This year-old dram is testament to the stature The Macallan holds in the whisky world — it is delicate, sophisticated and oozes class. Perfect for the swanky whisky drinker in your world. This rich, smooth single malt matured in bourbon casks has plenty of characteristic vanilla flavours, sweet honey notes and candied fruit. The ideal gift for any whisky lover looking to expand their English whisky collection. On the palate, you can taste candy floss and fresh green apples.
Read our full review of Green Spot single pot still. This whiskey is a supremely sippable, stubbornly Irish celebration of caramel and fruit.
Give this one to any newbies or theatre geeks, any stage enthusiasts are sure to be bowled over by the company this whiskey keeps. Read our full review of Teeling single malt. This Dublin-made tipple caresses the tongue with summer fruits, warm spices and pepper. A drinking experience that will keep your friends around long after dinner has been served. Best presented to any Irish whiskey heads you know.
A full-bodied whisky with plenty of spicy rye balanced against honey and cereal. One for the Jack and Coke drinker, this is a versatile expression that will see them gradually wean off the mixer. The whiskey pitches a bag of spices against the sweet funfair notes typically found in bourbon.
Nutmeg takes over from toffee apple with the subtlety of an earthquake but it is a pleasant seismic shift. The ideal gift for lovers of American whiskey. Read our full review of The Sexton single malt. A new breed of whiskey.
Sexton is an Irish single malt that is geared toward budding whiskey enthusiasts and cocktail makers. Buy this for the bartender in your family. A scotch that packs in spice and sea spray. Fortunately, some stocks survived, including this gem, finished in first-fill ex-bourbon casks. Medium-bodied, lightly oily and smooth in texture, the taste is rich and creamy vanilla-sweet, with fruity acidity for balance.
It gets drier as it spends time in the glass, and closes warm with a sweet flourish. Photo: Courtesy of Oban. Its eponymous distillery, established in , produces whisky with a flavor profile that straddles the smoky style of the Scottish islands and the livelier, more toothsome malts made in the Highlands. Oban 14 Years Old is a wee bit oily and quite a bit weighty.
Smells like lemons and pears sprinkled with sea salt, set atop a table that had recently been on fire. Tastes like dried figs dipped in honey up front, followed by some oak and malt dryness. Begs to be paired with oysters and smoked salmon. Photo: Courtesy of Bruichladdich. The sixth commercially available version of this mythic whisky is an unpeated Islay malt aged 26 years in cask types Bruichladdich prefers to keep secret.
What is manifest, though, is that Black Art is an exceptionally rare and unique dram. The aromas are plentiful, among them raisin, apple, blackberry jam, brown sugar, and charred oak.
The vitality of the oak and the fruit is sensational. Mysterious and inscrutable, it delivers an assortment of tastes that surprise and delight, from honeycomb to ginger-nut biscuits to tobacco. It is non-chill-filtered and bottled at a cask strength of Photo: Courtesy of Lagavulin.
Okay, maybe not so simple. Mouthfeel is slightly oily, the juice chewy. This stellar single-malt from the esteemed year-old Scottish Highlands producer arrived stateside in November —a wee bit of good news in dark times. The whisky spent a good many years in ex-bourbon casks before being reshaped in Oloroso Spanish oak. On the nose we get apricots, anise and orange oil.
Full-bodied mouthfeel brims with blood orange, raisin and chocolate praline, with a bit of spice on the finish. Photo: Courtesy of Ledaig.
Finishes long, with peaty embers glowing. Photo: Courtesy of Glenfarclas. This classic Speyside whisky is worth twisting the tongue over. The rich amber-colored 17 is full-flavored and balanced, develops slowly, and brims with sweet malty notes and the intensely jammy flavor of a black mission fig—and with a touch of peat smoke and a hint of oak to boot.
Old Pulteney , which was founded in , is located way up in the Scottish Highlands near the royal burgh of Wick, making it the most northerly whisky-making facility on the Scottish mainland. The bulk of the spirit that goes into the final blend was aged in ex-oloroso sherry casks, imbuing the whisky with rich toffee and vanilla flavor.
There are biscuits, dates, and baked apple in the mix, as well, with smoke and a hint of iodine on the lingering finish. Photo: Courtesy of The Glenlivet. Winchester shepherds this expression through several different cask types, including both first- and second-fill American oak for tropical fruitiness and ex-sherry oak for spicy complexity.
The Glenlivet 18 has garnered virtually every award of note handed out in the spirits industry, and deservedly so. It may well be the most complete mass-market whisky of all. Photo: courtesy Wine. This is the second annual bottling in a series that was launched in by the acclaimed Islay distillery.
While it might not be for every palate, those who enjoy the lush flavor of peat will find it completely irresistible. Honoring Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, Arran released a scotch whisky in his name. Distilled on the small island of Arran and made with water from the Loch na Davie, the pure and aromatic liquor will strike you with notes of honey, fruits, and toffee-glazed pecans.
Made for easy drinking, the single malt can be enjoyed either on the rocks or neat. Ballantine's Finest was created in and is blended with both single malt, grain, and highly matured whiskies to give you a slightly vanilla flavor. Fun fact: the Ballantine's square bottle originated during prohibition so Americans could conceal the bottles in their briefcases. Like its whiskey brethren, scotch makes an excellent cocktail, but many home bartenders get nervous about mixing up a tipple with their Scottish bottles.
This blended Speyside scotch alleviates those worries with a mixing-friendly flavor profile of citrus and vanilla and an unintimidating price tag. When the British government began taxing Scottish distilleries, many of them began producing whisky underground. Glenlivet was one of the premier illicit distilleries, so much so that when King George IV visited Scotland on a state visit he demanded to try an illegal dram of the Scotch.
The iconic brand has never ceased producing top quality single malt, so you too can drink like a king. Founder James Chivas believed in blending quality aged whiskies with local Speyside malts—a principle that is still adhered to today by the distillery.
Prepare for a symphony of notes that include honey, vanilla, and ripe apple in 12 year aged bottle. Situated on the southern island of Islay, Lagavulin delivers a deep-smokey taste in it's masculine single malt that can only be achieved by the distillery's peat-rich environment.
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