Launching in the present day, Home of Hazelwood, guarantees collectors and lovers the chance to entry a various assortment of uncommon, aged and storytelling whiskies by a extremely restricted variety of launch releases.
For nearly 100 years, generations of the Gordons, the famend Scottish household of distillers, have fastidiously laid down shares of whisky for particular events and private consumption. This uncommon assortment has develop into referred to as Home of Hazelwood, after the household’s Dufftown house – Hazelwood Home. Spanning seven a long time and each nook of Scotland, the varied whiskies held in cask inform tales of outstanding locations, misplaced methods of working, first casks, final casks, the ambitions and achievements of a number of lifetimes – none of which can be repeated once more.
Describing the uncommon bottlings that are actually out there, Home of Hazelwood Advertising Director Jonathan Gibson feedback: ‘Not like most Scotch whisky producers, our enterprise carries with it no requirement to launch whiskies of a given age or a given model on a set date. It is a assortment of particular person spirits, representing distinctive casks, trials which have taken place through the years and combos that will by no means be seen once more. Central to that is the philosophy that the maturing inventory is prepared when it’s prepared. The stock is commonly sampled, with meticulous data stored of its progress. Solely as soon as it reaches its peak will or not it’s bottled – and naturally, in a world of people, as soon as it’s gone it’s really gone. The whiskies carried throughout the assortment are distinctive and irreplaceable– single snapshots within the lengthy historical past of Scotch whisky.’
The Home of Hazelwood stock is held in a variety of fastidiously chosen warehouses throughout Scotland, with contemporary shares laid down every year. Previous to bottling, a small proportion of the shares are held in conventional dunnage warehousing close to Dufftown in Speyside, from the place they’re fastidiously monitored and sampled forward of launch. Commenting on the supply of the whiskies throughout the assortment, a consultant from the Gordon household defined:
For nearly 100 years my household have been laying down shares of whisky to mature for future generations to take pleasure in, with the gathering rising in scope and stature because the a long time have handed. For the primary time, this once-private assortment is being supplied to these outdoors the quick household in small batches hand-selected for launch. These are probably the most compelling whiskies that the stock has to supply – a bridge between the previous and the current, every subject outstanding by advantage of its character, historical past or methodology of manufacturing.’
The various whiskies supplied at launch all characteristic distinctive provenance and extremely restricted provide – from the primary drop of whisky to return off the stills on the Girvan grain distillery on the South Ayrshire coast – to the final drops distilled at a few of Scotland’s now silent distilleries. Cut up throughout a spread of 4 Charles Gordon Assortment releases (with advisable retail pricing from £3,000 / 70cl) and 4 Legacy Assortment releases (with advisable pricing between £950 – £1,500.
Commenting on the plans for the enterprise, Home of Hazelwood Industrial Director Phil Keene explains:
“When it comes to each breadth and depth, the stock of aged Scotch whisky that Home of Hazelwood can draw from is really unmatched. We are going to construct up a private relationship with the collectors and lovers that we all know can be within the launch releases. We’re additionally opening the enterprise as much as take into account personal tasks by fee by our whisky concierge service that can supply people and companies the chance to discover the gathering with a view to bottling a single cask or working with us to create their very own proprietary mix.’
The Home of Hazelwood Launch Assortment:
The Charles Gordon Assortment
A legend throughout the Scotch whisky group, Charles Gordon spent a lot of his youth at Hazelwood Home and in later years was basic in bringing in among the earliest inventory that was laid down for the Home of Hazelwood assortment This eponymous assortment of uncommon and previous Scotch whiskies represents among the most outstanding inventory held throughout the stock – each cask aged for at the very least fifty years, each bottle with its personal story to inform.
- The Cask Trials, 53 12 months-Outdated Single Grain Scotch Whisky. Distilled in 1968 and matured for 53 years in a single sherry butt, that is an extremely uncommon, deep and intense launch crafted from an unlikely marriage of European oak and Girvan grain. Nearly unrecognisable as grain whisky however with a scrumptious underlying richness.
- The First Drop, 58 12 months-Outdated Single Grain Scotch Whisky. On eighth January 1964, the very first drops of recent make spirit flowed on the Girvan grain distillery, in South Ayrshire. Since then, many thousands and thousands of litres of alcohol have flowed off these stills however the first casks stuffed have lain undisturbed – maturing and bettering with day by day.
- Blended at Start, 56 12 months-Outdated Blended Scotch Whisky. Some whiskies might seem born to be paired collectively however only a few are blended at delivery. But such is the case with this uncommon parcel of grain and malt, born 56 years in the past and married – as new make spirit – earlier than getting older as a mix for half a lifetime in American Oak. Time has mellowed the new-make character and introduced the malt and grain elements collectively to create a mix that has matured as a single spirit.
- The Lengthy Marriage, 56 12 months-Outdated Blended Scotch Whisky. This distinctive whisky has lain undisturbed in a single refill butt marrying for nearly half a century. Bottled at pure power this is likely one of the rarest whiskies inside our stock – wealthy and mature with an imposing vintage character and layers of complexity.
The Legacy Assortment
Each whisky laid down throughout the Home of Hazelwood stock represents a legacy for future generations to discover and revel in. The Legacy Assortment showcases among the brightest highlights of the stock, comprising whiskies of remarkable character and provenance, every with a narrative to inform. Throughout the Assortment are whiskies which can be the primary of their form, the final of their line, those who seize the spirit of an period and those who supply insights into the inside workings of the Scotch whisky group.
- The Tops, 33 12 months-Outdated Blended Scotch Whisky. Each blender has malt whiskies of their stock which can be thought of to be ‘tops’ – the most effective of the most effective out there from the stock, sometimes used sparingly and eked out over time. This uncommon mix of malts is an indulgent mixture of the perfect of our ‘tops’, married collectively to create one thing really valuable – richly decadent with a sherried character and layers of complexity.
- The Spirit of Scotland, 46 12 months-Outdated Blended Scotch Whisky. This distinctive mix was first created in 1994 to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the oldest recorded reference to Scotch Whisky inside the1494 Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Since first being blended, the spirit has lain in cask for an additional 28 years, creating additional with yearly and constructing into a really distinctive, fully-unified Blended Scotch Whisky.
- Sunshine on Speyside, 39 12 months-Outdated Blended Malt Scotch Whisky. Distilled within the early ‘80s within the period of brightly colored, tropical flavoured cocktails it’s maybe solely pure that this Speyside Blended Malt has taken on notes of pineapple and mango all through its time in cask. The emergence of flavours akin to that is uncommon, inexplicable and reminds us of the magical course of that takes place between cask and spirit over time.
- The Misplaced Property, 43 12 months-Outdated Blended Grain Scotch Whisky. Grain whisky distilleries in Scotland are uncommon sufficient however a mix of grain whiskies created from now-silent distilleries is rarer nonetheless. This distinctive mix brings collectively the person distillery characters of two of Scotland’s closed grain whisky distilleries to create a method of whisky that displays a previous period of manufacturing.
