A single cask release of 1991 vintage Girvan Grain, A rare single cask release from the distillery founded in 1963 within the Scottish Lowlands. Our tasting revealed Ripe banana, sweet toffee and coffee. Cask number 54459 only yielded 63 bottles at a natural cask strength of 43.20% (ABV) – so bottled just in time! Founded…
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A distillery will produce thousands of litres of spirit which is filled into hundreds of oak casks of varying quality and type, no two casks are the same each are unique. These casks are then left in warehouses for maturation which again exposes the spirit to variances in temperatures and warehouse climates which influences the…
The new bottle designs for 2018 have just been released and we couldn’t be more happy with them The Scottish floral pattern etched around the bottle encapsulates the nature of our Whisky; natural cask strength with no colourings or flavours added Our new boxes present our story, our style and releases. This year Lady of…
Last month we released four Whiskies which marked our return following a bottle a design project. The marquee release of this batch was the limited edition Macallan. The spirit was originally acquired from a larger cask release but was filled into a smaller Octave cask which could only fit around fifty litres. The result is…
Part 2 on the development of Whisky flavour 3. Sensory 4. Production and flavour development 4.1 Kilning 4.2 Fermentation 4.3 Distillation 5. New Spirit 6. Maturation 6.1 Variables 6.2 Oak 7. Future research 8. Conclusion 9. References 3. Sensory Whisky can be analysed in a variety of ways and methods…
This part 1 of 2 part piece on the development of Whisky flavour Producers and customers will wait years for Whisky to be ‘ready’. For many it is an assumption that the older the Whisky then the better quality it is. How quality is understood with Whisky has a lot to do with flavour. To…
In December we should be releasing our first batch of single casks since April. The new releases will be in our new uniquely etched glass bottles, designed by young Scottish designer Kimberley Grant. Our new releases will also come with cartons We are pleased to reveal a varied mix of releases that includes malt and grain…
This year I’m undertaking a Post Graduate in Brewing and Distilling at Heriot Watt while running Hannah Whisky Merchants ltd. Updating the news feed is naturally going to be challenging so I’ve decided where possible split up my assignments for you to read. Barley is of fundamental importance in the making of Whisky and measuring it’s…
Over the past two weeks I was fortunate to tour around the North Island of New Zealand and visit some of their great vineyards. The reason I picked New Zealand was that my friend who lives there has a car and he made the biggest of sacrifices of carting me around both literally and figuratively……
Situated in Dumfries and Galloway sits one of Scotland’s newest Whisky distillery’s and I had the pleasure of vising them a few weeks ago! Located near Annan, the site of my rugby playing retirement among many other historical landmarks, Annandale distillery is perfectly located for visiting when flying between Scotland and England (not literally flying).…
The end of March 2017 will be the release date of our new enjoyably complex Secret Islay release. Oloroso Sherry butt., number 2905, was distilled in October 17th 2002 and bottled in March 2017 The 14 year old Butt produced a natural cask strength of 56.2% alcohol and we elected to bottled without chill filtering and colourings. A limited Edition…
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