MONDAY third October 2022 – 6:30pm – Soho
There are lots of distilleries in Scotland which began life as mills, however none of them had fairly the dimensions of Deanston. This big plant was constructed on the banks of the fast-flowing River Teith in 1785 by Richard Arkwright who used it as one of many websites for the event of the Spinning Jenny. It additionally had what was claimed to be the most important water wheel in Europe. It may well declare to be one of many greenest distilleries in Scotland. All of its energy is generated by a turbine home which processes 20 million litres of water an hour. Brendan McCarron will likely be coming down on this specific night taking us by way of the line-up under:
Deanston Virgin Oak
Deanston 12 Years Previous
Deanston 2000 Classic natural
Deanston 2007 Calvados
He will even convey a particular cask pattern to share with all of you!
MONDAY tenth October 2022 – 6:30pm – Soho
Masataka Taketsuru was born in 1894 right into a sake distilling household that resided in Hiroshima. In 1918, the younger Taketsuru launched into a visit to Scotland to be taught in regards to the course of of constructing Scotch whisky. He was fascinated by whisky and was excited to be taught extra. He enrolled on the College of Glasgow, taking chemistry courses. He additionally apprenticed at a number of distilleries. These distilleries embody Longmorn, Hazelburn, and James Calder.
Taketsuru met and married a Scottish girl named Rita, and in late 1920 the couple returned to Japan. In 1923 he signed a 10-year contract with Kotobukiya Restricted (Suntory). This place noticed him direct within the development of Yamazaki, the primary whisky distillery in Japan, and subsequently, grow to be concerned within the manufacturing of Yamazaki whisky.
Taketsuru left Kotobukiya in March 1934, and later within the yr established his personal firm: Dai Nippon Kaju Co,. Restricted (later Nikka). The corporate was primarily based in Yoichi in Hokkaido. Yoichi Distillery began distillation in 1936. In 1940 the primary Nikka Whisky was launched.
On this specific night Nathan Shearer will likely be taking you thru the historical past of Nikka and the totally different expressions that characterises the distillery.
Nikka Tremendous
Nikka Coffey grain
Nikka Miyagikio
Nikka Yoichi
Nikka Taketsuru
Nikka Tailor-made
MONDAY seventeenth October 2022 – 6:30pm – Soho
The Glen Grant distillery is nestled in Scotland’s bucolic Speyside area. Rivers brim with cool, contemporary water fed by a whole lot of pure springs, and the fields boast the perfect circumstances for rising barley. That’s the reason Speyside is the undisputed champion of manufacturing premium single malt Scotch whisky. The Glen Grant’s Scotch Whisky distillery is positioned within the northern finish of the village of Rothes in Speyside. On this specific night there will likely be Chris Dennis the BA for Glen Grant distillery, which is able to take us by way of the drams that characterise the distillery, the line-up goes to be:
Glen Grant 10years Previous
Glen grant 12Years Previous
Glen Grant 15years Previous
Glen Grant 18Years outdated
Glen Grant 12years outdated non-chill-filter
Thriller dram from the distillery!
Glen Grant and their workforce has additionally organised an unimaginable ruffle for the night, the place the fortunate particular person will likely be taking house a pleasant and particular reward from the Distillery!
MONDAY twenty fourth October 2022 – 6:30pm – Soho
The unique distillery held a set of pot stills with rectifying plates of their necks (often known as Lomond stills), permitting totally different flavour streams to be produced. Growth in 1990 noticed a second pair of the identical design being put in, earlier than the distillery put in two steady stills three years later during which to make its personal grain whisky. Two ‘conventional’ swan neck pot stills had been added in 1998, earlier than a further steady nonetheless, set as much as produce grain whisky from a 100% malted barley mash, was put in in 2007. With the latest addition of two extra Lomond stills, Loch Lomond has the aptitude to supply 11 totally different distillates for its whisky manufacturers (not together with the spirit coming from Glen Scotia). Wine yeasts have additionally been used to assist create totally different flavours. In some ways it’s extra akin to a Japanese method to distilling than a Scottish one.
On this specific night Gary mills will speak us by way of their expressions with an actual breadth of flavours!
Loch Lomond Peated Single Grain
Loch Lomond 12 Years Previous
Loch Lomond 12 Years Previous Inchmurrin
Loch Lomond 12 Years Previous
Loch Lomond 14 Years Previous
Loch Lomond 18 Years Previous
And a particular dram to complete of the night direct from the distillery!
MONDAY thirty first October 2022 – 6:30pm – Soho
Co-founders Invoice Dobbie and Alasdair Day first met in 2013 and shaped R&B Distillers with the frequent objective of constructing Scotland’s main artisanal distiller. Specializing in native manufacturing, provenance, high quality and doing issues otherwise. By 2015, that they had recognized the Isle of Raasay as offering the elements for the right dram, and planning permission to start work revitalising the Isle of Raasay’s nineteenth century Borodale Home right into a state-of-the-art distillery, customer centre, and luxurious lodging was granted in 2016. Beginning with a clean sheet of paper, they set about designing a distillery to create distinctive whisky that develops magnificence, complexity, and depth early on within the maturation course of that encapsulates Raasay’s type, character and spectacular geological selection. On the thirty first of October we will likely be taking you thru a journey of Single Cask Pattern from the Raasay Distillery and the line-up would be the under:
Unpeated Ex-Rye Single Cask Pattern – Cask Energy
Unpeated Chinkapin Single Cask Pattern – Cask Energy
Unpeated Ex-Bordeaux Single Cask Pattern – Cask Energy
Peated Ex-Rye Single Cask Pattern – Cask Energy
Peated Chinkapin Single Cask Pattern – Cask Energy
Peated Ex-Bordeaux Single Cask Pattern – Cask Energy
