Dramfool’s journey in whisky can be seen in the legacy of the bottlings we have been so proud to discover and share with likeminded whisky fans the world over. From young fresh spirit to five decade old whisky from a closed distillery, each of these bottlings is one I am proud to have put my name to.
My mantra from the beginning has guided me through all these bottles, and of course continues to do so, ‘I will only bottle whisky that I like’. This becomes even more important as we continue expand this journey and explore new facettes of whisky.
The 21st release from Dramfool is an 11 year old Girvan single grain whisky bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 64.4%, with an outturn of 64 bottles. The whisky is a portion of Dramfool Girvan 20th release removed from the bourbon cask at 10 years old and transferred into a sherry octave previously used to mature our Avian Gull Too. This has imparted some delicate sherry and Islay whisky notes onto the grain whisky.
Read MoreThe 20th release from Dramfool is an 11 year old bourbon-matured Girvan Single Grain Whisky bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 65.1%, with an outturn of 162 bottles.
Read MoreThe 19th release from Dramfool is a 10 year old bourbon-matured Single Islay Malt Whisky and has been bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 59.8%, with an outturn of 129 bottles. Distilled in 2008.
Read MoreThe 18th release from Dramfool is an excellent example of a bourbon matured Bruichladdich. It was matured in a first fill bourbon barrel and bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 57.0% yielding 95 bottles
Read MoreThe 17th release from Dramfool is a 10 year old Islay Single Malt.
Bourbon-matured for 8 years and then transferred to a fresh Oloroso Sherry Hogshead to mature for a further 2 years. Half the cask was bottled last year at 9 years old and the remainder has just been bottled this year at 10 years old. Giving an interesting comparison of how another year maturing in an Oloroso cask influenced the whisky. The whisky was bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 57.5% and yielded 175 bottles.
This whisky won Silver in the Islay category at UISGE 2019 in Helsinki!
Read MoreThe 16th release from Dramfool is a Port Charlotte from Bruichladdich. Distilled in June 2002 and matured in a first fill bourbon barrel, bottled in July 2018 un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 60.5% which yielded 221 bottles.
Read MoreThe 15th release from Dramfool comes from Islay's oldest distillery, Bowmore. Distilled in September 1996 and bottled in May 2018 un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 52.9%, matured in a refill bourbon hogshead with an outturn of only 299 bottles.
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The 14th release from Dramfool is a rarely seen independent bottling of Octomore. Distilled on 1st December 2011 and Bottled on 26th March 2018 at 6 years old.
The barley used for the distillation was peated to 150ppm phenols. The whisky was matured in a bourbon barrel and was bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 62.0% giving an outturn of 253 bottles.
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The 13th release from Dramfool is a Port Charlotte matured for 15 years in a bourbon hogshead, Distilled December 2001, bottled December 2016.
The whisky was bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 58.3% yielding 195 bottles.
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The 12th release from Dramfool is a single malt from The Speyside Distillery. Matured for 22 years in a sherry butt. The whisky was bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 55.0% and 156 bottles filled.
Read MoreThe 11th release from Dramfool is a 9 year old Islay Single Malt.
Bourbon-matured for 8 years and then transferred to a fresh Oloroso Sherry Hogshead to mature for a further year. Half the cask has been bottled at 9 years old and the remainder will be bottled next year at 10 years old to give an interesting comparison of how another year maturing in an Oloroso cask will influence the whisky.
The whisky was bottled un-chill-filtered at cask strength of 58.4% and 150 bottles were drawn from the cask this time.
Read MoreThe 10th release from Dramfool is a portion of the 8 year old bourbon matured Avian Gull matured for a further year in a fresh Oloroso Sherry Octave, making the whisky 9 years old.
Avian Gull Too was bottled at cask strength of 57.9%, and 66 bottles have been released.
Read MoreThe 9th release from Dramfool is a 10 year old Bruichladdich matured in a bourbon barrel. A classic nice clean untainted example of a bourbon-matured Bruichladdich.
Distilled on 25th April 2007 it matured in Bourbon barrel #657 until bottled on 12th October 2017 at aged 10 years. Bottled un-chill filtered at cask strength 62.2% it yielded 258 bottles.
Read MoreThe 8th release from Dramfool is a 6 year old Bruichladdich matured in a bloodtub #4091. Bottled at 56.9% it yielded only 42 bottles
Read MoreThe 5th release from Dramfool is a very special one - a 1964 Carsebridge.
Carsebridge was a grain distillery located just outside Alloa in Clackmannanshire. It was closed by DCL in 1983, and was never officially bottled by its owners.
The whisky was bottled at cask strength of 40.8% at 52 years old one of only 50 bottles.
Read MoreThe 7th release from Dramfool is a 25 year old single grain whisky from the closed Cambus distillery, matured in a refill sherry butt. The cask only yielded 47 bottles – aptly called The Leaky Butt!
Read MoreThe 6th release from Dramfool is an 8 year old Port Charlotte, from the Bruichladdich Distillery, fully matured in 2nd fill Rum barrel #1467/2009.
Bottled in July 2017 un-chill filtered and at cask strength 62.7% it yielded 218 bottles
Read MoreThe fourth release from Dramfool is a single cask 21 year old Tobermory. Distilled on 18th March 1996 and matured in Bourbon Hogshead #127/1996, bottle un-chill filtered and at cask strength 56.7% it yielded 247 bottles.
Read MoreThe third release from Dramfool is a bourbon cask matured Single Islay Malt.
Avian Gull was distilled in June 2008 and was bottled in February 2017 at 8 years old. The whisky was bottled un-chill filtered and at cask strength of 59.2%, and 202 bottles have been released.
Read MoreThe second release from Dramfool is Bruichladdich matured in a fresh first-fill sherry hogshead. The whisky was bottled at 9 years old, just 10 days short of being 10 years old. The ten (years) minus ten (days) dram.
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