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Loch Lomond Steam & Fire Heavily Charred Highland Single Malt Whisky 3cl Sample

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Loch Lomond Steam & Fire Heavily Charred Highland Single Malt Whisky 3cl SampleCrafted with passion and innovation, this remarkable Loch Lomond Steam and Fire Single Malt Whisky is finished in...

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Loch Lomond Steam & Fire Heavily Charred Highland Single Malt Whisky 3cl Sample

Crafted with passion and innovation, this remarkable Loch Lomond Steam and Fire Single Malt Whisky is finished in heavily charred American Oak casks, which brings out lots of melted brown sugar character as well as a rich buttery mouthfeel with notes of orange and dark chocolate.

Loch Lomond Steam & Fire Single Malt Scotch Whisky is matured in three types of American Oak casks before a 10-month finish in heavily charred casks which have been fired in our very own award winning on site cooperage.

Steam and Fire is a celebration of the incredible alchemy and engineering capability of our distillery and a product of our exploration, experimentation and know-how as master makers, distillers and coopers.
Loch Lomond Steam & Fire brings to life our diverse distilling process and our bespoke, hand-charred casks from our own time-honoured cooperage, resulting in this truly unique and imaginative whisky.
This special expression is created using spirit from both our remarkable straight neck and more traditional swan neck stills. The spirit was then matured in American oak barrels and finished in heavily charred casks, flamed by our own in-house cooperage. The charring process adds a unique complexity and brings out a melted brown sugar character with a rich buttery mouthfeel and notes of orange and dark chocolate.
TASTING NOTE

NOSE: Sweet toffee, apple, fudge, vanilla and cinnamon.

TASTE: Silky mouthfeel, orange, peach, marmalade, coffee, melted brown sugar and roasted marshmallow.
FINISH: Medium to long finish. Dry with dark chocolate and soft smoke.

About Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond was set up by its former owner to be Scotland’s self-sufficient distillery. Rather than playing the normal game of exchanging the spirit you make for fillings of grain and malt for your own blends, it made all its requirements itself. That meant being innovative.

The original distillery held a set of pot stills with rectifying plates in their necks (also known as Lomond stills), allowing different flavour streams to be produced. Expansion in 1990 saw a second pair of the same design being installed, before the distillery installed two continuous stills three years later in which to make its own grain whisky. Two ‘traditional’ swan neck pot stills were added in 1998, before an additional continuous still, set up to produce grain whisky from a 100% malted barley mash, was installed in 2007. With the recent addition of two more Lomond stills, Loch Lomond has the capability to produce 11 different distillates for its whisky brands (not including the spirit coming from Glen Scotia). Wine yeasts have also been used to help create different flavours. In many ways it is more akin to a Japanese approach to distilling than a Scottish one.

As well as the High Commisisoner blend, Loch Lomond has produced a range of single malt brands, including Inchmurrin, Inchmoan, Inchfad, Old Rosdhu, Croftengea and Craiglodge. While all have been available as official and independent bottlings at one time or another, only a handful continue to be bottled as part of the distillery’s current range.

A product of the 1960s distillery building boom, Loch Lomond was built in ’66 by a joint partnership between Duncan Thomas, the American owner of [now demolished] Littlemill, and Chicago-based Barton Brands. The American firm took full control in 1971, but closed it in 1984 when that boom turned to bust. It passed into the hands of Inver House the year after, before they flipped it to Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse Ltd in 1986. The firm added Glen Scotia to its portfolio in 1994.

Glen Catrine was the bottling and ageing arm of Bulloch & Co, a well-established blending and retail firm which owned the High Commissioner brand as well as, in time, Glen’s Vodka. Under Glen Catrine’s ownership, Loch Lomond grew to become the most flexible – and arguably the most innovative – distillery in Scotland. Its specialisation in the private label and export business however meant that its operations were never widely reported, or understood.

The firm was sold in 2014 for an undisclosed sum (believed to be in the tens of millions) to private equity firm Exponent whose new distilling division, Loch Lomond Group, is headed by former Diageo executives.

46% ABV
3cl

Product specifications table
Specification name Specification Value
Country Scotland
Region Highlands
Whiskey style Single malt
Whiskey variety Scotch

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