The Grand Tour – Landing on Mars!
Our unique collection of single cask whiskies celebrating a number of the explorations of our Photo voltaic Sytem and past. Marking Mars probes Viking 1 and a pair of, we’ve two distinctive Palo Cortado sherry casks.
GIRVAN DISTILLERY
30 Yr Previous 1991 Viking 1
Cask #TWB1022
£150.00
Girvan 30 Yr Previous 1991 Viking 1, 53.6%
Girvan 30 Yr Previous 1991 classic Lowland single grain Scotch whisky. Single cask 1st fill Palo Cortado sherry Hogshead #TWB1022 bottled September 2021. The fourth launch of The Grant Tour collection. Viking 1 house probe launched from Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station on August twentieth 1975. Its lander was the primary in historical past to efficiently land on Mars. 162 numbered bottles.
After an eleven month journey the Viking 1 lander separated from its orbiter on July twentieth 1976. The lander captured the primary ever clear picture from the martian floor and its organic devices searched for all times on the purple planet.
Candy sherry antimatter, carona of pineapple and Cripps Pink apples resulting in a darkish chili chocolate nedbular. Gravitational toasted cereals, honeycomb halo and galactic lemon cake end with sherbet components.
Girvan Distillery is a Scottish Lowland grain whisky distillery located on the Ayrshire coast. It seems out to the island of Ailsa Craig the supply of granite from which curling stones are formed. William Grant and Sons Ltd opened this distillery in 1963 to produce grain whisky to their blends of scotch however with cautious maturation in high quality casks Girvan can also be in a position to produce glorious single grain whiskies.
NORTH BRITISH DISTILLERY
30 Yr Previous 1991 Viking 2
Cask #TWB1023
£150.00
North British 30 Yr Previous 1991 Viking 2, 47.6%
North British 30 Yr Previous 1991 classic Lowland single grain Scotch whisky. Single cask 1st fill Palo Cortado sherry Hogshead #TWB1023 bottled February 2021. The third launch of The Grant Tour collection. Viking 2 house probe launched from Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station on September ninth 1975. Along with Viking 1 it will seek for indicators of life on Mars. 159 numbered bottles.
Travelling for 333 days to Mars, Viking 2 lander separated from its orbiter on September third 1976 making landing on Utopia Planitia, one of many largest crater influence basins in our Photo voltaic System.
Lunar candy sherry, popcorn clusters, planetary ripe pears, toasted cinnamon nebular, telescopic double cream with supernova strawberries. Protoplanetary runny honey circling runaway burnt cedar shavings.
North British Distillery was established on farmland to the west of Edinburgh in 1885 by Andrew Usher, John M. Crabbie and William Sanderson. Since then the town has expanded ever outwards and now the distillery resides within the Gorgie space of Edinburgh. North British opened in 1887 to ensure provides of grain whisky for its proprietor’s cordials and scotch whisky mixing companies. It’s outfitted with 4 Coffey stills to provide grain spirit at 94.5% alcohol and multi-million litres of spirit yearly. While most of its whisky matures in racked warehouses within the central Lowlands, a small variety of casks spend a minimum of eight years on the distillery in dunnage Warehouse No.1. Official releases are only a few however glorious impartial ones can be found from Hart Brothers and Hunter Laing.
