€43Original price was: €43.€39.95Current price is: €39.95.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber. This is a presentation inference based on the cask type and retailer imagery rather than a directly stated official colour note.
Nose: Rich sherry, dark fruit, oak spice, chocolate, and dense malty notes. This is a style-led summary supported by retailer descriptions calling it a heavily sherried Benrinnes.
Palate: Full and bold with dried fruit, toffee, spice, dark chocolate, and a weighty, meaty Speyside character.
Finish: Long and warming with lingering sherry richness, oak spice, and dark malt sweetness. This finish wording is a careful adaptation of the cask style and retailer profile rather than a direct official tasting note.
Finish: Long and warming with lingering fruit, nutty depth, vanilla sweetness, and gentle oak spice. This finish wording is lightly adapted from retailer tasting descriptions to fit your page style.
€32Original price was: €32.€22Current price is: €22.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Bright gold. This is an inference based on product imagery and style rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Ripe juicy pear, peat smoke, oak, honey, vanilla, and apples. This combines the official Black Bottle profile with retailer tasting notes.
Palate: Green apple, biscuity caramel, fruity peat, gentle spice, and rich oaky notes, with a balance between smoke and orchard-fruit sweetness. The balance wording is an inference based on the official and retailer tasting notes.
Finish: Charred embers, deep dark smoke, sprays of sea-salt, and lingering warmth.
€20.50Original price was: €20.50.€15Current price is: €15.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep gold. This is an inference based on product imagery and style rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Fresh florals, oak, spice, and smoke, with hints of sea salt, honey, and a lightly savoury bacon-like edge. This combines the official Black Bottle notes with retailer tasting descriptors.
Palate: Silky and mellow, with dry wood smoke, balanced peat, sweet oak, heather honey, and charred toffee.
Finish: Soft and elegantly spicy, with blackened bonfire notes, pepper, nutmeg, and a gentle lingering smokiness.
Colour: Warm amber. This is an inference based on retailer imagery and one retailer’s visual description rather than a formally published official colour note.
Nose: Dried nuts, rich fruit, maple syrup, and oak, with vanilla, figs, fudge, carrot cake, and a wisp of smoke. This note combines the official Black Bottle flavour description with retailer tasting notes.
Palate: Layers of vanilla, toasted coconut, caramel-coated nuts, raisins, cherries, nutmeg, cinnamon, honey, and smoked toffee.
Finish: Sweet and softly smoky, with delicate smoke drifting through nutty chocolate and lingering spice.
€23.95Original price was: €23.95.€16.95Current price is: €16.95.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber with ruby-gold hints. This is an inference based on the sherry-and-wine-cask style and product imagery rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Dried fruit, walnuts, raisins, wood, and orange, with extra touches of blackcurrant, damson, and coffee cake from retailer tasting notes.
Palate: Sweet Spanish sherry cask flavours lead into berries, cherry, raspberry, vanilla cream, and soft warming spice.
Finish: Long and dry, with grapes, overflowing red wine, flamed toffee, toasted brown sugar, and a light smoky tail.
€23.95Original price was: €23.95.€17.95Current price is: €17.95.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden vanilla. This wording follows retailer presentation rather than an official current producer colour note.
Nose: Surging spices, island peat, maritime medicinal notes, toasted cedar, earthy smoke, sweet toffee, and a touch of cinnamon.
Palate: A union of earth and ocean, with black pepper and sea salt colliding with sweet cereal, vanilla, cardamom, oatcakes, seaweed, and salted caramel.
Finish: Long and warming, with waves of oak spice, smoke, and lingering dry sea salt.
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is an inference based on product imagery and the charred-oak style rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Initial notes of salt and seaweed reminiscent of sea air, with dark smoke, crisp spice, coastal peat, smoked herbs, and touches of toasted barley and salted caramel.
Palate: Intense toasted spices, powerful peat, charred oak, golden barley, hints of vanilla cream, honeyed barley, toffee, and a lingering coastal sea-spray note.
Finish: Long and smoky, with salted caramel, deep smoke, and a persistent peaty warmth.
Colour: Deep amber. This is a presentation-led inference based on the Oloroso cask style and bottle imagery.
Nose: Dried fruit, warm malt, toffee, honey, gentle oak spice, and nutty sherry warmth.
Palate: Rich and rounded with sherried depth, sweet malt, spice, and a bold Highland structure. This palate wording is carefully adapted from retailer descriptions to fit your page style.
Finish: Long and warming with lingering dried fruit, oak spice, and nutty sherry richness. This finish wording is an informed adaptation from the available tasting descriptions rather than a formal official finish note.
€78Original price was: €78.€68Current price is: €68.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Bright gold. This is an inference based on the natural presentation and the appearance shown in reviewed bottle imagery for this exact release.
Nose: Ripe fruits, plums, berries, raisins and peach, with some floral notes and a warming cask-strength edge. This is based on reviewed tasting notes for this exact release.
