Whisky

The 2023 edition of the Kanosuke Limited Edition was distilled from peated barley malt between 2018 and 2019. The Kanosuke distillery, located on one of the longest sandy beaches in Japan, started operations in 2017 with three unique stills in different shapes. American oak barrels are primarily used for maturation, but sherry barrels that were previously filled with shochu are also used. Shochu is a high-proof spirit that also came to Japan via China and Korea. In this bottling, the barrels used were freshly burnt out before being filled with the spirit of the Japanese single malt.

Haran Iberian Oak comes from the Acha distillery in Spain. Made from selected malt and the traditional production techniques of the Acha family, which has been producing whiskey for five generations. The oak barrels in which the 100% malt whiskey is matured for a long time are of different origins and are additionally charred out with different degrees of distillation. This bottling was matured for 12 years in a cask made of Iberian oak.

Glentauchers is part of the Octave series, in which Duncan Taylor experiments with the influence of cask size on maturation. Octave casks, at around 50 litres, are only a fraction as large as the usual cask types. As a result, the whisky has more contact with the cask surface and matures more intensively.

This Glentauchers was bottled exclusively for Whisky.de at cask strength with 53.9% vol. and is neither chill-filtered nor coloured.

The Glenfarclas Family Casks series contains single cask bottlings of various vintages since the early 1950s. For each vintage, only one cask was chosen to be among the best of its year. In order to continue to offer the full series, there have been several releases. These vintage whiskies are bottled at cask strength and make ideal gifts!

This straight bourbon consists of 5 to 7 year old bourbons, which have a slightly higher rye content and are blended together. All of them matured in burnt-out barrels made of American white oak. The George Remus Straight Bourbon Whiskey is bottled without cold filtration, with a drinking strength of 47 percent by volume (94 proof) and is a tribute to the courageous namesake. George Remus worked as a pharmacist during Prohibition and was able to smuggle and sell his Bourbon creation under the guise of medicine.

Founded in 2008, Breckenridge Distillery is best known for its blended Bourbon whiskey, an American-style whiskey with a high rye mash content. The distillery itself is one of the highest distilleries in the world, located 9600 feet (2926 metres) above sea level. The water for the whiskey was obtained from the melting snow of the Rocky Mountains. This creation is aged in charred American oak casks and received a finish in a 223 litre Tawny Port cask from Portugal. This makes the flavour profile mild and pleasantly sweet with a spicy finish.

The Bladnoch The Dragon Series is inspired by the dragon curve, a fractional curve in mathematics that emerges from a simple origin. The Dragon Series is a tribute to the timeless power struggle between science and nature. The series represents the diversity in whisky production and the balance between order and chaos. Iteration II - The Spirit represents the first stage of production at the distillery. The malted barley from the field goes through the three key processes of mashing, fermenting and distilling. The potential variables and unpredictability multiply further through these steps, for example to gravity, temperatures and cut points, before the floral and fruity distillery character from the Lowlands evolves through ageing in first-fill and refill bourbon casks.

This Rosebank from 1990 was distilled just three years before the distillery closed. As is common in many Lowlands distilleries, Rosebank is triple distilled for a particularly smooth character. The 31-year-old malt comes from scarce stocks collected just before the Falkirk distillery closed in 1993. The distillery closed the same year and was brought back to life in 2017 by family-run whisky producer Ian Macleod.

For the Millstone PX Cask Whisky from the Netherlands, the malted barley was milled with a grinder powered by windmills, as was customary in the past, giving the single malt its name (Millstone). It is double distilled in copper pot stills and matured for 7 years in high-quality, small Pedro Ximenz casks. The Angels' Share is only 4-6 %.

The G&M rarity was stored in the cask for almost 36 years and belongs to the best of the independent bottler. An ancient Macallan from sherry casks! The dark colour already shows the clear influence of the Oloroso sherry casks.

This 30-year-old and time-honoured Edradour single malt whisky is one of the oldest bottlings from the distillery, which has been owned by Signatory founder and whisky entrepreneur Andrew Symington since 2002. Symington and his team attach great importance to producing whisky in its most original form and rely on distillation in small copper pot stills, hand-selected casks and great attention to detail. The Edradour Ibisco Decanter was matured in first-fill sherry butts and, after three decades, bottled in bulky, elegant decanters, the shape of which is already familiar from exclusive Signatory bottlings. The single malt was filled into the decanter as the distillery created it: without added colour, without chill-filtering and at cask strength. The name Ibisco was chosen because the decanter is reminiscent of the shape of a hibiscus flower.