Scotch Malt Whisky Society 29.124
$157.49
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PREGNANCY TEA MIX
This Islay whisky was bottled at 56.9% after maturing 20 years in a Refill Sherry Butt.
Panel's Tasting Note: "To start honey glazed smoke ham with cloves, sugar butties, salted peanuts but also ‘Pregnancy Tea’ - a mix of dry raspberry, nettle and spearmint leaves. The taste is mineralic, pebbles on a beach or indeed licking a cockle shell; turning sweeter aromas of Orgeat Almond Syrup and Golden Grahams breakfast cereals appear. Adding water, first impressions are an astringency like lemon zest, herbal tarragon tea and then sweet like a Bakewell tart and dark red fruit pastilles. To taste, its again the balance of the mineralic, chalky flavours and the sweetness of a Cherry Jolly Ranger. This very unusual make, from this famous distillery “by the beautiful hollow by the broad bay”, is clean, sweet, fresh and salty."
Drinking Tip: "To wash the sand out of your mouth after a cold windy walk on the beach."
Inchmurrin 15 Year
$82.99
Released in 2013 and bottled at 46% without colouring or chill-filtering, the whisky was matured in Ex-Bourbon casks. Inchmurrin is a highland single malt produced by the Loch Lomond Distillery. Loch Lomond is the last distillery to continue using Lomond stills, which can be manipulated to change the character of the spirit.
Distiller's Tasting Note
Body: Light with a smooth texture and mouth feel.
Nose: Fruit cocktail with a hint of cinnamon.
Palate: Simple and succulent citrus tang with melon, apricot and peach syrup flavours mixed with a little spice.
Finish: Zesty fruit and spice with a beautiful honey and walnut lingering after taste.
Inchmurrin 21 Year
$126.99
The top of the line expresion from Inchmurrin and the oldest ever official bottling of the spirit. Faintly peated the whisky is matured in American oak and has been bottled at 46% without colouring or chill-filtering.
Inchmurrin is produced by Loch Lomond Distillers, which is the last distillery to employ a Lomond Still. The Lomond still has plates which can be manipulated to create different styles of spirit.
Distiller's Tasting Note
Body: Concentrated, rich and accessible despite its age.
Nose: A bouquet of citrus and tropical fruits and classic bourbon cask honeysuckle and vanilla.
Palate: A rich and complex mix of lemon, tangerine, melon, pear and guava all dipped in honey.
Finish: The layers of fruit give way to a beautiful vanilla cream and macadamia nut flavour finish. Generous and pure Inchmurrin, a true standout whisky.
Bruichladdich 21 Year
$125.54
Berry's Own Teaninich 1973
$222.29
My Tasting Note: Nose: fruit flan, shortbread with icing sugar and softly toasted oak; it is so decadent with Crave vanilla cupcake icing, peaches, almond paste and buttery French croissants right out of the oven; there are some green floral and herbal notes Palate: very soft, grassy but buttery with more sweet decadent notes; the oak is firm, thick and oily with roasted coconut chips, vanilla extract and cocoa beans; there are citrus notes to the palate which I didn't pick up on the nose:
Berry's Own Dailuaine 1973
$258.29
My Tasting Note: Nose: at first warm with caramelized fruit and gentle spices; the spices develop into ground cinnamon, coriander, cardamom and anise; the toasted oak develops next followed by some stewed and poached fruits like apple and pear then figs and prunes; as it opens up the fruits come to the fore and dominate all else with peaches, plum and dried apricots; Palate: the fruits waste no time coming out on the palate, though they are immediately accompanied by sweet spices like ginger, cardamom and liquorice; the oak makes its presence felt with some earthy notes, wet leaves and clove; fresh peaches, strawberries and dried apricots also emerge with some stronger notes of coffee bean, candied orange, moist ginger snap and glazed raisin Danishes; Finish: round and chewy with more notes of glazed raisin Danishes, burnt liquorice and espresso bean; some of the stronger sherry notes like wet leather and tobacco start to show later with some nutty-chocolaty notes.
Caol Ila Distillers Edition
$109.99
The Distiller's Edition range of Diageo's Classic Malts series takes some of the most iconic whiskies in the brand's portfolio and reracks them into various other cask types for a short period of secondary maturation. We call this 'finishing' in the industry. This Caol Ila DE, for example, takes the flagship Caol Ila 12 year old and moves it over into ex-Moscatel wine barrels for about a year or so. The goal of the DE range is to enhance and compliment the flavours that already exist in the standard bottlings. Whether or not you think these expressions are an improvement on the original or not is up to you, but it's hard to argue with results; the end result is always delicious.
43% abv
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Wonderfully concentrated and clean, peaty, medicinal, with rich fruit, spicy and fragrant.
Palate: Sweet maltiness strike first, then overwhelmed by peat smoke, intense, crisp flavours, and cinnamon spice.
Finish: Long, rounded, robust and multi-layered.
Glenglassaugh Manager's Legacy 1967
$746.09
This Distiller's Tasting Notes: "Nose: Rich, red apples, ripe bananas, creme Brule, caramelised sugar and lots of sweet sherry oak. Palate: Soft with lots of sweet tropical fruit salad, red liquorice, nutty-vanilla and softly spiced sherry oak tones. Finish: Velvet smooth and warming."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 28.23
$135.44
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ATTENTION GRABBING SPICY WOOD
A delicious dram from Blackford village" this whisky was matured 21 years in a Refill Butt before bottling at 57.5%.
Panel's Tasting Note: "The nose gave us hay, grass, wood-sap, sawdust, some delicate floral notes, peppery spice, blackcurrant jam and lots of nuts (macadamia, almond, hazelnut). The palate had toffee, chocolate and treacle, but it was the spicy wood that grabbed our attention – chilli, Victory V's, oak tannins – 'like licking an old cask, without the splinters' someone said. The reduced nose had toffee and lots of scented wood – cedar, pine, grape stems, saunas. The reduced palate seemed sweeter – raisins and chocolate-coated Brazils – but still with the woodiness of long years in cask – chewing on sticks, resinous, spicy; a delicious dram from Blackford village.