Pour & Sip June 2025 Box

We have Springbank this month, a huge coup! Plus another 100% floor malted gem, and a
dram with an entirely different coastal influence... We also rejoin the Strathearn story.

Springbank 10 Year Old: Springbank’s a cult whisky – it's unique, beloved, and production is limited by old school methods. They proudly malt, distil, mature and bottle everything on site. They malt 100% of the barley for their whiskies using their traditional floor maltings. Nobody else in Scotland can claim these things. Founded in 1828, it’s still independently owned. Funky, coastal, very Campbeltown.

Old Perth Manzanilla Limited Edition: Old Perth’s history dates back to 1908, brought back as a 100% sherry matured blended malt by the Morrison family in 2014. Unusually, that means a vatting of 11 handpicked manzanilla sherry casks here. Manzanilla’s essentially a type of dry, slightly salty (think sea spray) fino sherry that must be made around coastal Sanlúcar de Barrameda that can still be fresh and zesty in character.

Stauning HØST: Stauning’s whiskies are made from 100% floor-malted local rye and/or barley, and are double distilled in small direct-fired pot stills. It’s rare to malt rye, while double pot distillation is more like Scotch than classic rye except direct-fired stills (and their Maillard reactions) are now extremely rare in Scotland. HØST blends single malt and malted rye(!), matured mostly in American oak casks, but also using some Port barriques.

SPEY Chairman’s Choice PX Edition: Despite work starting in 1962, Speyside didn't produce spirit until 1990! In 2012 Harvey’s of Edinburgh took the reins. Their family’s SPEY brand (a cask of which is said to have been gifted to King George III by Lord Byron) thus became ‘SPEY from Speyside Distillery’. With their lease now ending they’re moving all the distillery’s equipment to a new site nearer the River Spey. So enjoy single malt from a newly ‘lost’ distillery! Matured in Pedro Ximénez sherry and bourbon casks.

Strathearn Single Malt Batch 02: Strathearn was founded in 2013, earlier than most ‘craft’ minded young distilleries, helping to blaze the trail. Douglas Laing then purchased the distillery in 2019 and doubled down on the use of heritage varieties of barley and long fermentations (144 hours). Their “inaugural” release was drawn from (bourbon, fresh oak, and sherry) casks laid down by both Douglas Laing and the previous owners, with Batch 02 featuring more bourbon and less fresh oak for a more naturally creamy and fresh dram.