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Blanton's Straight from the Barrel is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon that is bottled undiluted and straight from a bourbon barrel. The whiskey is particularly dark and intense. Blanton's bottlings are still characterised by the rider on the bottle cap. Single cask bottling!

This Gin Mare is truly a Mediterranean gin: its botanicals include Spanish olives, Italian basil, Greek rosemary and Turkish thyme. Added to this are fruity-fresh oranges and lemons from Seville, as well as coriander, green cardamom and, of course, juniper berries for a classically spicy note. Included in the delivery is a decorative lantern.

The 10-year-old Knockdhu single malt is part of The Maltman series from Meadowside Blending. Matured in a single sherry hogshead, the whisky is neither chill-filtered nor coloured in the slim bottles with the iconic black labels. The independent bottler Meadowside Blending is based in Glasgow and fills special single casks from Scotland's renowned distilleries and has already won several awards for its creations.

With the Ardbeg Blasda, the limited edition of a slightly smoky malt (8ppm smoke) was released in 2008. Blasda in Gaelic stands for sweet and delicious. With little smoke, the more subtle flavours of Ardbeg come to the fore.

Ardbeg Traigh Bhan (pronounced Träi Wan) is the name of a well-known beach on the island of Islay. The locals also call it 'The Singing Sand' because the sand seems to sing under your feet when you walk on it. The 2nd batch of the bottling matured for 19 years in American oak casks and Oloroso sherry casks.

This Kilchoman single malt single cask bottling was matured for 15 years in a refill Oloroso sherry cask and bottled to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft. Three sets of sister casks were released for The Sister Casks series. The casks in The Sister Cask series were distilled and bottled on the same day, hence the name of the series. Six unique and previously unreleased Kilchoman single casks have been carefully selected and released exclusively to mark the retailer's anniversary. This selection of single malt whiskies includes single casks from the early years of distillation, of which Kilchoman only has a limited number available. These include, for the first time, Oloroso sherry single cask maturations and a 100% Islay malt with an age statement.

The Black Sheriff from the Habitation Saint-Etienne distillery, which is based in Martinique, is a cuvee of young rums from the distillery which, after distillation, are matured for three to four years in extra intensively toasted ex-Bourbon barrels from Kentucky, USA.

This Mortlach whisky is part of Signatory's Un-Chillfiltered Collection range, in which the single malts are not chillfiltered. Individually selected and bottled, the single malts have a particularly intense flavour. The 15-year-old matured in four bourbon hogsheads and bears interesting details about the distillation, bottling and casks on the bottle label.

The Brother's Bond Whiskey was created by actors Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, who are best known for their work together in the Vampire Diaries series. Although not brothers in real life, in the series they play two vampire brothers who are not averse to a good glass of whiskey. Now Somerhalder and Wesley have fulfilled their dream of making their own straight Bourbon, which consists of 65% corn, but also 22% rye, barley and wheat. Column Still and Copper Pot Still are used for the double distillation. The Bourbon is then matured for at least 4 years in fresh American oak barrels, the staves of which are charred at stage 4 (alligator char) and the lids of the barrels at stage 2. The charring stages 1 - 4 indicate how thick the resulting charcoal layer on the inside of the barrel should be.

The Real McCoy Rum is a Blend, which is married from Column and Pot Still molasses distillates with a shot of spring water. After the marriage, the rum was matured for five years in heavily burnt-out, former Bourbon barrels.

Pink Grapefruit Old Tom Gin is a combination of locally grown and traditional gin botanicals. Among other ingredients, fresh pink grapefruits are peeled by the distillery team and refined with muscovado sugar, which come together in this gin.