El Septimo and Single Malt

TGIF is optimized with an after work fine cigar & single malt! El Septimo’s SE Sales
Manager, Kevin Petosa, will tells us about the ultra-premium El Septimo Cigar line
which has taken the industry by storm. I’ve selected 4 fine single malts which will
pair up nicely with our El Septimo cigar. Speyburn 10-Year is a Speysider owned by
Inver House Distillers, which owns 5 malt distilleries in Scotland. I’m over the moon
about Craigellachie 13-Year. The Craigellachie distillery, one of Bacardi’s 4 Scottish
malt distilleries, is one of my favorites. One of the most popular single malts in our
fair city is Talisker. The Talisker Distillery is on the Isle of Skye, off the western coast
of Scotland. We’ll taste Talisker Storm, a full flavor, moderately peated dram.
Talisker was the favorite whisky of Robert Louis Steveson. Mr Stevenson famously
praised Talisker in his 1880 poem, “The Scotsman’s Return from Abroad,” where he
crowned it the “king o’ drinks”. He later clarified his ranking, stating, “I have since
tried Glenlivet and Islay, but Talisker remains my favorite”. Smokehead is a heavily
peated Island single malt. The producer (Ian MacLeod Distillers) has not disclosed
the distillery or the island of origin. The bloggers say that it is from Islay and the
majority believe it’s from the Lagavulin Distillery. Smokehead is supposedly 40ppm
at the malted barley level whereas Talisker’s malted barley begins life at 18-25ppm.
Do so join us between 3 and 8pm for a fun event. Remember, “good whisky is made
great when shared among friends.”

WHISKY MENU !

An Ultra-Premium El Septimo Cigar & 4 Top-Shelf Single Malt Whiskies @ $30 !
1. SPEYBURN Single Malt / 10-Year / 43% ABV / OB / Dist Owner: Inver House Distillers Ltd.
(International Beverage Holdings Ltd./Thai Beverage PLC) / Speyside (Rothes)
2. CRAIGELLACHIE Single Malt / 13-Year / 46% ABV / NCF / OB / Dist Owner: John Dewar & Sons Ltd.
(Bacardí Limited) / Speyside (Central)
3. TALISKER Single Malt / ‘Storm’ / NAS / 45.8% ABV / NCF / OB / Dist Owner: Diageo Scotland Ltd.
(Diageo plc) / Island (Skye)
4. SMOKEHEAD Island Single Malt / ‘Classic’ / NAS / 43% ABV / IB / Dist Owner: Unk (Lagavulin?) /
Brand Owner: Ian MacLeod Distillers Ltd. (Peter J. Russell & Co.) / Imp: Keepers Quest Inc. (Ed
Kohl) / Scotland (Island)