Categorie: Nieuws

Kilkerran 8 yo ‘Cask Strength Batch 5’ (56.9%, OB, 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Casks, 2021)
Kilkerran 5 yo 2015/2021 (57.3%, Cadenhead, Annual Shop Release 2021, Campbeltown, sherry hogshead, 306 bottles)

Here we go with something new. Today marks the release of the first episode of my new interview series where we get to know the people who make the whiskey industry what it is. I hope you enjoy the journey we’re about to go on! Episode one is live. You can see the video below as well as Mr. Uhde’s responses.

What’s the most memorable drink you’ve ever had? (toast at child’s wedding, birth, on a trip, whatever)
The Macallan Lalique 60 year old in the bottom of the Aria Hotel in Vegas.
What’s the most transformative moment in your career?
When I started doing volunteer curation at the Daily Pint in Santa Monica. It was where I started establishing my name in whisky.
Do you have a favorite artist? Writer, painter, pottery maker, etc?
If so what draws you to them? I don’t know if I have a favorite, I enjoy art as a single instance experience. I absorb what I am able to and then move forward as a slightly changed person. I ain’t too complex in my thoughts.
What about favorite movie or book?
Reading has never been easy for me so books are not really a thing, however I love listening to authors talk about their books because I appreciate their insight into relationships and situations. Movie…… Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki
What’s the accomplishment you’re most proud of? (career, life, hobby, whatever)
The life I have created in Los Angeles. Wonderful family, fulfilling career, good friends. I am living my best years ever now and it is nothing like anything I would have dreamed when I was young.
Let’s say you had to give up your current career and you had the resources and time to start over pursuing any career you wanted. What would you do?
Wow, so this is one I have to think about, but knee jerk reaction is to open a street taco combo Philly cheese steak shop in Japan.
Do you have any hobbies, obsessions or collections that extend beyond the booze world?
I fucking love playing soccer. I play whenever I can despite being slow and clumsy.
What’s your typical Friday night look like?
Hang with my wife and kid. The good life.
What’s your favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Soda Water or Coffee
What’s the most memorable meal of your life?
Taking my Mom out for Wagyu steak and anything else she wanted on the menu. She is my hero and deserves everything in the world.
2 openers and one headliner; what’s your dream concert?
Queen with original lineup opens, the 1960’s James Brown follows and then The Who headlines
You have 30 days with nothing to do and an unlimited budget, what would be your dream vacation/travel itinerary?
Either intense tour of Japan or Spain/ Portugal
Finally, what’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given (life, career, whatever) that you’d like to share with folks?
Your child/ children will grow faster than you think, don’t miss it.

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more floral, fruity and fragrant expression and some great herbal influences in here too. Stone fruits play the lead here with some tropical nature later. 85/100

The seventh release in the Private Editions line was the Glenmorangie Milsean (2016) which is Gaelic for Sweet Things. Created by the always curious Dr. Bill Lumsden, who oversees the production of both Glenmorangie and Ardbeg, he’s the mastermind behind these special editions. He’s the orchestrator of their creation and final release, so if you don’t like one he’s the guy to blame! 😉

To make Milsean, Dr. Bill and team got their hands on 269 Portuguese red wine barriques (casks) and had them re-toasted. This re-toasting caramelized the sugars from the wine to create an abundance of soluble sugars for their 10-year-old Glenmorangie spirit to absorb. For 2 years after that, Dr. Bill kept the barrels in the coolest corners of their warehouses to try and keep everything as balanced as possible.

After 2 years 167 of the wine barriques were chosen to be dumped, blended together and then put back in the casks for another 6 months to marry and finish. After the additional finishing was complete they dumped all the barrels, chill-filtered the whisky and bottled it as Glenmorangie Milsean.

Though, a quick note on Glenmorangie’s particular chill filtering. It’s considered a “light chill-filtration”, a brisk autumn morning chill filtration is you will. They only cool the whisky down to 7 degrees Celsius (44.6 Fahrenheit) and then use a “wider than average” filter to allow some of the oils to remain in the whisky. This occurs for every release that doesn’t expressly say “Non-Chill Filtered” on the bottle.

Let’s get to drinin’!

Glenmorangie Milsean – Details and Tasting Notes

 

Whiskey Details

Natural Color

Style: Single Malt (Scotch)
Region: Highlands, Scotland
Distiller: Glenmorangie

Mash Bill: 100% Malted Barley
Cask: ex-Bourbon, ex-Madeira
Age: 12+ Years
ABV: 46%

Released: 2016 (7th)

Glenmorangie Milsean Price: NA – Auction, Specialty Store or Private Seller (originally $100)

Related Whiskey

Glenmorangie Finealta
Glenmorangie Artein
Glenmorangie Ealanta
Glenmorangie Companta
Glenmorangie Tusail

“Glenmorangie Milsean (Scots Gaelic for ‘sweet things’ and pronounced ‘meel-shawn’) is a single malt whisky full of intense candied fruit flavours and mouth-watering sweetness.” – Glenmorangie

Glenmorangie Milsean Tasting Notes

EYE
Ruddy orange

NOSE
Vanilla, butterscotch, malt, candy dots on wax paper, tropical and orchard fruit, citrus peels and dried fruit with lots of light sweet notes floating about.

