Sketta Grecanico
$34.99
Angelo Paternò, the patriarch of Cantina Marilina (Sketta), worked for decades at large commercial wineries on Italy’s southern island, Sicily. He eventually saved up enough to purchase a 60-hectare organic farm in the province of Siracusa. The shining white calcareous soils and gentle slope told him this was amongst the best sites he’d ever seen, the ideal location to build a life with his family.
JL Denois Brut Rose
$34.99
Nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees in Southwest France is the coolest climate and highest elevation appellation in the Languedoc: Limoux. There, outside the lofty Medieval village of Roquetaillade, lives Limoux's most famous vigneron, Jean-Louis Denois, the gentleman responsible for bringing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to this ideal terroir in the 80’s. His eponymous domaine, founded after he sold his first Limoux project Domaine de l’Aigle to Gerard Bertrand twenty years back, includes 15 hectares of vines at 400-500 meters above sea level on limestone and clay soils. Denois quickly rose to prominence in France for offering incredible bubbles at incredible prices. His crémants used the finest techniques and clones of Champagne without the same price tag, earning the regard of leading Champagne experts like Jancis Robinson who deemed the wines “a little fruitier, more opulent, and less obviously lees-aged than the best champagnes but infinitely better than cheap champagne” by the turn of the millennium. The wines have only continued on their path to terroir singularity and deliciousness over these last twenty years.
Benromach Contrasts: High Enzyme
$97.99
This unpeated Benromach was produced with a high enzyme barley and matured in First Fill ex-Bourbon Barrels before bottling at 46%. Are you intrigued? We are!
Producer Description
"Introducing the latest addition to our Contrasts range. A limited-edition single malt crafted using unpeated high enzyme barley and matured in the finest first-fill bourbon barrels.
"This limited release explores the technical aspects of distilling and has used a high enzyme, unpeated barley to create characteristics more commonly found in grain whisky rather than malt whisky."
G&M CC Linkwood 2002
$329.99
This 2002 vintage Connoisseurs Choice Linkwood was matured 22 years in a First Fill Sherry Hogshead cask before bottling at 54.7%.
Benromach 2014 Cask Strength
$114.99
This 2014 vintage Benromach was bottled just shy of its 10th birthday at 60.6% after maturing in First Fill ex-Bourbon & Sherry casks.
G&M CC BenRiach 1997
$425.99
This 1997 vintage Connoisseurs Choice BenRiach was matured 26 years in a Refill American Oak Hogshead before bottling at 55.7%.
G&M CC Macduff 2006
$227.99
This 17 year old Macduff was bottled at 54.9% from a Refill ex-Bourbon Barrel.
G&M CC Tomatin 2008
$207.99
Bottled at 52.7% this 16 year old Tomatin was matured in a Refill Bourbon Barrel.
SMWS 60.43 COMPOTE IN THE CARIBBEAN
$154.99
COMPOTE IN THE CARIBBEAN
This 10 year old Highlander spent 8 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a 2nd fill hybrid hogshead for the remainder of its maturation, and has an abv of 58.9%.
Flavour profile: Spicy & sweet
Distilled on: 24 October 2013
Outturn: 288 bottles