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."
Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve
$95.99
The Gold Label from the Johnnie Walker line of Blended Scotch has a small but strong following, likely due Clynelish being one of its core components. The likes of Cardhu and Caol Ila also make up the base of this blend which contains a total of 14 to 16 different distilleries in its makeup. Much of the marketing talks about it being best served chilled, but that is entirely up to you. Bottled at 40% ABV.
Burnt Ends Rye & Peated Single Malt 45%
$47.99
If you visit Hayden Block - the great barbecue joint not too far from Kensington Wine Market - it is always a good idea to order the burnt ends. This just might be the perfect whiskey to pair with it! Burnt Ends is an intriguing blend of Rye Whiskey from Tennessee and peated single malt scotch that was finished in sherry casks. The result may just have to be shared with the meat in your smoker. 45% ABV.
From The Producer
"Inspired by the tasty goods served at the barbecue joints of the USA, this rich, meaty expression brings together Tennessee rye whiskey and sherry cask-finished peated single malt Scotch whisky, all within a bottle that looks like it should hold barbecue sauce. It's meaty, smoky, rich and satisfying stuff."
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 Limited Ed.01 Starward Collab
$119.99
This is the first direct collaboration that Turntable Blending House has undertaken with a distillery. Turntable X Starward is a blend of Starward's Australian Single Malt Whisky with Single Malt Scotch and Single Grain Scotch, resulting in something unique and international.
Producer Description
- 39% Starward ex-Australian Red Wine Casks
- 10% Caol Ila 1st Fill ex-Bourbon Barrel
- 29% Inchgower Virgin Oak Barrel
- 22% 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
Nikka From the Barrel 40th Annv 3pk
$379.99
To mark the 40th Anniversary of Nikka From the Barrel, the Japanese firm has released a boxed set of 3 whiskies. The set includes the From The Barrel Extra Marriage (created to mark the 40th Anniversary) as well as the individual Malt and Grain components of the Blend.
Producer Description
"This special 3-bottle set celebrates 40 years of Nikka From the Barrel by featuring the two non-chill-filtered cask-strength components, the Grain Pieces of the Barrel and Malt Pieces of the Barrel, alongside the final "Extra Marriage" blend. The Malt offers a rich, structured character with notes of ripe apricot, sweet vanilla, and mellow peat, while the Grain is sweet and smooth, with hints of banana and bitter-sweet marmalade. The Extra Marriage is a rich and full-bodied whisky with complex layers of chocolate, orange peel, and mellow oak tannins, culminating in a long, gently bitter finish."
Rock Island 10 Year Blended Malt
$63.69
A limited edition Blended Malt created from the islands of Arran, Jura, Islay and Orkney. 46%.
Producer Description: "Rock Island 10 Years Old is a beautifully aged, Island “Vatted” Malt, that is proudly offered without colouring or chill-filtration. Bottled at 46% alcohol strength, Rock Island 10 Years Old marries together Single Malts from Islay, Arran, Orkney & Jura, resulting in a Whisky entailing wave after wave of sea salt, wood embers, gentle smoke and orange peel."
Producer Tasting Note
"The nose is initially barley-rich and buttery, developing to wave-soaked rocks with gentle peat smoke and citrus fruits. The palate bursts with a beachy quality - sea spray, black pepper and damp ash. The finish goes on and on, with wave after wave of wood embers, orange peel and gentle spice."
Compass Box Orchard House
$88.99
This whisky was featured on Day 6 of our 2024 KWM Whisky Calendar. You can read Evan's blog post on it here.
This is a game-changing whisky from Compass Box, built not from acquired aged components, but rather new make spirit acquired and filled into Compass Box own casks. Orchard House is composed of primarily Linkwood (39%), Clynelish (29%), Benrinnes (20%) and Caol Ila (2%), all from First Fill ex-Boubon Barrels, along with Highland Blended Malt (2%) from custom French oak casks and a secret Speyside single malt (8%) from Revatted Oloroso Sherry-Seasoned Butts. Hmmm, a "Distillery near the town of Aberlour" sounds a lot like Benfarclas... 46%.
Producer Description
"What is more universally delicious than ripe fruit? Even the greatest chefs have been known to serve a simple dish of strawberries or a single, perfect peach as a dessert.
"Orchard House gathers together some of the fruitiest malts Scotland has to offer, including whiskies from the Linkwood and Clynelish distilleries; what’s more, we have sourced many of these whiskies as new spirit and laid them down in our own oak casks. This, our monument to fresh fruitiness in Scotch whisky, has been many years in the making."