Avonside (Glenlivet) 1938 / 39 Year Old / Sherry Cask / Gordon & MacPhail Speyside Whisky
75cl / 43% / Gordon & MacPhail – An late 1970s bottling of Gordon & Macphail’s Avonside Glenlivet Highland single malt, matured in sherry casks for 39 years.
75cl / 43% / Gordon & MacPhail – An late 1970s bottling of Gordon & Macphail’s Avonside Glenlivet Highland single malt, matured in sherry casks for 39 years.
70cl / 46% / Distillery Bottling – A limited release from Glencadam distillery, nestled in the town of Brechin on the east coast of the Scottish Highlands. Commonly aged in ex-bourbon casks, this 15-year-old expression was finished in oloroso sherry casks, bringing a sweet dried-fruit note to the distillery’s light, creamy and fruity style.
70cl / 42% / Distillery Bottling – A legendary limited-edition Bowmore single malt, distilled in 1965 and matured in a single oloroso sherry cask for more than half a century, before being bottled at cask strength. Fragrant fruits, bees wax and dark chocolate fill the nose, alongside aromas of jasmine, raisins and apricots.
70cl / 49.4% / Gordon & MacPhail – Part of Goldon & MacPhail’s Private Collection Ultra series this 1956 Linkwood has been matured in a single first fill sherry hogshead for six decades, before being bottled in June 2016. Rich, sweet aromas of baked apple, raisins, sultanas, crème anglaise and toffee sauce over fruitcake fill…
70cl / 43.4% / Distillery Bottling – Distilled six decades ago, in 1962, this is a little piece of history from the acclaimed family-owned distillery.
70cl / 58.4% / Distillery Bottling – A superlative example of Blair Athol, one of the Highlands’ most underappreciated distilleries. Characterised by Blair Athol’s signature nutty, spicy character, this cask-strength single malt is full of candied peel, baked apples, chocolate and fruit-cake flavours.
70cl / 53.8% / Adelphi – A legendary Springbank bottling: distilled in 1965 and bottled in 1993 by veteran independent Adelphi. It’s one of their early bottlings – they’d only started that year – and is very much a dram of the times: the times when you could still find 1965 Springbank. A must-try for…
70cl / 47.2% / Distillery Bottling – An ex-oloroso sherry cask of Ardbeg from 1975, this rare Ardbeg was bottled for the Feis Ile in 2005.
70cl / 48.6% / Distillery Bottling – The oldest ever release in Glendronach’s single casks series, this 1971 vintage was matured in a single Pedro Ximenez puncheon for 43 years, yielding 523 bottles in November 2014.
70cl / 46.3% / Distillery Bottling – A 1954 vintage Glenfarclas, released as part of their single cask The Family Casks series. This edition comes with the new style wooden box packaging.
70cl / 40% / Hart Brothers – A very old 1957 vintage Bowmore which has been matured for 31 years in sherry casks. Specially selected by Hart Brothers and bottled in 1988 (the same year that the company was established).
70cl / 50% / Douglas Laing – A 1971 vintage Brora bottled by Douglas Laing as part of their Old Malt Cask series. Brora was sadly closed in 1983 and bottlings from the distillery are now highly sought after. This was awarded an average of 92 points by 7 of the Malt Maniacs.