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The "Secret Islay" from the famous Cooper's Choice brand owned by the Vintage Malt Whisky Co. This is the company that made the Finlaggan brand a thing. It's likely a single vintage Lagavulin for a seemingly affordable price and there's no question that with the success of Diageo's own 8 year Laggie, these casks are in even more demand. The style is big bold smoke, citrus oil, brine and subtle herbs. Medium to full bodied, it definitely doesn't feel like Laphroaig or Ardbeg! Maybe there's a tiny chance it's Caol Ila, but the weight definitely makes us think Lagavulin.
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The Bottler: Vintage Malt Whisky Company
| Established: 1992 |
| Silent since: False |
| Address: 2 Stewart Street, Milngavie, Glasgow G62 6BW, United Kingdom |
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We hope that in working with the VMW, Importers of all sizes will find that they will not only obtain products of the highest order, but also receive the type of individual service which only a family company can provide, from the bottling of individual casks to the production of customer"s own-label malts.
This company was founded in 1992 by Brian Crook, an ex-employee from Bowmore distillery on Islay. Apart from the "Coopers Choice" range of independent bottlings, the company has several other brands in its portfolio, including the Finlaggan "bastard" Islay malt whisky and and the "Tambowie" vatted malt whisky. During the 1990"s they also carried a range of bastard malts from the main whisky regions under the Vintage label; their Islay expression was a circa seven years old Lagavulin that offered incredible value for money. Brands and packaging from the Vintage Malt Whisky Company and the Coopers Choice range are being changed regularly, so this information may be outdated... This may not be one of the "big brands" on this page, but when it comes to value Vintage MWC is hard to beat.
The Company"s flagship Brands include Finlaggan, a single malt from the Island of Islay off the West coast of Scotland and Glenalmond, a superb marriage of Highland malts in one bottle. Both have won gold and silver awards in the prestigious International wine and Spirit Competition. Our third Brand is Tantallan, a delightfully smooth and mellow Speyside malt.
In our Cooper"s Choice range of single cask bottlings you will find a selection of fine malts from distilleries large and small covering all regions of Scotland. From the Highlands to the Islands this collection includes many rare malts, some even from distilleries that stopped production years ago and are already well on the way to becoming collectors"items.
One hundred years ago there were over one hundred and twenty malt whisky distilleries throughout Scotland, independently owned and producing malts of rare character from the Highlands, Islands and Lowlands. Today probably only seventy or eighty still produce malt whisky on a regular basis, and of these, only a handful are owned by family companies. The vast majority of malts available from Scotland today are produced by multi-national companies, so the opportunity for family companies worldwide to deal with small, independent scotch whisky distillers has virtually gone. It is to fill this gap that VMW was formed.
By not owning a distillery VMW is not tied to a specific area or quality, thus, through our extensive knowledge of the Scotch Whisky industry, we are able to locate, select and offer our customers a range of malts from the finest of Scotland"s distilleries in the Highlands and Islands. This approach has proved popular with our customers to the extent that we have now exported over 1.2 million bottles of Malt Whisky through our network of distributors across 20 countries.
The Vintage Malt Whisky Co. was founded in 1992 by Brian Crook, an honours graduate in Food Science with twenty years experience in the malt whisky industry, latterly as Export Director for one of Scotland"s principal distillers. The aim was to produce a range of malt whiskies from Scotland"s finest distilleries and to make them available to independent wine and spirit importers throughout the world.
from VintageMaltWhisky.com, Malt Madness