A rich, peaty malt that makes a real monster of a gift

This set, containing a full-sized bottle of The Peat Monster, combined with two laser-etched glasses, is the perfect way to introduce one of our most loved creations. It’s a multiple award-winner, with the carefully crafted blend producing a style of peaty-smoky Scotch malt whisky no single distillery can create.

The ideal way to introduce a friend to the pleasures of smoky whisky

Available in a special limited-edition pack while stocks last, this set is currently the only way to pick up tulip-shaped glassware decorated with the emblematic Peat Monster icon. Brimming with peat smoke character and accented by delicate notes of citrus fruit and creamy vanilla, The Peat Monster is balanced and full on the palate with a sweet impression and a long finish.

In 2019, we started dressing The Peat Monster in a new label. The design stems from our 10th anniversary limited release, and when we evolved the recipe, we couldn’t resist reprising this design from Marc Burckhardt to accompany it. All batches of The Peat Monster released since 2019 now feature this specially-commissioned artwork.

Still very much the whisky for those who love big, rich, smoky-peaty malts, our latest version of THE PEAT MONSTER is older and more elegant than before.

Inspired by feedback from smoky whisky lovers, our new Painting Label of THE PEAT MONSTER incorporates single malts with a more aromatic and graceful style of smokiness. We have sought to retain the peaty intensity for which THE PEAT MONSTER has long been celebrated, whilst creating a depth and elegance not seen before.

New batches of THE PEAT MONSTER boast a spectrum of powerful coastal flavours, combining the smokiness of a driftwood fire with more medicinal peat notes. Orchard fruits and rich cask-derived creaminess balance the multi-layered smoke. It is a new peaty landscape, as the Painting Label shows.

The evolution is a subtle one. We hope you will hunt down both labels and enjoy teasing out the contrasts.

FLAVOUR PROFILE
Peaty and smoky, with a creamy and fruity character on the palate

Technical details

Bottled at 46% , Not chill filtered , Natural colour , Lead whiskymaker: John Glaser

FROM BURNS TO BARLEY

Lochlea was a cattle farm when we originally acquired it in 2006. Extending some 222 acres, we realised that for a farm of that size to be viable we needed to do something very different. 
Barley had historically been grown on the farm land, largely as livestock feed, so in 2015 we embarked on an experiment, growing 50 acres of malting barley. 
Working away quietly, learning from our (not too frequent) mistakes, exploring the possibilities and making contacts in the malting industry gave us the confidence to make a big decision: we’d develop and operate a single malt distillery here at Lochlea.
Construction got underway in 2017, converting the former piggery, byre and midden in the heart of the farm steading into the distillery, and repurposing the cattle sheds into bonded warehouses. We secured all our licences in 2018, and the distillery was commissioned in August 2018.
Since then, we have been growing our barley, and the distillery team have been skillfully and patiently making spirit. 
The land at Lochlea is important, and not just to the distinctive taste of our whisky. This was the land that Robert Burns tended when he lived at Lochlea Farm, inspiring his thinking and development as a poet. Burns toiled the same soil that we are privileged to grow our malting barley in today.

WHISKY IS HERE

Our single malt scotch whisky has been a labour of love for years. We’re not cutting any corners here. Everything we do, from our wooden washbacks to our on-site racked warehouse, is focused on producing the highest quality spirit possible. Forget your preconceptions about Lowland whisky, Lochlea is different. Using our own barley unique to Lochlea, nurturing a long fermentation and being meticulous with our cut points creates a new make bursting with orchard fruit and elegant beyond its years.

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

As an independent family-owned distillery - now a rare thing in our industry - we can approach our small-batch whisky making in an innovative, flexible and responsive way, without the constraints of a large corporate structure. By using our own barley grown on the farm and our on-site water source, we have full traceability over the ingredients going into our process, allowing us a higher level of quality control and creating a flavour profile unique to Lochlea. Our location offers the best of both worlds. Nestled in the heart of Ayrshire, we have beautiful rolling hills all around, yet are easily accessible from many of the major towns and cities in Scotland. Head north, and you’re in Glasgow in 30 minutes, south west and several scenic seaside towns along the coast. We are also the only distillery in the world who can rightfully claim that Robert Burns himself lived and worked here. He spent his formative years from 1777-1784 at Lochlea, and we are proud to work those same fields today 240 years on.

