46% vol - FIRST FILL BOURBON

Benromach Cara Gold Malt is a limited release made using a combination of Cara Gold malted barley and our standard lightly peated malt. Matured in first-fill bourbon barrels, it offers perfumed and tropical fruit notes, leading to pepper and toasted malt with a hint of butterscotch, and a vibrant, sweet smoke finish.

Quercus Alba is the Latin name for 'American white oak' and this limited edition whisky is packed with oaky flavour. During the selection process our head distiller said 'for those who like chewing on a pencil'. The heavy char on the virgin oak cask has activated rich tannins, dark toffee and deep wood flavours. We think it's a little reminiscent of the heavy tannic oak notes in American whisky. If you love oak, this release is for you. 

The liquid inside is Manuka Smoke single malt, one of our most identifiable flavour profiles and a signature of our distillery. It's made using locally grown malt that has been smoked with native Manuka wood, mashed, fermented and then double distilled through the Thomson all copper pot stills. The spirit offers an interesting black tea note along with the typical Manuka oils. 

Quercus Alba is limited to 250 bottles only.

Cask: Heavily charred virgin American oak barrel. 

Liquid: New Zealand Manuka Smoke single malt. 

Tasting notes: Vanilla, black tea, clove and Manuka oils. Rich tannins, dark toffee, deep wood. 

Headcount: 250.  

ABV: 46%

700ML

Blackadder RAW CASK is "Whisky as it was". Whisky as it has been. Every drop is "Whisky from the Old School". Blackadder does not believe in chill filtration or the addition of caramel. Instead, they believe that real is best. Blackadder RAW CASK is like any other whisky from Blackadder. But even more than that. They use a special bottling process that means that each bottle contains its own portion of the cask sediment and natural oils and fats to ensure that the greatest possible number of natural flavours are in each individual bottle.

Blackadder RAW CASK is a "Single Cask" whisky as it once was, when whisky was drunk directly from a cask behind the bar. As Blackadder RAW CASK is Cask Strength with a high alcohol content, we recommend that you mix it with almost an equal amount of water. However, as the amount of water added is highly personal, it is your choice how much water you want.

A 10 year old single malt from the Linkwood distillery, distilled in 2012 and bottled by James Eadie in 2023 with a stated age of 10 years old.

Cask type - Re-Charred Hogsheads
Cask numbers - 301855,313669-313671
Number of bottles - 1291

Nose
Cherries, dark chocolate with a hint of chili, raspberry, strawberry and elderflower.

Taste
Juicy, waxy and full bodied, with a combination of berries, dark chocolate, lemon drizzle cake and shortbread.

Finish
Blackberries, chocolate and pepper.

SAMAROLI SPEY
BLENDED MALT SCOTCH WHISKY
BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND IN 2023

Our iteration of this year's Speyside. An elegant and sensual colt within our 2023 stables. A princely efflorescent malt carrying our nose to a whole host of places: the scent is Moorish, Latin perhaps, or rather Byzantine… smacking of the stone walls of Otranto, that bridgehead from Italy and what was left of the Western Empire, to the dazzling Constantinople. And immediately our mind is jolted back to the monasteries of Asia

Minor where myth, faith and search for self began in the mists of time.Then a great vegetable garden lush with plants all destined for the kitchen: aubergine, sweet pepper and mint; now lavender, an unknown number of flowers in full summer, powder and peach. All a prelude to an abundant satiating and fulfilling palate. A rich and dense spirit whose specific gravity is noteworthy. Leaving grooves on our tongue which, as second follows second, are filled with piquant and surprising meaning. We remain seated in a corner of the ballroom as we look on at the glitter of the gowns and envisage nights of passion between whiskies. Thoughts and fears entwine and perhaps darken us a little. Salento is a large herbarium made up of villages at the centre. Around them, the sea.

A.W.B

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BLEND COMPOSITION:
1 cask of Linkwood 2012 - Hogshead - Refill Bourbon
1 cask of The Speyside SM 2013 - Barrel - Refill Bourbon
1 cask of The Speyside SM 2014 - Barrel - Refill Bourbon

BOTTLES PRODUCED: 810
ABV: 45%

A delicate, triple distilled malt from Auchentoshan - king of the Lowlands. This one is aged in American ex-bourbon barrels and has all the hallmarks of this ageing technique; grass and citrus, vanilla and lashings of coconut. Add some spice and white peaches at the death and you're there! 

Bottled straight from the cask, without adding water to reduce alcohol content, delivers the extraordinary depth, complexity and balance of flavours that’s now the established hallmark of our Cask Strength series. Release No. 3 is no exception.

This third release has been created using an expertly balanced combination of three cask types – first-fill sherry seasoned American and European oak casks and a smaller quantity of refill casks for balance and depth. Using a higher proportion of Orkney peated malt, our Master Whisky Maker, Gordon Motion, has achieved an intensely smoky character, coming through first on the nose with aromas of smouldering peat and lightly charred oak, balanced by honey-glazed lemons and crushed aniseed.

