20 year old Single Malt Scotches

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Aberfeldy Single Malt Scotch 21 Year Old

21 years of aging has added dignity to Aberfeldy's distinctive heather honey softness. The taste lingers like a fine liqueur with its long, dry finish enhanced by notes of mature Seville oranges, spices, vanilla and sandalwood. Sip and savour this exclusive Single Malt whisky and, like John and Tommy Dewar before you, you will take Aberfeldy to heart.

Colour: Deep gold with yellow highlights

Nose: A pleasing aroma of heathery honey, followed by a fruity softness, hints of vanilla and burnt wood

Palate: Full flavoured with touches of Seville oranges lingering on the tongue like a good liqueur

Body: Full bodied

Finish: Long, spicy with a decidedly dry finish

Balvenie Single Malt Scotch 21 Year

Rating: 91 Rich and honeyed with great depth. Amber color. A welcomed addition to the Balvenie line. It expresses the distillery's signature richness and honey notes. The extra aging provides depth and dryness which dovetails nicely with port notes, turning nutty and dry on the finish. Very sophisticated.

Style: Speyside single malt Scotch whisky.

Balvenie Single Malt Scotch 25 Year

Some bourbon casks will continue to improve well beyond 15 years, and The Balvenie Malt Master selects some of these rare casks for bottling as The Balvenie Single Barrel 25 Year Old. Like Single Barrel 15 Year Old, each bottle is unique and hand-numbered, but the maximum number of bottles taken from any one cask is only 250.

In 2001 it won a Gold Medal in the International Spirits Challenge.

Tasting Notes

Nose ~ Patience is rewarded with a nose that has the complexity of an aged single malt, with a symphony of sweet honeyed, oaky notes, overlaid with a fragrant fruity bouquet.

Taste ~ In the mouth the initial dryness immediately changes to a sweet honeyed burst of flavour that has butterscotch and toffee notes, rounded off with a vanilla oakiness. A well matured single malt, which has a long and lingering finish.

Benriach Single Malt Scotch 20 year old

Nose: Spicy, nutty, honey, vanilla, floral, fruity with well balanced wood overtones.
Colour: Mid-amber, hints of gold.
Taste: Rounded medium to full bodied, rich honey, vanilla with hints of apples, spice, chocolate and nuts.

Benriach Single Malt Scotch Authenticas 21 year old

The 'big brother' to Curiositas, BenRiach 'Authenticus' is another peated expression of BenRiach, this time matured for a minimum of 21 years.

Strictly limited to just 800 six-packs per annum, Authenticus is a rare and much sought after bottling.

Bottled at 46% alc. vol., at natural colour and non chill filtered.

Nose: An explosion of smoke and peat, in combination with teasing hints of honey, apples and spices.
Colour: Rich golden.
Taste: Rich peat, in perfect harmony with honey, chocolate, raisins and oakwood, followed by a cascade of spices rolling over the palate.

Benromach Single Malt Scotch 21 year Old

Colour: Bright gold.
Nose (undiluted): Sweet, fruits - peaches and nectarines. Hints of toasted malt and a green leafy aroma.
Palate: Sweet, sherrywood flavours. Some charred oak and resinous flavours. Rich.
Nose (with water): Sherry influence more prominent. Mulled fruits and a sweet, chocolate aroma. Toasted maltiness remains.
Palate: Sherrywood, sweet spicies - cinnamon and a little dry grass, hay-like note. Charred oak flavours lead to a drying finish.
Body: Rich and smooth.
Finish: Slightly dry with sherry overtones.
Cask type: First Fill and Refill Sherry Casks.
Whisky style: A rich, elegant Speyside malt with rounding sherry influence.

Bunnahabhain Single Malt Scotch 25 Year Old

The 25 year old has an amber gold colouring with quite a sherried nose, at first, that introduces a stunning sweet caramel dessert aroma, beautifully entwined with subtle suggestions of oak and polished leather.

The indulgence of sweet berries and cream ensures a wonderful melange of tastes that progress into a roasted nut and malt feast.

The finish is soft and dry with a delicate dispersal of sugar and spiced oak flavours lingering on the tongue.

Caol Ila Single Malt Scotch 25 year old

A robust, complex malt with plenty of Islay 'attack', this rare and special 25 year old natural cask-strength Caol Ila comes from American and European Oak refill casks. It is the oldest bottling ever offered by the distillers. Bright, full gold colour. Dry, medicinal nose with immediate peat smoke, sweet fruits and creaminess.

Firm bodied, fresh, smooth. On the palate, drying and sweetly floral - notes of pine nuts and honey. After this sweet start, medicinal and very maritime. Plenty of smoke in the medium to long finish, leaving a lingering, dry, barbecue aftertaste. Long aging has made this an intricate, dinstinctive malt that's full of flavour. As with all Caol Ilas, the finish just lasts and lasts.

