Blended Malt Scotch Whisky

A 5 year old blended malt whisky under the Braemar label, originally produced for export to Italy.

The fourth release of Compass Box's much-loved Flaming Heart blended malt generated a lot of buzz when it made its debut at Whisky Live Paris 2012, and has arrived with a very smart revamped design and a glowing review from Mr. Whiskyfun, Serge Valentin. A terrific combination of vibrant, youthful peat and citrus fruitiness, we expect this to be hugely popular, so act quick.

A 1970s release of Glenleven blended malt whisky (formerly known as vatted malt), aged for at least 12 years before bottling.

A faithful replica of Ernest Shackleton's whisky, which was discovered under the Antarctic explorer's abandoned hut after being buried under the ice for a century. Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt has been painstakingly recreated by Whyte & Mackay's Master Blender Richard Paterson at the original strength of 47.3%. A real collector's item.

A second edition of the story laden Shackleton's whisky - Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt. Inspired by 2013's Shackleton Epic expedition, retracing the steps of Sir Ernest and crew during part of their Endurance expedition, Richard Paterson has taken the base of the first blend and made the finished product even more refined.

Supposedly a happy accident when someone mistakenly poured some young Glen Moray into a vat of old Ardbeg. Now, you can call me a craven old cynic, but this is the second time that this has happened with Glenmorangie. When I was with Oddbins in '99 there was a product called 80:20 which was 80% Glenmorangie and 20% something else. The cover story was exactly the same...

An old 1980s bottling of this famous blend.

A special 1992 bottling of Macphail's blended Highland malt whisky, produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen's coronation in 1993.

A rare and highly desirable limited edition release from Ballantine's. A blended malt whisky that was originally only available in Travel Retail, it's presented in a rather elegant teardrop shaped decanter.

A whisky commemorating the end of an era in Whisky history - the enactment of the Scotch Whisky Regulations of 2009. After the 22nd of November 2011 whiskies can no longer be labelled as Vatted Malts, the new term being the (debatably) confusing Blended Malt Whisky. This bottling, a cask strength vatting of 35 year old Speyside whisky and 26 year old Islay whisky, is Compass Box's tribute.

Whisky Bible 2013: 96.5 Points

A 1960s bottling of John Haig & Co's Glenleven blended malt (then vatted malt) whisky. We don't know how long this whisky was aged for as the neck label with that information on has fallen off.

An 8 year old whisky bottled in 1995 to celebrate Morrison-Bowmore winning the first ever IWSC Best Distiller award. It's a vatting of whiskies from Bowmore, Auchentoshan and Glen Garioch.

The third in a remarkable series of vatted malts, with the whisky collected from each of the big seven Islay distilleries plus Jura by a team of rowers and barrel rollers. The full remarkable story is included in a letter enclosed with the bottle.

An 8 year old Blended Malt Whisky from Springbank, rather than their usual Single Malt, bottled back in the 1980s and with light and clean styled label that they used to use back then.

A bottle of Bell's Pure Malt whisky, presented with a rather unusual black label and released sometime in the 1970s.

A vatting made from 'pillaged' whisky from Ardbeg, Bruichladdich, Bowmore, Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila, Lagavulin, and Laphroaig distilleries. Kevin Campbell (Lagavulin Fund Raisers) put together a team to row to each distillery to 'pillage' whisky for the vatting which was bottled at Bruichladdich distillery bottling hall.

A special vatting of Scotch whiskies that were 'pillaged' during a special charity event back in 2005. The vatting contains whiskies from 9 different distilleries, all of which are at least 12 years old.