Whisky blogger Steven Kramme has tasted a secret whisky from Adelphi
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Adelphi Steven Kramme has created this series called Breath of the Isles. It refers to the islands around Scotland. It's a concept where you're not allowed to know which distillery the whisky comes from. It's a secret. There are actually several different whisky merchants that do secret bottlings - for example The Scotch Malt Whisky Society or SMWS are known for not telling what they have bottled. The only thing we know from this series is that it's from the islands. This puts a natural limit on what it can be. Distilleries include Highland Park, Arran, Jura and Talisker as some of the largest. This bottle was distilled in 2007 and bottled in 2020. It is therefore 13 years old and at 58.6% alc. and Adelphi, the bottler, has chosen the name The breath of the Isles.
Nose: Lots of power right away. Quite a strong aroma of oak and sherry. A little rubber. A bit medicinal some might say. The nose is pleasant and balanced.
Pallet: "Wow" I have to say. A really powerful flavor. I sense oak, leather and a bit of salt. It's quite oily with flavors of rose pepper and dark chocolate. There is a bitterness that comes through at the end. A bit like grapefruit. You can taste the whisky for a long time and find new notes again and again. Super delicious. The high alcohol does not deny itself.
Finish: A medium length finish. With mild dark chocolate. All in all, a really nice dram.
An insanely delicious and exciting whisky. I feel that if I drank it again in a week, I would discover completely new things. A rather complex whisky for those who love to find all the little fine delicious nuances in the whisky. It's a whisky that will and can challenge even the best. I wrote in the introduction about the different possible distilleries. I'll go out on a limb and say that it's from the distillery Arran. This is, of course, entirely at your own expense.
Sláinte
Steven Kramme
About Adelphi:
Adelphi Never compromise Only the very best casks are good enough to make it through Adelphi's eye of the needle. When Adelphi tests around 25 casks, only one is approved to be bottled under the Adelphi name. Alex Bruce, Adelphi's manager, and renowned whisky writer Charles Maclean often sit together and test samples from offered casks from different distilleries. But they have to be truly exceptional casks to be approved by Alex and Charles. Less than 4% of casks pass the test.
Adelphi The distillery was founded in 1826 and was located on the River Clydes on the outskirts of Glasgow. The distillery closed in the early 1900s, but re-emerged as an independent bottler in 1993, when a grandson of one of the former owners started Adelphi as an independent bottler. From the beginning, Adelphi's philosophy has never been in doubt: "We only want to bottle the best"!
There are very limited quantities released to the market and they are constantly selling out. All, of course, bottled at cask strength, without color and filtration - but that goes without saying.
Adelphi, known for their fantastic bottlings and high quality. Most bottlings are in Cask Strenght. It is very limited what manager Alex Bruce and whisky expert and writer Charles Maclein approve as good enough for Adelphi to put their name to bottling the cask. The bottlings are from single casks and therefore we often only get a few bottles from the bottlings. It is with great pleasure that we can present these fantastic bottlings.
Adelphi also have their own distillery: Ardnamurchan, which is the westernmost distillery on the Scottish mainland. This is a distillery where everything is based on the philosophy of producing the ultimate high quality malt - we look forward to seeing how it develops.
FC Whisky.dk
Behind the company FC Whisky are two whisky enthusiasts who for 20 years have been running what started as a hobby project into a whisky import company with many different brands. They have many different whisky brands in their range. All selected with a strong focus on great taste and the ability to stand out from the crowd. They have these in their range, among others:
Signatory
Coopers Choice
Blackadder Raw Cask
Ardnamurchan Distillery
Edradour Distillery
Vintage Malt Whisky Company Ltd.
Nantou Distillery
and last but not least Adelphi which you can read more about in the text above.
