This bottling is a high-alcohol version of the biggest selling Irish whiskey brand’s popular Black Barrel, so called because it features whiskies matured in heavily charred ‘black’ casks. Grab this limited edition while you can – it is like a reassuring hug in a glass.īuy now at Selfridges Jameson Black Barrel Proof A Tale of Winter is rich, sweet and sumptuous with plenty of warming spices. This year sees a whisky created to give the feel of a warm and cosy woolly winter jumper and uses part-maturation in ex-Marsala wine casks from Sicily to do this. That was inspired by the flavours in a pineapple upside-down cake.
This is the second bottling in an annual series and follows last year’s stunning A Tale of Cake.
The well-known single malt distillery in the north Highlands has pulled a real cracker out of the hat with this whisky. It is cask strength (a whopping 59.1% ABV), non-chill filtered and natural colour, thus ticking plenty of boxes for connoisseurs. Maturation has been in ex-bourbon barrels made from American white oak and these show the spirit in its purest form.ĭelicious notes of honey, vanilla and white chocolate mingle with oat cookies and green apple. This whisky is the latest to join their core range and is produced using barley grown in the Cotswolds. The Cotswolds distillery has continued to expand its award-winning range of single malts (they make a superb gin also) this year. The result: a whisky with incredible depth of aroma, flavour and structure.īuy now at The Whisky Exchange Cotswolds Bourbon Cask Only seven distilleries in Scotland produce any of their own malt and Benriach is the most recent to undertake this time-consuming traditional practice. Made only using barley malted at the distillery, this is a rarity. This new whisky is a true labour of love. With three different spirits coming from the stills, combined with a multitude of cask types from all over the world used for maturation, the choices are endless. This much-underrated Speyside distillery has always been an innovator within the Scotch single malt category.