Try Before you Buy: Whisky Samples and Miniatures
Don't you hate when you spend a lot of money on a bottle of whisky and it is a bad one.
Never again! Buy a sample and get an idea of how good or bad is the whisky before buying a a full bottle. I personally get my samples from Master of Malt because they have a fair price and come in a very solid and nice glass flask.
If you decide to buy miniatures instead, just keep in mind that the older the miniature that easier it is that the whisky is spoiled. You can't know! As Forrest Gump once said whisky miniatures are like a chocolate box, you never know what you are going to get... I have a rate of around 3% of spoiled miniatures.
Dimple
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Haig's Dimple De Luxe Blended Scotch Whisky - 1970's
Diplomatico
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Diplomatico Blanco Reserva Sample
£4.35 -
Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva Rum Miniature
£6.45 -
Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva Rum Sample
£4.95 -
Diplomatico Reserva Rum
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Diplomatico Ron Antiguo 12 años
Domaine De Canton
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Domaine De Canton French Ginger Liqueur
Domecq
- “El nombre Domecq, deformado por el "patois", subdialecto de la zona, equivale al latín dominium, que quiere decir señor. Todo comenzó en 1730, cuando Pierre de Domecq vino de Francia a Jerez con la intención de adquirir bodegas y viñedos en la zona. Poco a poco, los Domecq fueron extendiendo sus influencias y, en 1941, se instalaron también en México. Continuó su expansión con la apertura de otras delegaciones en España y con el incremento de su cartera de productos. Tras sucesivas ampliaciones e inversiones en edificios y maquinaria agrícola e industrial, las bodegas Domecq se situarían al frente del sector vitivinícola del sherry. Han sido muchos los Pedro Domecq que estuvieron a la cabeza de estas bodegas hasta el 24 de marzo de 1994, fecha en la cual se hace con la propiedad del grupo la multinacional británica Allied Lyons, actualmente Allied Domecq, uno de los primeros grupos mundiales en el sector de vinos y bebidas espirituosas. Estas bodegas, fundadas en 1730, fueron el origen del grupo Domecq. Se sitúan en un antiguo edificio que albergó un molino del siglo XVI, junto a la muralla árabe medieval, en la zona conocida hoy día como Puerta de Rota.”
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Pedro Domecq Celebration Cream Sherry - 1963
£180.00 Don Julio
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Don Julio Blanco Tequila
Doorly's
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Doorly's 12 Year Old Rum Sample
£4.85 -
Doorly's XO Rum Sample
£4.25 -
Doorly's XO Rum
£29.14 Douglas Laing
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Big Peat Private Bottling
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Big Peat Sample
£4.65 -
Scallywag Blended Malt Douglas Laing
Drambuie
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Drambuie
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Drambuie 15 year
£4.95 -
Drambuie 15 Year Old Whisky Liqueur Miniature
£4.95 -
Drambuie Black Ribbon Whisky Liqueur / 15 Year Old
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Drambuie Whisky Liqueur Miniature
£2.30 Dufftown
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Dufftown Connoisseurs Choice Miniature 1993
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Dufftown Fine Highland Malt 10 Year Old
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Dufftown Pure Malt Miniature
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Dufftown Single Highland Malt Miniature 8 Year Old
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Dufftown Speyside Single Malt Miniature 8 Year Old
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Singleton of Dufftown 12 year
£35.45 -
Singleton of Dufftown 18 Year Old 1l
DYC
