Two Stacks Dark Cloud Cask 2 13 Year
$139.99
This 2012 vintage, 13-year-old Cooley Single Grain Irish Whiskey was bottled at 58%, after finishing in a Passito De Pantelleria Dessert Wine for 9 months. The whisky is a collaboration with Dark Cloud Whisky.
Passito di Pantelleria is a style of wine made on the Italian Island of Pantelleria. The wine is made from Muscat of Alexandria grapes that have been left to dry on straw mats, leaving less water and more concentrated flavour and sugars to ferment and create an intensely aromatic and flavourful dessert wine.
Producer Description
"This cask was chosen by Dark Cloud Whisky (Sean Kincaid) & White Cloud Productions (Jeremy Pue) to reflect their friendship & bond through both ancestral heritage and a mutual respect for Irish Whiskey. This particular whiskey was finished in a Passito De Pantelleria Dessert Wine cask and the result is a delightful dram with a floral & sweet nose along with with some honeysuckle notes. On the palate there is some spice up front but the dessert wine cask really shows with a very smooth finish."
Blue Spot Irish Whiskey
$164.99
This single pot still Irish whiskey was bottled at no less than 7 years from a mix of Bourbon, Sherry, and Madeira casks, before bottling at cask strength. 58.4%
Producer Description
"Blue Spot’s name was derived from the Mitchell’s practice of marking their maturing casks of whiskey with a mark or daub of coloured paint to determine the age potential of the whiskey. Blue Spot was a 7 year old whiskey, Green Spot (10 year old), Yellow Spot (12 Year Old) and Red Spot (15 year old). As a colourful history would have it, this revered Blue Spot remained underground until now and its introduction reunites the historical Spot Family for the first time in over 56 years."
SMWS CARAMEL CASCADE
$199.99
CARAMEL CASCADE
This 12 year old small batch Irish single malt comes from 1st fill bourbon and Palo Cortado barrels and hogsheads, and was bottled at 50%.
Outturn: 1285 bottles
Suntory Whisky Toki
$64.99
This new Japanese blend is crafted crafted from malt whisky distilled at Yamazaki and Hakushu, as well as grain whisky from the Chita distillery. Toki is Japanese for 'time', and is a "is a bridge between the heritage of the House’s Art of Blending and its spirit of innovation."
From the Producer: "Suntory Whisky Toki™ represents the tradition and legacy of the House as it features the quintessential characteristics of a Suntory blend: exquisite balance, harmony, and oneness. It also challenges whisky convention by re-thinking the hierarchy of its components. The selection of Hakushu American White Oak cask malt whisky and Chita heavy-type grain whisky as the blend's two pillars overturns the old relationship between malt and grain and creates a blend that is both groundbreaking and timeless. Overseen by third-generation Master Blender and grandson of the founder, Shingo Torii, and developed by fourth Chief Blender Shinji Fukuyo."
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Basil, green apple, honey
Palate: Grapefruit, green grapes, peppermint, thyme
Finish: Subtly sweet and spicy finish with a hint of vanilla oak, white pepper and ginger.
Toki Highball
- 1 part Suntory Whisky Toki
- 3½ parts Soda
- Lemon Twist Fill highball glass with sweated ice. Add Suntory Whisky Toki
- Pour soda down the side of the glass that is away from the ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Turntable Bittersweet Symphony
$82.99
This Blended Scotch Whisky from Turntable Blending House takes its name from a song by The Verve that you either absolutely love or can't stand because it was seemingly all that was played on the radio during the late 1990s/early 2000s.
Producer Description
- 22% Craigellachie PX Puncheon
- 17% Blair Athol Virgin Oak Barrel
- 21% Craigellachie Oloroso Butt
- 21% Balmenach PX Puncheon
- 19% North British Virgin Oak Barrel
Turntable Track 04 One Way or Another
$94.99
Named after the 1978 song by Blondie, One Way or Another is an intriguing, grain-forward Blended Scotch bottled at 46%. It is made of:
- 30% Strathclyde Single Grain matured in 1st Fill ex-Bourbon Barrels
- 21% Invergordon Single Grain matured in ex-Red Wine Barrels
- 15% Cameronbridge Single Grain from ex-Marsala Barrels
- 12% Cameronbridge from Single Grain ex-Madeira Barrels
- 22% Linkwood Single Malt matured in 1st Fill ex-Bourbon Barrels
MacNair`s Lum Reek 10 Year CS Batch 2
$114.99
Exciting to have Batch #2 in hand! And for the keeners who live in that world of nuance, we still have a few bottles of Batch #1, so if you wanna compare... we gotcha covered!
Producer Note: "Crafted from a combination of the finest Speyside and Islay Single Malts, including aged GlenAllachie, Batch 2 of our Lum Reek 10-year-old is the perfect balance between peat and rich, fruity character. The spirit was laid to rest in premium Spanish sherry casks, wine barriques and virgin oak casks at The GlenAllachie Distillery. As time passes, the flavours marry and extract additional characteristics from the wood, creating a deliciously sweet yet subtly smoky flavour profile."
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 55.8%.
Compass Box Secrets of Smoke
$271.99
Primarily built from parcels of Caol Ila, Ardmore, and The Peat Monster, it also contains a little Laphroaig and Bowmore. 52% - Limit 1 Per Customer!
Producer Description
"Secrets of Smoke takes you beyond the smoke screen. With this whisky we uncover the sometimes surprising inherent sweetness of peated malts. Take some time to get through the smoke. The longer you sit with it you’ll become accustomed to it as the veil of smoke drops, the sweet side shines through."
"For Secrets of Smoke, we allow those wine casks to crack the smoky outer shell and release the unexpected sweetness at the core of peated whiskies. Palo Cortado sherry-seasoned butts enhancing the toffee apple qualities of malt whisky from the Caol Ila Distillery. Refill red wine barrels tempt bright cherry notes from the depths of The Peat Monster, our own assemblage of Islay malts. And those Marsala barriques bring blueberry flapjack flavours to the surface of malt whisky from the Laphroaig Distillery."
G&M CRN57 The Cairn 30 Year
$574.99
This 30 year old "Blended Malt" is part of a range of whiskies released by Gordon & MacPhail to highlight what they are doing at The Cairn Distillery. The distillery's own whiskies won't be ready for some time, but in the interim they have created bottlings to show what the spirit might be like in 12, 18, 25, 30, 40, 57, and 70 years. The Cairn Distillery sits at 57 degrees north latitude-wise, hence the name CRN57 for these releases. 43% 90pts Whisky Fun
The 51.9% version of this whisky was one of Andrew's favourite whiskies in 2023/4. He's been back to the distillery a few times to buy an extra bottle or three!