Agave Type: Tobala Region: Candelaria Yegole, Oaxaca Maestro Mezcalero: Rmulo Snchez Parada Proof: 96 Proof, 48% ABV Tasting Notes: smoke, vanilla, velvety smooth mouthfeel, decadent white chocolate, ripe banana. Details: Distilled from 100% agave potatorum, roasted underground, fermented with natural yeasts in wood casks and distilled in a copper alembic stilll.

The Drink Good Spirits mission is to share the culture of a country through a spirit — and that’s why Aldez Mezcal was born. We want to excite your palate and awaken your senses, one sip at a time.
Our passion is producing spirits that are thoughtfully made from soil to seal. From advocating sustainable farming practices to selecting small, family-owned suppliers to create our eco-friendly packaging, our line of spirits strives to put the planet first.
We invite you to fall in love with the history and process behind what we do.

Our family business, Three Rivers Ranch, has been fly fishing in Idaho for four generations. We recently started our own tequila brand, Volans, inspired by our love for Mexico, its culture, people, and tequila. We partnered with El Pandillo, a distillery that shares our values of tradition, sustainability, and community. We invite you to try Volans Ultra Premium Tequila, made with love from our families in Idaho and Jalisco.

Volans Blanco tequila unaged and made from fully mature Blue Weber Agave & a mix of three sources of water – Rain, +450ft deep well, and spring water. It has been oxygenated or aerated. It is a truly enjoyable Blanco tequila to sip slowly.

AROMAS: Sweet Cooked Agave, minerals, floral notes, citrus, black pepper, apple, and pear.

FLAVORS: Cooked agave, black pepper, citrus, smokiness, and floral notes. The aeration helps create a very lovely rounded mouthfeel.

Pusser's Blue Label (42% ABV) is a Royal Navy style rum bottled in accordance with the Admiralty's blending recipe last used when the Royal Navy discontinued its daily ration on 31 July 1970.

Bottle Size: 750ml

On the steep precarious hillsides of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Durango varieties of agave, indigenous to the region, grow wild and are heavily sought after by the local mezcaleros. These varietals produce flavors that are exotically intense, with rich earth tones and savory smokiness. From the heart of the maguey these flavors are traditionally extracted to produce mezcal that is wildly refined. Because we at bozal believe that something wild produces a far richer spirit.

Agave

The Tepeztate, a subspecies of the Marmorata Family of agave, has a very distinct, erratic leaf structure and flourishes best on the sides of steep, rocky cliffs. The Tepeztate produces beautiful quiotes at the end of life which flower a rich yellow before turning to seed. This agave offers a powerful, unique aroma dominated by floral characteristics.

Taste

Herbaceous aromas, with a touch of wet stone on the nose, accompanied by grapefruit zest, orange flower and pine. Fresh florals, white pepper and minerals are highlighted on the palate with prominent notes of spice on the finish.

Established in 1985 by legendary vintners Dan and Margaret Duckhorn, our roots run deep at Decoy. Building on our rich winemaking heritage, we invite you to experience Decoy Limited. Crafted using grapes from some of the most acclaimed Alexander Valley vineyards, including our own estate properties, this is the ultimate expression of Decoy Cabernet Sauvignon, displaying robust layers of blackberry, plum, dark chocolate and violets, with French oak-inspired hints of vanilla and spice.

Wine Profile

Production Notes
Varietal Composition: 98% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Merlot

Winemaker Notes
Embodying the luxurious beauty of great Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, this alluring wine draws you in with complex aromas of black cherry, ripe plum, blackberry, and sweet baking spices. On the palate, the tannins are supple and round, framing juicy layers of dark berries and chocolate, with sophisticated hints of white pepper and toasty oak emerging throughout the long, resonant finish.

