Christmas Wish List: Mortlach 12 Year "The Wee Witchie" Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The distillery houses a unique configuration of six stills. The stills — three wash stills and three spirit stills — are each different shapes and sizes (one still is nicknamed “Wee Witchie” because it is shaped like a witch’s cap), and aren’t paired together. This unusual configuration, together with the partial triple distillation method used at Mortlach Distillery, produces a whisky that is full-bodied and meaty.

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Scotch Wish List

THE THREE MONSTERS OF SMOKE

 

Includes Three 200 ml Bottles:

Ten Years Old is revered around the world as the peatiest, smokiest, most complex Single Malt of them all, perfectly balanced with fruity floral sweetness and complexity. Its maturation in ex-Bourbon American Oak casks creates a balance of sweet vanilla and bold spice. Multi-award-winning, Ardbeg's flagship whisky reflects the best of Islay.

Wee Beastie is Ardbeg’s newest permanent expression is the youngest Ardbeg ever. Wee Beastie is matured in a mix of Ex-Bourbon & Oloroso sherry casks for just 5 years. The younger the whisky the more powerful the smoke, making this untamed new expression stand out amongst all other Islay Malts. A rich, explosive mouthfeel with lots of chocolate, tar, creosote and smoked bacon, followed by a burst of antiseptic lozenges, eucalyptus and more aniseed.

An Oa embraces its contrasts. It is inspired by the Mull of Oa, the cliffs protecting the Ardbeg distillery from the wild Atlantic Ocean. It brings together the finest casks and balances roundness with Ardbeg's signature intensity. To create the complexity of An Oa (pronounced “An Oh”), whiskies are matured in Pedro Ximénez casks for sweetness, Virgin Charred Oak casks for spiciness and ex-Bourbon American Oak casks for intensity. These different parts are then married together in the bespoke Gathering Vat.

R.J. MacReady's Drinking Glass

When you've seen John Carpenter's THE THING a thousand times, you notice little things.  Oddly, one of those things was MacReady's scotch glass when he was playing a game of computer chess (before destroying the fictional chess computer by pouring his drink into a convenient panel for sore losers).  That glass became something of a thrift store Holy Grail and I'd find myself walking the shelves of old glassware hoping to stumble upon something similar, if not the actual style and design.  

Last weekend we visited a large Salvation Army store, and as I did the usual stroll, I stopped in front of four glasses.  Were they the ones?  At $0.99 a piece, they became the ones.  We even ran out and got some "rare" bottom shelf scotch to celebrate.  

Cheers, MacReady!

Design

A really cool design blog featuring some really cool scotch.

Never had Spice Tree, so naturally I'm obsessing about this.

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Halloween Scotch

Orangerie is made from smooth, sweet Scotch whisky infused with the hand-zested peel of Navalino oranges and subtle accents of Indonesia cassia bark and Sri Lankan cloves.



Picked this up today and absolutely LOVE it.
I'd also highly recommend their Peat Monster.

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Peat Monster

My brother brought over a bottle of scotch this weekend. An old favorite and one that is appropriately named. The description on the bottle's label is better than any review I could write. If you dig scotch, get your hands on some of the Peat Monster. And there's the coolest little monster on the bottle too.


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