Benromach 2007 KWM Bourbon Cask
$144.99
Our 3rd KWM exclusive Benromach cask is a First Fill ex-Bourbon Barrel, bottled after 13 years at 57.7%. Our 1st and 2nd KWM exclusive Benromach casks were here in 2013. They were young, but very well received. The outturn for cask 134 was 221 bottles. Benromach produces a lightly peated, traditional Speyside style of whisky.
G&M 125th Anniversary Coleburn 1972
$2,999.99
One of Gordon Macphail's 125th Anniversary releases, this Coleburn, one of only a handful we've ever seen at KWM, is also by far the oldest. This 47 year old Coleburn was matured in a Refill Sherry Puncheon, and has been bottled at an impressive 62.4%. Only 6 bottles are coming to KWM. 93pts Angus @ Whisky Fun & 91pts Serge @ Whisky Fun.
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Sweet butterscotch, ripe fruit and subtle floral aromas. Caramelised sugar develops alongside waxy citrus peel, slowly transforming into fresh guava.
Taste: Intensely sweet; fruity flavours of apricot and cooked apple with a subtle mouth-warming chilli spice edge. Subtle charred oak flavours give way to a soft undertone of mint leaves.
Finish: A medium finish with sweet and ripe autumnal fruit and a lingering dry herbal note.
Producer Description
"The first of the 125th anniversary whiskies to be released is the Gordon & MacPhail 1972 from Coleburn Distillery in Speyside. Coleburn Distillery, situated just four miles from the company’s Elgin home, started production in 1897 and it remained active until 1985. Just 363 bottles of the sweet, intense and complex 47-Year-Old whisky from Coleburn Distillery are available. After spending its entire maturation in cask 3511, a refill sherry puncheon, the golden-hued whisky has been bottled at cask strength (62.4% ABV), developing a sweet aroma with butterscotch notes."
93pts Angus @ Whisky Fun
"Needless to say, this is the bottling that has garnered the most attention. And it’s not hard to see why - 47yo closed distillery single malts at over 60% aren’t exactly clogging up the whiskysphere. I’m told that the reason for the rather mental ABV is that the warehouse this cask was stored in just so happens - through reasons of poor ventilation - to be very good at retaining alcohol levels. Not sure about that, but if this is really G&M’s final cask of Coleburn, it’s extremely cool and smart that they saved this one till last. Colour: deep gold. Nose: it’s almost like two whiskies standing side by side. On one hand some high alcohol insanity - on the other: some beautifully honeyed, deftly waxy, incredibly subtle old style, long aged dram. You really have to wait for them to link up; the alcohol behaves almost as if is shedding years from the overall profile. Given blind you could say this was 15 or 25yo. It just really needs time I think. With patience there’s some stunningly complex and thick herbal jellies, wood resins, precious hardwoods, exotic teas, camphor, lanolin, rosewater and long aged dry Gewürztraminer. With water: stunning! Resins, herbs, waxes, medicines, wood oils, crystallised fruits, new world hops, natural tar. Amazing development and a continually building complexity. Mouth: immense, crazy! And yet… it also rather makes sense, beautifully high end, estery, green and waxy fruits. Green banana, cider apple, mango, lime pith, pineapple tinned in its own syrups, hessian, pumpkinseed oil - the kind of whisky you could go on dissecting for literally hours. With water: totally spellbinding development, and the texture is just incredible. Like molten wax mixed with the best olive oil. Tar, herbs, umami paste, honeys, delicate medicinal tones, some kind of ancient mead. Pure, rivetingly complex, ancient highland style malt whisky. The texture is really just immense, you almost feel it dripping from your teeth! Enough of this madness, you know who to call…! Finish: wonderfully long, immensely honeyed and beautifully warming. Flashes and pops of everything that’s gone before. A paean to complexity and time. Comments: Hard to know what to say about this whisky. A dram with many shades and personalities that you could spend literally hours and several stages of dilution picking apart - I suspect you could easily make an open bottle last a decade. We’re really at the crossroads where intellect meets pleasure - exactly where and why I’m into whisky. SGP: 662 - 93 points."
91pts Serge @ Whisky Fun
"Remember Coleburn Distillery, located near Elgin, was closed for good in 1985 but it's still got a few aficionados who do remember that it could be a stupendous malt whisky. Ripe pink bananas anyone? The buildings are still used for the storage of whisky casks. Colour: gold. Nose: oh yes, crushed ripe bananas, menthol and the subtlest blend of honeys there ever was. Manuka's not too far away, remember Sir Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest, used to be a professional beekeeper in New-Zealand! But why am I telling you this? Mead as well, obviously, beeswax, high-class chardonnay,. Now despite this very old age, this baby was bottled at more than 60% vol., which is just incredible. What I mean is that water should make it more complex… With water: no changes as far as the main aromas are concerned, but each main one literally explodes and gives birth to tiny sub-aromas, such as many honeys, mentholy herbs, white wines and even tropical fruits such as, indeed, bananas, papayas and guavas. Mouth (neat): a wrestler for sure, with some tart spiciness and literally wheelbarrows of peppermint. With water: fantastic fruits, mints, very soft spices and, once again, honeys. Some piney notes might be a little loud but that's often the case with very old whiskies that spent their whole life in a single cask or two. Tend to become a little tea-ish, also. Ginger and cloves, cinnamon tea… Finish: pretty long and rather all on mint, beeswax, and cinnamon. A tad drying but that's absolutely not unseen in such old whiskies, or brandies for that matter. Comments: this one had been much lauded when it came out last year, and I now understand why. Hope we'll still manage to try a few other Coleburns over the years. Forgot to say, Coleburn used to work in tandem with Clynelish for some time, especially in the 1930s. SGP:561 - 91 points."
