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  Famous Grouse Cask Series Ruby Cask Port Cask Finish Blended Scotch Whisky 40%

  Item no.: 505956-498796-36

  Port casks leave a clear mark. They tint the whisky reddish, pull it towards berries and plums, and can easily end up drowning everything else. Ruby Cask stays on the right side of that line.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse Cask Series Ruby Cask is a Blended Scotch Whisky finished in ruby port casks and bottled at 40%.

  Cask Series is the name for the releases where the classic Grouse blend gets an extra period in a cask with a past. Here it is ruby port, the fresh and fruity style rather than the nutty tawny, and the difference registers immediately. The base whisky is still soft and rounded, but the port wood lays a layer of red fruit and baking spice over the top.

  The finishing period is short enough that the blend underneath still comes through. This is not a port whisky but a Famous Grouse with the port cask as an added voice.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Baking spice first, soft vanilla, cinnamon and clove, and beneath it red berries, a touch of oak and a light sweetness.

  Palate

  Ripe stone fruit and red berries, plums and caramel, with light tannins from the port wood keeping the sweetness in check.

  Finish

  Medium to long, soft and sweet with fruit that lingers.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse Cask Series Ruby Cask
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Finished in ruby port casks
  Edition: Cask Series
  EAN no.: 5010314306540

  Flavour profile

  Fruity · Sweet · Soft · Spiced · Berry

  Did you know?

  Ruby and tawny port come from the same grapes but are handled entirely differently. Ruby is aged briefly in large vessels and keeps its fresh, deep red fruit, while tawny spends years in small casks and turns nutty and brown. That is why a ruby cask pulls whisky towards berries rather than towards walnut.

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  Famous Grouse Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865479-1106-19617

  Glenturret is the oldest working distillery in Scotland, and it almost never makes peated whisky. Almost. The handful of casks that do get made end up here, and that is the entire reason Smoky Black tastes the way it does.

  The expert description

  Famous Grouse Smoky Black is a Blended Scotch Whisky made with peated malt, matured in oak casks and bottled at 40%.

  The blend launched in 2015 as the successor to The Black Grouse and is built around a rare peated expression of Glenturret. This is not an Islay whisky poured into a blend. It is malt from a Highland distillery that carries its peat smoke from home, and it gives a different kind of smoke: drier, more bonfire-like and less medicinal than the west coast style.

  Beneath the smoke sits the classic Grouse profile of honey and fruit, bound together with grain whisky. The master blenders select both malt and grain casks with enough character to carry the smoke rather than vanish behind it. The brand has been owned by William Grant & Sons since July 2025.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Bonfire smoke and dry ash come through first, but honey, dried fruit and a note of toasted malt sit behind them.

  Palate

  Sweetness and smoke in the same mouthful. Vanilla and pale caramel carry it while the peat builds and lays dark chocolate and soot over the top.

  Finish

  Medium, dry and sooty with a final touch of pepper.

  Specifications

  Name: Famous Grouse Smoky Black
  Distillery: The Famous Grouse
  Region/Country: Scotland
  Type: Blended Scotch Whisky
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Cask type: Oak casks
  Edition: Smoky Black
  EAN no.: 5010314302504

  Flavour profile

  Smoky · Sweet · Soft · Malty · Peaty

  Did you know?

  Glenturret has been distilling since 1763, making it the oldest continuously working distillery in Scotland. For decades it also housed The Famous Grouse Experience, where visitors walked through the story behind the blend, and where many discovered for the first time that there was a distillery behind the bird on the label at all.

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  • 1pcs.
    26,75EUR