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This is a perfect introduction to single malt for those keen to explore the world of whisky. Lighter and more subtle than much Scotch, this Speyside offers a nose filled with vanilla, homemade shortbread and a hint of orange peel. After 10 years in Sherry casks, the delicate palate is ever so slightly sweet with refreshing lemon peel leading on to a lingering sweet and zesty finish.
This 12-year-old Scotch is billed as the classic “house” Glenrothes style, aged only in Sherry casks. Light aromas of banana and vanilla tempt you in, while this excellent benchmark Speyside offers a palate full of more banana, lemon and fresh, juicy melon alongside a hint of sweet cinnamon. The finish is long, soft, sweet and lightly spiced.
A signature southern-Islay single malt with the typical massive peat-smoke - but also offering a dryness that turns it into a truly interesting dram. The nose open up with peat smoke with iodine and seaweed and a rich, deep oak sweetness. Dry peat smoke fills the palate with a gentle but strong sweetness, followed by sea and salt notes with touches of wood.
Great King Street is the brand new mission from Compass Box; a mission to get people to rediscover the joys of Blended Scotch. Bottled at 43%, Great King Street offers a style and approach to Blended Scotch that has not existed before: using a high proportion of malt whisky (about 50%), truly excellent quality grain whiskies, and the careful use of new French Oak aging for added complexity. All bottled at natural colour and without chill-filtering. The style is rich, round and fruity with hints of toasty oak, vanilla and spice. The name and label are inspired by Compass Box's registered office address - 24 Great King Street, in Edinburgh.
Historically almost all Scotch bore a distinctive smoky note, as peat was the most readily available fuel: today, however, it is much less common. Our Classic Peated Cask is a tribute to the traditional, peated dram -with expressive bursts of soot and smoke complemented by the spirit’s fruitiness.
Appearance: Light.
Bouquet: Well balanced, with Peat aromas giving the edge. Fruity undertones deliver a rich complexity.
Palate: A fruity sweetness introduces the soft peaty character. Well balanced to perfection.
Finish: Mid-long, deliciously Peated.
Appearance: Light.
Bouquet: Well balanced, with Peat aromas giving the edge. Fruity undertones deliver a rich complexity.
Palate: A fruity sweetness introduces the soft peaty character. Well balanced to perfection.
Finish: Mid-long, deliciously Peated.
The Hebridean island of Islay is renowned for the distinctive peaty style and smoky flavours of its whiskies. Our Classic Islay Malt is carefully selected blend of casks from some of the island's iconic distilleries, creating a balanced, complex and distinguished smoky dram.
Appearance: Light
Bouquet: Beautifully integrated, the tar aromas and orchard fruit compliment each other. The characteristic Islay peat note has the upper hand. Palate: Full, approachable, creamy texture with some sweetness, and the quick reminder of its smoky heritage.
Finish: Long lingering peat smoke.
Appearance: Light
Bouquet: Beautifully integrated, the tar aromas and orchard fruit compliment each other. The characteristic Islay peat note has the upper hand. Palate: Full, approachable, creamy texture with some sweetness, and the quick reminder of its smoky heritage.
Finish: Long lingering peat smoke.
Sherry casks are considered a luxury in Whisky making. These expensive barrels imbue a spirit with distinctive notes of deep fruit, citrus and nuts. Our Classic Sherry Cask Malt is blended from the best Sherry butts to deliver a balanced expression of this uniquely engaging style.
Appearance: Enticingly dark
Bouquet: Sherry prominence with secondary resinous and prune like notes. Invitingly seductive.
Palate: Well balanced fruit on a Sherry bed. Wonderfully satisfying and fulfilling.
Finish: Long, lingering Sherry delight
Appearance: Enticingly dark
Bouquet: Sherry prominence with secondary resinous and prune like notes. Invitingly seductive.
Palate: Well balanced fruit on a Sherry bed. Wonderfully satisfying and fulfilling.
Finish: Long, lingering Sherry delight
Many of Scotland’s most famous malts hail from Speyside, known for their approachable, fruity style and floral complexity. Our Classic Speyside Malt captures the very essence of the region, balancing subtle, honeyed fruit aromas with easy-going yet complex aromas.