Palate: Spicy and warming, with green apple, pear, light vanilla, some grainy sweetness and noticeable oak. This is based on reviewed tasting notes for this exact release.
Finish: Long, warming and fruit-led, with lingering spice and oak. This is an inference based on reviewed tasting notes and the cask-strength single-cask profile of this exact release.
€120Original price was: €120.€105Current price is: €105.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Gold. This is based on a published tasting review for Bunnahabhain 15 Year Old 2008 Duncan Taylor Single Sherry Cask 70cl, 54.6%.
Nose: Citrus, honey, praline, blond turrĂłn and a discreet coastal breeze. This is based on published tasting notes for Bunnahabhain 15 Year Old 2008 Duncan Taylor Single Sherry Cask 70cl, 54.6%.
Palate: Elegant and full-bodied, with citrus, honey, maritime touches, toasted nuts, red fruit and buttercream. This combines published retailer tasting notes and a detailed tasting review for Bunnahabhain 15 Year Old 2008 Duncan Taylor Single Sherry Cask 70cl, 54.6%.
Finish: Long, saltier and gently lingering, with coastal freshness and sherried depth. This is based on published tasting notes and review commentary for Bunnahabhain 15 Year Old 2008 Duncan Taylor Single Sherry Cask 70cl, 54.6%.
Colour: Deep amber. This is an inference based on the sherry octave finish description, the whisky’s long age, and product imagery for Bunnahabhain 30 Year Old 1989 The Octave (Duncan Taylor) Bottle No.29 70cl, 50.8%.
Nose: Dried fruits, polished oak, dark sugar, warming spice and a gentle maritime edge. This is an inference based on the stated sherry octave finish, mature Bunnahabhain style and natural cask-strength presentation.
Palate: Rich malt, raisins, toffee, oak spice and coastal salinity, with concentrated sweetness from the octave cask influence. This is an inference based on the stated ex-sherry octave cask maturation and the whisky’s 30 year age.
Finish: Long, warming and layered, moving from sweet sherried richness into drier oak and lingering spice. This is an inference based on the whisky’s age, cask-strength style and sherry octave finish.
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is an inference based on the sherry influence, rye component and the published bottle presentation reviewed.
Nose: Rich and spicy, with prominent rye notes, a strong wave of peat smoke and a touch of apple sweetness in the background. This is based on the published tasting notes reviewed.
Palate: Barbecue sauce, smoky sausage, rye spice and peat, with the smoky and savoury profile holding together in a bold, highly unusual way. This is based on the published tasting notes reviewed.
Finish: Long, smoky and lingering. This is based on the published tasting notes reviewed.
€38Original price was: €38.€31.55Current price is: €31.55.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Bright gold. This is an inference based on first-fill bourbon maturation and retailer imagery rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Vanilla bean, caramel, coconut, and sweet cereal notes with a soft creamy lift. This is based on published retailer descriptors, expanded into fuller note form.
Palate: Buttery toffee, honeyed grain, gentle oak spice, and a rounded, creamy texture that carries the sweetness well.
Finish: Smooth and warming, with lingering vanilla, toasted almond, and a softly drying oak note.
€42Original price was: €42.€37Current price is: €37.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is an inference based on oloroso cask maturation and retailer imagery rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Dark caramel, dried fruits, roasted nuts, butterscotch, maple syrup, and a light floral lift. This is based on published retailer descriptors, expanded into fuller note form.
Palate: Rich toffee, spiced oak, chocolate-covered raisins, and underlying vanilla sweetness with a smooth grain texture running through the middle.
Finish: Long and warming, with lingering sherry spice, toasted almonds, and gently drying oak.
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is a presentation-led inference based on the cask mix and bottle imagery.
Nose: Coastal peat smoke, sea air, dried fruit, and sweet sherry notes with a hint of citrus. This nose wording is a careful adaptation from retailer descriptions and the stated cask types rather than a formal official distillery sheet.
Palate: Rich and smoky with fruit, toffee, citrus, and a clean maritime edge.
Finish: Long and warming with lingering peat smoke, sweet oak, spice, and coastal freshness. This finish wording is an informed adaptation from the available tasting descriptions rather than a formal official finish note.
€149Original price was: €149.€139.90Current price is: €139.90.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber. This is a presentation-led inference based on the first-fill oloroso cask style and retailer imagery rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Barbecue smoke, dried fruits, treacle toffee, coastal brine, dark chocolate, and sultanas.
Palate: Full-bodied and warming with layers of peat smoke, spiced prunes, molasses, espresso, leather, and oak char.
Finish: Long and smoky, with lingering rich sherry, black pepper, and smoked almonds.
€159Original price was: €159.€130Current price is: €130.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Dark gold. This is directly supported by the official tasting information.
Nose: Red apple and lime zest give way to strawberry jam, followed by cinnamon spice, vanilla custard, and toasted oak. This is directly supported by the official tasting note.
