The Last Great Malts Of Scotland

[William]

Perhaps this will not be news to some of you as word on these new whiskies have been out on the whisky grapevine for a wee while now but I have held off from mentioning them until I had at least had the chance to taste a few of them.

John Dewar & Sons who are well known for there Dewar's and William Lawson's range of blended whiskies have been very quiet on the single malt whisky front considering the five malt whisky distilleries they own but I am pleased to say that is now in the process of dramatically changing.

Dewar's have launched what they are calling "The Last Great Malts of Scotland", a range of new expressions, including some never before released single malts from each of John Dewar & Sons five malt whisky distilleries - Aberfeldy, Aultmore, Craigellachie, The Deveron and Royal Brackla.

Aberfeldy is already available but they will be adding a 16 and 30 year old to the range in 2015, the Craigellachie range is now appearing on the shelves of the whisky specialist shops and it will be joined soon by the new Aultmore range, The Deveron range wont make an appearance until the summer of 2015 but the current Glen Deveron travel retail range is available now but I am not sure if this will be rebranded as The Deveron either way the travel retail range is worth a look. Last but not least the Royal Brackla range should be appearing in whisky shops from March 2015.

The new single malts will be available as a complete set of five or in various combinations of the expressions in 10 initial markets around the world including Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Global Travel Retail.

More info here and some tasting notes for the few I have had the chance to taste:
www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/lastgreatmalts.htm
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[Quaich1]

Hi William. Glad to hear Canada will be among the countries where this range will be released. By the way, I do remember enjoying a Craigellachie 8 year old by Cooper's Choice at 46%abv, sherry butt at a tasting last year.
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[Crane]

The Craigellachie 17 sounds good and i hope the Royal Brackla range will be bottled in it natural form sounds like it will be sherry cask matured expressions.

[Keith]

Cheers for the info William, i will look forward to trying the Aultmore as i havent had much experience of this distillery and good to see arange from Royal Brackla and what is now The Deveron, lets hope they keep these colour free and non chill filtered also.