Appearance: Golden Syrup
Bouquet: Honeyed fruit, citrus and soft wood
Palate: Creamy citrus, honey, rounded
Finish: Soft fruits, mid-long
Appearance: Golden Syrup
Bouquet: Honeyed fruit, citrus and soft wood
Palate: Creamy citrus, honey, rounded
Finish: Soft fruits, mid-long
AnCnoc 12 Years Old is light, yet complex, it’s smooth yet challenging, each twist and turn delivers a surprise. For malt drinkers and new to malt alike, this is a dram that has something for everyone. The nose delivers soft very aromatic notes with a hint of honey and lemon in the foreground. The palate is sweet to start with an appetising fruitiness and a long smooth finish. A malt for every occasion.
Vintage Reserve is the expression that best epitomises The Glenrothes Vintage Single Malt philosophy. It contains 10 different Vintages from the following years: 1989, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 married together in wood.
The variety of Vintages and cask types gives it a balance of mature experience and vibrant youth. For example:
- Vintage 1989 is the oldest bringing mellow oak and dried fruits.
- Vintage 1998 , makes up over 25%, adds soft, mature, sweet vanilla notes.
- Vintage 2007 is the most youthful adding the uplifting lemon citrus notes.
Like all our Reserves Gordon Motion hand selects from just 3% of our very finest casks. The process is complex yet rewarding. Only bottling whisky that is mature and ready, whatever its age ,to suit the taste profile.
Appearance: Brassy gold
Bouquet: Unusually fragrant, soft in style, wafts of mature citrus and honeycomb accompanied with characteristic red fruits.
Palate: Very soft silky/creamy mouth-feel. Red berry fruits swirl and dominate with time over the nebulous nuttiness.
Finish: Mid to long citrus and honeyed vanilla and the faint reminder of 1st fill sherry casks
Ronnie Cox, The Glenrothes Brand Heritage Director, describes the Vintage Reserve as:
Unlike other malts that bottle by age, we choose whiskies that represent the best of a particular year and marry them together when they are ready. With 10 Vintages, the Vintage Reserve is an extraordinary feat: our most complex Reserve.
Vintage Reserve has been awarded Double Gold at the China Wine & Spirits Awards (CWSA) “Best Value” 2015. The CWSA is the biggest and most prestigious Wine & Spirit competition in Hong Kong and China holding two major competitions every year.
Please note – The ‘Small’ sized bottles contain 10cl of liquid.
The variety of Vintages and cask types gives it a balance of mature experience and vibrant youth. For example:
- Vintage 1989 is the oldest bringing mellow oak and dried fruits.
- Vintage 1998 , makes up over 25%, adds soft, mature, sweet vanilla notes.
- Vintage 2007 is the most youthful adding the uplifting lemon citrus notes.
Like all our Reserves Gordon Motion hand selects from just 3% of our very finest casks. The process is complex yet rewarding. Only bottling whisky that is mature and ready, whatever its age ,to suit the taste profile.
Appearance: Brassy gold
Bouquet: Unusually fragrant, soft in style, wafts of mature citrus and honeycomb accompanied with characteristic red fruits.
Palate: Very soft silky/creamy mouth-feel. Red berry fruits swirl and dominate with time over the nebulous nuttiness.
Finish: Mid to long citrus and honeyed vanilla and the faint reminder of 1st fill sherry casks
Ronnie Cox, The Glenrothes Brand Heritage Director, describes the Vintage Reserve as:
Unlike other malts that bottle by age, we choose whiskies that represent the best of a particular year and marry them together when they are ready. With 10 Vintages, the Vintage Reserve is an extraordinary feat: our most complex Reserve.
Vintage Reserve has been awarded Double Gold at the China Wine & Spirits Awards (CWSA) “Best Value” 2015. The CWSA is the biggest and most prestigious Wine & Spirit competition in Hong Kong and China holding two major competitions every year.
Please note – The ‘Small’ sized bottles contain 10cl of liquid.
John Ramsay, the Malt Master of Glenrothes, has crafted a selection of The Glenrothes which typifies the distillery house character - ripe fruits, citrus, vanilla and hints of spice. The Select Reserve is a first, a non-Vintage-specific selection carefully chosen by John and produced to the same high quality standards as The Glenrothes Vintage selections; only here he selects and vats from casks from different years. Pale gold in colour, with a bouquet of American oak, vanilla and coconut, with the merest hint of plums. The palate is full and malty, medium sweet, with vanilla and orange zest.