Palate: Sweet toffee combines with rich smoke and orange oil, while stewed apples are balanced by slight ashy tones and white pepper. This is directly supported by the official tasting note.
Finish: Full and spicy, with citrus fruit and bonfire embers. This is directly supported by the official tasting note.
€135Original price was: €135.€115Current price is: €115.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep gold to rich amber. This is an inference based on the refill sherry puncheon maturation and the published tasting profile.
Nose: Red stewed berries, ginger spice, and pressed apple, followed by toffee, raspberry compote, and cocoa powder. This is supported by the reviewed tasting note.
Palate: Rich blackcurrant combines with Demerara sugar and clementine, while dark plum and figs are balanced by black pepper. This is supported by the reviewed tasting note.
Finish: Full and long, with charred oak and dark forest fruit. This is supported by the reviewed tasting note.
€120Original price was: €120.€105Current price is: €105.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber.
Nose: Earthy leather, wet leaves, nutty spice, burnt orange and black liquorice.
Palate: Sweet malt, coffee and salted caramel with layered sherried depth.
Finish: Long and warming with lingering oak spice, orange peel and dark sweetness. This finish description is a careful inference from the published profile and cask style.
€320Original price was: €320.€299Current price is: €299.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is a presentation-led inference based on sherry cask maturation and bottle imagery.
Nose: Rich sherry notes, dried fruit, malt sweetness, spice, and a firm Speyside character. This is a careful style-led summary based on the sherry butt maturation and available retailer descriptions.
Palate: Full and powerful with dark fruit, toffee, oak spice, nutty richness, and concentrated malt. This is a style-consistent tasting summary inferred from the cask type, strength, and release style because a detailed official tasting note was not clearly available in the sources I found.
Finish: Long and warming with lingering sherry sweetness, oak spice, and rich malty depth. This finish is also an informed inference from the cask and bottling details rather than a direct official tasting note.
€89Original price was: €89.€85Current price is: €85.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is an inference based on the sherry cask style and bottle imagery rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Sweet lemon, green apples, herbs, honey, and sherry raisins. This is based on a published Whiskybase tasting note and supported by the whisky’s tagged profile.
Palate: White pepper, red orange, red grapes, honey, delicate ginger sweetness, and a rounded sherried fruit profile. This is based on a published Whiskybase tasting note, lightly expanded into cleaner note form.
Finish: Medium and gently spicy, staying sweet with lingering lime and warming oak. This is based on a published Whiskybase tasting note and lightly polished for readability.
€89Original price was: €89.€82Current price is: €82.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep mahogany. This is a presentation-led inference based on the first-fill Oloroso cask style and product imagery.
Nose: Rich sherry, dried fruit, dark sweetness, polished oak, and warming spice. This nose wording is a careful style-led adaptation based on the cask type and release format because I did not find a solid official tasting sheet for this exact bottling.
Palate: Full-bodied and concentrated with dark fruit, treacle, cocoa, sweet malt, and structured oak spice. This palate wording is also an informed adaptation from the release style and cask details rather than a published official tasting note.
Finish: Long and warming with lingering sherry richness, dried fruit, oak, and dark spice. This finish wording is an inference from the cask style and available listing information rather than a formal official finish note.
€140Original price was: €140.€120Current price is: €120.
Tasting Notes
Style: A varied rum tasting journey, with each dram offering its own character.
Nose: Expect caramel, molasses, banana, vanilla, coconut, dried fruit, coffee, spice, oak and tropical fruit.
Palate: The selection may include rich aged rums, lighter tropical styles, cask-led expressions, sweet spice, chocolate, tobacco and fruit-forward profiles.
Finish: Varies by dram, from soft and sweet to warming, spicy, oaky, fruity, dry or long and richly textured.
€39.95Original price was: €39.95.€29.95Current price is: €29.95.
Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin is an oriental-inspired spirit from The Shed Distillery in Co Leitrim that’s setting the world alight. Taking its name from one of the signature botanicals, slowly dried Gunpowder tea, the recipe also includes lime, lemon and grapefruit. This will work best with a Mediterranean tonic water.
The limited edition ceramic bottle features illustrations that tell the brand’s story inspired by the iconic Willow pattern.
€280Original price was: €280.€245Current price is: €245.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber gold. This is a visual inference based on the reviewed product image and the whisky’s mature age.
Nose: Creamy malt, runny honey, pear drops and grapefruit sherbet.
Palate: Smooth and rounded with vanilla grain sweetness, soft citrus and honeyed oak. This is a careful style-led inference from the published note and the whisky’s single grain profile.
Finish: Lingering black tea, gentle oak spice and fading citrus sweetness. This is a careful inference from the published note and mature grain style.
A one litre bottle of Famous Grouse Winter Reserve, which was, as expected, a limited winter release unveiled at the tail end of 2018. The blend features a good helping of malt whiskies aged in sherry casks, imparting a classic spicy sherried character that’ll be sure to warm your cockles during the cold months. There’s even a seasonal snow grouse on the bottle to keep you company.