Cragganmore Single Malt Scotch 21 year Old Mission Range - Murray McDavid Bottling

Dallas Dhu Single Malt Scotch 24 year old - Gordon & MacPhail Bottling

The colour is deep gold and the nose is rather complex with floral (honeysuckle), fruity (candied fruits) and slightly peaty hints. The palate is smoothy. Cereals with spicy notes (pepper, nutmeg) fruits (apple) and chocolate. The finish is both smooth and firm, and is dominated by cereal and flowers.

Glenfarclas Single Malt Scotch 25 year old

25 years old ABV 43% Amber with dark gold highlights, full ripe and sweet, finely peated with aromas of orange marmalade, honey, coffee, sherry and nuttiness. The finish fresh with a long lasting smoky maltiness.

Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch 21 year old Gran Riserva

This exceptional 21 Year Old single malt Scotch whisky has been finished for four months in barrels that once contained rum from the Caribbean, infusing the whisky with a rich and indulgent toffee sweetness. At this age, Glenfiddich whisky develops into an exquisitely rich and creamy single malt with a luxurious vibrancy.

Nose: Intense and sweet, floral hints of banana, figs and rich toffee.

TASTE: Initially soft, then brisk and vibrant, peppery, a touch of smoke, vanilla, ginger, lime, spices and new leather.

FINISH: Very long, warming and spicy.

Glenlivet Single Malt Schitch 21 year old - Gordon MacPhail Bottling

Glenlivet Single Malt Scotch Archive 21 year

Rated 93 Malt Advocate Amber chestnut color. Aromas of mature oak, leather, ripe fruit, and toffee are very deep and well balanced. ITs flavors are rich and envelopig, with notes of treacle, toffee, roasted nuts and a long, spicy, woody finish that lingers.

Glenlochy Sigle Malt Scotch 29 year - Silent Stills Bottling

Situated in Fort William, it was built in 1898 by the Glenlocky Fort William Distillery CO. Ltd. It was silent for a number of years in the 1920's before being bought by Train & MacIntyre Ltd. in 1937. It passed to DCI in 1953 and was operated by Scottish Malt Distillers Lts. until is closure in 1983. The site was sold for development i 1991. This scotch in no longer in production.

Highland Park Single Malt Scotch 25 year

Highland Park 25 Year Old is an outstanding malt whisky imbued with richly satisfying qualities. Here, the very essence of Orkney is distilled - the peat, the sea breezes, the heather-honey. These are allowed to mature until it has reached an unqualified perfection.

There's an exceptional finesse to the 25 year old with additional dimensions of malty toffee, fudge and chocolate enriching the heather-honey sweetness and aromatic peatiness. It is universally acclaimed, by the critics, as one of the great single malts.

Color: Natural colour, dark red golden, clear and bright.

Aroma: Very rich, mature oak; chocolate; fudge.

Taste: Full, rich burst of flavour; soft honey; nutty toffee.

Finish: Rich, long and surprisingly sweet for its age.

Isle of Jura Singla Malt Scotch 21 year old

This island playground for the rich and famous lies off the west coast of Scotland. Home to 7 private estates, the soaring Paps of Jura, one shop, one pub and since 1810 one fine malt whisky distillery. Distilled in 1984 to commemorate the famous novel written on the island, this rare whisky has been quietly maturing in beachside warehouses. The deep red mahogany combines with a nose of fresh rich fruit cake, chocolate and orange leaving the smooth taste of soft berries, spice and cinnamon.

AGE � 21 years

COLOUR � Deep amber gold

NOSE � Rich and intense. Soft hints of marzipan and spicy chocolate flaunt themselves in an enticing manner. Aromas of spice and vanilla. Whispers of citrus toffee. Great harmony, warmly expressed.

PALATE � Mellow and seductive. The warmth of the tongue release these wonderful hedonistic flavours of spice, caramel, liquorice and almonds. A spectrum of delight that only age can bring.

Macallan Single Malt Scotch - Fine Oak Series 21 year

The Macallan Fine Oak is triple cask matured in a unique, complex combination of exceptional oak casks;

1. European oak casks seasoned with sherry impart a rich character with hints of dried fruits, spice and chocolate orange.

2. American oak casks seasoned with sherry deliver delicate hints of citrus lemon, coconut and toffee sweetness.

3. American oak casks seasoned with bourbon deliver floral aromas and sweet notes of vanilla and fresh fruits.

This triple cask combination delivers an extraordinarily smooth, delicate yet complex Single Malt matured at The Macallan distillery for a minimum of 21 years.

Colour: Light Amber
Nose: Intense and rich, with a hint of vanilla and passion fruit
Palate: Soft, rich and spicy with a hint of oranges and peat
Finish: Lingering, with a hint of wood smoke

Macallan Single Malt Scotch 25 Year

Available in limited quantities, the full-flavored 25 Year Old Macallan is the essence of everything that is The Macallan--a beautiful color, a heady nose, an exquisitely mellow flavor. The rare product drinks like a fine brandy.