Smells like an olde time candy shop which, coincidentally, is what they were going for.

PALATE
Vanilla, butterscotch, malt, candy dots, tropical and orchard fruit, dry cocoa, lemon zest, baking spice and dark sweets

Maltier than the aroma, but that same candy shop essence exists with light and dark sweet notes accompanied by fruit, chocolate and lemon zest with a light bit of baking spice.

FINISH
Medium -> Fruit, powdered sugar and a buttery sweetness.

BALANCE, BODY & FEEL
Can’t exactly call it balanced as it’s one sweet note after another. However, it does have a nice full body and a soft syrupy feel to it.

Glenmorangie Milsean – Overall Thoughts and Score

A single glass of Glenmorangie Milsean is not a bad thing, but towards the end of my first review dram I didn’t immediately want another. A second would have been overwhelming in the sweetness department and I’m not a sweets guy… or sweet guy. I’m a salty/savory curmudgeonly guy. Though, I’m not so saccharophobic that I can’t tell when a whisky has merit. There are no foul, harsh or off-notes so I can’t completely trash it just because I don’t have a sweet tooth.

Of all the private editions this is the most decisive, at least in my circle of whisky friends. I’ve read some glowing reviews of it, and I think it all has to do with your love or tolerance for sweetness. If you like sweet things you’re going to love the Glenmorangie Milsean. If you don’t you probably won’t.

SCORE: 3/5 (above average, worth checking out ~ B- | 80-82) – Thanks to Travis for the sample

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Benromach Abbey Whisky Exclusive

£69.99

Benromach 11 Year Old – 2010 | Cask 388 | Abbey Whisky Exclusive

It’s no secret, we love Benromach. The spirit they produce at the distillery is fantastic and their cask management is superb. This 11 year old Speyside malt has been fully matured in a first fill bourbon barrel, resulting in a delightful combination of sweet smoke, toasted almonds, spice and tropical fruit. Cask 388 has been selected exclusively by Abbey Whisky with 228 bottles filled. We’re delighted with this latest offering.

The Lakes – Whiskymakers Edition – Mosaic Whisky

THE LAKES – WHISKYMAKERS EDITION

MOSAIC – LIMITED EDITION WHISKY

70cl | 46.6% ABV

Mosaic has a mellow, rustic elegance in keeping with its cosmopolitan influences. Taking inspiration from the Silk Road, the ancient intercontinental avenue of east west trade and cultural exchange, Mosaic unites eclectic influences and flavours in a singular, sophisticated expression.

Expect notes of dried fruits, roasted macadamia nuts, sultanas, oriental wood, dried orange peel, chocolate malt, autumn leaves and hints of nutmeg.

£89.95

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The Speyside region, surrounded by the Highlands of Scotland, is home to many of the whisky worlds biggest names, including Glenfiddich, Glenlivet and Macallan. Alongside these iconic whiskies, Speyside offers a whole host of superb, great value whiskies, from rich, sherried drams and smoky peated single malts to lighter and more fragrant expressions.

Making up more than 60% of Scotland’s single malt whisky production, there’s no doubt Speyside has a dram for everyone, so why not dive into a few of our highlights below?

SHOP SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALTS

 

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Killowen Distillery USA Launch

Killowen Distillery has just launched its small batch products in the USA (online only).  Thanks to our importer partners Highroad Spirits we are entering many states and are available online via Folsom Wine & Spirits.

If you have a good liquerstore, you can have them order it within NYC, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago and Kentucky, thanks to suppliers such as Skurnik and The Wine Company so get speaking with your local quality premises soon before they hit the stores at the start of March.

What’s going to be available?

All cask strength Whiskey’s of course.

5-year-Old Single Malt Rum & Raisin small-batch core for a start and of-course say goodbye to 6 of the hugely successful & discontinued small batch 10-year-Old bonded experimental series, only 348 bottles of each cask: Jamacian Dark Rum, Mexican tequila, Virgin Hungaran Oak, Pinot Noir – Burgundy, Txakolina – Acacia heads & Peated Cask. These being among most unique exciting blends to come out of Ireland in the past three years.

Once these bottles go, the Bonded Experimental Series is retired to the history books, so get opening and enjoy those unique flavors while you can.

In the true sense of Killowen, absolute consistency is never our aim, thankfully any future Rum & Raisin single malt batches will be slightly different, which will include the influence of all three components 1. single malt 2. PX Sherry Casks & 3. Killowen Rum Casks. It’s always fun to revisit and see if we can improve upon perfection.

Killowen are also releasing their small-batch Flame-fed poitín to the states.

Poitín, the mother of all whiskeys has survived centuries of oppression from colonialism and later powerful whiskey lobbies at home. Poitín’s day will come, but until then, it is enjoying a huge upsurge in popularity throughout Ireland and internationally among those in the know.

At its best, poitín is made in small batches, using flame-fed distillation, worm tub condensation and creative mash bills.

Killowen has already dubbed 2022 as ‘The Year of The Poitín’