Ilegal Joven MezcalMezcal Producer Bottling 70cl 40% Ilegal's Joven mezcal is made in Oaxaca with the Espadin agave variety, which is slow roasted over mesquite and eucalyptus charcoal in a traditional earth pit oven for just under a week before being crushed and fermented by wild indigenous yeasts and distilled on copper alembic stills. Joven just means young, making this the mezcal equivalent of a blanco or silver tequila: bottled without ageing. Consequently, you get

This Glen Grant 1956 had nearly fifty years maturing in cask and has now weathered another two decades of bottle maturation

Heat the milk

so it's unusual that its cask strength is down to 45

bursting with orchard and exotic fruits on a bed of sturdy

with bags of fruit and resinous

Region Islay Series The Classic Range Country Scotland Bottle Size 70cl ABV 44

so this should be very good

Each Fable bottling has a different label designed by artist Hugo Cuellar

stewed fruits and oak

Kininvie Distillery 70cl / 52

Country Scotland Region Island Bottling Year 2016 Cask Type Ex-Oloroso Sherry Hogsheads Bottled Produced 5988 Bottle Size 70cl ABV 52

This is a pre-war distillate that was bottled in the early 1980s making it at least 40 years old