Matured fully in Oloroso Sherry casks for a minimum of 15 years, Cù Bòcan 15 Year Old is a decadent single malt with sun dried fruits and smoky exotic spices. The Oloroso Sherry casks impart flavours of dried fruits, flamed orange peel, cinder toffee, black cherry and cardamom. The peat provides a traditional earthy dryness rather than an obvious smoke, this has helped keep some of the sweeter elements of the sherry casks perfectly balanced.
A botanical single malt with a forest-like depth of taste and aroma, commencing with a bouquet of pine,
juniper and coriander, along with roasted chestnut and an intriguing whisper of smoke.
Upon sipping, flavour explodes in the mouth.Whirls of peppermint. Bursts of eucalyptus. Rustles of bitter orange. All
floating on clouds of vanilla with intriguing hints of black liquorice. It concludes with a slow and luscious finish
featuring lemon, orange and a soft hint of oak.
A Blended Scotch Whisky from Adelphi, perhaps better known as an independent bottler. However, this blend of grain and malt whisky is from its private stock which is kept in a solera system. Though excactly where the whisky hails from is kept rather hush hush, we suspect it contains spirit from all over the shop, from Islay, Speyside and Campbeltown.
The fourth and final in an annual series of limited seasonal bottlings, Lochlea 'Ploughing Edition' represents the season of Winter on the farm, when we start to plough the fields in preparation for sowing the barley seed in Spring.
Production Director John Campbell has chosen a combination of ex-Islay barrels and peated quarter casks for this release, to create a warming, smoky version of our signature Lochlea whisky.
Our tasting notes include boiled sweets, cooked apple and brazil nuts all intertwined with a comforting haze of lingering peat.
The Sommelier Selection takes Teeling’s classic Small Batch blend of malt and grain, and replaces the rum cask finish with high-quality wine casks from around the world. After French and Italian wine barrels, the 5th release will see maturation in red wine barrels from the Portuguese Douro Valley for the first time.
The wine from which was pressed from the harvest of vines that were over 25 years old. These casks enrich the light, fruity-floral whiskey with notes of dark fruits and spices. Bottled at 46%, non-chill filtered.
The second edition of the WOW bottlings consists of Single Pot Still crafted from a recipe of 50%malted barley and 50% un-malted barley,which has been triple distilled in the Teeling Whiskey Distillery in Dublin and then matured in virgin Portuguese oak barrels.Portuguese oak is native to the Iberian Peninsula and has a higher tannin content than other oak variants normally used in the Whiskey industry. When used for maturation it produces a distinct savoury marmalade flavour with warming hints of tobacco and pepper unique to Irish whiskey.This follows on from the first edition of the series which was honoured at the 2022 World Whiskies Awards for its quality,picking up the title of the World’s Best Single Pot Still,building on Teeling Whiskey’s global reputation for producing some of the best whiskies in the world!
Lorna likes her whisky on the sweeter side. Notes of banana bread, grapefruit and peach ice cream
come together in this delicious bottling. A lovely combination of American whisky casks and ex-Pineau
des Charentes casks.
super-heavily peated predecessors. Distilled patiently from the 2015 harvest of 100% Scottish Mainland barley, malted to a stratospheric 137.3PPM and matured in the highest quality American oak casks, this five-year-old spirit is truly remarkable.
Acting as the backbone of the 13th Octomoreseries, the 13.1 offers a necessary comparison from which the other expressions alternate. Always balancing the strength of the Octomore spirit with a graceful, understated maturation in
ex-American oak, this single malt is a testament to the trust our head distiller, Adam Hannett, has in the quality of his ingredients. Without more than patience and an understanding of how the flavours will evolve, this single malt perfectly personifies the courage of Octomore as a concept.
After five aged years in first fill ex-American oak casks, Adam has offered a unique twist in this 13.1, having gathered and recasked the spirit in 2021 into yet more fresh, first fill ex-American oak casks. This final injection of flavour, taken from the interaction between the spirit and the oak offers additional flavours of dark toffee, coconut and vanilla.
Octomore 13.3 demonstrates the phenomenal force of flavour when combining super-heavy peat with the variable harvests gathered from the island of Islay, on one singular farm. Raised by friend and farmer James Brown, just two miles south of the distillery, this crop of Concerto barley was distilled in 2016 from the 2015 growing season, has been
patiently coaxed through our Victorian distillery before being filled into first fill ex-American oak casks and second fill European oak casks.
