New Products

Coming Soon We told you earlier about the soon-to-be-with-us Ardbeg Renaissance. Now we're going to give you a sneak preview of some more exciting new releases that should be arriving into our warehouses and hitting the site in the next couple of months. Highland Park 40yo: A new permanent addition to the HP range, which not only bears testament to the top quality of the new-make spirit and the confidence of Edrington in the brand, but is also an astonishing feat of cask management. A permanent 40yo?! Granted it's likely to be expensive so volumes will be understandably low compared to the rest of the range, but it's still pretty impressive that they have enough stock in reserve to make this an ongoing bottling - by way of contrast, the Talisker 1973 that was released in 2001 was claimed to be the oldest at the distillery at just 28 years old. Greenore 15yo: The repackaged 8yo Greenore has been a huge success, with a Gold medal at the International Wine Challenge in 2007 and a Double Gold (whatever that means) at the San Francisco World Spirits Challenge 2008 - although the latter give out so many medals there's a rumour that a bottle of meths left behind by the janitor picked up Best In Class in the 'Unaged Purple Spirit' category. Anyway, Cooley have decided to release this much older expression, which has been aged in first-fill Kentucky bourbon casks. We are told to expect a richer, more robust character with this release, which is limited to 5000 bottles and is the oldest single Irish grain whiskey ever released. (picture nicked from Ho-Cheng's blog ) Glenmorangie Astar: The second generation of the now-discontinued Artisan Cask . Sadly the marketing department were unable to refrain from giving it a silly name - 'Astar' apparently means 'Journey' (sigh). Like the previous incarnation, the whisky is matured in 'designer' casks made with American Ozark oak. The wood is air-dried naturally for around two years and the ca

Ardbeg Renaissance Update Ardbeg Renaissance 10yo: This will be with us very soon, and after a sneak preview dram at Whisky Live, we can't wait. The press release reckons that last year's Almost There was supposed to be the last release in the series charting the evolution of the new-make spirit since production re-started in 1998 - but apparently the faithful weren't having that and demanded a proper bottling of this cask-strength (55.9%) 10yo to finish the series off. And quite rightly so. Ardbeg Renaissance is the first ten-year old to incorporate 100% spirit distilled since the takeover and is a celebration of the ten hugely successful years since. It should be with us in the next few weeks.