Tasting Selection Whisky Favorites 08.2020 5 x 0,04l

 <p>Every month we select the most exciting new products from our top sellers in the whiskey category and use them to create an interesting whiskey tasting selection.</p><p>The following whiskeys have been selected for August 2020:</p><p><strong>Smokehead Rum Rebel 46% vol. Sample 0.04l</strong></p><p>A new Smokehead attracts attention - in a limited edition!</p><p>Smoky, peaty-salty Smokehead meets sweet, spicy Caribbean rum - an extraordinary single malt whiskey from the island of Islay!</p><ul><li>Aroma: intense peat aromas, then becoming sweeter, burnt marshmallows and roasted pineapple, followed by bananas and ham</li><li>Taste: mouth-filling - oily with a slight touch of vinegar, plus intense smoke and medicinal tones - above all honey and lime</li><li>Finish: long finish with tones of burning oak logs - the fruit again in the background</li></ul><p><strong>Scarabus Islay Single Malt Hunter Laing 46% vol. Sample 0.04l</strong></p><p>Scarabus is an ancient mystical place on Islay - in the ancient Nordic language Scarabus means rocky place.</p><p>This Islay single malt is a whiskey for those who are curious and have an eye for detail.</p><p>On the label and the gift box there is the slogan "only those who seek shall find" - only those who look will find!</p><p>The symbols on the bottle are intentionally ambiguous. The design was inspired by the work of Islay-born John Francis Campbell, who developed the Sunshine Recorder, a device that records the hours of sunshine in a day and compiles a large collection of Celtic folklore stories.</p><ul><li>Aroma: a lot of Islay peat and sea salt, then clear aromas of green apples and old leather - above all campfire smoke</li><li>Taste: warming, the leather again - then notes of boiled down rhubarb with an elegant vanilla sweetness, with soft toffee behind</li><li>Finish: long, intense finish with clear peat and charred wood</li></ul><p><strong>Orkney 10 year old 2009/2020 Director's Choice Home of Malts 46% vol. Sample 0.04l</strong></p><p>Our pride in 2020!</p><p>A bottling under our own name - besides the Caol Ila, this is our second bottling under the name Director's Choice!</p><p>The single malt whiskey from the better known of the two distilleries in the Orkneys is not allowed to reveal its name for legal reasons.</p><p>Be that as it may - the contents of the barrel make our hearts beat faster, because here is something completely atypical for this renowned distillery!</p><p>The single malt whiskey has matured for ten years since 2009 in the former bourbon barrel with the number 5246 - then on June 15, 2020, only 477 bottles with a drinking strength of 46% vol. Alcohol content bottled and the barrel was empty ...</p><ul><li>Aroma: clearly beeswax and heather in the foreground - sweet and soft, with ripe limes and lemons, fruity aromas of ripe pears and honeydew melon with ham in the background</li><li>Taste: clear and pure in taste - now the ripe pears are present (reminiscent of a noble Williams Christ Brand), paired with notes of lemon balm and melon with ham - behind it soft, polished leather</li><li>Finish: soft, long and warming in the finish - again the lemon balm, with a little honey</li></ul><p><strong>Glendalough Single Cask Burgundy Finish 42% vol. Sample 0.04l</strong></p><p>Only 366 bottles were filled from this single barrel bottling.</p><p>First matured in a first-fill ex-Bourbon barrel, then matured in a Grand Cru Pinot Noir Burgundy barrel.</p><ul><li>Aroma: first fruity vanilla, then dark berries and slightly spicy aromas of cinnamon and oak</li><li>Taste: full, soft body with notes of butterscotch and mild honey, plus the berries and the spicy notes - above all a slightly earthy note</li><li>Finish: long, now clearly spicy finish with cardamom, aniseed and ground cinnamon bark - in the background raisins, figs and dark chocolate</li></ul><p><strong>Caol Ila 7 year old 2012/2020 Director's Choice Home of Malts 46% vol. 0.7l</strong></p><p>There it is - our first bottling under our own name!</p><p>We searched for a long time and then found this young Caol Ila who knows how to hide his youth very well!</p><p>A real representative of the Islay whiskey island with everything you would expect - and a little more ...</p><p>Distilled in 2012, the single malt whiskey matured exclusively in the former bourbon barrel with the number 331914.</p><p>On June 15, 2020 the time had come and the barrel was at a drinking strength of 46% vol. Alcohol content without cold filtration and without coloring in only 387 bottles.</p><ul><li>Aroma: hot at the beginning, then immediately smoked bacon and soft peat in abundance, then the scent of gauze bandages in an open medicine cabinet - in the background wax and old, damp wood</li><li>Taste: very soft and mouth-filling - surprisingly sweet at the beginning, then the peat again (but not too much) - reminiscent of a damp moor landscape, followed by bacon and light tones of tart herbs</li><li>Finish: medium-long finish with a slight sweetness - peat, bog and</li></ul>