HIghland Park Earl Haakon Magnus 3

$325.79

Whyte & Mackay Dalmore Astrum 40 Year

$1,698.29

Only 500 bottles of this 1966 vintage have been released at 42% after maturing nearly four decade in American oak and finishing for 18 months in Gonzalez Byass Matusalem Sherry Casks. Astrum is Latin for constellation. Distiller's Tasting Note: "The shimmering dark golden colour of Astrum is instantly alluring. Its exquisite nose is provocative and pleasing and its flavours enchant and sparkle with an orchestrated display of brilliance. Nuances of honeyed pear, banana and passion fruit stimulate the senses, while unfettered pleasure is drawn from evocative bursts of blood oranges, fleshy peaches, figs and roasted Columbian coffee. Clusters of Black Forest fruits, crushed apples, spicy cinnamon and bitter chocolate crown this heavenly creation."

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 29.105

$106.19

SOLD OUT! - Not expected to return to KWM! 

MASSIVE AND VOLCANIC

Matured 12 years in a Refill Sherry Butt and bottled at 59.6%. Not for the faint of heart!

Panel's Tasting Note: "The nose leapt out with smoke, tar and smouldering embers (waking up the 'danger' zone of the cortex); it was also briny, with minty humbugs, some kind of green leaf and vanilla. The palate was described as "Massive!" and "Volcanic" - ash, liquorice, tar and salt, with wild boar sausages and something lovely and sweet hiding away, like a ballerina in a group of miners. Water hardly dented the nose - sweet-cured bacon, diesel exhaust and molasses. The palate seemed sweeter - chocolate in amongst the smoke and a lavender after-taste. One of the founders, Donald Johnston, drowned after falling into 'burnt ale."

Drinking Tip: "A late night dram."

Glendronach 1989 Batch 3314

$177.29

This bottle is SOLD OUT. This was from Batch 5 of the GlenDronach Single Cask releases.

1989, cask 3314, 21 Years Old Bottled November 2011, Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon

Glendronach 1991 Batch 2406 Oloroso

$166.49

This bottle is SOLD OUT. This was from Batch 5 of the GlenDronach Single Cask releases.

1991, cask 2406, 19 Years Old Bottled November 2011, Oloroso Sherry Butt

Glendronach 1993 Batch 1

$152.09

Soctch Malt Whisky Society 29.110

$107.09

WILD WEST COWBOY DRESSED IN LEATHER: Panel's Tasting Note: "We identified various typical aromas - sea breezes, shell sand, burnt sticks, embers, smoke, and crispy duck on the barbeque – but also vanilla, liquorice, lime, tobacco and fresh laundry flapping on the clothes-line. Mineral notes increased with water – quarries, flint, crushed rock, lobster shells and distant tarmac lorries – also nettles, sorrel and thyme. The palate, at natural strength, was big and busty – a tobacco-chewing, cigar-smoking, Wild West cowgirl dressed in leather. In reduction, sweet malt flavours came through, along with tar, ash, liquorice, dark chocolate, rhubarb and German Salbei throat sweets (sage). From the 'love it or hate it' distillery." Drinking tip: "For reflective moments, preferably by the seashore."

Glen Garioch 1994

$71.99

Amrut Portonova

$129.99

This port matured Amrut was a big hit at the Victoria Whisky Festival in 2011 and one of my favourite whiskies at the show. This limited edition expression has been bottled at a cask strength of 62.1%.

Distiller's Tasting Note

Nose: A Thick pudding of a nose; fruit and caramel have merged into one slightly over-oaked soup; burnt apple pie

Taste: This is essentially a port pipe sandwich.... and it shows. The spicy, jammy fruit is interwoven through any amount of caramel while the oaky saltiness gets the taste buds both salivating and puckering until you run dry

Finish: Long, massive oak with quite evident traces of the virgin barrels now detectable. And more of a cocoa hue as it progresses. At last some muscovado sugars arrive to supplant the berry fruits