Thanks for all your support this year, and I hope everyone has a great Christmas. Orders placed over the festive period will ship on Dec 30th.
I already have plenty of good stuff lined up for the new year, and as usual the best way to keep up to date with new releases is by signing up to the mailing list here. Bottles that are sold out here may still be available from one of our stockists.
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All Chorlton Whisky releases are bottled at natural strength from a single cask, with no chill-filtering or added colouring. No monkey business, basically.
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Auchroisk 14-year-old
A properly rich old-school sherried drop for all your wintry and festive needs here!
The nose has rum & raisin, melted milk chocolate, hazelnuts and peanut brittle, with touches of plummy fruitiness, liquorice and orange peel. The palate is full of treacle toffee, Daim bar, peanut M&Ms, and slightly scorched caramel, with toffee and a drop of Cointreau in the finish.
This is a rich dram, fully matured in lovely oloroso, with a dark sweetness that keeps it from ever being cloying. Proper fireside stuff!
This oloroso sherry hogshead produced only 255 bottles at a cask strength of 58.4% and they are available for £69.50 each.
Highland 21-year-old
This is secret peated spirit from a well-known distillery (shh!), and quite a rare old bird.
On the nose – imagine, if you will, a really sweet red apple that’s somehow been peat-smoked. I also get fruit gums, orange, herbs on the BBQ, spearmint, leather, with light smoke and coal tar drifting around. The palate is really rich and viscous in texture, with smoked honey, crystallised orange, herbal pastilles, and a drop of tar stirred through custard. The finish feels almost creamy, with baked pineapple jelly, pine needles and lingering wisps of sweet peat smoke.
This is deliciously idiosyncratic, with a mellow smokiness and fruity richness that sets it apart from other peated drams.
This refill barrel produced only 198 bottles at a cask strength of 54.5% and they are available for £125 each.
Linkwood 15-year-old
I’m very glad to be returning to this distillery after many years. Lots of people have seemed excited about this one – there’s a growing Linkwood fanbase it seems!
The nose has an elegant sort of fruitiness, with white peach, apple and lime, backed up with some buttery pastry and a lightly mineralic feel in the background. I also find touches of orange cream and beeswax. The palate is bigger than you might expect, with green apple sweets, cherry drops, Ricola, and fab waxy citrus on arrival, and then yellow peaches, herbs, pink grapefruit and an almost salty tang through the finish. It’s more exuberant, and (inappropriately) summery with a drop of water.
Poised, restrained, elegant. A fruity Speysider for grown-ups!
This hogshead produced only 277 bottles at a cask strength of 57.5% and they are available for £77.50 each.
Nc’nean 7-year-old
A first visit for Chorlton to this new-ish distillery on the West Highlands coast. This is a carbon-neutral single malt, made with 100% organic Scottish barley, and just as importantly tastes blummin’ great.
The nose has cherry drops, membrillo, macadamia nuts, green melon, buttercream and honey – it has a fascinatingly uncommon sort of fruitiness that keeps opening up in the glass. The palate is full-bodied, with golden apples, quinces, yellow sultanas, coconut cream, honey, and a pinch each of salt and white pepper. In the background there’s a nicely mineralic Highlands-y feel, and then Juicy Fruit gum and black tea in the finish.
Lovely Highlands spirit, this, with loads of both fruit and personality. I love how much it develops with time in the glass – a nice reminder to slow down and enjoy the scenery.
This first-fill barrel produced 243 bottles at a cask strength of 57.9% and they are available for £69.50 each. Last few.
Tullibardine 13-year-old
A distillery on the up! This little Tulli has been treated to an unusual maturation in a refill barrique that previously held peated spirit.
The nose starts with bananas galore, then toffee pennies, clotted cream, allspice, brioche, orange and little touches of tar and smoke. The palate is big, fruity and funky, with an almost rum-ish vibe of bananas, tarry liquorice, a pile of oranges, plus spiced coffee cake, custard, and old-school Tullibardine rye and juniper.
This is great fun (as long as you like bananas) – rich, chunky and engagingly weird around the edges. The smoke from the cask doesn’t jump out at you, but provides a nice bit of background complexity.
This barrique produced only 213 bottles at a cask strength of 52.2% and they are available for £72.50 each.
TDL Trinidad Rum 13-year-old
This is a particularly fruity single cask Trinidad rum!
The nose has peaches, bananas, honeysuckle, guava and pineapple jam, with some rather funkier notes of green olives, liquorice comfits, petrol and dark chocolate in the background. The palate has huge mangos and grapefruits, liquorice and peppermint oil. The finish is wonderfully chunky, with marmalade, mango jam, herbal pastilles, tar and dark chocolate.
This is exuberantly fruity, but with a hint of herbal bitterness that keeps it feeling like a “grown-up” treat. (Angostura Bitters are made at the same distillery, coincidentally.) It’s also incredibly easy to drink at full strength – be careful!
This rum was aged for ten years in the tropics, and the rest in the UK. The barrel produced 275 bottles at a cask strength of 64.2% and they are available for £65 each. Last few.
Epris 11-year-old
A joint bottling of Brazilian Rum with Hop/Scotch Liverpool! This is a cask that we stumbled across and decided we had to have.
The nose has pineapple tarte tatin, banana and custard, then herbal liqueurs and cough candy. The palate has lime, peach, demarara sugar, a light tarriness and all the herbs from the nose. The finish has juicy red cherry fruits and pandan leaf. It’s the unusual herbal/fruity balance that really stands out with this one – it’s easy drinking without being even slightly boring.
This rum was matured for six years in amburana wood in Brazil, and the remainder in ex-bourbon in Europe. 80% cane juice and 20% molasses. The cask produced 265 bottles at 53.6% and they are available for £59.50 each. Last few.
Tote Bag
A sturdy canvas shopping bag with long handles and a gusset, perfect for transporting whisky or other essentials. Screenprinted in Yorkshire. £4 each, and can be added to any bottle order for no extra postage.
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Matt Ellis
Hi,
Do you ship to the U.S.? I’d love to get a hold of some. Thanks!
admin — Post Author
Hi Matt. I can’t send to the US directly I’m afraid, but some of my stockists (Whiskybase, Tyndrum, Nickolls & Perks, Milroy’s) should be able to ship to you.
Rick
I have just bought and tried the Cataibh 10-year-old here in Hong Kong. What a fantastic whisky this is (Clynelish) immediately impressed with the initial power and flavour and adding a few drops of water made this explode with aroma and hidden flavours. Right up there as one of my favorite expressions.