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Aberlour A’bunadh

A’bunadh (a-boon-akh) means “ori­gin” in gaelic. The whisky is cre­ated the same way as in the 18th cen­tury with selected Oloroso sherry casks. The are non-chill fil­tered and there is not adjust­ment with water so every batch have dif­fer­ent volume…

Arran Fino Sherry Wine Finish 8yo

This is a spe­cial edi­tion Arran, fin­ished in a Fino sherry cask (from the splen­did Valde­spino pro­ducer) for nine months in tra­di­tional casks sourced directly from Jerez after an ini­tial 8 years ageing

The Fino Sherry pre­vi­ously stored in these…

Bushmills Black Bush

A rich, dark, blend from the world’s old­est licensed dis­tillery, Black Bush is com­prised almost entirely of Sin­gle Malt whiskey, dis­tilled three times in Cop­per pot­stills and aged in Oloroso sherry casks for around 8–10 years before mar­riage with the grain.…

Clear Creek Distillery

Steve McCarthy started Clear Creek Dis­tillery about twenty-four years ago because he wanted to find the best use for the fruit from the McCarthy family’s orchard. Dur­ing his trav­els in Europe he became acquainted with a num­ber of tra­di­tional European…

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.…

Kilchoman Distillery

The Kil­choman Dis­tillery is a dis­tillery that pro­duces sin­gle malt Scotch whisky on Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The dis­tillery is sit­u­ated on the west­ern side of Islay, near the small town of Kil­choman. The loca­tion makes the…

Lagavulin 16 Years

Lagavulin takes its water from the Solum Lochs, con­tribut­ing some of the whisky’s peati­ness. Malt peated with 35ppm of phe­no­lic flavour com­pounds passes this flavour into the spirit. The malt is ground, washed sev­eral times with hot water which is…

Lagavulin Distillery

Lagavulin Dis­tillery is located on the island of Islay. It has a pow­er­ful, peat-smoke aroma. Described as being robustly full bod­ied, well-balanced and smooth with a slight sweet­ness on the palate.

The stan­dard Lagavulin sin­gle malt is 16 years old…

Macallan 12 YO

One of the most sell­ing and pop­u­lar bot­tle for Macallan. The whisky is blended from more than 50 dif­fer­ent Macallan casks, most are Span­ish sherry casks fist fills. Some of the casks are older than 12 years.

Springbank Distillery

Spring­bank is one of only two dis­til­leries in Scot­land to per­form every step in the whisky mak­ing process, from malt­ing the bar­ley to bot­tling the spirit, on same premises: the other is Kil­choman Dis­tillery who also grow their own barley.…