- “Destilerias Y Crianza del Whisky is the result of a man’s determination: Nicomedes Garcia, to create a whisky with the highest standards of the scotch whisky but with a reasonable price. Fifty years later, DYC is the best selling whisky in Spain and they are entering the market of the single malts. DYC stands for Destilerias y Crianza del Whisky ( distilling and maturation of whisky ) and it is an enterprise created in 1958 by Nicomedes Garcia Gomez. He started working on his father’s humble distillery of liquours at Valverde del Majano in Segovia, creating in 1919, with just only 18 years, Anis Castellana. Nicomedes was a bussinessman and started all kind of things like a bus company, a marketing agency, a ships company. But he started making whisky just by bad luck. In 1929 a batch of Mahou beer was rejected by a client because it was faulty. So instead of dropping the beer, he distilled it and stored in oak butts. After three years he gave a try to the potion and he realized that it wasn’t that bad at all, so he spent all the war drinking that whisky and started up the interest in distilling whisky. In 1955, after being travelling around Scotland he talked with some friends and they founded a whisky destillery at Palazuelos de Eresma on the place where the old Marques del Arco’s mill was standing. The place was choosen for the great quality of the water supply from the river Eresma, the good climate for whisky maturation so near the sierra de Gredos and the near supply of good quality barley from the fields of Castilla. The first distillation started in February of 1959 after having fought to change the law that forbid distillation of malt in Spain. It wasn’t till 1963 when the firsts bottles were made available to consumers. The DYC distillery includes the distilling factory, a bottling plant and a warehouse for maturation. DYC began to grow exponentially and by 1987 its sales stock up to 40 million € and owned the 46% of the spanish market. DYC even bought a scottish distillery, Lochside, to secure an extra supply of whisky to create their blends. In 1989 DYC was sold to Pedro Domecq group and at a later time sold again to Beam Global. DYC uses a double distillation process similar to scotch whisky. The mash is distilled in pot stills made with the same techniques than scottish ones. For the grain distillation, that is done in Valverde del Majano, DYC uses a column still. The grain is mainly corn. Later whisky is usually matured in american oak barrels of 190 litres that contained bourbon before. The angel’s share is around 3%. Malt whisky is later blended with grain whisky prior to bottling. Bottling is also done at Valverde del Majano on the distillery plant. DYC has now two plants in Segovia, with around 100 workers and produce annually around 2.3 million litres.”
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DYC
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DYC 10 year Coleccion Barricas Single Malt
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DYC 8 años
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DYC 8 year
Edradour
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Ballechin 5th Release / Marsala Matured Highland Whisky
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Edradour 10 year
£36.34 -
Edradour 10 Year Old / Bot.1980s Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
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Edradour 10 Year Old 2000 Sherry - Straight from the Cask
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Edradour 10 Year Old Miniature
£5.15 -
Edradour 10 Year Old Sample Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£4.75 -
Edradour 11 Year Old 2000 Burgundy - Straight from the Cask 57.1%
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Edradour 12 year Caledonia
£48.73 -
Edradour 12 Year Old Caledonia Miniature Highland Whisky
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Edradour 12 Year Old Sample / Caledonia Selection / Oloroso Cask
£5.65 -
Edradour 15 Year Old The Fairy Flag Sample Highland Whisky
£7.65 -
Edradour 1973 / 14 Year Old / Connoisseurs Choice Highland Whisky
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Edradour 2002 Sample / 14 Year Old / Sherry Cask Highland Whisky
£7.75 -
Edradour 2003 Sample / Bourbon Cask / Eleventh Release Highland Whisky
£7.45 -
Edradour 2006 Sample / 10 Year Old / Bourbon Cask Highland Whisky
£7.20 -
Edradour 2006 Sample / 10 Year Old / Sherry Butt Highland Whisky
£6.20 -
Edradour Ceramic Jug Miniature 10 Year Old
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Edradour Connoisseurs Choice Miniature 1972
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Edradour Connoisseurs Choice Miniature 1973
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Edradour Single Highland Malt Miniature 10 Year Old
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Edradour Single Highland Malt Miniature 10 Year Old 3690
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Edradour Single Highland Malt Miniature 10 Year Old 3691
El Maestro Sierra
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El Maestro Sierra Oloroso 15 year
English Harbour
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English Harbour Reserve 10 Year Old