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Douglas Laing launches
the Old Particular Consortium of Cards Collection
with the Laphroaig 18 Year Old Queen of the
Hebrides.
 The folks in the marketing department at independent
Glasgow based whisky bottlers have been busy once
again coming up with something to attract our hard
earned whisky pounds, the company today unveiled the first limited
edition series within their Old Particular single
cask range, the Old Particular Consortium of Cards
Collection.
The Old Particular Consortium of Cards Collection is
themed around a deck of playing cards, four releases
are planned for this year, and the series launches
today with the "Queen of the Hebrides", an Old
Particular Laphroaig 18 Year Old Single Cask Single
Malt whisky which was distilled in December 1998,
matured in a single refill butt and bottled at the
standard Old Particular strength of 50% ABV. A
limited release of 665 bottles are available, with
each bottle label adorned or should I say decked
with a specially commissioned "Queen of the
Hebrides" Queen of Clubs illustration. The Laphroaig
18 Year Old Queen of the Hebrides was bottled this
month, February 2017.
As always Douglas Laing's tasting note for the new
whisky is short, descriptive, totally unpretentious
and straight to the point, just as I like it, they
describe the Laphroaig 18 Year Old Queen of the
Hebrides as having "rich peated barley on the nose
with a tarry, ashy palate and a finish full of
chimney soot".
So will the complete Old Particular Consortium of
Cards Collection contain 52 bottles plus a couple of
Jokers, maybe, time will tell, but for the time
being Douglas Laing tell me that we will see a "full
house" of single cask releases this quarter,
comprised of 15 single cask malts and 5 single cask
grains.
The quintet of single grain bottlings includes a
Cameronbridge 25 Year Old, which they describe as
"bread and butter pudding, exotic spices and juicy
red apples”. The Consortium of Cards Collection will
contain bottlings from Speyside, the Highlands and
Islay, among them, an Old Particular Glen Grant 21
Year Old that they say promises "cinnamon apple
pie, vanilla cream and spicy oak", and a
Bruichladdich 11 Year Old from a Sherry Hogshead
which they say boasts a "big PX Sherry hit".
I have to say this is another very clever piece of
marketing from the folks at Douglas Laing and I am
sure the new Consortium of Cards Collection will be
very attractive to the completionist collectors
amongst you who should start clearing a a large
space in your whisky cabinets if indeed it is going
to be 52 bottles and a couple of Jokers.
You will find
the Old Particular bottlings, including the "Queen
of the Hebrides" special limited edition available from specialist online whisky shops such as
Master of Malt
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