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The Balvenie 17 Years Old. wood followed by a short period spent in another. The Glenfiddich Malt Master���s Edition is bottled at 43% alcohol and carries a suggested retail price of $90. The Speyside district of the Scottish Highlands is also the home of the Balvenie Distillery, whose sales in the U.S. jumped 164% in 2012. Their flagship is the Balvenie PortWood 21-year-old Single Malt, a whisky double barreled, first in traditional oak and then 30-year-old, oak port pipes. The distillery recently released a series of cask strength whiskies. The range now includes The Balvenie Caribbean Cask, a 14 years old malt finished in Caribbean rums barrels, The Balvenie Madeira Cask, a 17 years old malt finished in Madeira barrels, The Balvenie Sherry Cask, a 17 years old malt finished exclusively in Oloroso Sherry oak barrels and The Balvenie Vintage 1975 Cask. For those malt enthusiasts with a few extra dollars in their account may want to purchase Balvenie 50 Years Old. Distilled in 1962, the limited edition was matured in a European oak sherry hogshead, which is rarely used today in whisky making. The malt���priced at $35,000 per 750ml���is presented in hand-blown glass decanter and housed in a handcrafted cylindrical box comprised of 49 rings of seven Scottish-grown woods. The box is finished with a layer of brass, echoing the fittings of the distillery���s stills and spirit The Glenlivet safes. XXV. U.S. sales of The Glenlivet increased in 2012 by 7.6% nationally. The Speyside giant recently expanded its range with the introduction of The Glenlivet XXV, an ultrapremium release aged 25 years and priced around $375. The whisky was distilled in 1980, initially aged in American white oak and then transferred to rare Oloroso sherry butts for finishing. The double barreling yields a malt of singular character and elegance. The U.S. market also saw the introduction of the new Aberlour 12 Year Old Non Chill Filtered Single Malt. The non chill filtering gives The 48% abv 38 Aberlour 12 Year Old Non Chill Filtered Single Malt. Scotch more body on the palate. The product is still double matured in sherry butts and bourbon casks. It retails for about $60. O Regional Newcomers f the Scottish islands, the malts distilled on Islay are most renowned. In January, the oldest distillery on the island ��� Bowmore ��� launched Dorus Mor 10 Years Old Small Batch Release No. 1. The single Islay malt whisky is aged for 10 years and bottled non-chill filtered at cask strength (55.1% alcohol by volume). The limited edition whisky is made with floor-dried malted barley and peatenriched water from the River Laggan. This limited edition retails for $119.99. The Bunnahabhain Distillery (pronounced Bu-na-havenn) lies on the isolated northeastern tip of Islay. Its range now includes two new expressions. The Bunnahabhain 18 Years Old Single Islay Malt is made entirely from unpeated barley and spring fed artesian water. Its constituent malts were matured in Oloroso sherry casks (65%) and charred American oak barrels (35%). The whisky is bottled non-chill filtered at 46.3% alcohol. The 130-year old distillery has also launched Bunnahabhain 40 Years Old Single Islay Malt. The master distiller recently came across a small lot of these sherry casks containing the 40-year old whisky, which combined yielded 750 bottles, 212 of which are allocated to the U.S. These limited edition malts carry a price tag of $3,200 per bottle. The Isle of Mull is the second largest island in the Inner Hebrides, which lies off the west coast of Scotland. The island���s only distillery is famed for handcrafting soft, unpeated malts. New to the range is limited edition Tobermory 15 Years Old Single Malt. The whisky is distilled and then transferred to the mainland in Gonzalez Bowmore Dorus Mor 10 Years Old Small Batch Release. StateWays I www.stateways.com I March/April 2013

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