New Releases: Benromach, Mossburn, Tamnavulin, Orphan Barrel

This week in new scotch whisky releases, Benromach asks you should you want peated or unpeated spirits, and Mossburn finishes in Calvados casks. Tamnavulin provides to its core vary, and The Orphan Barrel Whiskey Co. releases an aged scotch. 

Let’s check out a number of the new releases on the earth of scotch whisky this week. 

Benromach Contrasts: Unpeated 

Benromach Distillery has unveiled the newest installment in its Contrasts sequence, which challenges drinkers to match each peated and unpeated single malts and determine which they like. 

This Benromach Contrasts whisky is an unpeated expression matured for 9 years in a mix of bourbon and sherry casks. The ensuing single malt “offers candy and floral aromas on the nostril, adopted by a fruity palate with underlying liquorice, oak and natural influences. A medium end provides contemporary menthol and a contact of pepper.” 

Keith Cruickshank, Distillery Supervisor at Benromach, mentioned: “With our Contrasts vary, we intention to develop whiskies that showcase the handmade expertise of our distillers – and that is no exception. However this specific unpeated launch offers the very definition of a distinction – so we’d love to listen to what whisky drinkers assume.”

Benromach Contrasts: Unpeated is bottled at 46% ABV and has an RRP of £60. You should buy the expression by way of the Benromach Distillery website. 

Mossburn 12 12 months Outdated Domaine Dupont Calvados Cask End 

Mossburn has collaborated with Domaine Dupont to provide a Speyside malt whisky completed in French oak barrels that after matured Calvados and Pommeau. Aged for 12 years, the whisky was bottled at 57.2% ABV. 

Solely 7,520 bottles shall be made out there globally, with 2,580 within the US and 1,400 within the UK. The remainder of Europe may have 3,540 bottles out there. The whisky has an RRP of $90 and may be bought by way of Master of Malt and The Whisky Exchange. 

The Speyside Malt Whisky was matured in ex-bourbon after which completed in uncommon casks that after held French apple brandy. The expression celebrates an ongoing friendship between Mossburn and Domaine Dupont, a Calvados producer primarily based in Normandy. 

Tasting notes for the brand new launch function “baked pink apples […] vanilla cream, pink peppercorn, and oaky spice” on the nostril. The palate is “apple sweetness […] heathery cereal notes [and] gentle ginger,” on the palate. 

Whiskymaker, Neil Macleod Mathieson, feedback: “When taking a look at collaborative efforts, one likes to show to 1’s oldest associates. Having labored with the Dupont household for 30 years and admired the deft contact with which they introduce oak to their Calvados, I used to be positive this is able to permit us to make use of their domestically coopered casks to nice impact on a Speyside malt end, emphasising its typical heathery and floral notes. Even earlier than casking, we have been imagining Autumn days and spiced baked apples – what a deal with.”

Tamnavulin Port Cask Version 

Tamnavulin Distillery has added a Port Cask Version single malt scotch to its core vary. Initially matured in American oak ex-bourbon barrels, the whisky is then completed in Tawny Port wine casks from the Douro Valley. 

The ensuing whisky is imbued with “delicate flavours of candy biscuit, creamy vanilla, and delicate hints of apple and pear,” from the bourbon casks. The end in Port Casks then transforms the whisky. 

In line with a model press launch, “The nostril reveals ripe pink berries, plums, and darkish chocolate, delicately layered with notes of rose syrup, candy biscuit, and spiced orange. On the palate, it unfolds right into a wealthy medley of honeyed poached pears, berry compote, dried fruits, and creamy caramel, unveiling a nutty end.”

Bottled at 40% ABV, Tamnavulin Port Cask Version is now out there in Tesco and Sainsbury’s for an RRP of £35. The whisky will launch in Asda on October seventeenth. 

Woven Honor Single Malt Scotch Whisky Aged 18 Years

The Orphan Barrel Whiskey Co. has launched a brand new single malt scotch whisky distilled on the Linkwood Distillery. Woven Honor Single Malt Scotch Whisky Aged 18 Years was matured for nearly 20 years in American oak barrels. 

In true Orphan Barrel type, the whisky is introduced in a decanter with a placing label that depicts a spider meticulously constructing an online. In line with a model press launch, the label represents “how this whisky was crafted with the identical precision, harmoniously mixing nature’s most interesting parts with conventional methods.” 

The graceful single malt has “a taste and aroma gentle as silk.” Tasting notes embody “a fruit medley of inexperienced apple and lemon zest alongside vanilla and honeycomb.” 

Woven Honor Single Malt Scotch Whisky Aged 18 Years is a US unique and is accessible by way of ReserveBar and TheBar.com. The recommended retail value is $185.