Springbank Vintage Batch # 2
$86.39
Tasting Note: Nose - Damp moss, varnish, fruit (red apples, green bananas and oranges) barnyardy. Subtle hints of the rich oat, chocolate and marmalade flavours from batch 1. Its sweet side really develops and brings out aromas of vanilla and toasted marshmallows. Palate - Loads of sherry and oak. Nice and earthy - think moss and damp woodlands or dunnage warehouse floors. Finish - Long and sweet.
Murray McDavid Ardbeg Bourbon 14 Year
$83.69
Only 270 bottles in this bottling, matured in bourbon casks and bottled at a cask strength of 55.3%.Nose: lots of sweet, gristy vanilla and malt, minty and grassy, faint traces of smoke and salt with the peat nowhere to be seen, unusually fresh and lively; Palate: sweet spicy vanilla on the palate superseded by salty, buttery peat that slowly darkens to chocolate notes; Finish: drying, oily and sweet with chocolaty-grassy peat.
Murray McDavid Ardbeg Sherry 14 Year
$92.24
Bruichladdich 18 Year First Edition
$107.54
Glenfarclas 105 Aged 40 Years
$1,145.69
One of the things that is so unusual about this whisky is its strength. Given that on average 2% of spirits evapourate from the casks each year during maturation this is an unusual strong whisky at 40 years of age. 893 total bottles, from 2 sherry butts. Nose: very nutty, with big sherry notes, softly sweet, treacle sauce and no hard edges: Palate: starts a touch hot, more treacle sauce and walnuts, sweet and spicy, ginge and clove, and apple crumble.
Bruichladdich Peat
$56.69
Bruichladdich house style is only faintly peated, with the exception of a few of their products: Port Charlotte, Octomore, the old 3D Peat Proposal series and now the simply named Peat. Peated to a phenolic level of 35ppm it is on par with Lagavulin and Caol Ila. While there is peat a plenty for a reasonable price, it is not as medicinal as some other Islay malts. Loads of vanilla, pear, mellon, black pepper and smoke.
Bruichladdich Black Art 19 Year
$149.39
Duthies Cragganmore 15 Year
$85.49
Duthies Copper Stills is a new range of independently bottled whiskies from WM Cadenhead, Scotland's oldest independent bottler. The whiskies are all bottled at 46% without colouring or chill-filtering. Nose: Highland toffee; fruity; milk chocolate. Hints of cinnamon and fudge. Palate: Powerful; dried fruits/oranges; fudge and caramel. A perfect body with sweet lingering notes.
Kilchoman Summer 2010 Release
$70.64
Kilchoman is an Islay Distillery that opened in 2005. At the time of construction it was the first new distillery on Islay in over 120 years. It is a farm scale distillery with a production level equivalent to Edradour, Scotland's smallest distillery. The distillery malts some of its own barley on site, and grows a proportion of it on its own estate. Kilchoman is a distillery to watch!