Speyside

The Glen Moray Phoenix Rising with a finish in heavily charred casks is produced in the Speyside distillery Glen Moray. The single malt initially matured in the usual bourbon casks, but was then filled into new, but very heavily charred oak casks for post-maturing. The Glen Moray Phoenix Rising was bottled at 40% vol.

This Aultmore was released by the independent bottler Signatory Vintage. Andrew Symington founded his company at the end of the 1980s and has always maintained good contact with the distilleries. Today he can call a stock of over 10,000 casks his own. This bottling is part of the Signatory 100 Proof Edition, which are no longer just high-proof, uncoloured whiskies, but affordable bottlings that have been matured for a long time. They are characterised by first-fill Oloroso sherry casks, but this is a single malt that was long considered an outsider due to the strong demand for blends. After 17 years in the cask, it skilfully combines spicy and herbal notes with the nutty sweetness of the sherry casks.

This Glenburgie was released by the independent bottler Signatory Vintage. It is part of the Signatory 100 Proof Edition, which is no longer just high-proof, uncoloured whiskies, but affordable bottlings that have been matured for 15 years. They are characterised by hints of herbs, which are also attributed to Glenburgie's oily Speyside single malts alongside fruity notes. The full maturation in Oloroso casks also gives the Glenburgie 2008 candied fruit and maple syrup.

This 9-year-old Glenallachie was created by Billy Walker, the Speyside distillery's Master Distiller for the Wood Collection, and matured in ex-bourbon casks before being finished in Amontillado sherry hogsheads. The single malt whisky is then bottled at 48% without the addition of colour or chill filtering. Amontillado sherry is born as a fino and undergoes an additional maturation period, which gives it a strong colour and fruity facets, which the barrels containing it in turn pass on to the whisky.

This 9-year-old single malt is part of the Wood Collection created by Master Distiller Billy Walker, in which whiskies matured in bourbon casks are matured in different sherry casks. This limited bottling was therefore first matured in former bourbon casks before being finished in Oloroso sherry butts. The pre-seasoning of the butts with Oloroso sherry has an effect on the whisky with accents of dried fruit and a little coffee. The Speysider is then bottled at 48% without the addition of colour and without chill-filtering.

Master Distiller Billy Walker created this 9-year-old single malt for the Wood Collection, in which he and his team matured whiskies matured in bourbon casks in various sherry casks. This limited bottling was therefore first matured in former bourbon casks before being finished in fino sherry hogsheads. The fino sherry with which the hogsheads were topped imparts nutty flavours and fruity notes to the whisky. The Speysider is then bottled at 48% without the addition of colour and without chill-filtering.

This Mortlach whisky is part of Signatory's Un-Chillfiltered Collection range, in which the single malts are not chillfiltered. Individually selected and bottled, the single malts have a particularly intense flavour. The 15-year-old matured in four bourbon hogsheads and bears interesting details about the distillation, bottling and casks on the bottle label.

The 12-year-old single malt whisky comes from the Miltonduff distillery and was created by the independent bottler Signatory Vintage from first-fill Oloroso sherry butts. It is #14 in Signatory's 100 Proof range, in which exclusive whiskies with an alcohol content of at least 57.1% vol. are bottled. The term proof is an ancient unit of measurement for the alcohol content of a drink, particularly whisky, which indicates the minimum alcohol content above which gunpowder soaked in the liquid can be ignited. This method was used in the heyday of seafaring so that the barrels in the belly of the ship could withstand the harsh weather conditions at sea.

This 11-year-old Mannochmore was released by the independent bottler Signatory Vintage in the 100 Proof series, in which exclusive whiskies with an alcohol content of at least 57.1% vol. are bottled. The single malt was matured in first fill Oloroso sherry butts. The term proof is an ancient unit of measurement for the alcohol content of a drink, especially whisky, which indicates the minimum alcohol content above which gunpowder soaked in the liquid can be ignited. This method was used in the heyday of seafaring so that the barrels in the belly of the ship could withstand the harsh weather conditions at sea.

Number 12 is a single malt from the Auchriosk distillery and is also part of the 100 Proof Edition series from Signatory Vintage. Exclusive whiskies with an alcohol content of at least 57.1% vol. are bottled in this series. The term proof is an ancient unit of measurement for the alcohol content of a drink, particularly whisky, which indicates the minimum alcohol content above which gunpowder soaked in the liquid can be ignited. This method was used in the heyday of seafaring so that the casks in the belly of the ship could withstand the harsh weather conditions at sea. The Speyside whisky matured for 13 years in first-fill Oloroso sherry butts, giving it its rich colour, and was bottled at 57.1% vol. without the addition of colour or chill-filtering.

This 14-year-old Glenallachie matured exclusively in a Pedro Ximénez sherry puncheon. The single malt was produced by the distillery team under the guidance of Billy Walker, Glenallachie's legendary Master Distiller, and bottled exclusively for the German market at cask strength. This whisky has a very sophisticated flavour.

The Old School Malt from Signatory was carefully blended from 104 single malt Scotch whiskies from different vintages and then matured to perfection in sherry butts. The youngest components of the outstanding blended malt whisky spent a total of at least 31 years in oak casks. Some of the single malts included come from rare casks from the distilleries Banff, Brora, Coleburn, Dallas Dhu, Glen Mhor, Killyloch and Littlemill as well as Lochside and Port Ellen. The blended malt was bottled at natural cask strength.