A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF WHISKIES,ONE INSIGHT AT A TIME
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Matisse is named after pioneering French artist Henri Matisse. According to Matisse Spirits Company, he was ‘…a revolutionary painter that infuses eastern culture into western paintings’. Matisse whiskies are presented in very modern packaging and embrace blends, blended malts, single malts and single cask bottlings. The principal range – sourced from Speyside and the Highlands regions – comprises an NAS blend, 12- and 21-year-old blends, a 12-year-old blended malt, 15- and 19-year-old single malts, and a 1972 single malt.
Islanders were a superstitious lot in the past. As a nod to them, and to our island home, still dotted with ancient stones and markings, we called this expression Superstition. When you raise a glass of this whisky, you're raising a glass to the ancient ways of our island.
Thick and not very volatile, very sweet smell. Buckets of caramel, light oak
Long before David Beckham and Haig Club, there was Dimple Haig. Launched at the end of the 19th century, it became the deluxe, sophisticated brother to the standard Haig & Haig blend, while in the US it has long been known as Dimple Pinch. Whether the name inspired the bottle or vice versa is unclear, but Dimple has always been packaged in a distinctive lozenge-shaped bottle with pinched sides like a collapsed pot still. Of the various expressions over time, the 15-year-old has a caramel sweetness, a touch of spice, some vanilla oak and no discernible smoke.
Green Spot is a fabulous single pot still whiskey and much loved by the critics. This Irish whiskey has come far from the days when it was only sold in Mitchell's grocer shop in the heart of Dublin, though its flavour profile is still just as robust. The whiskey has matured in a combination of first and second fill bourbon casks as well as sherry casks.
Distinctive rich and well-rounded whisky, with flavors of citrus, nuts, honey and oak. An icon of excellence among Scotch connoisseurs.
A bottling of Queen Anne blended whisky from the 1980s, first produced in the 1880s and now increasingly hard to find. Bitter-sweet on the palate with grain, brown sugar, honey, pepper, licorice, aniseed, green wood, vanilla and light peat. Middle-long finish and bitter-sweet with brown sugar, honey, oak, licorice and pepper.
Following their Edited release, Bold is a fully peated single malt from Paul Distilleries (they're aptly named expressions).Peat is brought over to Goa from Islay for Bold, where it is used to dry their 6-row Indian barley.
Ballantine's Black Malt Scotch Whisky is a blended scotch whisky from Ballantines brand Lowland drink is very rare, but offers the highest quality and consistency. The plethora of flavors derived from oak, vanilla, ripe pear and peach, give make it tantalizing. Bottled at 40% ABV, the aromas of this whisky are in line with its flavors.
