Decadent Drams World Peat Highball Blend
$177.99
Another curious creation from Angus and the chaps at Decadent Drinks, better he tell you that us. 50% 88pts Whisky Fun
Producer Description
"A Decadent Drams special! Just in for the summer... a highball-ready, blended malt world whisky featuring richly peated malts from a variety of those beloved human constructs: nation states! Featuring whisky from nations such as Scotchland, Germany and Sweden, all flavoured by peat from various segments of the planet's surface. This Earthy brew has been bottled after no less than 8 years of age (though some bits are older), matured in bourbon barrels and bottled at an instantaneously mixable strength of 50%."
MacNair`s Lum Reek 10 Year Cask Strength
$116.99
Bottled at 55.4%, this is Batch 1 of the Lum Reek 10 Year Cask Strength. This Blended Malt is a fusion of Speyside whiskies, including GlenAllachie, blended with Islay malt. The whisky was married and rested in ex-Spanish Sherry, Wine and Virgin Oak Casks.
About The Range
"Our multi-award-winning Lum Reek Blended Malt Scotch Whiskies combine Single Malts from Islay and Speyside – two of the most sought-after whisky regions in Scotland – marrying both peated and unpeated spirit to create perfectly balanced and satisfyingly complex malts. Taking inspiration from MacNair’s discovery of the delights of a dram beside a smoky peat fireplace, Billy Walker has drawn upon his half century’s experience in blending to develop a recipe fit for a traditional Scottish toast to long life; “Lang may yer lum reek”."
The MacNair's Story: "Ne'er happier than when exploring the globe or the spirit from the golden still, Harvey McNair was - in the parlance of his native Glasgow - a man or 'lad o'pairts': a true Victorian entrepreneur. A trader, thereby a traveller, an inventor of all sorts of mechanical contraptions, his genius lay in the blending of fine whiskies. He loved and championed the natural, unadulterated colour of whisky. "Pure gold' he said with a wink. Bon viveur and raconteur, he cut a dash about town and had a bursting social calendar. His best stories were always 'agin hisself', like how his neighbours thought him an alchemist or, indeed, how he discovered Lum Reek. But he knew a good dram when he blended it, or indeed stumbled across it. Just like our own 21st Century Whisky legend Billy Walker, who has recreated and refined the Lum Reek blend for the modern palate.
"One autumn evening in the 1860s, after a day's fishing, our man was quaffing a dram in the old stone bothy near GlenAllachie. Due to a blocked chimney (or lum) the room filled with smoke. It had "a marvellous effect on the whisky in my glass," confided McNair later to his merchant cronies. "Indeed, perfection!" Ne'er a truer word was spoken. Today's Lum Reek is the creation of our Master Blender Billy Walker, raising his hat to the top hatted Victorian. It's a heavily peated malt, marrying Islay & Speyside whiskies with rich GlenAllachie, to extend the flavour profile. Lum Reek is matured in GlenAllachie's warehouses, then bottled at 46% (and above), unchilfiltered, allowing its natural colour to shine like those golden autumns Harvey MacNair enjoyed, decked out in his waders."
Shinobu Lightly Peated Pure Malt Whisky
$99.99
This "lightly peated" Pure Malt (Blended Malt) whisky from Shinobu is made from Peatead single malt sourced from distilleries in the Highlands and Speyside of Scotland. It was blended in Japan and finished in Mizunara casks for 6 months before bottling at 43%.
The fact that this "Japanese whisky" was made from Scottish malt, is not unusual...it falls into a category I call "Japaneseish"... and event the big guys have done it. It was well received at the Calgary Whisky Festival, so we figured we'd better give it a go!
Producer Description
"Shinobu Lightly Peated Pure Malt whisky and 10 Year Old are the first peated whiskies to be released by Shinobu distillery. Peated whisky was sourced from selected distilleries, Highland and Speyside regions, and carefully blended by the master blender. Finished in Mizunara wood for more than 6 months."
About Shinobu Whisky
"The Shinobu Distillery, in collaboration with Niigata Beer Distillery, is located in the Japanese seaside region of Niigata on the country’s western coast. The area is famous for its “Three White Treasures” - snow, rice, and sake, which have been cultivated there for centuries. Shinobu Pure Malt whiskies are crafted by master blender, Mr. Usami Ken who blends malts aged in sherry, bourbon, and Hogshead casks before finishing them in Japan’s unique and prized Mizunara Oak. Famous for imparting rich, honeyed flavors of apples, pears, cloves, and nutmeg, Mizunara Oak has been used in Japan since the 1930s and is now sought-after by whisky makers around the world. world. All Shinobu whiskies are created without chill-filtration or added color to protect and enhance their deeply complex and robust flavor."
SMWS WANDERING ALCHEMY
$176.99
WANDERING ALCHEMY
This 10 year old blended malt contains malt whisky from all five of Scotland's regions; the liquid came from ex-bourbon, oloroso, PX & HTMC barrels & hogsheads, and was bottled at 58.4%.
Flavour profile: Lightly peated
Outturn: 1531 bottles
The Epicurean 12 Year Blended Malt
$99.99
This 12 year old Lowland Blended Malt Scotch is bottled at 46%.
Producer Description
"The Epicurean is a marriage of some of the finest Lowland Malts; a marriage of the best that the East and the West of Scotland have to offer. His 12 Years Old Small Batch bottling is proudly offered at 46% alcohol strength, and is bursting with honeyed barley, ripe peaches and spice."
Arran Amarone Cask Finish
$87.99
Finished in Amarone casks sourced from the Veneto region of Italy, this Arran typically aged for a total of around 8 years old. Before finishing the Arran single malt these casks nurtured one of the richest, boldest & most sought after Italian wines. Its time in the barriques has given it a spicier, dark fruity character that marries well with Arran's malt. 50% ABV.
Bowmore 25 Year
$799.99
This quarter century old bottling of Bowmore has been a staple in their range for decades. Bottled at 43% after maturing in ex-Bourbon and Sherry casks.
Producer Description: "A whisky to be savoured slowly, every delicious drop of this exquisitely balanced malt has been matured for a quarter of a century in North American bourbon and Spanish sherry casks. Exceptional even by Bowmore's standards, our highly acclaimed Bowmore 25 Year Old exhibits the finest qualities of each."
Bowmore 15 Year
$117.99
The 15 Year Bowmore is finished for 3 years in Oloroso Sherry before bottling at 43%. Bowmore Distillery, est. 1779 is the oldest distillery on Islay and one of the oldest in Scotland. The whisky is moderately peated by the standards of most other Islay whiskies, and malts 40% of their own barley. 43% ABV.
Producer Description
"Matured first in bourbon barrels then Oloroso casks, there's no finer example of a sherry cask finish than our 15 Year Old. It's the final three years spent in Oloroso sherry casks that gives Bowmore 15 Year Old the rich, deep colour and robust warming finish."
Glenfarclas Family Cask 1983 W18
$2,564.99
This 1983 Glenfarclas Family Cask is from the Winter 2018 (W18) release, bottled at 48.8% after 35 years in a Refill Hogshead. 90.53pts Whiskybase