Speyside

The Speyburn distillery revised its range in 2018. This 10-year-old is a combination of American bourbon casks and Spanish sherry casks.

The Tomintoul distillery is located in the famous Livet river valley. Tomintoul has special energy-saving heat exchangers. After cooling the alcohol vapours, the captured heat is returned to the mash.

The 21-year-old Glenlivet is a triple-finished Single Malt that was refined in first fill Oloroso sherry casks, Troncais oak cognac casks and vintage Colheita port wine casks. It is said to taste particularly good with Brie, green olives or roasted almonds. The whisky belongs to the Sample Room Collection of the Speyside distillery and, like its 25-year-old brother, shines in a new design.

Tamdhu is owned by independent bottler Ian Macleod. This 15-year-old Single Malt matured entirely in Spanish oloroso sherry casks. The elegant glass bottle is reminiscent of the Victorian era.

The 15-year-old Benromach matured in Bourbon and Sherry casks, which gave it a great colour. Despite a newly designed label with the usual contents.

The 16-year-old Dailuaine was bottled by Diageo. Under the Flora & Fauna Series, the owner bottles selected casks from several distilleries, each individually as a Single Malt. The Flora & Fauna series is a true enrichment of the whisky scene and is considered by collectors as an original bottling, if there are no other original bottlings.

Knockando Master Reserve is the oldest regularly available vintage bottling of the Speyside distillery. Special casks with smaller runs are used for this. The 21 years of maturation result in an exceptionally deep and smooth Single Malt.

Glenfiddich Our Small Batch Eighteen first matured for 18 years in sherry and bourbon casks. Master Distiller Brian Kinsman then selected 150 casks. Divided into small batches, the malt matured for a further 3 months in wooden blending vessels for blending. The bottles are also triangular (triangular) in shape, because Single Malt is made from three core ingredients (water, yeast and grain) and because the bottles feel like you are shaking hands with a good friend.

The Aberlour Forest Reserve is matured for at least 10 years in Bourbon and Sherry casks before it receives its finish in French oak casks. This gives it a soft and spicy character as well as a long, warming finish.

The Mortlach Distiller's Dram was matured 100% in sherry casks! There was already a 16-year-old bottling in 1992, now it has been reissued.

The Mortlach distillery is known for its special distillation process, which was developed by Alexander Cowie at the end of the 19th century. The spirit is passed through 6 differently shaped stills, separated several times by pipe bends and distilled 2.81 times. This makes the Taste of the 'Beast of Dufftown' particularly strong and muscular. In 2018, Diageo repositioned the brand and the new bottlings are significantly cheaper.

Glenlivet First Fill American Oak matured for 13 years in American white oak casks, which shaped its sweet character.

The Glenlivet was the first distillery in Speyside to be granted a licence to distil. The distillery has been producing since 1824 and is now one of the largest producers of malt whisky.

This 14-year-old Balvenie Week of Peat is part of the new series 'Balvenie Stories'. It replaces the old Peat Week bottling. The distillate remains the same, but the whisky gains in story. The story of this whisky is about Ian Millar, the distillery manager of the distillery, who took a trip to the island of Islay and then wanted to experiment with what he had learned there. And so, at Balvenie, smoky distillate was distilled for just one week. The Highlands peat used has a higher proportion of non-phenolic content. As a result, an earthy-smoky character develops without the salty-maritime aromas found in Islay whiskies, for example.