Malt List

ENSIGN EWART

Edinburgh

MALT WHISKY LIST

If a body could just find oot the exac’ proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a’, and that doctors and kirkyairds would go oot o’ fashion”

 James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd

LOWLANDS Light Malts, particularly pleasant pre-dinner

 

        • GLENKINCHIE 10 year old 43%
        • Light delicate – grassy with a mild smoky aftertaste

HIGHLANDS  Heavier peatier Malts, for all occasions

 

        • AUCHENTOSHAN 43%
        • Soft sweet slightly fruity
        • DALMORE 12 year old  40%
        • Soft and rounded with a dry slightly smoky aftertaste
        • DALWHINNIE 15 year old  43%
        • A pleasant nose with a gentle heather honey flavour
        • DEANSTON 12year old 40%
        • Medium sweet, cerealy and smooth.
        • GLENGOYNE 10 year old  40%
        • A soft slightly fruity nose with a light sweetish taste
        • GLENMORANGIE 10 year old  40%
        • Slightly spicy with a well rounded aftertaste
        • GLENMORANGIE MILLENIUM MALT 12 y.o. 40%
        • Complex sweetness with a long malty finish
        • GLEN ORD 12 year old  40%
        • Mellow nose with a soft round taste
        • OBAN 14year old 43%
        • Smooth and fruity with a slightly peaty aftertaste

 

SPEYSIDE Complex Malts for all Occasions

 

        • ABERLOUR 10 year old 40%
          Well balanced with a smooth lingering finish
        • BALVENIE FOUNDERS RESERVE   10 year old 40%
        • Rich aroma with medium dry malty taste
        • BALVENIE SINGLE BARREL 15 years old 50.4%
        • Complex with a dry slightly smoky finish
        • BALVENIE DOUBLE WOOD 12 year old  40%
        • Full spicy flavour with a long warm finish
        • CARDHU 12 year old  40%
        • Round mellow slightly sweet with a delicate peatiness
        • CRAGGANMORE 12 year old  40%
        • A complex smooth very illusive Malt
        • GLENDRONACH 15 year old 40%?
        • Medium dry rich and delicately smoky
        • GLENFARCLAS 10 year old  40%
        • Sweet smooth and malty
        • GLENFARCLAS..21 year old  43%?
        • Full rich and slightly smoky
        • GLENFIDDICH..12 year old  40%
        • Light sweet well balanced
        • GLENFIDDICH..18 year old 40%?
        • Medium sweet spicy slightly peppery
        • GLENLIVET 12 year old  40%
        • Fragrant aroma with a sweet malty flavour
        • GLEN MORAY 12 year old  40%
        • Light heathery medium sweet
        • KNOCKANDO Distilled 1987 40%?
        • Full round complex slightly spicy
        • MACALLAN 10 year old 40%
        • Smooth rich sherried sweet
        • MACALLAN 18 year old  43%?
        • Rich sherry sweet vanilla oaky
  • ISLAND MALTS Lots of character
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          • HIGHLAND PARK 12 year old 40%
          • Dry heathery well balanced
          • ISLE OF JURA 10 year old  40%
          • Delicate lightly peated with a slightly salty finish
          • TALISKER 10 year old  45.8%
          • Seaweedy nose with a spicy well balanced taste
          • TOBERMORY 10 year old  %
          • Fresh soft slightly peaty

     

    ISLAY MALTS  Very distinctive

     

          • ARDBEG 10 year old..46%
          • Full peaty with a long smoky finish
          • BOWMORE..40%
          • Dry slightly smoky with a suggestion of heather
          • BRUICHLADDICH 10 year old 40%
          • Delicate dry with just a hint of smokiness
          • BUNNAHABHAIN 12 year old  40%
          • Smooth soft with a long round finish
          • LAGAVULIN 16 year old..43%
          • Heavy peaty pungent and smoky.
          • LAPHROAIG 10 year old  40%
          • Dry peaty with a heathery smokiness
          • LAPHROAIG..15 year old..43%
          • Soft smoky slightly sweet with a long finish
          • LAPHROAIG (Original Cask) 10 year old  57.3%
          • Intense smoky flavour with a long dry finish

    VATTED MALTS A Blend of Single Malt Whiskies

     

          • FAMOUS GROUSE VINTAGE MALT 12 y.o.  40%
          • Light slightly spicy with a soft well rounded finish
          • JACOBITE 40%
          • Light smooth well balanced
          • THE CENTURY OF MALTS Blend of 100 Single Malts 40%
          • Complex rounded with a suggestion of sweetness

     

     APRIL 2001

    This list is provided solely as a guide to the range and types of whisky which can usually be found in the pub. However not all of these may be available at any one time.

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