Scotch Malt Whisky Society 42.77
$179.99
COCKTAIL OF ASH AND BRINE
This 13 year old from a Highland Island comes in at 58.3% after maturing in a refill ex-bourbon barrel.
Flavour profile: Peated
Distilled on: 21 February 2008
Outturn: 306 bottles
North Star Caol Ila 8 Year Charity Btl
$75.99
This lil treat was bottled specially for CHAS (Children's Hospices Across Scotland). It's also the second North Star charity bottling we've seen over the last few months. Gotta hand it to Iain Croucher and the North Star team; they're putting their money where their mouth is.
The outturn was 600 bottles from a Refill Sherry Butt, but you'd be hard pressed to consider this much of a sherried malt. What it is, however, is a tasty and surpisingly balanced young Islay malt. The kind of dram peatheads spend their days hunting for.
Natural colour, non-chill filtered and bottled at 51%.
Whisky Sponge Caol Ila 2009 Ed. No.66
$238.49
Producer Note
"A hearty and juicy Caol Ila fully matured in refill sherry. A single 2nd fill sherry butt filled in 2009, matured for 12 years and bottled at natural cask strength of 56.3%. Sherry and peat can be uneasy bedfellows in modern whisky, but this cask shows a lovely balanced profile of gently salty and gamey sherry with big, syrupy and tarry peat smoke. Please sip it in your local den of iniquity while 'chasing the Cooo-nicorn'."
Whisky Sponge Dailuaine 1997 Ed. No.64
$384.99
Producer Note
"Whisky Sponge Edition No.64 is a mix of two refill hogsheads of 1997 Dailuaine, bottled at natural cask strength of 48.8% after 25 years of maturation. A rather lush and juicy example of Dailuaine. Classic, fuller-bodied Speyside in style with sweet biscuity richness, yellow fruits and soft, peppery waxiness. Two reasonably low-volume hoggies were mashed together and this is the rather delectable 25 year old result. Shows plenty maturity at a hyper-gluggable natural strength without any overt woody elements. Braw! Please enjoy this Dailuaine quietly in a forest glade while wearing a cape and pretending you are in an expensive cinema advert for life insurance."
Whisky Sponge Edradour 2005 Equilibrium2
$255.49
Created from a parcel of peated (Ballechin) and unpeated Edradour, distilled in 2005. Both whiskies matured exclusively in 2nd Fill Sherry Hogsheads for 16 years before bottling at 55%. 87.6pts Whiskybase
Producer Note
"Equilibrium is our ongoing attempt to create whiskies that display a balanced sherry and peat flavour profile. Always featuring the two single malts from Edradour distillery. This second release is a mix of a 2005 Edradour and a 2005 Ballechin, both matured full term for 16 years in 2nd fill sherry hogsheads and bottled with slight reduction at 55%. We're very happy with the result. It's a slightly lighter and more subtle expression than Equilibrium One, showing more complex earthy notes, dry wood smoke, herbs, cured meats, dark fruits and tobaccos. Layered, rich and highly sessionable. We think anyone who enjoys peat and sherry together will find plenty to enjoy here."
Whisky Sponge Glen Grant 24 Yr Ed. No.56
$399.99
This 24 year old Glen Grant was matured in Refill Hogshead filled in 1997. It was bottled at 49.8%. 89pts Whisky Fun!
Producer Note
"Behold: a delicious, content-friendly, naturally 'grammable' and click-baitingly delicious Glen Grant. This bottling is a multi-vintage small batch edition created by mixing a 1995 refill barrel with a 1997 refill hogshead. The resulting 24 year old was bottled at natural cask strength of 49.8% and yielded just 443 bottles. It's a rather full-bodied, drier style Glen Grant. Lots of weighty distillate character, peppery warmth, soft waxy notes and oily citrus fruit flavours. Suitable for hipsters and posers. But also works exceptionally well for those who like quietly enjoying excellent highland malt whisky."
Whisky Sponge Glen Keith 1993 Ed. No.62
$457.49
This bottle was featured on Day 24 of our 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar. You can read the post on it here.
A 28-year-old Glen Keith from the infamous WhiskySponge, bottled at 51.9% from the marriage of a 1991 refill barrel and a 1993 refill hogshead. 89.67pts Whiskybase.
Tasting Note
"Whisky Sponge Edition number 62 is a 28 year old, multi-vintage Glen Keith. It was created by mixing together a 1991 refill barrel and a 1993 refill hogshead. The 1991 barrel was softer and displayed more wood influence, whereas the 1993 refill hoggie was fresher, tarter and showed rather a lot of exotic fruits. The combination has worked extremely well, with the richness and maturity of the 91 balancing beautifully with the fruitiness of the 93. Overall it displays a mature, classical Speyside character with waxes, oils, preserved green and exotic fruits and light spicy notes. Dreamy whisky for escapism, relaxation and performative steampunk rituals. Please remember to wear goggles while enjoying this fine single malt, so as to catch the tears of joy as they roll down your cheeks."
Whisky Sponge Glen Garioch 1991 EdNo.65A
$1,059.99
Distilled in 1991 this 30 year old Glen Garioch was matured 10 years in Refill Hogsheads, before filling into a First Fill Port Barrique for 20 further years of maturation. Bottled at a natural cask strength of 41.4%. 89pts Whiskybase
Producer Note
"Whisky Sponge Edition No.65A is a 30 year old Glen Garioch 1991 bottled at natural cask strength of 41.4%. We don't normally like port influence in our whiskies, but this was an altogether different proposition. Matured for its initial 10 years in a refill hogshead, this whisky was then transferred to a 1st fill port barrique for a further 20 years of maturation - thus making it well and truly a proper double maturation. The robust Glen Garioch malt pairs very well with a rich, active, sticky sweet, unctuous and slightly tart port cask. The result is a mature, dark and luscious old single malt, at a naturally quaffable drinking strength and displaying many of the characteristics found in older style sherried malts with a lot of dark sticky fruit, chocolate and rancio qualities. A delicious and very silly whisky that should probably be enjoyed while wearing extremely comfortable slippers within a radius of no more than 10 meters of a modest log fire."
Whisky Sponge Glenlivet 2007 Ed. No. 57
$309.99
Producer Note
"Here at Decadent Drinks we are all about data! This gorgeous 2007 Glenlivet has been bottled in special celebration of our precious pile of data that we keep in a secret cupboard! Matured full term in a 1st fill sherry sherry hogshead, this 13 year old Glenlivet was originally up around 65% at cask strength, so we brought it all the way down to 53% as we felt it revealed a much easier, juicier and more despicably fruity profile at this strength. The label artwork for this release celebrates all the hours the Sponge spends tirelessly toiling away in the ancient data mines of the Whiskynet - harvesting numbers for the great spreadsheet which must be updated and refined eternally."