Working with Islay barley is always a privilege. The ability to present it in a single estate, single vintage, single malt is perhaps even more poetic. From year to year, Head Distiller Adam Hannett works with the base spirit bestowed upon him by the grower, together with natural factors; the changing climate and weather system, agronomic yield decided by marauding deer and hungry geese, and the terroir of the field itself.
This particular Octomore Islay barley has been matured in a foundational parcel of first fill ex-American whiskey barrels and a supplementary selection of second fill European oak casks, hailing from the Rivesaltes region of France and the Ribera del Duero region of Spain. This European oak gives more subtle structure to the spirit, while the
American oak allows the spirit to take centre stage. Expect vanilla and brown sugar, counterbalanced
with fresh and round green fruit notes. The smoke is, as ever, gentle and dry, building to a long
finish with hints of creosote and sea spray.
The first release in our new Sinclair Series, this non aged statement Ledaig Rioja Finish is ruby red in colour and perfectly balances peat smoke with sweet, fruity Rioja. Like all our single malts, this is non-chill filtered and natural colour.
The Benromach Vintage 2012 Cask Strength Batch 3 is a 10 year old Speyside single malt from the Benromach distillery and the third release in this 2012 Vintage Cask Strength series. This Benromach was distilled in 2012 and matured in a combination of bourbon and first fill sherry casks. These have been married and bottled in 2022 at cask strength of 59.6% ABV, non chill filtered and with no added colour.
A 2010 Tomatin single malt from independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail that was bottled in 2022 as part of its Discovery series. Aromas of lemon zest, tropical fruit and honeydew melon fill the nose, complemented by notes of dried pineapple, green apple, brown sugar, charred oak and malted biscuits throughout the palate
A 2000 Ardmore single malt from independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail that was matured in refill sherry hogsheads until it was bottled in 2021 as part of its Distillery Labels collection. Aromas of blood orange, candied apple, vanilla, smoke, grapefruit and lemon peel fill the nose, complemented by notes of bonfire embers, baked apple, orange zest, black pepper, milk chocolate, aniseed and soft smoke throughout the palate.
A distinctive and unusual single malt, it's created by maturing our single malt whisky in both ex-bourbon and virgin oak casks (53% column distillate and 47% pot). Very different from anything we’ve released before, the virgin oak brings fruity and spicy notes, whilst the ex-bourbon casks balance this with vanilla and toffee flavours.
We're excited to announce our unmissable Whisky Fair will be taking place on Thursday the 16th of March. Come and experience some of the best Whiskies from around the world and discover some of our favourites. There will be 60 whiskies from over 15 distilleries, with tickets at only £25 per person.
March 16th 2023 The Pitt Building, Trumpington St, Cambridge. CB2 1RP 5.00pm - 9.00pm
£25 per person
The release echoes the flavours of springtime by using our excellent first-fill Makers Mark ex-bourbon casks, specially selected by our production director, John Campbell. The spirit has been maturing longer for this crop of Sowing Edition, and we have selected casks from the top of the warehouse to maximise flavour. Our Sowing Edition First Crop was tremendously well received, and we are confident customers will enjoy the progress we’ve made for this year’s release.
Lighty peated single malt whisky from a small batch vatting of american and French oak casks, predominantly STR with a significant element of ex-bourbon, chosen to promote the house style of fruit forward new make.
A 2008 Glentauchers bottled in 2022 by Gordon & MacPhail for their splendid Distillery Labels series of licensed semi-official bottlings. This is the first 2008 vintage Glentauchers from G&M - and also the first G&M Glentauchers Distillery Labels bottling at the new higher strength of 46%.
The oft-overlooked Glentauchers made its debut for Gordon & MacPhail with a 1979 vintage in the same series (then known as the Licensed Bottlings) over thirty years ago in 1991 and has appeared dozens of times since. These Licensed bottlings were originally bottled at 40% until 2006-07, when the strength was upped to 43%. The younger vintage and age statement releases in the Licensed Bottlings range were officially renamed Distillery Labels around 2012.
