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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.
700 mlProducer Tasting Notes:
Nose: sweet, rich and suggesting many yellow and green fruits, slightly overripe, and drenched in custard and sweet dessert wines. Beautifully mature, rich, thick and fruity in profile.
Palate: mouth-filling, full of honeys, pollens, beeswaxes, ripe banana, greengage, melon and kiwi. A little pepperiness adds warmth and there’s a lovely grassy olive oil and waxy note too.
Finish: good length, lingering creamy custard and dessert wine vibes, along with more waxes and dried fruits.
$584.99
Whisky Sponge Edition 96 and 97 were released together to celebrate two favourite whisky islands (See Whisky Sponge Edition 97 for the other half of this pair). This 2005 vintage Bruichladdich was bottled after 19 years in a First Fill ex-Bourbon Barrel at 55.8%. 88.56pts Whiskybase & 88pts Whisky Fun.
Producer Description:
The Bruichladdich is a 2005 1st fill barrel, it’s a wonderfully rich, creamy and powerfully maritime example. Waxy, peppery, robust, full-bodied and hugely characterful with loads of distillery and Island character.
$959.99
The second from final release in the Whisky Sponge range is a multi-vintage Glen Moray, marrying a 1990 refill hogshead with a 1992 2nd fill sherry hogshead, bottled at 32 years and a cask strength of 51.8%. 89.83pts Whiskybase
Producer Description
"This is Whisky Sponge Edition No.99: the Penultimate Sponge! Like Edition No.1, it’s a sexy old Glen Moray. However, for this one, we did some well-honed Decadent Drinks cask mixology and muddled together a refill hogshead of 1990 Glen Moray with a 2nd fill sherry hogshead of 1991 Glen Moray. We left that brew to stew inside the sherry hoggie for several months, then bottled the mix at natural cask strength. It’s fruity, opulent, decadent and tastes like the set furniture from 2001 Space Odyssey draped with all the cardigans in rural Englandshire. Please enjoy this whisky while trawling this website and reading every single rear label on every single bottling we ever did. The first person to spot the cheekily concealed secret to quantum fusion technology contained within will win a t-shirt and a bespoke insult from the Sponge."
$229.99
This is Whisky Sponge Edition No.100. It’s a 2016 and 2017, 7 year old Ardnamurchan small batch made with both peated and unpeated malt, and a fair bit of sherry... 57.1%. This is the final Whisky Sponge release, No.100!
Producer Description
"It’s a potion that Angus cooked up in collaboration with the good folk at Ardnamurchan Distillery. It’s a mix of 1st fill and 2nd fill, peated and unpeated sherry octaves. We mixed them all together and married them in a refill sherry butt for over six months until the whole potion turned 7 years old, then we bottled it with slight reduction at 57.1%. For those of you that deify transparency, here’s the recipe...
"We wanted to celebrate and mark the final edition of Whisky Sponge with a whisky that was excellent quality, one that was collaborative and that we’d had a role in creating and making unique to us, and that was modern in the best sense and looked to the future. We feel we have succeeded in this – we hope you agree. Now, please buy a bottle of this whisky, place it into your rucksack, put on a sturdy pair of brogues and walk to the far West Highlands of Scotland, whereupon you will spend the rest of your days communing with nature and enjoying erotic woodland rituals with whoever will agree to participate. Good luck and farewell!
"Whisky Sponge. Xxx"