Christmas/Hanukkah High-end Tasting

To Help You Get Into The Holiday Spirit! Our whisky flight features some older bottlings (2 @ 21, 1 @ 18, 1 @ 15-Years) and some excellent limited edition expressions without an age statement. Imperial is a 21-year Speyside at 46% ABV. As GlenDronach was mothballed for 6- years (1996-2002), they have temporarily run our Parliament 21-year, but Tom Lobonc has a bottle for us! In 2019, Highland Park released Loki as the 2nd edition in its Valhalla range. Is it good? It is selling for £500 at Masters of Malt. Arran’s Angels & Devils (Punch Bowl range, Chapter II) is a cask strength flavor bomb.

Malts finished in manzanilla casks pique my interest, when it is a Bowmore, I am all in. Being the first release in Bowmore’s Vintner’s Trilogy, Manzanilla Cask will be a very good one. Our Ardbeg Drum is the 2019 Committee Release at cask strength 52% ABV. This one is finished in another personal favorite cask type: Caribbean Rum casks. And it worked to the point that Ardbeg’s phenols nicely offset the sweetness of the rum casks. The result is delicious!

So do come and consider inviting your friends as “good whisky is made great when shared among friends.” Here is to happier holidays and holiday spirits.

WHISKY: 1 Speyside, 1 Highland, 2 Island, 2 Islay

1. IMPERIAL Single Malt / 1995 Vintage (21-Year) / 46% ABV / NCF / SC #50244 / IB:
Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky Co. Ltd. (Andrew Symington) / Dist Owner: Chivas
Brothers Ltd. (Pernod Ricard S.A.) / Speyside (Central)

2. GLENDRONACH Single Malt / ‘Parliament’ / 21-Year / 48% ABV / NCF / OB / Dist
Owner: BenRiach Dist. Co. Ltd. (Brown-Forman Scotland Ltd./Brown-Forman Corp.) /
Highland (Eastern)

3. HIGHLAND PARK Single Malt / ‘Loki’ (Valhalla Collection) / 15-Year / 48.7% ABV / NCF
/ OB / Dist Owner: Edrington Group Ltd. (Robertson Trust) / Island (Isle of Orkney)

4. ARRAN Single Malt / The Devil’s Punch Bowl Series – ‘Chapter II Angels & Devils’ /
NAS / CS 53.1% ABV / NCF / OB: Lochranza Dist / Dist Owner: Isle of Arran Distilleries
Ltd. (Messrs Auchincloss, Pierce & Mitchell) / Island (Arran)

5. BOWMORE Single Malt / Vintner’s Trilogy Series (First Release: ‘Manzanilla Cask’ /
18-Year / CS 52.5% ABV / NCF / OB / Dist Owner: Suntory Global Spirits UK Ltd
(Suntory Holdings Ltd.) / Islay (Loch Indaal)

6. ARDBEG Single Malt / Committee Release: 2019 – ‘Drum’ Ltd Edition / NAS / CS 52%
ABV / NCF / OB