Discover what best suits your palate by experimenting with the amount of water you add as you release this whisky’s distinctive notes of ripe mango, cloudy heather honey and whipped vanilla cream with a hint of aromatic violet. Pink grapefruit zest, freshly-baked sponge cake and a final gust of heathery peat smoke provide a long and distinctive finish.

64.1% ABV

Time tested tradition, spiced with a dash of innovation, this is the process we followed in making AMRUT INTERMEDIATE SHERRY CASK SINGLE MALT. Newly made spirit, matured in the traditional way in virgin / ex-bourbon casks and is transferred into Spanish ex-oloroso sherry butts wherein it matures for a year more, gaining an added sherry finish. The finishing touch is thus lent by a further period of maturation in ex-bourbon casks. Result: an essay in elegance with subdued sherry notes that bears the tell-tale Amrut Signature of quality and innovation. A worthy successor to the much-acclaimed Amrut Fusion and Amrut Double Cask.

Nose : Instead of the usual biscuit aroma, we now get moist cake. And my word: is it fruity and spicy!! Love the freshly waxed oak floor, too. Brain-explodingly complex and multi-layered with one of the most intriguing sherry-style-bourbon-style marriages on the market;

Taste : Cracking delivery and entirely unique in form. The structure is decidedly oak-based, but acts as no more than a skeleton from which the juicy sultana and spices drape. Salivating, too, as the barley kicks in powerfully. But the liquorice-orangey-honeycomb bourbon theme quietly shapes the flavour profile; the spices pulse and glow;

Finish : Quite a chunk of natural caramel quietens the more exuberant characteristics; long and elegant.

This release is part of Aberfeldy and Craigellachie's Exceptional Cask Series. This series consists of exceedingly rare single cask and double cask bottlings, each of which are hand-selected by Malt Master Stephanie Macleod and released in limited quantities. This double cask bottling was finished in sherry casks and bottled at 52%.

This double-cask bottling from Aberfeldy’s Exceptional Cask Series has a nose full of dark fruits, toffee, figs, Christmas cake, and muted spices. The taste is intense and spicy with clove, cinnamon, and black pepper notes that fade to reveal hints of Christmas cake, toffee, and a slight oakiness. Adding water tamps down the spices while bringing out fruitier notes. The finish is long with a good balance of spices and toffee sweetness.

52% ABV

When you look at the almost transparent color of this Ledaig, you know straight away that the cask will have no influence on its aromatic and taste palette. Both earthy and marine, it is also rustic and at the same time very elegant and easy to access that does not exclude complexity. It expresses in a way that could not be more natural all the paradoxes that make the reputation of this single malt from the Isle of Mull.

54.2% ABV

The marrying of flavour attributes of our special triple distilled single malt (American oak, ex-Bourbon cask matured) with our Port cask matured single malt (French oak) provide a unique twist to Tasmanian whisky styles. Highlighting distinctive signature citrus nuances, akin to the most unique distilleries of Scotland and the lighter fruit sweet notes of European Port casks, it is fair to say that no Australian distillery has a comparative whisky expression. Incredibly smooth yet brooding with deft flavours, this expression has become one of the distillery's most popular palate pleaser. 

48.9% ABV

Our Hellyers Road Distillery 15 Year Old Original Single Malt Whisky was vatted and married the most premium oak casks from our Oak Program and is non-chill filtered. This magnificent 15 year old whisky delivers exquisite flavour nuances, highlighted by our signature vanilla and citrus tones. Entwined by a calming softness - a reflection of time spent in our premium American Oak, this whisky has natural golden tones derived during natural maturation.

46.2% ABV

From the Whisk Cellar

This Glen Elgin Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a classic Speysider with a fuller body than most and an inherently luscious fruit character. This is a rare Sauternes Cask finish, distilled in June 2008 and bottled in August 2021.

Colour: Bright Gold.
Nose: Intensely sweet honey covered yellow stone fruits with bold floral notes.
Palate: The sweetness of the Sauternes wine is carried well on the palate alongside a touch of aniseed, buttery bakes and dark honey.
Finish: Long and lip-smackingly sweet.
Bottles: 298.

From the Whisky Cellar

The heavy new-make style of Aultmore lends itself perfectly to Sherry cask maturation and here is whisky from this very distillery, distilled in October 2011 and bottled in August 2021, that spent its entire maturation in a first-fill Oloroso Sherry Butt made from American (not the typical Spanish) Oak.

Colour: Burnished Copper.

Nose: Creamy mocha, barley sugar, dark fruits and butterscotch.

Palate: Condensed milk, fresh roasted Arabica coffee beans, California raisins and peanut brittle.

Finish: Mouth-filling and sweet with a creaminess that lingers long.

Bottles: 739.

This is the fourth bottling in the Brabazon Bottling Series from Teeling and was distilled in 2007 and aged for 13 years. It spent 2 years in Carcevelos (white port) barrels and was bottled non-chill filtered at 49.5%.