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Memyss Malts and Blends
The Wemyss Family have been connected to the Scottish Whisky Industry since the turn of the 19th Century and has a longstanding passion for the Scottish Whisky Industry when John Haig (founder of Haig’s) built his first distillery on Wemyss land. The barley that is produced on the Wemyss Estates is highly rated by many of the leading distillers and there is even the famous Cameron Bridge distillery located within a few miles of the Estate.
If you have never heard of Wemyss Malts here is a brief introduction about the name Wemyss. It is pronounced as ‘weems’ and is a Scots word for caves – as in the caves that pepper the rocky shore of Fife. The range of malts and blends that are produced are excellent and their ranges of malts are all hand crafted. Each whisky is produced uniquely for the bottle and not the distillery and this is a great way to make the whisky consumer know what they are going to receive within each bottle they purchase.
Wemyss Malts have a very important person within the Whisky Industry on their side and his name is Charlie Maclean – the Scottish authority on malt whisky. His passion is for Single Cask Malts and only selects truly exceptional single casks. His standards are very high and will only except the best and rejected the majority of cask that he samples. All this means the single cask are all very high quality from Wemyss and each batch is limited to between 300 to 600 bottles as the rest would not be to the correct standard.
The Wemyss Single Cask all have the minimum strength of 43%, but most of 46%. There are also selections of cask strengthbottles available. All these malts are not coloured in any way so what you receive is the natural state of the whisky with its own individual character. Within this range there are four that deal with the top Scottish whisky regions – Speyside, Highland, Islay and the Lowlands and are all excellent. They are all so good that the hardest part with the Wemyss range is which one to sample first.
Wemyss also have a fine range of blended whiskies and again these are all cask under the expert eye of Charlie Maclean. All the blends that Wemyss produced are selected by sampling hundreds of casks and only the very best are used so they can offer to the whisky industry the very best.
Below you will find the malts and blends that Wemyss have to offer and tasting notes to go with each of the bottles. There is also a link where you can purchases theses whisky. After this there is a selection of international retails where you can go direct to them to purchases these excellent whiskies. More details can be found at www.wemyssmalts.com
Single Malts Whiskies from Wemyss
SINGLE CASK SINGLE MALT Name: Vanilla Oak Tasting Notes and Observations |
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SINGLE CASK SINGLE MALT Name: Autumn Warmer Tasting Notes and Observations |
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SINGLE CASK SINGLE MALT Name: Red Berry Cream Tasting Notes and Observations |
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Blends Whiskies from Wemyss
BLENDED MALT Name: “Peat Chimney” Tasting notes and observations |
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BLENDED MALTS Name: “Spice King’’
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BLENDED MALT Name: “The Hive” Tasting notes and observations |
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If you would like to read more about the Wemyss Estate ere are a couple of website links. One for the excellent Wemyss Castle Gardens and one for Wemyss Firewood where you can buy firewood (soft and hard wood) and Christmas Trees.
Stockest of Wemyss Malts
Scotland – Stellar Brands, Kinross
Some main stockists – Whisky Shop Dufftown, Good Spirits Company Glasgow, Tam’s Drams Glasgow, Royal Mile Whiskies Edinburgh
England – Phoenix Wines
Some main stockists – Chester Whisky Shop, Bacchanalia Cambridge, Hainings West Sussex, Palmer’s Brewery Dorset
France – Rimauresq
Some main stockists – Only Whisky Brest, ABC+ Macon, Maison Desiree Bordeaux, Maison Clet Louvier
Potstill, Austria ~~ The Art of Whisky, Germany ~~ Whisky Import Netherlands ~~ Whisky Import Belux
Whisky Press Release from Wemyss Malts
Wemyss Malts Single Cask Single Malt releases - 17th February, 2012
Wemyss Malts Release Single Cask Autumn List - 26th October, 2011
Wemyss Malts launches a new whisky called “The Hive” - 10th August, 2011
Wemyss Malts on a Silver Winning Streak! - 28th July, 2011