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WHISKY
Whisky is an English word deriving from usky, an abbreviation of usquebaugh: the Gaelic word for "water of life". Why? Perhaps because distillates were first deemed medicines, a judgement that persists amouny many. Whisky is a grain distillate, almost always including a proportion of barley malt. It retains some taste from the water and grains that were its original raw materials: peat used to dry the malt, the casks in which it w as matured, and from the surroundings in which they slept. No where is this more evident than in Scotland, which has far more whisky distilleries than any other nation in such a diversity of locations. Each distillery produces a spirit with flavors which are shaped by the landscape. While blended scotches combine the flavors of Lowland and Highland, river and coast, the single malts each represent their own mountain, glen or cove. We invite you to come share our passion and embark with us on a journey of discovery through the whisky regions...
Speyside
The Speyside region of the Scottish Highlands now is home to the largest concentration of whisky distilleries. The principal reason is due historically to the suitability for illicit operation, the quality of water, plentiful peat for the kilns and fertile valleys yielding good supplies of barley. Later as the railway era connected this region to Glasgow and Edinburgh, it ensured survival of the distilleries at a time when more remote operations failed. The Regions, located in the Northeast corner of Scotland is framed by the Grapian Mountains and the sea and is comprised of a series of river valleys. The river names, which include, The Spey, Deveron, Isla, Fiddich, Dullan, Livet and Lossie are now synonymous with light, sweet, malty whiskies of complex character and inpeccable quality. Variations between the whiskies of each distillary can be infinite after ageing and maturation, ranging from sweet nectar to heavily sherried temptations. Exploration is in order. |
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Aberfeldy 12
Aberfeldy 15 1991
Ardmore
Aultmore 14
Balveine 10 (bal-VENN-ee)
Balvenie Port Wood 21
Balvenie Sherry cask 17
Balvenie 17 Rum cask
Benriach 10 Peated (curiositas)
Benriach 12
Benriach 16
Benriach Limited Release 1994
Benromach Traditional
Benromach Organic
Benromach Origins 9 (GP Barley)
Benromach 18
Caperdonich 37 1968
Cragganmore Distillers Ed
Cragganmore 12
Craigellachue 13 (craig-El-ach-e)
Dailuaine 13 (dal-YOO-in)
Dallas Dhu 22 1982
Glenburgie 10
Glendronach 12
Glendullan The Singleton
Glen Elgin 12 (glen-ELG-in)
Glenfarclas 12 (glen-FAR-clas)
Glenfarclas 10
Glenfarclas 17
Glenfarclas 21
Glenfarclas 25
Glenfarclas 105 Cask Strength
Glenfiddich 12 (glen-FID-ick)
Glenfiddich Solera Reserve 15
Glenfiddich 21 Rum finish
Glen Garioch 15
Glen Garioch 15 1988 D&T
Glen Grant 21
Glen Grant 31 1974 (Lonach)
Glen Grant 31 D&T
Glen Keith 11 1993
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The Glenlivet 12
The Glenlivet 15 French Oak
The Glenlivet Nadurra 16 Cask
The Glenlivet 18
Glenlivet 21 Archive
Glenlossie 10 1993
Glen Moray 12
Glenrothes 92-2005
Glenrothes Select Reserve
Glen Spey
Glentauchers 14
Inchgower 15 1992
Knockando 21
Linkwood 15
Lismore
Longmorn (long MORN) 15
Longmorn 12
Longmorn 16 46%
Longmorn 29
MacTarnahan 9
MacTarnahan 15
The Macallan Cask Strength
The Macallan 12
The Macallan 10 Fine Oak
The Macallan 15 Fine Oak
The Macallan 18
The Macallan 35
Mannochmore16
(man-och-MORE)
Mortlach (MORT-lock) 15
Mortlach 21
Pittyvaich 1993
Speyburn (spey-BURN) 10
Speyburn Glenlivit 15 1975
Strathisla 12 (strath-EYE-la)
Tamdhu
Tamnavulin 12
Tormore (tor-MORE)
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Northern Highlands
This is the area North of Iverness to the sea. The whiskies are rich and robust,
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Balblair 10 (bal-BLAIR)
Brora 24
Clynelish 14 (KLINE-leash)
The Dalmore 12 (dall-MORE)
The Dalmore 21
The Dalmore Cigar Malt
Glen Albyn 1975
Glenmorangie 10 (glen-mORANG-ee)
Glenmorangie Nector d'or
Glenmorangie Lasanta (sherry)
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban (port)
Glenmorangie Port 12
Glenmorangie Sherry Cask
Glenmorangie Madeira 12
Glenmorangie 15
Glenmorangie 18
Glenmorangie Burgundy 12
Millburn 27 1975
Old Pulteney 12 (PULT-nay)
Old Pulteney 17
Tomatin 12 (tom-AH-tin)
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Pershire Highlands
Dalwhinnie 15 (dal-WHIN-ee)
Dalwhinnie 1990 Distillers Ed.
