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viernes, 27 de julio de 2018

Glenfarclas


Glenfarclas distillery is a Speyside whisky distillery in Ballindalloch, Scotland. Glenfarclas translates as meaning valley of the green grass. The distillery is owned and run by the Grant family. The distillery has six stills which are the largest on Speyside and are heated directly by gas burners. The distillery has a production capacity of around 3.5 million litres of spirit per year. Normally four stills are used for production with two kept in reserve. The distillery has approximately 68,000 casks maturing on site, in traditional dunnage warehouses, with stock from every year from 1953 to the current year. Glenfarclas produce a traditional Highland malt with a heavy sherry influence. There is evidence that the distillery first started operations sometime before 1791. The distillery was first granted a licence in 1836 when it was run by Robert Hay. On 8 June 1865 it was bought by John Grant and is still owned and run by his descendants, making it truly independent. The Grants formed a partnership with Pattisons Ltd in August 1896 at the height of the whisky boom. Following the crash that followed the Grants resumed full ownership of the distillery. John L.S. Grant, who joined Glenfarclas in 1973, is the current Chairman. His son George S. Grant is Director of Sales. The company was named Distiller of the Year by Whisky Magazine in 2006. Since 2006 Glenfarclas has been distributed in the UK by Pol Roger Ltd. In 2008 the company began sponsoring horseracing with the Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase at Cheltenham. In 2011, the 40-year-old 46% vol. expression was named "Scotch Whisky Single Malt of the Year" in the 17th Annual Malt Advocate Whisky Awards

Glenfarclas is produced in the following proprietary bottlings: 

8-year-old 40% vol. 10-year-old 40% vol. 12-year-old 43% vol. 15-year-old 46% vol. 17-year-old 43% vol. 18-year-old 43% vol. - Travel Retail Exclusive 21-year-old 43% vol. 25-year-old 43% vol. 30-year-old 43% vol. 40-year-old 46% vol. 105 (Cask Strength) 60% vol. In 2007 Glenfarclas launched The Family Casks, a collection of 43 single cask bottlings, with one from every year from 1952 to 1994. This collection now extends to 2001, but the distillery no longer has stock of casks from 1952 and 1953. In January 2011 Glenfarclas released a limited edition bottling to mark the distillery's 175th anniversary.

In June 2015, Glenfarclas released another limited edition bottling called the £511.19s.Od Family Reserve. This was launched to mark 150 years of the Grant Family owning the distillery. The name of this bottling references the price John Grant paid for the distillery in 1865. The bottle is sold with a copy of the original bill of sale for the distillery.



sábado, 2 de junio de 2018

Jura


Jura elixir, 12 años
Jura elixir, 12 años

Jura (en gaélico escocés, Diùra) es una isla de las Hébridas Interiores, en Escocia. Se encuentra ubicada al noreste de la isla de Islay y está separada de la costa escocesa por el estrecho de Jura (Sound of Jura). La isla ha sido designada como una National Scenic Area, que es un estatuto de conservación especial en el Reino Unido.
Whisky, Jura, treinta, 30 years old
Whisky, Jura, treinta, 30 years old
Isla de Jura
Localización geográfica / administrativa
ArchipiélagoHébridas Interiores
Localización

Sound of Jura(océano Atlántico)
País(es)Bandera de Reino Unido Reino Unido
Bandera de Escocia Escocia
Council Área de Argyll and Bute
Datos geográficos
Superficie366,92 km²
Punto más altoBeinn an Òir (785 m)
Demografía
Población188 hab. (2001)
Otros datos
Principal asentamientoCraighouse
Coordenadas56°05′00″N 5°45′00″O / 56.083333333333,-5.75
Mapa de localización
Isla de Jura ubicada en Argyll and Bute
Isla de Jura
Isla de Jura
Localización de la isla
UK Jura.PNGLocalización de la isla
Tiene un área de 366,96 km², por lo tanto es de un tamaño similar a Islay, pero mucho menos densamente poblada, pues tiene alrededor de 180 habitantes. El mayor asentamiento es Craighouse en la costa este. El villorio de Craighouse es sede de la única destilería de la isla, donde se hace el whisky de Jura. En la villa también está el único hotel, taller y capilla.
Jura tastival
Jura tastival

Es extraño que por el tamaño de Jura, la población y la cercanía con las tierras escocesas, no exista una conexión marítima. Sin embargo hay una pequeña nave que opera entre Port Askaig, al sur de Islay, y Feolin Ferry, en Jura.