G&M 125th Anniversary Glenury Royal 1984
$2,699.99
One of only 2 bottlings of Glenury Royal we've ever seen at KWM, this 35 year old was matured in a First Fill Sherry Butt before bottling at 39.1%. Only 6 bottles are coming to KWM, and we've opened one for a tasting, leaving just 5 for sale... Limit 1 per customers! 89pts from both Serge & Angus @ Whisky Fun.
Producer Description
"The second of the 125th anniversary whiskies to be released is the Gordon & MacPhail 1984 from Glenury Royal Distillery in Stonehaven. No spirit has been distilled at Glenury since 1985, when it closed its doors for the final time and was demolished after a long history stretching back 160 years. Just 397 bottles of this elegant 35-year-old whisky are available. Laid down on Thursday 7 June 1984 and has been fully matured in cask number 2335, a first-fill Sherry Butt. Bottled at 49.1% ABV, the liquid itself is a rich amber in colour, with aromas of stewed fruit, cocoa powder, cinnamon, and toasted oak. On the palate, the whisky provides sweet orange peel, cherry, burnt sugar and dried fig giving way to a medium and fruity finish with notes of aniseed and sherry. "
G&M 125th Anniversary Mosstowie 1979
$2,999.99
The first Mosstowie we've seen in a couple of years, this 40 year old is part of Gordon Macphail's 125th Anniversary Editions. Matured in a Refill Sherry Hogshead, the whisky has been bottled at 49.1%. Mosstowie is a single malt produced at the Miltonduff Distillery between 1964 and 1981. Only 6 bottles are coming to KWM, Limit 1 Per Customer! 90pts Angus & 89pts Serge @ Whisky Fun.
Producer Description
"The penultimate of the 125th anniversary whiskies to be released is the Gordon & MacPhail 1979 Mosstowie from Miltonduff Distillery. Located within Miltonduff Distillery in Morayshire, Mosstowie was founded in 1964 under the ownership of industry pioneer Hiram Walker – who championed the use of longer, more versatile Lomond Stills to give a variety of flavour profiles. This stills, which produced Mosstowie’s smoky, soft spirit operated for just 17 years as the longer arms of the stills were notoriously difficult to clean, resulting in their removal in 1981. Only 164 bottles are available worldwide of this full-bodied whisky, full of sherry influences and dark chocolate notes. The 40-year-old whisky was laid down in Gordon & MacPhail’s Elgin warehouse on Thursday 13 September 1979 in cask number 20323, a refill Sherry Hogshead."
Loch Lomond Inchmurrin 12 Year
$67.99
This bottle was featured on Day 15 of our 2021 KWM Whisky Calendar
Inchmurrin is the largest island in the freshwater Loch Lomond, translating to "Grassy Isle" in Scots Gaelic. The Inchmurrin syle is distilled in Loch Lomond (the distillery)'s straight-necked Lomond Stills and it is unpeated, fruity and floral in style. The 12 Year Old is matured in first-fill & refill ex-Bourbon as well as re-charred casks. bottled at 46%.
Loch Lomond Inchmoan 12 Year
$69.99
‘Inch-moan’ is named for an island in Loch Lomond, who's name translates to "the island of the peat in gaelic." The whisky peated and produced from a mariage of malts distilled in the distillery's trational swan neck and unconvential straight neck stills. Matured in re-charred American oak and refill ex-Bourbon casks. 46%
Old Pulteney 2004 KWM Cask 236
$169.99
This is our 2nd exclusive single cask of Old Pulteney, and it is another lovely, savoury single malt. Only 216 bottles it is thick and honeyed with bags of coconut, citrus and gentle toasted oak. Cask 236, an ex-Bourbon barrel, was bottled after 16 years at 55%.
Carn Mor Strictly Ltd Glenburgie 2012
$107.99
Matured 8 years in a PX Sherry Butt before bottling at 47.5%.
Producer Tasting Note
“Barley malt and stone fruits with an ever so gentle hint of smoke.”
Carn Mor Strictly Ltd Mortlach 13 Year
$141.99
Limit 1 Per Customer!
Filled into an Oloroso Sherry Cask in 2007, the whisky was bottled in 2020 at 13 years and 47.5%.
Producer Tasting Note
“Rich and spicy with notes of ginger, orange peel and a dry, nutty finish.