is very complex, but a touch prickly from the high alcoholic strenght; it is sweet, & sherried, w/ tangerines. The body is medium-full, big for a Tuliibardine whisky. The palate is woody, nutty & oily, & shows unsweetened bakers chocolate, wood resin & citrus notes.
Provenance Braeval Sherry 9Year
$58.49
Dalwhinnie is the highest altitude distillery in Scotland, but only because Braeval is no longer in opperation; it was closed by its owners Corby/Chivas Brothers in 2002. This Braeval has been bottled by Douglas Laing & Co. Est. 1949, under their Provenance lable. It is the result of a single Sherry Butt, un-chillfitered, with no colour added and bottled at 46%.
Glengoyne 28 Year
$269.99
A whisky so precious it has its own safe! The 28Yr is a limited edition bottling, selected by the Master Blender. Only 1,500 bottles were produced from a mix of bourbon and sherry casks!
A distillery's spirit safe is the glass and brass box through which newly made spirit flows off the stills. Traditionally the spirit safe was the means by which the taxman kept tabs on exactly how much spirit was produced by a distillery. This whisky safe comes complete with a lock to protect its precious contents! On the palate the whisky is very spicy, syruppy, white oak, candied fruit, & treacle.
OMC Port Ellen 26 Year Rum Finish
$301.49
Islay's most mourned distillery. A single cask, finished in a rum barrel. Nose: harbour walls, peat & herbal. Palate: maretime, creamy, sweet & chewy. Finish: classic Port Ellen, iodine, tar & leather.
Port Ellen has been characterized as the most elegant of the Islay whiskies. Sadly it was mothablled 26 years ago during a wave of closures. This particular bottling is by Douglas Laing who have seemingly managed to bottle more Port Ellen than all other independents combined. This particular whisky was distilled in 1979, & has been bottled at 26 years of age. The whisky was finished in rum casks.
Platinum Blair Athol Sherry Finish 40 Yr
$336.14
Blair Athol distillery is located in the picturesque Highland town of Pitlochry. No cask type is specified. 49% ABV Nose: furniture polish & cedar wood at the fore, dry & oaky w/ ripe fruits towards the rear. Palate: initially light & dry, cherries towards the mid palate w/ oak, cedar & spices. Finish: long, elegantly smoked & spiced, w/ a subtle dry, oaky, menthol finale.
BenRiach 40 Year
$1,304.99
Although founded in 1898 Benriach was only in production 2 years before closing for 65. The distillery started up again in 1965 & the oldest surviving casks of whisky date from the following year, 1966. This 40Yr Benriach is a marriage of two Hogsheads from that year, & is the oldest Benriach ever bottled. Each of the 265 bottles is hand numbered in a mohagany box complete w/ a miniature & flask.
Compas Box Hedonism Vatted Grain Whisky
$85.49
Blended Malt Whisky (not to be confused with Blended Whisky which also contain grain whisky) may be hogging all the attention these but there are other interesting whiskies out there like Single Grain and Blended Grain Scotch Whiskies. Hedonism is the latter of these. It's whisky comes from three distilleries, Cambus, Cameron Bridge and Caledonian. "A rich, sweet sexy whisky." John Glaser, Owner.
Glenora Rare Single Barrel Ice Wine Cask
$44.09