Jura, whisky, one for the road
Jura, whisky, one for the road

En la isla predominan tres colinas cónicas en el lado oeste (son llamados Paps of Jura) y tienen una altura máxima de 762 m. En el occidente de Jura no hay asentamientos permanentes de habitantes. En esta parte existen angostas playas formadas por la erosión de las olas y conforman plataformas cortadas en la orilla del mar que tienen alturas variables sobre el nivel de las aguas.


vaso whisky Jura


Antes, el fin del camino se hallaba en Barnhill, la casa del novelista George Orwell, donde él terminó su gran obra maestra "Mil novecientos ochenta y cuatro" (Nineteen Eighty-Four).

Jura Superstition
Jura Superstition


Aparte de la conexión de la isla Jura con Orwell, quizás sea más conocida por el notorio evento ocurrido el 23 de agosto de 1994, donde los músicos Bill Drummond y Jimmy Cauty, de la banda KLF, se filmaron a ellos mismos quemando un millón de libras esterlinas en billetes en un cobertizo para botes en desuso.

Isle of Jura Turas-Mara mit Geschenkverpackung Whisky
Turas-Mara 

Entre la punta norte de Jura y la isla de Scarba se encuentra el golfo de Corryvreckan, donde los torbellinos hacen que el paso sea difícil cuando hay ciertos niveles en la marea.
En la isla habita una gran cantidad de ciervos rojos (Cervus elaphus) y se cree que el nombre de Jura deriva de hjörtr, palabra nórdica para designar "ciervo". Hirsch en alemán, Reh.

Jura , 3 pack, diferentes

Paps de JuraEditar

En inglés paps significa "pezón", "mama", y estas montañas tienen aquella peculiar forma. Son un grupo de montañas cónicas de cuarcita y dominan toda la mitad sur de la isla. Los mayores picos son:
  • Beinn an Òir (gaélico, montaña de Oro), es la más alta elevación, alcanzando los 785 m.
  • Beinn Shiantaidh (gaélico, montaña Sagrada) su altura es de 735 m.
  • Beinn a' Chaolais (gaélico, montaña del Sonido) es el más bajo de estos cerros, sólo por un metro de diferencia con Beinn Shiantaidh (734 m).
Las paps dominan todo el paisaje de la región y pueden ser vistas desde Mull of Kintyrey, en un día claro, desde Skye e Irlanda del Norte.

Cabeza de ciervo Evilandat, cornamenta para colgar en la pared, perchero con forma de animal, regalo decorativo., blanco
ciervo en amazon ES

lunes, 21 de mayo de 2018

Dalwhinnie

Dalwhinnie Distillery, situated in the Highland village of Dalwhinnie in Scotland, produces Single Malt Scotch Whisky. Dalwhinnie refers to its own whisky as a Highland Whisky but as it is located within both the Highland and Speyside region it can legally be called either a Highland or Speyside whisky. It is owned by Diageo.

Dalwhinnie - Winter's Gold
Dalwhinnie - Winter's Gold


Dalwhinnie Whisky Escocés - 700 ml
Dalwhinnie Whisky Escocés - 700 ml, 15 años


Dalwhinnie - Single Highland Malt Miniature - 15 year old Whisky
Dalwhinnie - Single Highland Malt Miniature - 15 year old Whisky


