Single malt not enough for you? Then try Single & Single

Posted on July 13, 2008
Filed Under Design, For the collector, Highlands, Independent, Malt, Whisky websites, WhiskyBuzz |

 

Ever heard of Single & Single. I hadn’t until Yossi Schwarts, the founder, messed me on Facebook. A couple of minutes later my mouth was watering.

Single & Single is the brainchild of armchair bottler Yossi Schwarts that believes whisky is for ‘fun and for friends’. Yossi has set out to find casks that are not due for high-volume mainstream releases. That according to Yossi is the first step in discovering magic. Instead of using these casks for blends, great effort is taken to bottle the whiskies as naturally as possible, often with very limited quantities and with each bottle being individually numbered. Once bottled, units are stored and distributed from location in London. Units are available exclusively through the Single & Single network, and distributed across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Japan and South Africa.

Judging from the label and packaging of the first bottling - The Glencadam 16yo 1991, it’s clear Single & Single understands how to market their product. The label features a beautifully balanced typed label with only a red ‘&’ sign, breaking the classical shape, inspired by Japanese signs. The Japanese sign also serves as the intro for the Single & Single website.

Yossi says “Becoming an independent bottler gave me all the right reasons to find that perfect, limited, single malt whisky, and to share it with friends and connoisseurs”

Single & Singles first release started it’s journey into the bottle in December 2007 when Yossi bought 14 barrels of the finest, untouched whisky from A D Rattray Ltd, Scotland.  Keeping the whisky as pure and natural as possible, the casks where poured into a single vat before being bottled in a non-chill-filtered process, without tinting or the adding of caramel. The result as described by Phillip Kirk, Milroy’s of Soho, London: “This Single & Single Glencadam 1991 has a most attractive bouquet of vanilla, mandarin and hint of caramelised ginger”

For an independent review on the Glencadam 16yo 1991, visit MaltMadness.

This first Glencadam expression will be joined during 2008 by a Bowmore and Bunnahabhain bottling.

This is the description of all three bottlings:

Glencadam
Age: 16 years
Year: 1991
Region: Highlands, Scotland
Year of bottling: 2007
Alcohol volume: 46%
Bottle volume: 750 ml
Release volume: 3,840 units, individually numbered
Release date: June 2008
Description: A highly sophisticated, soft, gentle single malt from the Scottish Highlands. Mellow.

 

Bowmore
Age: 8 years
Year: 2000
Region: Islay, Scotland
Year of bottling: 2008
Alcohol volume: 46%
Bottle volume: 750 ml & 700 ml
Release volume: 1,000 units, individually numbered
Release date: Late 2008
Description: A young hard-core whisky from Islay with medicinal remnants of a salty sea breeze and peat smoke. 

 

Bunnahabhain
Age: 32 years
Year: 1976
Region: Islay, Scotland
Year of bottling: 2008
Alcohol volume: Cask strength at 47.1%
Bottle volume: 750 ml & 700 ml
Release volume: 500 units, individually numbered
Release date: Late 2008
Description: Dark in colour with a deep taste. A thick, single malt compared to drinking honey. Truly the rarest of the rare.

Visit Single & Single’s website to keep track of future bottlings.

 

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2 Responses to “Single malt not enough for you? Then try Single & Single”

  1. mike on September 1st, 2008 9:55 pm

    Beautiful design (Yossi is Creative Director at Young and Rubicam in South Africa, as far as I know). Sadly I found the whisky very uninspiring, may warrant another tasting, but I did not rush out and buy a bottle. At the same price as a Laga, mmmmm, I know where my money would go. Nice try though.

  2. orangedogofglory on September 5th, 2008 1:09 am

    Yossi was very responsive, and came across as a really decent gent. So that is a plus. But, haven’t yet procured me a bottle. Hopefully one (or three) on its way soon.

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