Please note – The ‘Small’ sized bottles contain 10cl of liquid.
Please note – The ‘Small’ sized bottles contain 10cl of liquid.
Glencadam is a little known distillery that is located in the eastern Highlands town of Brechin. The 10 year old bottling of Glencadam is a subtle, smooth style of Highland malt.
Colour: Straw gold.
Nose: Lively, intense. Grassy freshness and citrus tones with hints of spicy oak.
Palate: Rounded elegance. Clean, crisp citrus tones. A pleasing harmony between a natural sweetness and the soft spicy oak.
Finish: Long and soothing. Rich, clean barley and gristy sweetness.
Colour: Straw gold.
Nose: Lively, intense. Grassy freshness and citrus tones with hints of spicy oak.
Palate: Rounded elegance. Clean, crisp citrus tones. A pleasing harmony between a natural sweetness and the soft spicy oak.
Finish: Long and soothing. Rich, clean barley and gristy sweetness.
In the glass, oak notes are dominant, followed by toasted marshmallows and dried fruit pudding, as well as cherries, marzipan and a hint of peat. Initially fruity to taste with citrus notes and orange peel, the flavour evolves to vanilla, butterscotch, honeycomb and digestive biscuits. To conclude, there’s an oiliness and a saltiness that you’d expect from a Campbeltown dram.
Nose: Squidgy yellow fruit,quite light and delicate.
Palate: Intriguing and unusual. Very subtle and balanced with a touch of smoke and salt an appealing clean malty sweetness.
Finish: Medium,clean and fruity with smoky underlay.
I have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to Longrow.This is a revelation!
Dominic Roskrow, Whisky Magazine
Nose
Dry smoke. Cigars and canvas. Rockpools/wet stone and rain moistened tweed. Water makes it more like oilskins (maybe put on over the tweed?) and turned earth. Young but enigmatic.
Palate
Smoke,then an unctuous thick feel. Clings to the tongue. Deep syrupy fruit,semi-dried peach. Brooding and powerful. Complex.
Finish
Black treacle.
Comment
A belter. Highest recommendation
Dave Broom - Whisky Magazine Issue 70
Palate: Intriguing and unusual. Very subtle and balanced with a touch of smoke and salt an appealing clean malty sweetness.
Finish: Medium,clean and fruity with smoky underlay.
I have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to Longrow.This is a revelation!
Dominic Roskrow, Whisky Magazine
Nose
Dry smoke. Cigars and canvas. Rockpools/wet stone and rain moistened tweed. Water makes it more like oilskins (maybe put on over the tweed?) and turned earth. Young but enigmatic.
Palate
Smoke,then an unctuous thick feel. Clings to the tongue. Deep syrupy fruit,semi-dried peach. Brooding and powerful. Complex.
Finish
Black treacle.
Comment
A belter. Highest recommendation
Dave Broom - Whisky Magazine Issue 70
This is one of the superstars of affordable, Sherry-cask influenced Speyside Scottish malt whiskies. In recent years, the distillery has grown from a relative unknown to a seriously well-respected name. Dried fruit, well-rounded oak on the finish and a wonderfully moreish spiciness all make this a dram to return to time after time.
The 12 year old is smooth, fresh and nutty with a golden honey appearance. It has a Crème Brulee smell with a burst of citrus and the signature nuttiness and green leafiness of Auchentoshan. To taste the palate is smooth and sweet with hints of tangerine and lime. To finish, it is a gingery and slightly drying with a pleasant lingering nuttiness.
Balvenie Doublewood gains its distinctive character from being matured in two woods. It is transferred from a traditional oak whisky cask to a first fill Spanish oak sherry cask. Each stage lends different qualities to the resulting single malt - the traditional casks, having previously held bourbon, soften and add character, whilst the sherry wood brings depth and fullness of flavour. The nose os redolent of sweet fruit and oloroso sherry notes, layered with honey and vanilla.The palate offers a smooth and mellow sensation of flavours - nutty sweetness, cinnamon spiciness and a delicately proportioned layer of sherry - with a long and warming finish.
