Scotland

For Balvenie Caribbean Cask, Malt Master David Stewart filled American oak casks with special rum. When the casks were full of rum aromas, he replaced the contents with 14-year-old Balvenie. Scottish whisky thus meets Caribbean joie de vivre. Rich and sweet with a fruity character.

The name Glenlivet 'Code' already says everything about the bottle. As mysterious as the bottle looks, so are its contents. The Glenlivet Code was brought to market without any indication of the cask and the flavour profile. The Glenlivet distillery wanted to take you on a voyage of discovery and test your personal knowledge of Single Malt whiskies. Inspired by the famous British 'code breakers', this limited edition is a labyrinth of flavours that will test the senses of the most discerning whisky drinkers. Meanwhile, the exact tasting notes of the Glenlivet Code have been revealed.

The Aberlour Double Cask is matured partly in American oak casks and partly in Spanish sherry casks. After maturation, the malts were married together. This gives this Aberlour its distinctive fruitiness.

Springbank Local Barley is part of the distillery's Local series, for which only barley from local farmers is used. This 13-year-old single malt whisky is made from Belgravia barley from Glencraigs Farm near the distillery and is produced without the addition of colouring or chill-filtering. The limited edition matures with 40% in sherry casks and 60% in bourbon casks in a slightly different cask composition than its predecessor. The Springbank whisky is bottled on the distillery premises at 54.1% vol. in the characteristic bottles.

Please note: The Springbank outer packaging is made of very thin cardboard. We only dispatch goods in perfect condition, but unfortunately we cannot guarantee that the Springbank cardboard will not be damaged in the post.

This 8-year-old Caol Ila belongs to the benchmark series of the independent bottler Murray McDavid, who is based in Speyside at the Coleburn distillery. In his various series, he bottles a wide variety of Single Malts, Grains and Blends. In this series, whiskies are post-matured in selected casks. This Single Malt, for example, was first matured in Bourbon Hogshead and then refined in First Fill Pauillac (Latour) Wine Casks. The design of the bottle features a thicker glass base and a high-quality wooden handle cork. The noble packaging and label of this bottling shines in a fresh colour scheme of silver and green tones.

The Johnnie Walker Blue Label Umami flirts with the enigmatic umami character usually associated with culinary delicacies from first-class restaurants. The umami character is often described as the 'fifth Taste'.

Master Blender Emma Walker was supported for this special bottling by 3-star chef Kei Kobayashi, who usually combines Japanese culinary art with French culinary art in his dishes and restaurants. Together, they brought together rare and hand-picked whiskies from inland and coastal regions of Scotland until the sweet and sour, complex and deep umami character with its meaty facets of this Johnnie Walker blended whisky was achieved.

This 26-year-old Strathisla belongs to Gordon & MacPhail's Connoisseurs Choice series and was matured in a single refill American Hogshead. It was bottled exclusively for a German importer. The independent bottler is probably the one with the largest cask inventory. Already decades ago, the Urquhart family cultivated the important contacts to the distilleries, and now the range is correspondingly wide. In the meantime, their malts from the 'Distillery Labels' series are often considered original bottlings, as many of the distilleries included do not bottle themselves. The 1786 Strathisla Distillery is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland and takes its name from the river of the same name that flows near the distillery site.

Under this label, the independent bottler G&M has been bottling this Single Malt for the distillery for decades.

Among collectors, it is considered an original because of the authentic label.

This 13-year-old Auchroisk belongs to Gordon & MacPhail's Connoisseurs Choice series, which has been bottled by the independent bottler since the 1960s. In 2018, the complete range was restructured. Each Single Malt is created as a single cask or from a small number of casks. Detailed information about the vintage and cask type can be found on the bottle label. The Auchroisk was matured in refilled Bourbon Hogsheads.

With the Ardbeg Blasda, the limited edition of a slightly smoky malt (8ppm smoke) was released in 2008. Blasda in Gaelic stands for sweet and delicious. With little smoke, the more subtle flavours of Ardbeg come to the fore.

Ardbeg Traigh Bhan (pronounced Träi Wan) is the name of a well-known beach on the island of Islay. The locals also call it 'The Singing Sand' because the sand seems to sing under your feet when you walk on it. The 2nd batch of the bottling matured for 19 years in American oak casks and Oloroso sherry casks.