dalwhinnie distillers Edition
dalwhinnie distillers Edition


The site for the distillery was chosen for its access to clear spring water from Lochan-Doire-Uaine and abundant peat from the surrounding bogs. Set in splendid mountain scenery, Dalwhinnie is the highest distillery in Scotland at 1,164 ft (355 m) above sea level. The name Dalwhinnie is derived from Gaelic word Dail Chuinnidh, which means meeting place, referring to the meeting of ancient cattle drovers' routes through the mountains.
1897: John Grant of Grantown-on-Spey, George Sellar of Kingussie, and designer Alexander Mackenzie, also of Kingussie and already a designer of a distillery there, put up an estimated £10,000 to build the Strathspey Distillery at Dalwhinnie between the Great North Road and the Highland Railway.
1898: In February production begins but by the summer the venture was already in liquidation. In October A. P. Blyth buys the distillery for his son and renames it Dalwhinnie announcing ‘considerable improvements on the building and plant’.
1905: The largest distillers in the U.S.A., Cook and Bernheimer, buy the distillery at auction for just £1,250. Many fear the take-over of the Scotch whisky industry. A huge warehouse in Leith blends Dalwhinnie with other whiskies ‘to suit the American palate’.
1919: Prohibition hits America. Dalwhinnie returns to Scottish hands; they are those of Sir James Calder, chairman of Macdonald Greenlees, also blenders in Leith.
1926: Macdonald Greenlees is itself acquired; by the Distillers Company Ltd. (DCL). Dalwhinnie gains its fifth owner in under thirty years and is licensed to James Buchanan and Co. (famous for the Black and White and Buchanan blends).

Buchanan
Black & White Blended Scotch Whisky (1 x 0,7 l)

1934: A fire in the early hours of February 1st closes the distillery for four years; perhaps coincidentally this is also the year in which electricity first comes to the village, replacing paraffin lamps.
1937: As rebuilding continues, winter snowdrifts 20 ft (6.1 m) high hamper work.
1938: After four years Dalwhinnie re-opens in April, rebuilt and refreshed…
1940: …and shuts again, in common with most distilleries, as a result of wartime restrictions on their use of barley.
1961: The wash stills are converted to steam heating from a coal-fired boiler.
1968: The maltings cease production. Barley is now brought in from specialist maltsters for greater control over peatiness and alcohol yield.
1969: British Rail closes the distillery’s private siding; Dalwhinnie whiskies now leave for the south by road.
1972: Oil-firing replaces coal as modernization continues.
1987: The distillery becomes part of United Distillers. United Distillers was a Scottish company formed in 1987 combining the businesses of Distillers Company and Arthur Bell & Sons, both owned by Guinness. During a modernisation of the Dalwhinnie plant the traditional worm tubs were removed and shell and tube condensers installed.
1989: Dalwhinnie 15 year old becomes one of the Six Classic Malts of Scotland.
1991: New visitor centre opens.
1994: Dalwhinnie is confirmed by the Met. Office as having the coldest average recorded temperature (6.0 C) of any inhabited region in Scotland and probably the U.K.
1995: Distillery refitted. Traditional worm tubs are reinstated, having been removed several years earlier.
1997: Diageo was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan and Dalwhinnie became part of the drinks giant’s portfolio.
1980: The Dalwhinnie Distillers Edition 1980 is released; a second maturation in Oloroso sherry seasoned casks brings out still more depth of character.
1998: A special centenary bottling of Dalwhinnie 15 year old commemorates Dalwhinnie’s 100th anniversary.
1999: Dalwhinnie 15 Year old and the Dalwhinnie Distillers Edition 1981 are both awarded Monde Selection Gold Medals.
2004: Dalwhinnie 15 year old wins a Gold Medal at the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
2009: Dalwhinnie 15 year old wins Gold (Best in Class) International Wine & Spirit Competition.
2010: Dalwhinnie Manager’s Choice 1992 is released. Dalwhinnie Distillers Edition wins Gold in the Scotch Whisky Masters 2010 Highlands and Islands Special Edition
2015: Dalwhinnie Distillery Visitor Centre is awarded 5 Stars by the Scottish Tourist Board
2016: Dalwhinnie 15 year Old wins Gold in the San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2016. Dalwhinnie Distillery is awarded the Certificate of Excellence by Trip Advisor. Dalwhinnie Distillery is awarded Gold Level in the Keep Scotland Beautiful – National Award for Environmental Excellence.
2017: Dalwhinnie Distillery is awarded “Best Distillery Tour” 2017 by Drinks International

Dalwhinnie 70Cl 1996
Dalwhinnie 70Cl 1996


1997 Dalwhinnie Oloroso (bottled in 2014)
1997 Dalwhinnie Oloroso (bottled in 2014)


Dalwhinnie 25 Jahre Special Release 2012 Single Malt Scotch Whisky (1 x 0.7 l)
Dalwhinnie 25 Jahre Special Release 2012 Single Malt Scotch Whisky (1 x 0.7 l)



Whisky: Das kleine Buch (Hallwag Allgemeine Einführungen)
Whisky: Das kleine Buch (Hallwag Allgemeine Einführungen)