Production
The season began with a warm winter with less than 50% of our average rainfall, leading us to take early drought precautions, including suckering, careful cover crop management, targeted irrigation and pruning for crop load. Budbreak occurred mid-March to early-April with bloom in mid-May. Summer temperatures fluctuated from 85º F to 105º F, which ensured excellent ripening, and we began harvesting Sauvignon Blanc in mid-August, with Chardonnay and Merlot following soon after. The remaining Bordeaux varietals were all picked by October 15th. The quality of our white grapes was superb, with ideal acid profiles and lush tropical flavors at lower-than-normal berry sugar levels. Red grapes were also surprisingly concentrated at lower sugar levels, while still displaying wonderful depth, complexity and juicy flavors.

Inspired by legendary tales from San Luis Potosí, the spirit and decanter of our newest icon capture the essence of this state’s desert slopes and valleys. 

Its mezcal is made with green agave, a plant native to the deserts in the state of San Luis Potosí.

TASTING NOTES

Color: crystal clear with silver highlights  

Body: full body 

Aroma: cooked agave, caramel, green chile, sweet fruit and freshly cut grass with subtle aromas of wildflowers 

Palate: herbal front with hints of caramel, lime zest and clove, with a mineral and spiced aftertaste

Whiskey comes in a softer, sweeter side in the form of a creamy, toasted caramel liqueur with little hints of chocolate that we like to call Tennessee Mud. At 35 proof, pour it in coffee or hot chocolate or simply serve over ice and enjoy a cozy concoction of whiskey-infused perfection.

Mezcal Cmplice Reposado is your 'Accomplice of Love'. Made from 100% agave and aged in American white oak barrels for six long months, it is the ideal mezcal to seduce the delicate palate. It is a rested mezcal of premium quality.

Its soft texture, obtained by the incorporation of elements that the founding accomplices recognized as symbols of love towards a beautiful woman, caresses the palate with smooth but robust intensity.

Bottle Size: 750ml

Caravan shares the pedigree of Darioush’s Signature wines, but displays more ripe, saturated fruit with an elegantly textured finish. Caravan is anchored in Cabernet Sauvignon with lesser amounts of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and/or Malbec and Petit Verdot added for depth and complexity of flavor.

TASTING NOTES
Drawing inspiration from a refined Left-Bank Bordeaux blend, Caravan commands attention with a core of mouthwatering raspberry and black plum fruit while baking spices of cinnamon and nutmeg swirl on the palate.
Cabernet Sauvignon leads the way with its plush, velvety texture while Merlot and Cabernet Franc add savory top notes of bay leaf, hawthorn, and sandalwood. A flourish of rich, round fruits sweep across the midpalate, then culminate in an aromatic finish accentuated by dark chocolate reminiscent of a fine dusting of cocoa powder.

Maker Notes

The 2022 vintage of Pinhook Rye showcases bright aromas of pear, clove, walnut, and honeycomb. These transition to a vibrant palate of baked apple, black pepper, and toffee.

Each year, Pinhook releases a new vintage of bourbons and ryes. Every expression is the best representation of our barrels at that moment in time, and dedicated to a promising young thoroughbred. Through a combination of careful barrel selection, blending in small batches, and meticulous proofing, each Pinhook vintage has a personality as unique as the horse on the label. The 2022 flagship rye was crafted using Pinhook's proprietary mashbill. Developed, distilled and aged over 2 years at Castle & Key Distillery in Frankfort, KY, our latest rye was blended and proofed by Sean Josephs, our Master Blender.

Founded in 1982 by German-born Jrg Rupf, St. George Spirits is one of the oldest craft distilleries in the United States. The distillery, housed in an old World War II airplane hangar on a former naval base on the edge of San Francisco, is home to Lance Winters, mad scientist and St. George's master distiller. Winters, who is widely-known for experimenting with different types of spirits, has a laboratory dominated by a 10-liter test still in addition to the glass beakers and graduated cylinders that cover every inch of counterspace. Next to the dusty chalkboards caked with equations for the conversion of sugar to alcohol and intricate diagrams of molecular structures are bottles of experimental whiskeys, vodkas and even an aging balsamic vinegar (it's 14 years old already). According to St. George Master Distiller Lance Winters, St. George Single Malt Baller Whiskey is a California take on the Japanese spin on Scotch whisky. It is crafted from 100% American barley, mostly made of two-row pale malted barley, the remainder lightly roasted. The whiskey is filtered through maple charcoal and matured for 34 years in ex-bourbon and French oak wine casks, before being finished in umeshu barrels, a Japanese style of plum liqueur crafted from 100% California-grown ume fruit. The distinctive label, which re-imagines the legend of St. George as a samurai was designed by Oakland artist Sylvia Solochek Walters, and calligraphy by Eri Takase of Takase Studios. 

A ready-to-serve cocktail crafted with Canadian whisky, vermouth & natural flavours to bring the experience of one of the world’s top ten classic whisky cocktails from behind the bar into your home. Simply pour over ice and garnish with a maraschino cherry, if you'd like.

Put a little sizzle with your sweetness. Creativity is at the heart of this whiskey when we added the sweet taste of mango and complemented it with a spicy habanero pepper finish. Perfect for creating cocktails with a kick!

Brand Introduction

A mission-driven, social impact-driven company, Erstwhile is a boutique agave spirits importer based in Brooklyn, New York.  Our mission: advocate for small, independent, family-owned producers who lack representation outside their local communities in Mexico; and bring their craft to mezcal lovers in international markets for the first time. We work closely with our partner producers and set them up for success.  No haggling.  No exclusivity contracts. We guide producers through the complicated steps to export in their own names for the first time, and cover necessary expenses including local attorneys, accountants, license fees, and more.  We absorb our producers’ marketing and supply chain costs as our own. We believe in autonomy for producers, be it hiring their own workers or using their own bottling facility. We only step in if they want our help. We connect our partner producers to share knowledge and help each other in production. Revenue from every Erstwhile bottle sold creates jobs in our partner producers’ and vendors’ local communities in Mexico.  Our producers hire their own team of local men and women, on their own terms. Erstwhile is a woman-owned, women-led business.  Our team is multicultural and multilingual.  We are outspoken about elevating underrepresented voices in Mezcal and our industry. Only 200 liters made.  This rare batch of Tobalá – one of Erstwhile's 2021 Ancestral Limited Releases- marks Master Mezcalero Juan Abel Quiroz Agustín's debut in the United States and international markets.  Natural fermentation with wild native yeasts in sabino cypress wood vats.   Distilled exclusively in clay pots.  Crafted with love in Santa María Sola, Oaxaca. 

Maker Notes

Within the walls of the HENDRICK'S GIN Palace Garden, a most magical party is flourishing! Butterflies and bees dance in dizzy reverie, feasting on a banquet of fragrant flowers laid out, especially by Ms. Lesley Gracie. Now our Master Distiller wishes to invite you to join in these enchanting celebrations and introduce you to this delectable limited release Scottish Gin.

WHAT ON EARTH IS HENDRICK’S FLORA ADORA GIN?

Perfect for casual get-togethers, HENDRICK’S FLORA ADORA is buzzing with an enticing aroma of enchanting flowers and a fresh, herbal character that is classically HENDRICK’S in style. The juniper and coriander backbone is lengthened by lush green and wonderfully sweet floral characteristics, creating a wonderfully balanced gin.

Exquisite with tonic and a slice of cucumber, or perhaps try mixed long in a Wild garden Cup – a medley of fresh mint, cooling cucumber, and juicy raspberries lengthened with a refreshing lemon soda

THE TALE OF TWO GARDENS, A TESTAMENT OF WILD ALCHEMY

Inspired by the Victorian pleasure gardens and blooming wildflower meadows of the windswept Scottish countryside, HENDRICK’S FLORA ADORA, the latest release from HENDRICK’S Cabinet of Curiosities, expresses an ephemeral moment of nature in a bottle. Flamingo Estate is a house for dreaming and full-bodied garden pleasures made from Mother Nature’s most precious ingredients. Together, HENDRICK’S and Flamingo Estate conjured distinctive notes of Spring and fossilized them in this collection to celebrate the pleasures of gardens far apart but spiritually near.