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Auchentoshan 12 Years

Replac­ing the now extinct 10 year old is this sump­tiously pack­aged 12 year old ver­sion of the triple-distilled Low­land. Hap­pily they’ve improved on the 10, being richer, spicier and with more sherry influence.

Bunnahabhain 12 Years

A very lightly-peated malt that serves as per­haps the mildest intro­duc­tion to the Islay style. Flo­ral and fruity tones dom­i­nate with the peat influ­ence in the back­ground. The main base for the splen­did ‘Black Bot­tle’ blend. Gen­tle and smooth with…

Glenkinchie Distillery

Glenk­inchie Dis­tillery is located near Edin­burgh. It is one of only three remain­ing Low­land malt whiskies in production.

His­tory

Glenk­inchie lies, as the name might sug­gest, in a glen of the Kinchie Burn near the vil­lage of Pen­cait­land, East Lothian.…

Knappogue Castle 1995

The lat­est vin­tage in this award-winning series of Irish sin­gle malts was dis­tilled by Bush­mils in 1995 and bot­tled in 2007, the old­est release to date. The Whiskey has a pale golden color, a lin­ger­ing silk­i­ness on the palate.

Irish…

Laphroaig 10 Years

Laphroaig, pro­nounced “La-froyg”, is an all-malt scotch whisky from the remote island of Islay. Laphroaig is a gaelic word, and means “the beau­ti­ful hol­low by the broad bay”.

Described as “a won­der­fully com­plex whisky” by Michael Jack­son, cask strength Laphroaig has…

Nikka Yoichi 10 YO

The Yoichi 10yo is a real gem for all the peo­ple who love east­ern whisky. In the Sin­gle Malt World Cup 2005 this whisky was selected the best with con­testers from Scot­land, Ire­land, and Japan.

Redbreast 12 Year old

Beau­ti­fully bal­anced pure pot still Irish Whiskey. In the view of many con­nois­seurs, the finest Irish whiskey avail­able. “…an aston­ish­ing expe­ri­ence” 9/10 Jim Mur­ray in Whisky Magazine.

Nose: Clean, fresh. Hint of lin­seed. Nuts. Cake.
Palate: By far the

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Talisker 175th Anniversary

To com­mem­o­rate Talisker distillery’s 175th anniver­sary in 2005 a spe­cial, lim­ited edi­tion expres­sion of the Skye sin­gle malt was issued by Dia­geo. Talisker 175 car­ries no age state­ment and con­sists of a release of 60,000 bot­tles world­wide. It is largely…