After their inaugural ‘First Drop’ launch bought out inside a matter of weeks, Home of Hazelwood is ready to please extra whisky aficionados, as they launch an Autumn Assortment of eight uncommon and mature Scotch whiskies. That includes a uncommon 1963 single distillery launch, the gathering has been hand-selected from these previously owned by the Gordon household – as personal collector’s objects, some have by no means been obtainable to the general public… Till now.
A legend throughout the Scotch whisky neighborhood
Charles Gordon, patriarch of the household, has a private reference to Hazelwood Home. It was right here he spent a lot of his youth and in later years he performed a pivotal position in bringing in a number of the earliest inventory that was laid down for this Home of Hazelwood Assortment. Each cask in Charles’ stock has been aged for at the very least fifty years; each bottle has its personal story to inform.
Describing the Autumn Assortment, Home of Hazelwood Advertising and marketing Director Jonathan Gibson, mentioned: ‘Our Autumn Assortment speaks not solely to the breadth and depth of the stock that we’re privileged to work with but in addition to the character of these family-members who constructed the shares over the course of generations. These are actually outstanding liquids; the consequence of outstanding considering, of courageous decision-making and the posh of time that non-public household possession brings. No whisky exemplifies this greater than A Singular Mix – a uncommon composition, unparalleled at this age with a really excellent character that makes it without delay a pleasure to drink and a treasure to gather.’
‘These are large whiskies – enormously aged, advanced, excellent on the palate. Nonetheless, what actually units them aside are the tales behind them. Each bottle is an invite into the Gordon household’s methods of working – a really private connection to a distinct period, a distinct mindset. We must be in little doubt that these whiskies are heirlooms and none extra so than the 1963 launch A Singular Mix. To see a whisky of such provenance obtainable to buy is a outstanding factor – and for these fortunate sufficient to attempt it, the liquid character is breath-taking.’
Famend whisky skilled Charles Macleanon the brand new assortment.
A Historical past of Home of Hazelwood
A century after Charles started the legacy, generations of the Gordon household have continued to put down shares of whisky — beforehand maintained for particular events and private enjoyment. In that point, it’s turn out to be the best stock of aged Scotch whisky held anyplace on the planet. A various assortment, it tells the tales of the previous and geography of Scotland; together with distant locations, misplaced methods of working, first casks, final casks, ambition and achievement.
Chosen warehouses throughout Scotland home the dear inventory, with extra added annually — some are held in conventional dunnage warehousing close to Dufftown in Speyside for cautious monitored and sampling forward of bottling and launch. And the identify? This rarest of collections took the identify Home of Hazelwood, paying homage to the Gordons’ Dufftown dwelling – Hazelwood Home.
The First and Second Collections
Home of Hazelwood launched its first assortment in Might 2022, its sights set on opening the doorways to the various vary of uncommon, aged and storytelling whiskies laid down by the Gordon household during the last century. An inimitable choice, these are a number of the most sought-after and lauded Scotch whiskies on the earth.
As with the inaugural assortment, eight whiskies have been launched throughout two ranges on this subsequent drop. These are: The Charles Gordon Assortment and The Legacy Assortment. The rarest of all of the Gordons’ bottles, A Singular Mix, leads the gathering, showcasing a provenance by no means earlier than seen at this age; solely 74 bottles have ever been obtainable worldwide since its 1963 launch. The mix contains grain and malt elements distilled inside the exact same Highland distillery in the identical 12 months of manufacturing. Again then, to amass one was fairly one thing, 58 years on, it is a chance that’s nothing wanting outstanding.
The Charles Gordon Assortment
A Singular Mix, 1963 Blended Scotch Whisky
Composed not solely of whiskies from the identical area however scotch whiskies from the exact same Highland distillery – with each grain and malt elements stemming from the identical 12 months of manufacturing on the similar website. Matured for 58 years in American Oak the mix has over time, taken on wealthy layers of complexity that complement and improve each elements of the distillery character. A big variety of the bottles have already been reserved by present consumers.
74 bottles worldwide, RRP £4,900
The Outdated Confectioner’s, 44-12 months-Outdated Blended Malt
Whiskies akin to this, transport the imbiber to misplaced locations that can’t be revisited another means. An aged malt, wealthy with the treacle toffee, liquorice and candied fruit notes present in previous candy outlets, it’s warming, satisfying and frivolously drying on the end, unified by years of maturation in refill sherry butts.
256 bottles worldwide, RRP £3,000
The Subsequent Chapter, 50-12 months-Outdated Blended Scotch
Taking us again to 1972, this liquid was aged in a mix of European and American Oak casks; marking a courageous new chapter via a ten-year secondary ending interval in energetic ex-bourbon barrels. Such a course of is irregular and so provides vigour to the in any other case weighty mix.
157 bottles worldwide, RRP £4,000
The Unknown, 44-12 months-Outdated Blended Scotch
Compelling, mysterious and alluring; little is understood about this mix. Parts had been distilled in 1978 and blended in 1989, adopted by an unique secondary maturation for an additional 33 years in a single refill butt — leading to distinctive high quality.
143 bottles worldwide, RRP £3,000
The Legacy Assortment
Represents a legacy for future generations to discover and luxuriate in, this showcases a number of the brightest highlights of the stock, comprising whiskies of character and provenance, every with their very own story. Some are the primary of their sort, some the final of their line; evoking the spirit of an period, they provide insights into the internal workings of the Scotch whisky neighborhood.
A Breath of Contemporary Air, 37 12 months-Outdated Blended Grain
A mix of aged grain whiskies from throughout Scotland, this possesses a personality that’s clear, recent virtually minty on the palate. Displaying the various, beguiling identities that previous grain whisky can tackle, it’s invigorating, reviving and completely distinctive, providing one thing various for even probably the most skilled of palates.
417 bottles worldwide, RRP £1,450
A Path of Smoke, 42 12 months-Outdated Blended Malt
Take a meandering style journey via Scotland’s Islands – from dry and natural to luscious and fruity with a fragile path of woodsmoke all the time current within the background. Advanced, evocative this launch is redolent of the outstanding islands from which it hails.
385 bottles worldwide, RRP £1,900
The Eight Grain, 40-12 months-Outdated Blended Grain
Celebrating all that aged grain whiskies can convey this extremely uncommon launch brings collectively the distillery character of eight of Scotland’s closed and energetic grain whisky distilleries. A wealthy decadence contrasts brilliant citrus notes attribute of the part distilleries.
384 bottles worldwide, RRS £1,200
The Lowlander, 36-12 months-Outdated Blended Scotch
A too-often missed area throughout the world of Scotch whisky, The Lowlands current whiskies with a brilliant and crisp in character, together with notes of indigenous granite and spun sugar. The Lowlander is definitely an envoy for the area’s distillation and maturation.
432 bottles worldwide, RRP £950
Additional Particulars
The Home of Hazelwood Autumn Assortment is out there completely from www.houseofhazelwood.com. Gross sales of ‘A Singular Mix’ are reserved for Home of Hazelwood Keyholders and present consumers all through October.
