TradeDiscover Something You Haven't Had Before
Every quarter we like to showcase a handful of producers we reckon deserve a wider audience. It might be their story that moves us, it could be that the bottle comes with a LEGO® pirate ship we can assemble while we sip (still waiting for anyone to corner that market). Above all, it's usually what's actually in the bottle that we care about. Here are a few choice selections we think you'll enjoy.
THE GLENTURRET
Their Story
Tasting Notes
The Glenturret traces its roots back to 1763 and lays claim to being Scotland’s oldest working distillery. It was also home to Towser, a distillery cat credited by Guinness World Records with catching an estimated 28,899 mice, which made for one very well-guarded barley store.
Triple Wood is the core single malt and the natural place to start. Whisky maker Bob Dalgarno brings it together from three types of cask: sherry-seasoned American oak, sherry-seasoned European oak and bourbon barrels. The result is orchard fruit, soft vanilla and a gentle warming spice.
This is the 2025 release, bottled at 45% with natural colour, and it’s as happy neat as it is over ice or in a cocktail.
FIELDEN
Their Story
Tasting notes
Fielden takes its name from the Old English for ‘of the field’, which tells you exactly where they reckon whisky’s flavour starts.
Rather than the usual barley, they work with rye: a hardy, cross-pollinating crop that needs less help from the farmer, and whose naturally varied grain brings complexity long before the spirit goes anywhere near a cask. It’s whisky that champions the grain over the barrel, with enough backbone for an Old Fashioned (though it’d be rude not to try it neat first).
Harvest 2020 is the second release in their annual Harvest series, which bottles a single year’s crop. It’s 73% rye, with wheat and malted barley, all grown in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Norfolk, then matured for at least 47 months in old and new American oak plus a small share of wine casks. Bottled at 50%.
PERFUME TREES
Their Story
Tasting notes
Perfume Trees was dreamt up by Kit Cheung and Joseph Cheung (no relation) to capture the scent of Hong Kong, and is billed as the city’s first gin.
The name comes from the white champaca, or perfume tree, whose fragrant blossom sits at the heart of the recipe. Around it are Indian sandalwood, Longjing green tea, aged tangerine peel and Chinese angelica, several sourced from local farmers and traditional Hong Kong shops, with classic juniper holding it all together.
Floral, herbal and quietly citrusy, it’s right at home in a G&T with a twist of orange.
FOXDENTON ESTATE
Their Story
Tasting notes
Foxdenton have been quietly plugging away for years, and the family saying sums up the approach: they aim to be an overnight success in 30 years’ time.
The company was founded in 1935 by Major C R E Radclyffe to preserve a small corner of the English countryside, and it’s still a family business, making liqueurs from old family recipes in Buckinghamshire with fruit from UK farms.
This is the sloe gin you’ll find in drinks cupboards and on grog trays up and down the country. It’s made to be drier and lighter on sugar than most, so it works neat as well as it does topped up with tonic, bitter lemon or something sparkling.
More to Discover
The rest of this quarter's selection. Different producers, same idea: bottles doing something interesting enough to deserve a proper look rather than a scroll past.
