Arran The Eagle and Devil’s Punchbowl

February 2nd, 2012

Due March:

The Arran Malt ‘Icons of Arran’ #4 The Eagle 

The fourth and final instalment of the Icons of Arran brings this series to a stylish close. The Eagle, perhaps the defining symbol of the Isle of Arran Distillery, is bottled from a selection of casks from our 1999 vintage and bottled at 46%. This limited release of 6,000 bottles will be bottled at 46% without chill-filtering.

Due May:

The Arran Malt – Devil’s Punchbowl 

This Limited Edition release will highlight the cask selection skills of our Master Distiller and Blender James MacTaggart. Created from a vatting of our oldest and finest casks, the Devil’s Punchbowl will be bottled at Cask Strength and limited to approximately 6,000 bottles worldwide. With stunning packaging combined with superior whisky, we anticipate The Devil’s Punchbowl forming the first chapter of a new and highly sought after collection.

Highland Park Thor

January 26th, 2012

Highland Park have announced the first of their new Valhalla series – Thor – a 16yo bottled at 52.1% in a fancy wooden case.

This is the first in a series of 4 bottlings over the next 3 years with the number  released being lower for each bottling.

New Bowmore & Auchentoshan

May 16th, 2011

Coming soon:

Bowmore Vintage 1982 RRP £300

Auchentoshan Valinch RRP £40

Auchentoshan 1975 RRP £350

Glen Garioch 1994 RRP £60

Arran Releases 2011

April 13th, 2011

Arran have announced their forthcoming releases:

Premium Single Cask Range

Sleeping Warrior – Vintage 2000 Cask Strength in association with The National Trust for Scotland

Machrie Moor II

12 Year Old Cask Strength Batch #1

Bruichladdich Releases 2011

April 13th, 2011

Bruichladdich have announced some details of their forthcoming releases:

10yo

Micro Provenance

Islay Barley 2004 – A series of limited edition vintage releases – single batch, single farm, single vintage, single barley, single malt etc, due September.

40yo Bourbon Cask – limited to about 75 bottles

Port Charlotte PC9 – limited to about 6000 bottles

Octomore 4_167 – 18000 bottles due soon

Octomore 4.2 – 18000 bottles

Mackinlay’s Shackleton Blend

March 22nd, 2011

• Special commemorative bottling of a truly unique blended whisky liquid.

• Faithful reproduction of the actual Mackinlay’s whisky taken on the ill-fated Shackleton Antarctic expedition to the South pole in 1907.

• Presented in a replica bottle and wooden case – just as Shackleton left it

 Full details here…

Arran Westie

March 22nd, 2011

Third in the Icons of Arran series: The Westie

Full info here…

Kilchoman Spring 2011 Release

March 16th, 2011

Due end of March:

The ‘Spring 2011 Release’ of Kilchoman will be released 28th March.
This bottling is a vatting of 70% 3 year old in first fill bourbon barrels and 30% 4 year old in first fill bourbon barrels.
The 4 year old has been finished in oloroso sherry butts for five weeks.

Other Releases in 2011

100% Islay – from barley grown, malted, distilled, matured and bottled at the distillery.
A limited release will be available in June at 50%alc/vol

Sherry Cask Matured – 4.5 years old with full maturation in oloroso sherry butts.
A limited release will be available in September.

5 years old – matured in first and refill bourbon barrels.
A limited release will be available in November.

G&M Private Collection: “Glenlivet Decades”

March 15th, 2011

Companions to the Gordon & Macphail 1940 Glenlivet 70 years old.

Full info here…

Glenlivet 1940 70yo

March 10th, 2011

The second bottling in G&M’s Generations range is a Glenlivet distilled in February 1940 and matured for 70 years in a first fill Sherry butt.

Expected to be available late March 2011 with a RRP £13000 for the 70cl and £3200 for the 20cl version. 

When we list it we will have Richard’s tasting notes from the launch.

More info here…