TOP 10 WHISKIES £50-£100

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 46%

Glenallachie's 15-year-old bottling joined the reborn Speyside distillery's core range in 2019 and Master Blender Billy Walker reckons it's a perfect representation of the distillery's character.

This is Glenallachie in a bottle, with Pedro Ximenez and Oloroso sherry puncheons and hogheads delivering depth, complexity and character to the whisky. It's no surprise that Glenallachie 15-year-old has been showered with awards since it first appeared, including recent Gold medals at the International Spirits Competition and the Scotch Whisky Masters.

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Colour: Sunset Bronze.

Nose: Overflowing with raisins, butterscotch and sweet spices.

Taste: The rainbow of sweet spices, raisins and butterscotch develops to banana, orange peel and dark chocolate.

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 43%

The new Benromach 15-year-old has landed. This whisky has been exclusively matured in first-fill casks for fifteen years. Expect cracked pepper, charred oak, apples, dark chocolate & forest fruits.

The Benromach 15-year-old has won numerous awards since it was first introduced in 2015. Having tried this whisky ourselves on a number of occasions we understand why!

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Colour: Dark Amber.

Nose: Aromas of sweet toffee leading to notes of cracked black pepper and peat smoke. Rich forest fruits develop with dark chocolate and dried banana.

Palate: Creamy and sweet with ripe apples and an undertone of charred oak. Dark chocolate develops and leads to toasted malt and orange peel with a subtle hint of smoke.

Finish: Medium creamy finish with soft smoke and dried fruit.

Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 48%

Lagavulin 8 year old was Initially released in 2016 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Lagavulin distillery by John Johnston in 1816.

After the success of the original limited-edition expression, it was decided to make this a permanent addition to the Lagavulin range.

A fantastic dram.

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Nose: Immediately quite soft with clean, fresh notes, faint hints of milk chocolate and lemon and then developing fragrant tea-scented smoke alongside nose-drying, maritime aromas, with subtle cereal. A prickliness seen earlier now develops, while the trademark Lagavulin dryness emerges as fresh newsprint. Softly sooty. Softer, fuller and more rounded with water: it’s not hugely fruity but there’s just a trace of red berry preserve, perhaps, beneath the smokiness, which comes sharply into focus.

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 60%

Glenfarclas 105 is one of those legendary bottlings that has been around for a good few decades and rightly deserves every ounce of praise it gets. If you're a fan of big, heavy, potent, complex cask strength sherry monster whiskies then Glenfarclas 105 will suit you down to the ground.

Glenfarclas 105 has been going strong for a long time now. Bottled in various guises since the late '60s, this legendary name is synonymous with massive notes of chocolate, fruit oils, nutmeg, caramel, stewed fruits, simmering spices, dark brown sugar, leather, wax and very thick notes of clean, vibrant sherry.

A consistently wonderful bottling, and one of the best bang-for-your-buck cask strength Speysides on the market, Glenfarclas 105 shows Glenfarclas in all its youthful, naked glory.

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Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky 
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 46% 

Kilchoman Machir Bay is a vatting of whiskies predominately matured in first-fill bourbon casks and a much smaller number from sherry casks. This beautiful marriage gives a unique balance of aromatic and coastal peat smoke, citrus and tropical fruit.

This excellent Kilchoman Machir Bay release is presented in a lovely presentation pack with 2 branded glasses, ideal for a gift or a treat for yourself.

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Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 46%

As well as being aged longer, the 15-year-old Glenfarclas is bottled stronger than the 10-year-old and 12-year-old, at 46%. Matured in sherry wood, Glenfarclas 15-year-old is an acclaimed malt, frequently rumoured to contain whisky matured longer than the minimum 15 years.

An incredible dram from Glenfarclas, the 15-year-old is a juicy Christmas cake of a whisky with the higher strength giving a pleasing oomph to the aromas and flavours of sherried fruit and gentle smoke .

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Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 46%

Ben Nevis is a distillery enjoying a remarkable surge in popularity right now, so this relaunched Ben Nevis 10-year-old with a very classy minimal new label couldn't have come at a better time. The distillery's earthy, gutsy spirit shines at 46% and was well overdue a revival.

Ben Nevis's owners Nikka have been custodians of the distillery since the late 1980s and now that they won't be needing the distillery's spirit for any of their Japanese blended whiskies we're hoping that this new Ben Nevis 10-year-old is a harbinger of further releases to come. 

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Nose: Abundance of character on the nose with floral, fragrant, honey, citrus fruits of orange and beeswax with elements of toffee and vanilla aromas.

Palate: Initial spicy notes lead to cereal flavours. Smooth creaminess of dark chocolate invites you to sample another drop.

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky 
Distillery bottling 70cl / 48.3%

The second release as part of Balvenie's Stories Range tells the tale of retired distillery manager Ian Millar's eagerness to experiment.

This 14-year-old heavily peated whisky has all the classic Balvenie sweet and citrus notes along with the lovely peat smoke from a unique process. 

The story behind this bottling is when Ian Millar spotted a 1-week gap in production at Balvenie. it was then decided that they would produce a peated whisky for this week of the year. Hence the name, The Week of Peat.

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Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 58.4%

The second ever batch of Ardnamurchan Cask Strength, AD/09.22 follows the same formula, being comprised of a total of 50 casks, 40 of which were peated Ardnamurchan whisky matured in ex-bourbon casks, with the remainder being unpeated spirit matured in a mix of sherry and bourbon casks.

Ardnamurchan AD/09.22 Cask Strength is a coastal, peaty dram with sweet and salty notes amid powerful woodsmoke phenolicity. This cask strength Ardnamurchan whisky is great stuff, a full-throttle introduction to Adelphi's distillery if you haven't yet tried it.

Please note this Ardnamurchan Cask Strength is Strictly Maximum 1 Bottle Per Customer, and is not eligible for any discounts. Duplicate orders will be deleted.

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Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling 70cl / 43%

The peat and the sherry have integrated very well here, very concentrated and thick at first with notes of creosote, tar, spice and then figs, prunes and dates from the sherry come through.

Very mature, seemingly beyond its years at first with some very juicy cereal and smoky malt notes on the swallow that seems to betray the more natural spirit underneath the sherry finishing.

Great stuff and lots of fun to play around with.

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