January 2025 Archives - Flickenschild Whisky & Zigarren: WHIZITA https://www.whizita.de/en/bottling_date/january-2025/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:45:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.whizita.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/favicon-96x96-2.png January 2025 Archives - Flickenschild Whisky & Zigarren: WHIZITA https://www.whizita.de/en/bottling_date/january-2025/ 32 32 Glenallachie 2014 PX Hogshead #2188 – 59,2% https://www.whizita.de/en/product/glenallachie-2014-px-hogshead-2188-592/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:15:32 +0000 https://www.whizita.de/?post_type=product&p=170297 This Glenallachie was bottled exclusively for our 120th company anniversary in 2025.

Tasting Notes:
Nose: Peaches, apricots and heather honey, with treacle, truffle and rich mocha, followed by muscovado sugar.
Taste: Fig jam, sugared fruits and warming golden syrup, followed by black cherries, cocoa and toasted cinnamon, with ginger and biscuits.

Der Eintrag Glenallachie 2014 PX Hogshead #2188 – 59,2% erschien zuerst unter Flickenschild Whisky & Zigarren: WHIZITA.

]]> The distillery: back in Scottish private ownership since 2017
Founded in 1967, The GlenAllachie Distillery has long been foreign owned. In 2017, The GlenAllachie Distillers Company bought the distillery in Speyside – together with the filled casks in the warehouse. Its new owners: longtime Scotch whiskey luminary Billy Walker and his partners Trisha Savage and Graham Stevenson. The new team was introduced to their special features by long-standing employees of the distillery. Below: The distillery has four stills and two separate spirit safes – and can therefore produce two different distillates in parallel, for example smoky and non-smoky New Make.
The GlenAllachie Distillery has so far produced almost exclusively blended whiskeys. Single malt, on the other hand, was extremely rarely available, for example through independent bottlers. This changed in 2017 with the takeover by Billy Walker’s team. Age information for its single malts is important to The GlenAllachie: The core range consists of a 10, 12, 18 and 25 year old whisky. In addition, regular single cask and special bottlings are planned – and from 2018 even a smoky whiskey.

Der Eintrag Glenallachie 2014 PX Hogshead #2188 – 59,2% erschien zuerst unter Flickenschild Whisky & Zigarren: WHIZITA.

]]> Armagnac Domaine du Pin 1985 Darroze – 40% https://www.whizita.de/en/product/armagnac-domaine-du-pin-1985-darroze-40/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:08:43 +0000 https://www.whizita.de/?post_type=product&p=170259 The Domaine du Pin 1985/2025 has matured for an impressive 40 years. The single cask was produced by Monique Destribats in 1985 in the picturesque village of Labastide d'Armagnac, which stands on sandy soils. Consisting of half Baco and half Colombard grapes, this rarity was continuously distilled to 60% and bottled in January 2025 at a still cask strength of 40% vol.

Its beautiful amber colour with mahogany and gold nuances leads to remarkably fine aromas. Candied orange peel, nougat and gingerbread meet acacia honey, liquorice, vanilla and fresh tobacco. The palate impresses with great balance, a velvety mouthfeel and a freshness that defies the long ageing process.

Der Eintrag Armagnac Domaine du Pin 1985 Darroze – 40% erschien zuerst unter Flickenschild Whisky & Zigarren: WHIZITA.

]]> Francis Darroze and his son Marc roam the Gascony countryside as treasure hunters. The search objects? Special Armagnacs. About forty wineries from the heart of Bas-Armagnac contribute to the exceptional collection of the Darroze house. The independent bottlers buy their distillates either using a mobile distiller, which traditionally makes its rounds after the harvest, or already in barrel storage. In the in-house cellars, these often rare, several generations old casks or brandies are perfected by small producers.

Der Eintrag Armagnac Domaine du Pin 1985 Darroze – 40% erschien zuerst unter Flickenschild Whisky & Zigarren: WHIZITA.

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