The Macallan was one of the first Highland distilleries to take out a licence in 1824, since when it has been distilled by generations of craftsman on a small estate over looking the River near Craigellachie.

The key to understanding The Macallan lies in the Company's total dedication to quality and attention to detail. A purposefully tradtionalist distillery, no shor cuts are taken in time, investment and production of "the best glass" (Kingles Amis). Alongside its unusally small handbeaten copper stills, The Macallan is perhaps best known for its insistence on sherry aging.

The Macallan malt whisky is matured excluvisely in sherry oak casks from the bodegas of Jerez, Spain. The Spanish oak casks are hand-picked annually then seasoned for three years with the finest Oloroso and fino sherries. Shipped unbroken to Speyside they are filled with ne Macallan spirit and "sleep" for a mandatory 10 years while the cask inparts The Macallan's distinctive mellow flavor and rich golden color.

MacPhail's Single Malt Scotch 25 year

Port Ellen Single Malt Scotch 23 Year Old Oak Cask - Gordon & MacPhail Bottling

This product is a unique and superlative tasting representation of its distillery, following the tradition of independent bottling of single malt scotches. Enjoy it neat, or with a splash of water.

Color - Bright Gold

Nose - Very medicinal, but clean and firm.

Body - Exceptionally oily, creamy

Palate - Smooth and deceptively restrained at first, then the tightly combined flavours emerge: bay leaves, parsley, peppercorns.

Finish - Slowly unfolding. Salty, smoky, oaky. Very warming. A sublety and complexity to which no aquavit or pepper vodka could aspire

Springbank Single Malt Scotch 21 Year Old

46% * This whisky is Springbank's flagship. This elegant, intense, and complex whisky has ferociously dedicated fans. Stocks are short and supply will be tight over the next few years. Whisky writer Jim Murray contributed these tasting notes. The nose has a salty pungency; the sherry is deeper and more dominant and a sweet maltiness filters through. On the palate, the whisky is markedly smoother, smokier and sweeter. The finish is complex: any number of tunes are being played at once, but nowhere near so loud or well defined as the 15 year old, with the sherry acting as the muffler. Heavy, earthy: a connoisseur's dram.

WHISKY OF THE YEAR * "Springbank is often difficult to find, but those who enjoy the challenge of the hunt are rewarded handsomely. Being the classic Campbeltown malt, there is no mistaking the refreshing seasalt character instilled in the malt. This particular bottling is balanced and exceptional with great depth. This whisky expresses all the characteristics that make single malts so exciting: individuality, character and complexity." The Malt Advocate

19.1/20 Rating - The Los Angles Times, Nov. 1993

MOST PREFERRED AFTER DINNER DRINK-Decanter Magizine Three years running!

97 Rating - "Elegance and maturity. Our 'Whisky of the Year' two years ago and well deserved. This whisky remarkably maintains the zest of youth while still expressing the maturity and class of an older whisky, impeccably balanced, with notes of vanilla, lavender, brine, coconut and tropical fruit continually dancing on the palate. A must for anyone's drink cabinet." -The Malt Advocate

Talisker Single Malt Scotch 20yr

From Skye's only distillery, Talisker, this is a very unusual chance to enjoy a mature, 20 year old sherry-cask whisky, in an individually numbered natural cask strength, non chill-filtered bottling.

Talisker Single Malt Scotch Whiskey 25 year old

The only distillery on Skye � once there were 7 � Talisker distillery was founded by the Mac Askill brothers in 1830. Though they provided some much-needed employment they incurred the wrath of the nearby church. His curse seemed to work as the siblings soon sold up and, during the nineteenth century Talisker passed through a number of owners. It had one fan though: Robert Louis Stevenson, who described it as: �The King o� drinks, as I conceive it, Talisker, Isla or Glenlivet.� Today Talisker survives, much because of its ingenuity � and popularity.

Appearance: Bright olive gold.

Nose: Nose drying. Seaweed and old oranges, with smoke in the distance and some chalk. Surprisingly fruity and juicy, although with clear Talisker identity. With water almost soapy, a waxy sweetness. Smoke still present, but now more fragrant.

Body: Firm. Slippery smooth.

Palate: Sweet and meek to start, with some acidity and saltiness. Extraordinary flavour development. Becomes dry, stony, minerally, dusty, toasty. Ground white pepper. Chillies.

Finish: Medium to long, slightly bitter, drying finish with a warming effect. Vegetal.

Glenfarclas Single Malt Scotch 21yr

21 years old ABV 46% A dark amber-gold, full sweet vanilla delicately smoked with a rich and long lasting finish.

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