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The very rare, exclusive (and slightly spooky) appearance of one of Scotland’s biggest distilleries that only a special few scant drops ever make it into the world as a single malt whisky. It’s the utterly fabulous 750ml bottling of a 2016 Dalmunach 8-year-old single malt whisky! The Duncan Taylor Dalmunach 2016 8-year-old is a single ex-bourbon cask (no.10843869) matured for 8 years at the distillery, then split into the smaller (French oak ex-sherry) Octave casks and finished in these for a further 9 months before being re-married and bottled exclusively for the Single Malt Whisky Club at a delicious 46% abv. Oh… nearly forgot to mention, this has been bottled in 750ml bottles, so an extra dram than usual per bottle – JOY! -
Let’s get rockin’ with a classic peated (but not as you know it) Sherry Bomb from the West Highlands of Scotland. For the first official time in Australia, the very latest release Ardnamurchan Sherry Cask – an aptly named whisky, fully matured in both Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez casks, the Ardnamurchan Sherry Cask 2024! The casks were a mix of Spanish Pedro Ximenez and Spanish Oloroso Sherry casks (31 in all) with 18 of those peated, and the rest unpeated. The abv of the spirit – distilled by Scott Stewart – coming out of the still was cut from 77.0 to 64.8% before being added to the cask. A quick word on peat. The peat used by Ardnamurchan is highland peat which is much more woodsmoke or heather oriented – distinctly different to the burnt rubber and iodine-y hospital notes imparted by Islay peat (used in whiskies such as Lagavulin, Ardbeg and Laphroiag). As such, Highland peat lends a much subtler influence over the whiskies it flavours than it’s Islay counterpart.
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