Edradour 10 (edra-DOWER)
Glengoyne (glen-GOY’ n) 10
Glengoyne 12 Cask Strength
Glangoyne 17
Tullibardine 1993
Eastern Highlands
Deanston 12 (DEANS-ton)
Glenury Royal 20 1984 51.3%
Lochside 13
North Port 24
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Islay
Islay, pronounced (I-la), is a remote island off the west coast of Scotland, only 17 miles from the shores of Ireland, where whisk(e)y is thought to have first been distilled. There are 8 working distilleries on the island producing malts that are the weightiest and most pungent. Smoky, medicial flavor is imparted from the peat fuel used in drying the barley and the water which has flowed over the peat bogs made from ancient heather and seaweed.
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Ardbeg 10 (ard-BEG)
Ardbeg 17
Ardbeg CC 9 1994
Ardbeg Provenance 1974
Ardbeg Uigeadail
Ardbeg Beist 1990
Ardbeg Supernova
Bowmore Legend (bow-MORE)
Bowmore 12
Bowmore Mariner 15
Bowmore Dawn (Port Cask)
Bowmore 16 1989 Sherry Cask
Bowmore 16 1987 Sherry Cask
Bruichladdich 10 (brooik-LADDIE)
Bruichladdich 15
Bruichladdich 12
Bruichladdich Rocks (sherry)
Bruichladdich 12 D&T
Bunnahabhain 12 (Bunna-hah-ven)
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Caol Ila 12 (kowel-EEl-ah)
Caol Ila 18
Caol Ila 25
Caol Ila 27
Classic of Islay
Lagavulin 16 (laga-VOO-lin)
Lagavulin Distillers Edition
Laphroaig 10 (la-FROY-g)
Laphroaig 15
Laphroaig Quarter Cask
Laphroaig Cask Strength 10
McClelland's
Port Ellen 22
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Lowlands
The Lowland region is the vast area south of an imaginary line between Greenock and Dundee. It's distilleries produce the most accessible whiskies, light in both flavor and body. Lemongrass to flowery notes on the palate. Historically often triple distilled. Sadly, only four working distilleries can be found today.
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Auchentoshan 10
Auchentoshan 3 Wood
Bladnoch 13 1988
Glenkinchie 10
Glenkinchie Distillers Edition
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Littlemill 8
Littlemill 12
Linlithgow 21 1982
Rose Bank 13 1990 Sherry
Rose Bank 12 1989
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Cambeltown
Cambeltown, which is located at the tip of the Kintyre Peninsula, was once a thriving whisky
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Glen Scotia 12
Glen Scotia 14
Glen Scotia 17
Hazelburn 8
Longrow 10 1992
Longrow 10 1996
Longrow CV
Longrow 18
Longrow Gaga Wood
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Springbank 10
Springbank 9 Marsala Finish
Springbank 16 Rum Finish
Springbank 15
Springbank 100 Proof
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Arran (Arr-en)
Arran 10
Arran Robert Burns Single Malt
Arran Single Cask
Napoleon Cognac Finish
Champagne Finish 58.9%
Sherry Finish 1998
Bourbon Finish
Chatmargargaux
Ben Nevis 16
Highland Park 12
Highland Park 13
Highland Park 15
Highland Park 18
Highland Park 39
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Ledaig 10 (led-chig)
Ledaig Sherry Finish
Jura 10 (JEW-ra)
Jura 16 Sherry Cask
Jura Superstition
Oban 14 (OH-bun)
Oban 1992
Scapa 12 (SCAPP-ah)
Scapa 14
Scapa 16
Talisker 10 (TAL-is-ker)
Talisker Distillers Edition 1992
Talisker 18
Tobermory 10
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Japan
Shinjiro Torii, the founder of Suntory and the father of Japanese whisky, had a fascination with Scotland and its whisky. He built Japan's first distillery in 1923 near the ancient capital of Kyoto, with its pure water, cool temperatures and high humidity providing and ideal environment for maturation. Japanese whisky is highly regarded by connoisseurs the world over.
