Whisky Sponge No. 95 Sideburn 31 Year
$599.99
Whisky Sponge release No. 95 is a teaspooned malt from a well-loved Speyside distillery. It's a marriage of 2 casks married together and bottled at 51.4% abv.
Producer Notes:
This is our latest bottling of Burnside blended malt made by William Grant & Sons, which we are now calling ‘Sideburn’. It’s a multi-vintage, small batch 30 year old composed of a 1992 2nd fill barrel and a 1993 1st fill barrel, bottled at cask strength. We are extremely happy with how this one has come out, it’s a stunning, perfectly mature honey and fruit bomb that tastes pretty much exactly how you would hope 30 year old, top tier Speyside malt whisky would taste.
Westie Sponge No. 4 Ledaig 29 Year
$719.99
Producers Description:
Our Westie Sponge series continues from strength to strength with the latest edition being a 1995, 29 year old Ledaig from a refill sherry butt. This is a terrific cask, with great old school sherry character and loads of maturing. It’s also pretty coastal, waxy and old style, the sort of dram that’s very hard to find nowadays. We were delighted to find this cask and thought it was the perfect representation for the Isle of Mull in our Westie Sponge series.
Whisky Sponge No. 97 Jura 30 Year
$749.99
Whisky Sponge Edition 96 and 97 were released together to celebrate two favourite whisky islands (See Whisky Sponge Edition 96 for the other half of this pair). This 1994 vintage Jura was bottled at 46% after 30 years in a Refill Hogshead cask. 88.94pts Whiskybase & 91pts Whisky Fun
Producer Description:
The Jura is a 1994 refill hogshead and it is classic, long-aged refill matured Jura, very complex, elegant, waxy, oily, mineral, herbal and coastal. Evocative and beautifully detailed old Island single malt.
Whisky Sponge No. 98 Glen Grant 20 Year
$389.99
Getting close to the final "sponge" release, No.98 is a 20 year old Glen Grant bottled at 57.1% from a First Fill ex-Bourbon Barrel. 88.36pts Whiskybase
Producer Description:
Our final run of Sponges would not be complete without a final entry for Angus’s much adored Glen Grant distillery. This is a 2003 1st fill barrel which we’ve bottled at 20 years of age and with a couple of degrees reduction to our favourite bottling strength of 57.1%/100 proof. We’ve also really pulled out all the stops in our continuing mission to shamelessly rip off the old traditional Glen Grant ‘Heath Covered Mountains’ label design. Thankfully it’s out of copywrite! We love this cask, the slightly fat and full-bodied style of the whisky it represents, and we are really happy to be able to include it in the final run of the Sponge series.
Whisky Sponge Equilibrium III 22 Year
$318.49
This realease of Equilibrium, the 3rd from Whisky Sponge, is a 22 year old peated and sherried Ardmore. 88.41pts Whiskybase
Producer Description:
We couldn’t complete the Whisky Sponge series without also tying up the loose end that is our side series: Equilibrium. This mini-series, designed to showcase whiskies that balance sherry and peat flavour profiles, was always intended to be a trilogy, so we are happy to finally be able to complete it. This is a 22 year old Highland Single Malt, composed of medium peated examples from 1997 and 2000, refill matured, sherry finished and then married in refill sherry to bring everything together before finally being bottled with a few degrees reduction at 53%. This is rich, layered, slightly softer on the peat and richer on the sherry, but overall a gorgeously flavoursome and luxurious example of this long lusted after flavour combination!
Secret Sponge Williamson 10 Year
$254.99
The final Secret Sponge release is a 2014 vintage Williamson (cough Laphroaig), matured in two Refill Hogsheads and an ex-Laphroaig Butt. Bottled at 10 years of age, and 57.1% (watered down from a cask strength of more than 65%).
Producer Description
"This is the sixth – and final – Secret Sponge Edition. It’s a 10 year old, small batch bottling of Williamson Single Malt.
"This whisky was distilled in 2014 and filled into refill hogsheads. Around two and half years ago, we combined two of the hogsheads from this parcel and re-racked that mix into an ex-Laphroaig refill butt to continue maturing. I wanted to do this small, controlled initial bottling from this butt to increase the headspace for the rest of the whisky as it matures. The natural cask strength was way up at over 65%, so I decided to bottle it with quite a bit of reduction at 57.1%.
"I have always loved this distillery. It was my dad’s favourite whisky and the whisky that got me into single malts in the first place. The last time we bottled whisky from this distillery was for Whisky Sponge Edition No.61, which I did as a tribute to my dad and to my daughter Molly. This one is for my son, Arthur."
Whisky Sponge CT Glen Toon 11 Year
$244.99
SMWS 105.47 FOND OF FONDANT
$155.99
105.47 - FOND OF FONDANT
62%
Westie Sponge No. 5 Ben Nevis 25 Year
$599.99
Producers Description:
We round off our beloved Westie Sponge series with a 1998 Ben Nevis. It’s a single refill hogshead bottled at 25 years of age and natural cask strength. We’re also especially pleased with this one as it matured its whole life at the distillery as well, so added ‘Westie’ bonus there. It’s a wonderfully pure and vivid example of Ben Nevis, very mature, loads of waxy, oily and mineral character plus some lovely citrus and white fruit notes. A perfect end to the Westie Sponge series.