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.
Laphroaig
- “Laphroaig is considered one of the most strongly flavoured of all scotch whiskies, and is most frequently aged to 10 years, although the 15 and 18 year old varieties are not uncommon (the 30 and 40 year olds, however, are). In an attempt to re-create the taste of historic whiskies, Laphroaig carried out experiments. Recently the Laphroaig Quarter Cask has been introduced. By using smaller casks and by avoiding chill filtering, the Quarter Cask Single Malt is supposed to taste like the type of whisky that was distilled 100 years ago.[4]”
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Laphroaig 21 Year Old 1992 (cask 9969) - Director's Cut (Douglas Laing)
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Laphroaig 27 Year Old Oloroso Cask (2008 Release)
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Laphroaig 30 Year Old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
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Laphroaig Cairdeas Ileach Edition
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Laphroaig Cairdeas Origin
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Laphroaig Feis Ile 2013 - Cairdeas Port Wood Edition
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Laphroaig Lore Sample Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£7.75 -
Laphroaig Quarter Cask
£41.44 -
Laphroaig Quarter Cask Sample Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£4.95 -
Laphroaig Triple wood
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Laphroaig Triple Wood Sample Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£5.65 Lark
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Lark Single Cask
Liber
- “Embrujo de Granada is distilled at Padul, 20 km south of Granada, in Destilerias Liber. Destilerias Liber is the dream of a man, Fran Peregrina, about making whisky on the south of Spain, just under Mulhacén, spanish mainland highest mountain. Their whisky is crafted with passion, and patience, using cooper stills, the best barley from near fields and the pure water of Sierra Nevada, to mature later in the darkness of the warehouse sleeping in pedro ximenez oak casks. Destillerias Liber was founded in May of 2001 and started operations in December of 2002. It started as a cooperative of 55 partners, most of them friends. The whole process is ran by three of them. Embrujo de Granada is an artisans whisky. The idea of creating a distillery at the south of Spain was inspired into Francisco Peregrina after reading “El Amante del Whisky” ( Whisky Lover ). They decided to run the full process at the distillery: flooring, brewing, distillation and maturation in american oak casks. The water that comes from Sierra Nevada natural park and the malt is choosen from near fields. After that malt is milled and mixed with hot water to create the grist. The wort is then filtered and the yeasts are added to it to start the fermentation that last between 48 and 72 hours. The result is a beer of around 6º to 8º. The stills, created by a copper artisan at the Albaicin, Granada and designed by Liber, distills the beer two times: the first up to 25º to 30º and the next day removing heads and tails up to 60º. This spirit is stored in american oak casks of 600 litres that contained Pedro Ximenez sherry for ageing. The whisky is matured at the warehouse around 5 years before being reduced to 40º and bottled from a single cask. The maturation is faster than scotch whisky because the weather alternates very hot summers with cold winters. The angel’s share varies between casks but it is around 6% per year. The whisky is not coloured nor chill-filtered. Each batch consists of a single cask although sometimes it is blended with other casks to maintain an “standard” flavor and color.”
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Embrujo de Granada
Linkwood
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Linkwood / 15 Year Old Miniature / Gordon& Macphail Speyside Whisky
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Linkwood 12 Year Old Sample Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£5.55 -
Linkwood 17 year Cask Strength Collection
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Linkwood 1991 Sample / 24 Year Old / Single Malts of Scotland Speyside Whisky
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Linkwood 22 year 1989 Rare Auld Duncan Taylor
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Linkwood 26 year 1984 Cask 5269 Adelphi
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Linkwood 40 Year Old 1970 Private Collection
Littlemill
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Littlemill 18 year 1990 Mission Murray McDavid Murray McDavid
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Littlemill 1988 Sample / 27 Year Old / Pearls Of Scotland Lowland Whisky
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Littlemill 1992 Berrys' Own
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Littlemill 21 Year Old 1991 Old Malt Cask
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Littlemill 21 Year Old Burns Malt
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Littlemill Burns Malt 21 year 1990 35
Loch Lomond
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Inchmurrin 12 Year Old / Miniature Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£5.75 -
Inchmurrin 12 Year Old Sample Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£5.15 -
Inchmurrin 15 Year Old
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Inchmurrin 18 Year Old
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Inchmurrin 18 Year Old Sample Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£7.95 -
Inchmurrin 19 Year Old 1993 - Cask Strength Collection (Signatory)
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Inchmurrin 21 Year Old
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Inchmurrin Madeira Wood Finish / Miniature Highland Whisky
£6.75 -
Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond 12 Year Old Organic Whisky Sample / Bot.2013 Highland Whisky
£5.55 -
Loch Lomond 18 Year Old Sample Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£6.35 -
Loch Lomond Green Label / Peated Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
£35.95 Lochnagar
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Royal Lochnagar 12 Year Old Sample Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
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Royal Lochnagar 1952 / 27 Year Old / Connoisseur's Choice Highland Whisky
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Royal Lochnagar 1973 / 23 Year Old / Rare Malts Highland Whisky
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Royal Lochnagar 2000 Distillers Edition Sample Highland Whisky
£7.15 Lochside
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Lochside 19 year 1991 Old Malt Cask
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Lochside 1963 Sample / 52 Year Old / Hunter Laing Sovereign Single Whisky
£46.65 Longmorn
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Longmorn 16 year
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Longmorn 1964 / Bot. 1994 / Dun Eideann Speyside Whisky
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Longmorn 1973 / 21 Year Old / Sherry Butt #9279 / Signatory Speyside Whisky
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Longmorn 1992 / 21 Year Old / Cask #48436 / Adelphi Speyside Whisky
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Longmorn 20 Year Old - Single Cask (Master of Malt)
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Longmorn 20 Year Old Burns Malt
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Longmorn 20 Year Old Burns Malt
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Longmorn 25 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky