Spirits and Ale

Delicious small batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey made by Kentucky Bourbon Distillers who are based at the Willett Distillery.

Country: USA

Region: Kentucky

ABV: 53.5%

Grain Spirit

Unlike in Cognac, XO Bourbon is not legally defined. This whiskey is about 12 years old though!

A classic Amaro digestif, made from the cold infusion of four different types of herbs, with sugar and alcohol in tank. After which they are double filtered and finally bottled. Amaro is a type of Italian liqueur made by macerating herbs, roots, flowers, bark, citrus peels, and other plants. The word "amaro" is Italian for bitter.

Country: Italy

Region: Alatri, Lazio

ABV: 40%

Colazingari’s products are textbook examples of the art of liqueur production through the century old tradition of cold infusion, by which liqueurs of much greater refinement and depth of flavour are produced.

Juniper, warm citrus, and green tea combine to create this smooth, flavourful gin. Partners brilliantly with Mediterranean or citrus tonics. A smooth, citrus forward gin, delicately infused with green tea botanicals, distilled slowly from 100% molasses spirit.

ABV: 40%

Appearance: Bronze gold

Nose: Juniper, mandarins, warm citrus notes, pink peppercorn, hints of vanilla, cacao, white almonds

Palate: Mandarin flesh, cacao, orange
blossom, with tannins from the green tea

A unique blend of 12 botanicals includes Juniper, Sicilian lemon, Seville orange, White Korean ginseng, coriander seed, Angelica root and Orris root.

Distilled by Blackbridge on the Luton Hoo estate.

Hacienda de Chihuahua Sotol Reposado is made from 100% wild-harvested Dasylirion plants and aged from 6 months up to 1 year in new french oak barrels.

38% ABV

The Hine Cigar Reserve XO is perfect for enjoying slowly with a great cigar (legal note - we have to say we are not recommending smoking......)

Deep and rich, yet also soft and smooth on the finish. A sign of a well aged and matured cognac.

Country: France

Region: Cognac

ABV: 40%

Grape based spirit

Aged for a minimum of 10 years, its maturation in oak barrels has added to the complexity of this relatively young cognac but its flavours of spice and coffee, with pineapple in the background, are characteristic of top shelf Cognacs.

ABV: 40%

Hermitage Cognac was founded by David Baker for whom, more than sixty years ago, wine tasting became an obsession. Soon he was looking for drinks with more diverse and complex flavours. Cognac won the day and the company was formed. Hermitage seek history and provenance in their cognacs which are either vintages from the year of harvesting, or age statements, with defined years of barrel ageing. Cognacs from the Grande Champagne mature more slowly, but this is an advantage. They can remain in their casks for longer, drawing on the oak that will, after decades of ageing, provide the intense richness known as rancio.
Their cognacs are very special so only those from single estates are acceptable. Each handpicked cognac reflects the terroir of its origin and the dedicated skills, accrued over generations, of the family who produced it.
For decades Hermitage have striven to provide cognacs of the very highest quality. Their experience and understanding of old cognacs, and their bookmarks in history, has provided them with an intimate relationship with both the cellars from where they come and the cognacs themselves.

The Scalasaig ‘Island Hopper’ Jura
Single Cask
Aged 29 Years / Cask # 2505
Distilled in 1992 and bottled February 2022
Only 180 bottles available
Bottled at 48.1% / Non-chill filtered and 100%
natural colour.

Full of early-1990s complex Jura “funk” with notes of ripe fruits, camphor oil, sea salt, damp dunnage warehouse, cigar box and muscovado sugar.

48.1%

A chance to try our Craft Ale Club for three months. A mixed selection of 12 locally brewed craft ales send each month for 3 months. Perfect for gifting to frends and family.

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 For more details on the Ale Club please see our Craft Ale Club page.

A mixed selection of 12 locally brewed craft ales

A fantastic white rum from a highly respected rum distillery.

A fresh, fruity and young white rum thats the perfect mixing rum for all the classic rum cocktails.

Country: Barbados

Region: Barbados

ABV: 40%

The Story of RL Seale & Co

The Foursquare Distillery occupies the site of a former sugar factory that dates back to 1636 and, as one of the most modern and efficient rum distilleries in the world, is designed to be both highly energy efficient and environmentally friendly. The distillery produces light rums in a three-column vacuum still and heavier rums in a modern pot still.RL Seale is one of Barbados’ oldest trading houses, a family-owned business whose involvement in rum-making extends from father-to-son since 1820. Current head distiller, Richard Seale, is one of the region’s most innovative distillers and blenders and has a passion for producing perfect rum with great flavour.

Rum has been produced on the island of Barbados for more than 300 years, but it was not until the 1906 Rum Duty Act was passed that the industry began to develop as we know it today. Prior to this, distillation took place on many of the plantations, but the new law meant the distilleries had to obtain a licence and could sell only in bulk. Hence many of the Bridgetown trading companies became bottlers, including Martin Doorly & Co, and the growth of branded names began. Martin Doorly evolved into Doorly’s Macaw Rum, and became the first bottled rum exported from the island. Doorly’s rums are still famous throughout the world.

Notes of delicate orange lead followed by a touch of apricot and popcorn. Subtle pipe tobacco adds to the elegant smokiness and is rounded our by honey and vanilla and oak spice

The magnificent Massaya Arak is produced exclusively from local Obeidi grapes and green organic aniseed. It is triple distilled in the traditional process using copper stills and heated by fragrant fires of vinewood. The spirit is then aged in ancient clay amphorae for two years. This is best enjoyed on the rocks or as an ingredient in a multitude of cocktails.

The name Massaya comes from the Lebanese word for twilight which captures the moment the sun sets behind Mount Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley becomes a beautiful dark blue colour - their Arak bottle is a similar, mesmerising blue colour.

Country: Lebanon

Region: Bekaa Valley

Grapes: Obeidi grapes with green organic aniseed

ABV: 53%