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Macallan 25 year Sherry Oak Single Malt

Posted by 80proof On July - 10 - 2009

mac25Available in limited quantities, the full-flavored 25 Year Old Macallan is the essence of everything that is The Macallan - a beautiful color, a heady nose, an exquisitely mellow flavor. The rare product drinks like a fine brandy.

The Macallan was one of the first Highland distilleries to take out a licence in 1824, and since then it has been distilled by generations of craftsman on a small estate over looking the River near Craigellachie.

The key to understanding The Macallan lies in the Company’s total dedication to quality and attention to detail. A purposefully tradtionalist distillery, no short cuts are taken in time, investment and production of “the best glass.” Alongside its unusally small handbeaten copper stills, The Macallan is perhaps best known for its insistence on sherry aging. The Macallan malt whisky is matured excluvisely in sherry oak casks from the bodegas of Jerez, Spain.



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Macallan Fine Oak 21 year

Posted by 80proof On May - 5 - 2009

macallan211The Macallan Fine Oak Single Speyside Malt Scotch Whiskey is triple cask matured in a unique, complex combination of exceptional oak casks:
1. European oak casks seasoned with sherry impart a rich character with hints of dried fruits, spice and chocolate orange.
2. American oak casks seasoned with sherry deliver delicate hints of citrus lemon, coconut and toffee sweetness.
3. American oak casks seasoned with bourbon deliver floral aromas and sweet notes of vanilla and fresh fruits.

This triple cask combination delivers an extraordinarily smooth, delicate yet complex Single Malt matured at The Macallan distillery for a minimum of 21 years.

Colour: Light Amber.

Nose: Intense rich aroma, with hints of vanilla and passion fruit.

Palate: Soft, rich and spicy with hints of oranges and peat. <,br/>
Finish: Lingering with hints of wood smoke.

Rich honey, amber tone. The early bouquet is round, biscuity, and a touch spicy, the whisky finishes sweet.

Rated: 5 stars highest recommendation - Spirits Journal

Double Gold Medal - 2008 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

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Tormore Single Speyside Malt

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

tormoreThe Tormore Distillery produces a perfect malt for the contemporary taste. The spirit quality is enhanced by the copper purifiers on all eight stills, giving a subtle smoothness and balance to the whisky.

A deliciously smooth malt of character and complexity, Tormore Distillery is the Pearl of Speyside. The name reflects its brilliant appearance and honours the freshwater pearl mussels flourishing in the pur clean waters of The River Spey.

Tasting Notes:

Colour: Autumn Gold.

Nose: Citrus notes, toasted almonds, spicy cinnamon and cloves

Body: Medium Weight

Palate: Dry, spicy with a zesty citrus tang

Finish: Nicely rounded, complex, dry, long-lasting


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Tomatin 25 year old

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

tomatin251The 25 year old Tomatin is a rich, full whisky with a predominantly malty fragrance. On the palate, the spirit is quite dry, with an aromatic aftertaste - which leads one to naturally address it again.

Given that this beat Glenlivet 25 Year Old in a blind tasting for Fine Expressions magazine, you can be confident that this is one of bargains of the aged malt category. No fancy wooden box, but half the price of most official bottlings.

Nose: A wonderous combination of ripe pears and orange zest over the resins of pine or cedar.

Taste: It is honey-sweet for an instant; thereafter, dry, nutty and savoury, through the sweetness hovers on the edges of one’s consciousness well into the long dry aftertaste.

San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2008 – Silver Medal

International Wine & Spirits Comp 2007 – Silver Medal

International Review of Spirits 2006 – The Beverage Institute – 93 points, “exceptional quality”

International Wine & Spirits Competition 2006 – Silver Medal


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Talisker Single Malt 10 year

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

taliskerA wonderful award-winning Island malt bottled at above average strength with a comforting smooth afterglow. A rich dried-fruit sweetness with clouds of smoke and strong barley-malt flavours, warming and intense. At the back of the mouth is an explosion of pepper. Huge, long, peppery finish with an appetising sweetness.

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Macallan Scotch 18 year

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

macallan18Macallan 18 year Scotch. Burnished gold in color, with aromas of oak and sherry; the body is huge and silken with a very complex body with hints of leather, licorice, and tobacco.

Rated: 95 Wine Enthusiast.

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Macallan Cask Strength

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

macallan12Macallan Cask Strength is bottled straight from the wood as nature intended, some might say. Malt whisky is typically “reduced” (or diluted) when bottled, to achieve a standard level of 43 percent alcohol by volume.

A team of “nosers” take special care to select a combination of first- and second-fill sherry casks, thus striking a sense of balance amid the tremendous strength and complexity. More emphasis is placed on aromatics than age in the selection of lots, which are bottled without filtration or dilution to allow the fullest, most natural expression of malt whisky. Amid its sheer power (nearly 60 percent alcohol by volume), The Macallan Cask Strength displays classic clove-like spice and dried fruits.

Introduced to the U.S. in 2002 with a striking red label, The Macallan Cask Strength exhibits a contemporary feel in tune with the trendiness of the cask-strength malts.

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Laphroaig Scotch 10 Year

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

laphroaig10Laphroaig 10 Year Old is an all-malt Scotch Whisky from the remote island of Islay in the Western Isles of Scotland. Laphroaig, pronounced “La-froyg”, is a Gaelic word meaning “the beautiful hollow by the broad bay”. In making Laphroaig, malted barley is dried over a peat fire. The smoke from this peat, found only on Islay, gives Laphroaig its particularly rich flavour. Laphroaig is best savoured neat, or with a little cool water. Roll it around on your tongue. Release the pungent, earthy aroma of blue peat smoke, the sweet nuttiness of the barley, the delicate heathery perfume of Islay’s streams. It is as unique as the island itself.

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Lagavulin Single Malt 16year

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

lagavulinLagavulin Single Malt 16 Year is a much sought-after single malt with the massive peat-smoke that’s typical of southern Islay - but also offering a dryness that turns it into a truly interesting dram. Dry peat smoke fills the palate with a gentle but strong sweetness, followed by sea and salt with touches of wood. A long, elegant peat-filled finish with lots of salt and seaweed

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Johnnie Walker Gold

Posted by 80proof On March - 25 - 2009

johnnie-walker-goldlabel-lgJohnnie Walker Gold Label — a rare blend of over 15 single malts, including the very rare Clynelish malt. It was derived from Alexander II’s blending notes for a whisky to commemorate Johnnie Walker’s centenary. His original efforts were thwarted by a shortage of these malts following World War I.


Originally known as Walker’s Kilmarnock Whisky, the brand is a legacy left by John ‘Johnnie’ Walker after he started to sell whisky in his grocer’s shop in Ayrshire, Scotland. The brand became popular, but after Walker’s death in 1857 it was his son Alexander Walker and grandson Alexander Walker II who were largely responsible for establishing the whiskey as a popular brand.


Prior to 1860 it was illegal to sell blended (malt and grain mixed together) whiskey. In 1865 John’s son Alexander produced their first blend, Walker’s Old Highland.

Alexander Walker first introduced the iconic square bottle in 1870. The other identifying characteristic of the bottle is the label, which is applied at an angle of 24 degrees.


Johnnie Walker continues to be blended in Kilmarnock, with a large plant just north of the town’s railway station. The historic bonded warehouses and company offices (now local authority) can still be seen in Strand Street and John Finnie Street.

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