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Suntory Yamazaki 18 |
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Irish
By 1800 Ireland had more than 2000 distilleries playing a much more important role than Scotch. The collapse resulted from multiple factors: the arrival of blended whisky from column stills producing cheaper and milder grain distilleries, the Irish civil war (1916-1921) and lastly US prohibition. By 1966 only 2 distilleries remained. Irish Whiskey is usually a combination of whiskey from column stills (producing grain spirit from corn) and pot stills producing malt or "pure pot still whiskey" (made from both malted and unmalted barley). All Irish Whiskeys are now produced in only 3 distilleries yielding mostly light, triple distilled, nonpeated spirit. The exception is Cooley distillery which makes some peated double distilled whiskey.
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Black Bush Irish
Bushmills
Bushmills Single 10
Bushmills Single 16
Bushmills Single 21 Madeira
Bushmills 1608 400 Anniversary
Clontarf Single Malt
Connemara
Connemara Cask Strength
Connemara 12
Cooley 12
Feckin Irish
Feckin Spiced Irish
The Irishman Single Malt
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Jameson Irish
Jameson 12
Jameson Irish 18
Jameson Gold Reserve
J. Powers & Son
James Macarthur Peated 12
Kilbeggan
Knappogue Castle 1995
Knappogue Castle 1951
Michael Collins Single Malt
Michael Collins Blended
Midleton Very Rare
Red Breast
Tullamore Dew
Tullamore Dew 12
Tyroconnell
Tyroconnell 10 Madeira Cask
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Baker's 7 53.5%
Basil Hayden's Bourbon 8
Black Maple Hill 47.5%
Black Velvet
Blanton's Single Barrel
Booker's 8 63%
Buffalo Trace
Bulleit Bourbon 45%
Canadian Club
Crown Royal
Crown Royal Special Reserve
Crown Royal Extra Rare
Crown Royal Cask #16
Danfields Private Reserve
Eagle Rare 10
Eagle Rare 17
Elmer T. Lee
Evan Williams Single Barrel
Four Roses 40%
Forty Creek Three Grain
Forty Creek Barrel Select
Glen Breton Single Malt
George Dickel Single Barrel
George T. Stagg Cask Strength
Jack Daniels
Jack Daniels Single Barrel
Jeffersons Small Batch
Jeffersons Reserve Very Old
Jim Beam Rye
Jim Beam 8
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Knob Creek 9
Maker's Mark
McCarthy's (Oregon)
Old Bardstown Estate
Old Ezra 7
Old Forester Birthday Bourbon
Pappy Van Winkle 15
Pappy Van Winkle 23
Parkers Heritage Collection
Pendleton Canadian
8 Seconds Canadian
Prichards' Double Barrel Bourbon
Rip Van Winkle 10
Rockhills Farms
Rogue Deadguy
Russell Reserve Rye 6
Sazerac Rye
Sazerac Rye 18
Seagrams 7
Seagrams VO
Seagram Anniversary 43.4%
Snake River Stampede
St. George Single Malt
Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey
Thomas H. Handy Rye
Vintage Rye 21
Wathens Single Barrel Bourbon
Wild Turkey
Willetts Pot Still Whiskey
Wisers Very Old
Woodford Reserve
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Blended (Pure) Malts
A mixture of several single malts from different distilleries. No grain whisky is added. Previously referred to as vatted or pure malts.
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Big Smoke Islay Malt
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Johnnie Walker Green 15
Sheep Dip 8 |
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Blended Whisky
A mixture of malt and grain whiskey's. The most popular type of whisky in the world.
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William Grant's
Black & White
Cutty Sark
Dewar's White Label
Dewar's 12
Famous Grouse
Teacher's Highland Cream
Vat 69
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Johnnie Walker Red
Johnnie Walker Black
Chevas Regal
Pinch 15
Pigs Nose 5
Auld Blended 38 D&T
Campbeltown Loch
Black Bottle Blended Islay 10
Black Bottle Islay
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Single Grain
A distillate produced from corn and often other grains in column stills. It is used primarily to mix with different single malts to create blended whisky. A "single grain whisky" is one that comes from a single distillery and are rarely found bottled.
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Carsebridge 43
Cameronbridge 28
North British 28 1978
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Port Dundas 41 1966
Greenore 8 Small Batch Irish (Cooley) |
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